The Valognes Family

Sibyl (de Valognes, de Ros, de Percy) d’Aubigny

Married (1st): Robert de Ros

Children:
Married (2nd): William de Percy about 1166

William was the son and heir of Alan de Percy and Emma de Gant.

The Complete Peerage vol 10 pp440-3 (George Edward Cokayne, enlarged by Geoffrey H. White, 1945)
      PERCY
  WILLIAM DE PERCY, s. and h. In Feb. 1136 King Stephen confirmed to Whitby Abbey gifts made by him, his father, and his grandfather; and he attended the King’s Court at Easter. In 1138 he was among the Yorkshire Barons who fought for Stephen at the battle of the Standard. He witnessed the confirmation-charters of Henry II to Nostell Priory ante July 1157, and to Whitby Abbey. In 1166 he made a return of 28 fees of old feoffment, and a fraction over 8 fees of new feoffment; and he held 4 fees of the Bishop of Durham in Yorks. He also held ½ knight’s fee of the honor of Richmond. From the terms of a fine made in 1218 between his grandson Richard de Percy and his great-grandson William it appears that he had an inheritance in Normandy. He was the founder of Sallay Abbey, 6 Jan. 1147/8, on a site given by him, and to which he gave several lands of the Percy fee in Craven;(b) and he was probably the founder of Stainfield Priory, Lincs. He was a benefactor of Byland and Fountains Abbeys,(e) and of Markby and Sixle Priories, Lincs; and he gave the church of Topcliffe to St. Peter’s, York, for the work of repair and building.(h) He m., 1stly, before 1136,(i) Alice DE TONBR1DGE,(j) who was living in 1148;(k) and, 2ndly, circa 1166, Sibyl DE VALOGNES, widow of Robert DE ROS (of Helmsley).(l) He was living in the year ending at Mich. 1170, and probably in that beginning at Mich. 1174, and he d. s.p.m.s., before Easter 1175. He was bur. at Fountains Abbey. (a) His widow, who had dower in Leconfield and Nafferton,(b) m., 3rdly, circa 1182, Ralph D’AUB1GNY.(c) He d. before Mich. 1192.(d) She was living in 1212;(e) and was bur. at Nun Appleton Priory.(f)
  (b) Sallay Chartulary, vol. i, p. 1 and nos. 1, 2, 3, 531. Of these charters, all circa 1148, the last was issued with the consent of Alice (Adelide) his wife and Alan his heir, who as Alan de Percy, his s. and h., was the first witness; Alan also witnessed the first three. Later William issued two confirmation-charters, mentioning his (2nd) wife Sibyl (Idem, nos. 421, 435).
  (e) Fountains Chartulary, p. 481. In a confirmation-charter to this house he mentions his wife Sibyl (Idem, p. 460).
  (f) Bracton’s Note Book, no. 660.
  (g) Book of Fees, p. 171; and see infra, p. 447, note “b.”
  (h) York Fabric Rolls (Surtees Soc.), p. 142; his charter mentions his wife Sibyl, who as Sibyl “de Valloniis” is the 2nd witness.
  (i) Whitby Chartulary, no. 26; cf. p. 440, note “b,” above.
  (j) So named in charters of her daughters Maud and Agnes to Sallay Abbey (Chartulary, nos. 405, 615, 619). She was probably da. of Richard FitzGilbert (de Clare), by Alice, sister of Ranulph, Earl of Chester (see ante, vol. iii, p. 243); on chronological grounds this is more likely than the suggestion made by Round in Feudal England, ped. at p. 472, that her father was Richard’s father Gilbert, who, moreover, had a da. Alice who m. Aubrey de Vere (see OXFORD).
