Philip d'Aubigny
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| Coat of arms | Gules, four fusils conjoined in fess argent |
| Noble family | D'Aubigny |
| Father | Ralph d'Aubigny |
| Mother | Sybil Valoignes |
| Born | 1166 Ingleby, Lincolnshire |
| Died | 1236 Kingdom of Jerusalem |
| Buried | Jerusalem |
Philip d'Aubigny, sometimes Phillip or Phillipe Daubeney (c.a. 1166 – c.a. 1236), a knight and royal chancellor, was one of 5 sons of Ralph d'Aubigny and Sybil Valoignes, whose ancestral home was Saint Aubin-d'Aubigné in Brittany. He was lord of the manor of Chewton Mendip, South Petherton, Bampton, Waltham and Ingleby and Keeper of the Channel Islands.
Following his fathers death, Philip's elder brother, Ralph, inherited estates at Belvoir, Ingleby, Saxilby and Broadholme. Ralph, however, later defected to the French in 1205 following King John's loss of Normandy. Philip and at least two of his brothers entered the service of Robert de Breteuil, earl of Leicester; Oliver was granted the manor of Enderby and Philip the manor of Waltham. With the Earl's assistance, Philip was married to the widow of William de Bouquetot, Joan, and acquired land held of the abbey of St Wandrille in Normandy and also at Horsmonden in Kent.
Philip, unlike his elder brother, remained loyal to John and served as the constable of Ludlow in 1207, and was also appointed the keeper of the Channel Islands that same year, a title he retained until it was transferred to his nephew and namesake, Philip d'Aubigny the younger, son of Ralph d'Aubigny, in 1219. Philip was appointed as a marshal of a proposed expedition to France in 1213, and served in the King's campaign in Poitou the following year. Present at the signing of the Magna Carta as a member of the king's party, even being mentioned within the document, he was soon appointed the Constable of Bristol after the outbreak of the First Barons War but a month later. Being the leader of the royalist forces in Kent and Sussex, he attained the title 'Commander of the Knights of Christ', and led various attacks upon the rebels from his stronghold at Rye. He partook in the Battle of Lincoln in 1217, and commanded a ship during the Battle of Sandwich later that same year.
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