The Battle Abbey Roll. Vol. I.
by
The Duchess of Cleveland.

Prepared by Michael A. Linton
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Daubeny : This name was borne by the posterity of Robert de Todeni, who built Belvoir Castle, and first owned the noble domain on which it looks down. The son—for some cause or other—assumed the name of De Albini, and was styled "Brito" to distinguish from Albini Pincerna, Earl of Arundel. The name did not become Daubeny till quite the end of the thirteenth century (nearly fifty years after the splendid heritage of Belvoir had passed away through an heiress to the De Ros'), when Elias Daubeny, first so styled, had summons to parliament as a baron. It can therefore only find place here as an interpolation.

Some of these additions, I may say, show a profound ignorance of genealogy. A name already given in its original form is repeated in its modern one. This is one instance among several others, such as Mucegros—Musgrave; Limesay—Lindsay.