  (k) See note “b” above.
  (l) At Mich. 1166 William de Percy rendered account of 400 marks in Yorks for having the wife of Robert de Ross’ (Pipe Roll, 12 Hen. II, p. 41). The balance of the debt was paid off in ensuing years, the final payment of 50 marks being made in the year ending at Mich. 1170 (Idem, 16 Hen. II, p. 37). For Sibyl’s surname see note “h” above; she is so described as the wife of Robert de Ros in the early 16th-century Ros pedigree in Dugdale, Mon., vol. v, p. 280; for evidence that Robert’s wife was named Sibyl see Rievaulx Chartulary, p. 23.
  (a) So stated in a charter of his da. Maud to that house (Fountains Chartulary, p. 320). In one of the genealogies printed in the Whitby Chartulary, p. 683 it is stated that he was bur. at Whitby—an example of their untrustworthiness in such matters.
  (b) Percy Chartulary, nos. 6, 1092.
  (c) Who at Mich. of that year rendered account of 200 marks for marrying the mother of Everard de Ros (Pipe Roll, 28 Hen. II, p. 46). At Mich. 1181 he had accounted for an instalment of Everard’s fine for his land (Idem, 27 Hen. II, p. 35). He can be identified as the Ralph mentioned as his brother by William d’Aubigny [II] in a charter to Belvoir Priory, of which house Ralph was also a benefactor (D. of Rutland’s MSS., Hist. MSS. Com., vol. iv, pp. 99, 100). For an account of Ralph see Early Yorks Charters, vol. 1, pp. 460, 462; but there are insuperable difficulties in supposing that his daughters were born of his marriage with Sibyl, as given on the pedigree on p. 461; they were evidently daughters of an earlier wife.
  (d) When William d’Aubigny [III] had the custody of his land, until Ralph’s heirs should make a fine with him, the custody having been held previously by Piers de Ros (Pipe Roll, 4. Ric. I, p. 231). This fine, of land amounting to 15 knights’ fees, was made in 1197, saving the reasonable dower of Sibyl de Valognes (Feet of Fines—Pipe Roll Soc. vol. xx—no. 134.). Ralph is probably the Ralph d’Aubigny who d. at Acre on the third Crusade, apparently in 1191 (Hist. Ang. Scriptores Decem, col. 1191).
  (e) Book of Fees, p. 158; cf. Early Yorks Charters, vol. iii, p. 487. The wording of a fine of 1218, “… tota terra de Naffreton quam Sibilla de Valoines tenuit in dotem, et redditus xxiiijor solidorum, quem idem Ricardus solet annuatim recipere de eadem Sibilla” (Percy Chartulary, no. 6), makes it uncertain whether she was still alive. She must not be confused with another Sibyl de Valognes who held land in Torpenhow, Cumberland, in chief, who d. shortly before 24 June 1222, and whose s. and h. was Eustace de Stuteville (Excerpta e Rot. Fin., vol. i, pp. 89, 99 ; Dugdale, Mon, vol. iv, p. 318).
  (f) To this house, as Sibyl de Percy, she was a benefactor “cum corpore suo” (Rot. Chart, p. 144.)

