Asceline d’Aubigné

   Other names for Asceline were Asceline d'Albini, Aceline Daubeny and Asceline d'Aubigny.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Ralph de St. Amand, son and heir, was in the King's service overseas in 1242, and, in 1244, going on service either to Scotland or Wales. He married, June 1234, Asceline, 2^nd of the 3 sisters and coheirs of Robert, son of Robert Daubeny. Asceline was living February 1239/40. Ralph died shortly before 28 July 1245.

~Cockayne's Complete Peerage, (St. Amand), Vol. XI, p. 296

• Background Information. ¹²⁰⁰
In the time of Edward the Confessor Ampthill was held by seven sokemen, who could assign and sell their land to whom they wished. William I granted the manor to Nigel Albini, of whom it was held in 1086 by Nigel de Wast. It was then assessed at 5 hides and valued at £4. The estates of Nigel de Wast subsequently escheated to the lords of the fief, but before the year 1219 Nicholas Poinz and Joan his wife had been enfeoffed of it [Excerpta e Rot. Fin. (Rec. Com.), i, 26]. They held a weekly market there for which they paid 5 marks to the king [Ibid.; Pat. 3 Hen. III, m. 5; 4 Hen. III]. Soon afterwards the manor appears to have again escheated, and Joan Albini, the daughter and co-heir of Robert Albini, was granted a yearly fair there in 1242 [Cal. Chart. R. 1226-57, p. 274. It is possible that Joan wife of Nicholas Poinz may have been the same person as Joan Albini.]. The manor, together with property in Millbrook, was held by service of one and a-half knights' fees [Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 250b]. Joan Albini died without issue, and her property was divided between her two sisters Isabel and Asseline [Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 66]. The bulk of the Ampthill property went to Asseline.

~A History of the County of Bedford, Volume III, pp. 268-275

Asceline married Ralph de St. Amand, son of Amauri de St. Amand and Unknown.¹⁴¹ (Ralph de St. Amand died Shortly before 28 Jul 1245 in England ¹⁴¹.)