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the arms of Adelm, or Anselm, are ermine on a canton sable,
afleur de lis or. We now arrive at Robert de Auberville, men-
tioned in Domesday, who we have before supposed to have been
brother of William and Roger, and identical with Robert Fitz-
Walter — a supposition countenanced by what precedes and is to
follow. He had several manors in Somersetshire, and is men-
tioned as one of the " servientes regis." Now, that designation
would apply to Robert le Marshal. The family of Wrotham, of
Wrotham, in Kent, appear to have had the barony of this Robert
de Auberville, in Somersetshire ; l but it is not improbable that
the family of Fitz-Walter, of that county, were his descendants
and partial heirs. William Fitz-Walter, in 1146, founded the
monastery of Haselborough, in that county, and was succeeded
by a son of the same name, who it appears by the Liber Niger, in
1166, had six knights' fees in Devon and Somerset, and six in
Lincolnshire. There is a John de Auberville mentioned in the
Pipe Roll of 1131, who pays a fine "to have the lands of his
uncle Peter till he return from Jerusalem/' From him pro-
bably descended the Aubervilles, who were represented by the
Wrothams, and the "uncle Peter" may probably have introduced
that name into the family of De la Mare, which we have assumed
to have been the same with Auberville. And this John de Auber-
ville, the preceding William Fitz-Walter, and the Robert Fitz-
Walter mentioned in the Pipe Roll of 1131, for Surrey and
Oxon, were probably brothers and sons of " John," a Domesday
tenant in the manor of Winterburne. We have now to consider
whether the family of Amundeville and Auberville be not iden-
tical. The former is not mentioned in Domesday, but occurs in
the next public record, viz. the Pipe Roll of 31 Henry I. : it may
be a corruption of the latter, or the name of a Norman fief,
assumed by one of the family, its owner. The pedigree in
Hutchins' Dorsetshire, copied into Burke's Landed Gentry, in
the account of the family of Disney, is not implicitly to be
trusted, nor the latter in the early part at all. But that Roger
de Amundeville, the first mentioned, was father of Joceline, is
probable, as the names of " Roger," and " Jocelin," or " Joslan,"
occur in Domesday, as owners of some of the manors said to be
owned by them. The arms assigned to them, viz., three lions or
leopards passant, and afterwards borne by their representatives,
the Dives and Disneys, were probably the arms of Beatrix Paga-
nell, a heiress, wife of Walter de Amundeville, and foundress of
Ellesham Priory. Another coat assigned to the name is fretty :
this, and also a fleur de lis, are given as arms to the family of
Monderell, in Warwickshire. 2 That the family of Ellesham, or
Helsham, or Halsham, was a branch of the Amundevilles, there
1 Testa de Nevill. 2 Dugdale.