Married (3rd): Ralph d'Aubigny in 1182

Ralph was the son of Wlliam d'Aubigny and Cecilia.

Pipe Roll 28 Henry II 1181-1182 p46 (1910)
  Radulfus de Alben' redd. comp. de .cc. m. pro ducenda matre Ebrardi de Ros. In thesauro .xxxv. l. Et debet quater .xx. et .xviij. l. et .vj. s. et .viij. d. De quibus .xl. l. debent reddi per annum per manum vicecomitis de terris quas predictus Radulfus liberavit vicecomiti ad solvendum predictum debitum; Que soluto debito debent redire in manum regis cum herede Ebrardi.
This roughly translates as:
 Ralph de Albeni renders comp. of 200 marks for the marriage of the mother of Everard de Ros. In the treasury 35 pounds. And he owes four times 20 and 18 pounds and 6s. and 8 d. Of which 40 pounds must be paid yearly by the hand of the sheriff from the lands which the aforesaid Ralph delivered to the sheriff to pay the aforesaid debt; which, having paid the debt, must return to the king's hand with Everard's heir.

Memoirs Illustrative of the History and Antiquities of the County and City of York pp51-2 (1846)
  HOLY TRINITY PRIORY, YORK - Thomas Stapleton
... By his wife Cecilia, and not Matilda, as Dugdale falsely conjectured, William d’Aubigné the first, left issue William d’Aubigné the second, and Ralph, and Eudo, and Geoffery, all witnesses to a charter with their father and mother made by Ralph de Raines and Walter and William his brothers, of four bovates of land in Stathorn in Leicestershire, to the priory of Belvoir, which they held of that honour. In 1168 we have a charter of William d’Aubigné the second, setting forth the knights enfeoffed of his barony, which his father had held and he after him, of whom the first-named is Ralph d’Aubigné his brother, then tenant of fifteen knight’s fiefs, and again this charter is proof that their mother had name Cecilia.
  “May all as well present as to come know that I William d’Aubigné, by the assent of William my son and heir, and of Matilda my wife, and of Cecilia, my mother, and likewise of d’Aubigné, my brother, and of my vassals, have granted and given to God and the church of St. Mary of Belvoir and to the monks there serving God for the redemption of my soul and likewise for the redemption of all my ancestors and of all my kinsmen the church of Redmill with all its appurtenances to be possessed by them perpetually and rightfully. I will, &c. Witnesses, Robert the chaplain, Thomas, priest of Wyberton, John, steward, Yeven d’Aubigné, constable, Geoffrey de Chauvigny, Osmund de Chauvigny, William des Vaux, Simon Fitz-William, Ralph Fitz-William, Alard de St. Hilaire, Ralph Fitz-Holdewi.”
  This Ralph d’Aubigné was the founder of a nunnery of the order of Premontré, dedicated to St. Mary, at Irford, a hamlet adjoining Binbrook, but now extraparochial, which site had been of the fief of Robert de L’Isle. On the roll of the 13th year of Henry the Second, 1167, under the heading ‘New pleas and new conventions’ in Yorkshire, is this entry. “Naburn. Ralph d’Aubigné renders accompt of half a mark. This sum he had delivered into the treasury and is quit.”

Early Yorkshire Charters vol 1 pp460-2 (William Farrer, 1914)
In 1166 Ralph de Aubigny held of his elder brother, William de Aubigny II of Belvoir, 15 knights’ fees,1 namely, in Aubourn and Binbrook, co. Linc., North Dalton, Upper and Lower Naburn, co. York. In the ensuing year “Naburn of Ralph de Albinni” rendered account of ½m. for forest trespass.2 In 1182 Ralph rendered account of 200 marks for marrying the mother of Everard de Ros.3 This lady, Sibil de Valoignes, had married firstly, Robert de Ros, who died in 1163. Three years later William de Percy had accounted for 400 marks for having her to wife.4 He extinguished the debt in 1172 and died soon after, certainly before 1175, when partition was made of his inheritance.5 Ralph de Aubigny founded the priory of Irford, co. Linc., and possibly Roger his brother gave the church of North Dalton to Watton. Ralph died at Acre in 1191, and in 1197 William de Aubigny, his nephew, took the homage of William de Colevill, husband of Matilda, eldest daughter and coheir of Ralph, and delivered to him and to Stephen Marham and Alice his wife, Nicholas de Stutevill and Gunnora his wife, the tenement late of the said Ralph, namely 15 knights’ fees in Aubourn, Binbrook, co. Linc., North Dalton and Naburn, co. York.6
  1 Red Bk., 328. The Liber Rubeus has “Robert,” but incorrectly, as he was deceased s. p.
  2 Pipe R., 13 Hen. II, 95.
  3 ib., 28 Hen. II, 46.
  4 ib., 12 Hen. II, 41.
  5 Percy Chartul., n. 1092.
  6 Linc. Fines, i, 112.

Notes:
This charter of William de Percy mentions his wife Sibilla and is witnessed by "Sibilla de Valoniis", from which Sibyl's last name is known. That William's de Percy's wife was the widow of Robert de Ros is known from Pipe Roll, 12 Hen. II, p. 41.
The Fabric Rolls of York Minster vol 2 in Publications of the Surtees Society vol 35 pp142-3 (ed. James Raine, 1862)
III.—QUATUOR CARTÆ SUPER ECCLESIA DE TOPCLIFFE.
  a.—CARTA DOMINI WILLELMI DE PERCY SUPER ECCLESIA DE TOPPECLIVE DATA FABRICÆ EBORACENSIS ECCLESIÆ (MSS. Cotton. Claudius, B. III. 78a.)†
  Willelmus de Percy omnibus hanc cartam visuris vel audituris salutem. Sciatis me donasse, concessisse, et presenti scripto confirmasse ecclesiæ Sancti Petri Eboracensis ecclesiam de Topecliva, cum omnibus pertinenciis suis, in perpetuam elemosinam, ad reficiendum, edificandum, per dispositionem domini Archiepiscopi et successorum suorum et Capituli Eboracensis, quæ in ea edificanda cognoverint seu reficienda, precedente tamen domini Archiepiscopi auctoritate et assensu, sine quo predictum Capitulum nichil indc statuere possit. Neque de eo quod tesaurarius Eboracensis ad re-edificacionem et reparacioncem Ecclesiæ solet exhibere quicquam propter hoc detrahatur. Si vero Archiepiscopus et Capitulum aliquando ab edificacione et reparacione ecclesiæ cessandum duxerint necessarium, redditus predictæ ecclesiæ omnes, nichilominus, ad vasa sacra et ea ornamenta quærenda, quæ tesaurarius iuvenire non debet, assignentur et expendantur. Ita quod nec Archiepiscopo vel Capitulo, poat decessum R. de Alneto personæ nunc illius ecclesiæ, liceat redditus exinde ad alios quam predictos usus transferre. Hanc autem donacionem et concessionem feci pro salute animæ meæ et uxoris meæ Sibilæ, patris mei et matris mes, filiorum quoque et filiarum mearum, omniumque antecessorum rneorum, ut intercedat pro nobis ad dominum Beatum Petrum clavigerum regni celorum. Hiis testibus R. Archiepiscopo Eboracensi, Sibilla de Valloniis, Nicholao priore de Fontibus, Petro de Ros, Alano canonico Ebor., Marmaduc Darel, Baldewino de Bramhopa, Waltero de Bonvent, Radulpho de Helleya et Joelino fratre ejus, Johanne hostiario Archiepiscopi, Adam clerico de Torneuia Ricardo clerico de Kirkeby Malghum.
  † From these charters we learn how the church of Topcliffe came into the possession of the Dean and Chapter of York. The exact date of the grant is not known, but it must have been made between the years 1154 and 1181, the period during which Archbishop Roger presided over the see of York.
  The donor was one of the most powerful and munificent barons in the north of England.He did good service at the battle of the Standard, and was the founder of the abbeys of Hampoll and Salley. He is said to have died in Palestine. The name of Sibill his wifemhas never yet appeared in the pedigree of the Percies.
  From the village of Topcliffe the fabric derived a very considerable revenue. The church of that little village has been recentlly re-built; the original structure possessed several features of great interest and many notices illustrative of the history of the building have already been given.
  These charters are to he found in the great white registerr at York. These transcipts, however, were made from a chartulary among the Cottonian MSS., a most beautifully written and preserved volume of the deepest interest to any York historian. It contains many charters which are to be found be the great book at York, and many others which are missing in that noble volume; but the greater part of them are authenticated by the names of the witnesses being inserted, which may be looked for in vain in many parts of the MS. at York.
This roughly translates as:
  III.—FOUR PAPERS ON THE CHURCH OF TOPCLIFFE.
 a.—THE LETTER OF LORD WILLIAM DE PERCY ON THE CHURCH OF TOPPECLIVE GIVEN TO THE FABRIC OF THE YORK CHURCH (MSS. Cotton. Claudius, B. III. 78a.)
 Greetings from William Percy to all who see or hear this letter. Be it known that I have given, granted, and confirmed by the present writing the church of St. Peter of York, with all its appurtenances, in perpetual alms, to be repaired and built, by the disposition of the Lord Archbishop and his successors, and of the Chapter of York, which they know to be built in it or to be rebuilt, however, with the prior authority and consent of the Lord Archbishop, without which the aforesaid Chapter can establish nothing. Nor shall anything be deducted for this reason from the fact that the treasurer of York is wont to present for the rebuilding and repairing of the Church. But if the Archbishop and the Chapter should at any time deem it necessary to cease from the building and repairing of the church, all the rents of the aforesaid church shall, by no means, be assigned and expended for the search of sacred vessels and those ornaments which the treasurer should not renew. So that neither the Archbishop nor the Chapter may, after the death of R. de Alnetus, now a person of that church, be allowed to transfer the proceeds from that to other uses than those aforesaid. I have made this donation and concession for the safety of my soul and that of my wife Sibyl, my father and mother, my sons and daughters, and all our ancestors, so that he may intercede for us with the Lord Blessed Peter, the key of the heavenly kingdom. To these witnesses R. Archbishop of York, Sibilla de Valloniis, Nicholas prior of Fontibus, Peter de Ros, Alan canon of York. Marmaduke Darel, Baldewin de Bramhope, Walter de Bonvent, Radulpho de Helleya and Joelinus his brother, John the archbishop's host, Adam the clerk of Torneuia, Richard the clerk of Kirkeby Malghum.

William de Percy also mentions his wife Sibyl in these two confirmation-charters. One of the witnesses is Peter de Ros, the brother of her first husband.
The chartulary of the Cistercian abbey of St Mary of Sallay in Craven vol 2 in Yorkshire Archæological Society Record Series vol 90 pp20-1 (ed. Joseph McNulty, 1934)
    STOCKDALE
421.  Carta W. de Perci de Stockedale et confirmacio carte Ricardi de Moravilla. [1154-68]
Omnibus filiis sancte matris ecclesie videntibus et audientibus has literas Willelmus de Perci salutem. Sciatis me concessisse, dedisse et presenti carta confirmasse Deo et sancte Marie et monachis de Sallai, in puram et perpetuam elemosinam, totum Stockesdal et Wlvesdal hals en aval et eadem carta confirmavi predictis monachis donacionem Ricardi de Moravilla, sicut carta ipsius testatur. Hoc autem feci eis pro salute anime mee et Sibille sponse mee et animabus omnium antecessorum nostrorum. His testibus. Nicolao capellano, Petro de Ros, Ricardo clerico de Kirkeby, et aliis multis.
  William de Percy granted to Sallay abbey all Stockdale and Wlvesdal hals en aval, and confirmed the gifts of Richard de Moravilla. Margin—Confirmacio ejusdem carte continetur in titulo de Bergby, videlicet ejusdem W. de Percy. Cf. No. 435. The witnesses in Towneley MS. 6, p. 57, are: Nicholao cappelano, Petro de Ros, Ricardo clerico de Kirkebi, Johanne Land, Baldwino filio Radulfi, Roberto de Ballai (recte Hallai), Waltero Dentun, Willelmo Arnaldi filio, Radulfo de Hallai et Gossallano fratre ejus, Reinaldo de Lintun, Hugone Ke, Radulfo filio Baldwini, Willelmo filio Walteri de Dentun, Willelmo filio Alexandri et multis aliis.
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    STOCKDALE
435.  Confirmacio primi Willelmi de Perci de Stockedale et de j. carucata in Bergebi.  [c. 1162]
Omnibus filiis sancte matris videntibus vel audientibus litteras has Willelmus de Perci salutem. Sciatis me concessisse et dedisse et presenti carta mea confirmasse Deo et sancte Marie de Sallai in puram et perpetuam elemosinam totum Stockedal, de Wlfvesdale hals en aval et eadem carta confirmavi predictis monachis donacionem Ricardi de Morevilla sicut carta ipsius testatur. Preterea concessi predicte abbacie et hac carta [eterna] securitate confirmavi unam carucatam terre in Berghebi ex donacione Willelmi Hallesire et terram quam Gillebertus de Arches dedit in campo de Kereby et terram quam Fulco presbiter de Gairgrave et Jordanus filius ejus dederunt et quam Nigellus de Stocheld dominus eorum concessit et terram quam ipse Nigellus dedit, cum omnibus pertinenciis suis in terris et in aquis, in silvis et in campis, in pascuis et pratis et in cunctis necessitatis humane usibus cum omni libertate et absque seculari accione vel vexacione, in puram et perpetuam elemosinam. Hanc itaque donacionem et confirmacionem feci supradictis monachis pro salute anime mee et Sibille sponse mee et animabus heredum, parentum et omnium antecessorum nostrorum. His testibus. Nicolao capellano, Petro de Ros, R[icardo] clerico de Kerkebi, et aliis.
  William de Percy (d. 1168) confirmed to Sallay abbey the gifts of Richard of Moreville, William Hallesire, Gilbert of Arches, Fulk priest of Gargrave and Jordan his son, and Nigel of Stockeld. Cf. No. 421. Towneley and Dodsvvorth give as witnesses: Nicholao capellano, Petro de Ros, Ricardo clerico de Kirkebi, Johanne Lard’, Baldwino filio Radulphi, Roberto de Hallai, Waltero Dentun, Willelmo Arnaldi filio, Radulfo de Hallai, et Gossaluno fratre ejus, Reynaldo de Linton, Hugone Key, Radulfo filio Baldwini, Willelmo Burdone, Willelmo filio Walteri Denitun, Willelmo filio Alexandri et multis aliis. (Towneley MS. 6, p. 685; Dodsworth 155, f. 14v. ‘This deed (writes Dodsworth) is in the custody of Mr Monkes of Gisburne 25 Sept., 1629’).

Monasticon Anglicanum vol 6 part 2 p836 (William Dugdale, 1846)
      NUM. VII.
Willughton Præceptoria.
... Domina Sybilla de Valoniis dedit fratribus Hospitalis, manerium S. Trin. Beverlaci, cum diversis tenementis in eadem villa; dedit etiam manerium de North-Burton, cum diversis terris et tenementis in eadem villa, et in North-Dalton, anno Domini M.CCI. anno verò regis Johannis iii. 
This roughly translates as:
Willughton Preceptory.
... Lady Sybilla de Valoniis gave to the brothers of the Hospital, the manor of St. Trin. Beverlac, with different tenements in the same town; she also gave the manor of North Burton, with various lands and tenements in the same town, and in North Dalton, in the year 1201 in the 3rd year of king John.

The Baronage of England vol 1 p545 (William Dugdale, 1675)
  This Robert de Ros took h to Wiſe Sibyll the Daughter of . . . . . . . . de Valoines (who furviving him, was married i to Rapb de Albini) by whom he left Iſſue Everard k his Son and Heir;
  h Monaſt. Anglic. Vol. 2. 551a. n. 30
  i Rot. Pip. 28 H. 2. Everwicſ.
  k Monaſt. Anglic. Vol. 2. ut ſupra

The history and antiquities of the county of Leicester vol 2 part 1 pp28-9 (John Nichols, 1795)
  Robert de Ros … married Sibilla de Valoines (who, ſurviving her huſband, was afterwards the wife of Ralph de Albini); and had by her Everard, an only ſon.

Monasticon Anglicanum vol 5 p280 (William Dugdale, 1846)
     NUM. III.
Successio Dominorum de Roos post Maritagium Petri Domini de Roos Adelinae sorori Walteri Especk.
      [Ibid.[Ex MS. in bibl. Cotton, sub effigie Vitellii F. 4]]
  PETRUS de Roos duxit Adelinam Especk, et genuit ex ea quendam Robertum de Roos, qui quidem Petrus sepultus est in monasterio abbatiæ Rievallensis; qui Robertus duxit Sibillam de Valoniis in uxorem, et genuit ex ea Everardum de Roos
This roughly translates as:
The succession of the Lords of Roos after the marriage of Peter Lord of Roos to Adeline, sister of Walter Especk.
  PETER de Roos married Adelina Especk, and by her begat a certain Robert de Roos, which Peter was buried in the monastery of the abbey of Rievaulx; which Robert married Sibylla de Valonii, and by her begat Everard de Roos

Memoirs Illustrative of the History and Antiquities of the County and City of York pp52-4 (1846)
  HOLY TRINITY PRIORY, YORK - Thomas Stapleton
... In the 26th of Henry the Second, under the heading Pleas before William Basset and Robert de Vaux and Michael Belet in Yorkshire, the earl of Warwick rendered accompt of £53. 6s. 8d. in a suit against Sibilla de Valognes, in regard of land which he, and Josceline, brother of the queen, were holding; of which sum twenty marks had been paid into the treasury, and he continued to owe sixty marks. William de Newburgh, earl of Warwick, and Josceline of Louvain, brother of Queen Adeliza, second wife of King Henry the First, had married Maud and Agnes, daughters of William de Percy, and coheiresses of Alan de Percy their brother. The entries on the successive Pipe rolls for Yorkshire, relative to this marriage of the 28th, 29th, and 30th years of Henry the Second, are as follows: “Ralph d’Aubigné rendered accompt of two hundred marks for marrying the mother of Ebrard de Ros, and owes £98. 6s. 8d., of which forty pounds ought to be rendered yearly by the hand of the sheriff from the lands, which the aforesaid Ralph had delivered to the sheriff to defray the aforesaid debt, which lands, after payment of the debt, ought to return into the king’s hands with the heir of Ebrard.” In the next year accompt was rendered of the sum due in the same form, and a further payment made of £43. 16s., leaving £54. 10s. 8d. due. Again, in the following year, Ralph d’Aubigné rendered accompt of £54. 10s. 8d. for marrying the mother of Ebrard de Ros. “In gifts by the king’s briefs to Rannulph de Glanville £54. 10s. 8d. And he was quit.” At this date the heir of Ebrard or Everard de Ros was in the custody of Rannulph de Glanville, as we learn from this entry respecting Rosa his widow, on the roll of ladies and boys and girls of Lincolnshire. “The wife of Everard de Ros, who was the daughter of William Trussebut, is of the donation of the lord the king, and of thirty-four years, and has two sons. The firstborn is of thirteen years and his land is in the custody of Ranulf de Glanville. The land of the said lady in Stroxton, which she has in dower, is worth annually £15., with the stock of two ploughs and a hundred sheep and three swine and one horse, nor can it be worth more.”
  Ralph d’Aubigné was deceased prior to the sixth year of Richard the First, 1198, leaving Sibilla de Valognes surviving, who rendered accompt of forty marks for licence to remain in England from the host of Normandy, which sum she had delivered into the treasury and was quit, an entry on the Pipe roll proving her to have been richly endowed of the lands of her two husbands. In the 10th year of Richard the First she paid fifty marks for having exemption from marrying herself, and should she choose to marry, then to do it through the counsel of the king. “The lady Sibilla de Valognes gave to the brethren of the Hospital of Jerusalem the manor of the Holy Trinity of Beverley, with divers tenements in the same vill. She also gave to them the manor of North Burton, with divers lands and tenements in the same vill, and in North Dalton, in the year of the Lord 1201, and in the 3rd year of King John.” North Burton, now called Cherry Burton, is in the East Riding, as well as North Dalton, mentioned above, which last will have been of her dower as widow of Ralph d’Aubigné. The manor of North Burton was in like manner of the dower derived from her first husband, Robert de Ros. One son, Ralph d’Aubigné, deceased without issue, and Gunnora, and other three sisters, were the offspring of her second match.

Early Yorkshire Charters vol 1 pp463-4 (William Farrer, 1914)
  In 1202 Ellis, prior of Bridlington, surrendered certain charters to Sibil de Valoignes, including those relating to 1 bovate in North Dalton, late of Robert de Cave and Mabel his wife, and to a croft of the fee of William the knight, son of Gilbert.1 In 1201 Sibil de Valoignes gave to the Templars land in North Dalton,2 which she held in dower of the inheritance of Ralph de Aubigny, and the manor of North Burton,3 which she held in dower of the inheritance of Robert de Ros, her first husband. She died in 1222.
  1 Yorks. Fines, i, n. 110.
  2 Mon. Angl., vi, 836.
  3 ib.

Early Yorkshire Charters vol 3 p487 (William Farrer, 1916)
In 1212 Sibyl de Valoignes, relict of Robert de Ros (d. 1163), held 2 fees in Wootton, co. Linc., (of Eustace de Vescy, who held) of Ralph de Mortemer.3
  3 Testa, 347b. Cf. 316.

The Complete Peerage vol 11 p91 (George Edward Cokayne, enlarged by Geoffrey H. White, 1949)
      ROS or ROOS OF HELMSLEY
  ROBERT DE ROS … m. Sibyl DE VALOGNES,(d) and d. in 1162 or 1I63.(e) His widow m., 2ndly, circa 1166, William DE PERCY,(f) who d. probably in 1174 or 1175; and 3rdly, in 1181 or 1182, Ralph D’AUBIGNY (br. of William D’AUBIGNY of Belvoir), who d. before Mich. 1192.(g) She was living in 1212, possibly in 1218, and was bur. at Nun Appleton Priory.(h)
  (d) See ante, vol. x, p.441, note “l,” sub PERCY.  (e) Pipe Roll, 9 Hen. II, p. 58
  (f) Who gave 400 marks for the marriage (Idem, 12 Hen. II, p. 41).
  (g) See ante, vol. x, p. 442, note “c,” and p. 444, note “d.”
  (h) Idem, p. 443.

Death: 1222

Buried: Nun Appleton Priory, near Appleton Roebuck, Yorkshire, England

This burial place is assumed from a benefaction made by Sibyl to Nun Appleton Priory in 6 John (1204-5) of 13 bovates of land, which includes the words that it is “dedit cum corpore suo”, or "given with her body" (Rotuli Chartarum p144).

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