William de Forz (died 1195)

Guillaume de Forz, also de Fortibus or de forts (English: William, † 1195), Lord of Fors was, and from the right of his wife, Count of Aumale and Baron of Holderness.

Guillaume was Mr. Fors in Poitou ( Dep.: Deux -Sèvres ). He was one of the narrower the wake of his liege lord, Richard the Lionheart, at. For the first time he called 1190 as witness to a deed Richards, who has been issued for the Jews of the city of Rouen. As part of the patronage politics Richards, he was married a short time later with the Countess Hawise of Aumale as her second husband. In June 1190 Guillaume in Chinon of King Richard the Lionheart, next to Robert de Sablé and Richard de Camville was named one of the commanders of the fleet for the Third Crusade. While Sablé and Camville stood immediately in the lake, he accompanied the king to Vezelay where they met on July 3 with King Philip II of France and there officially announced the beginning of the crusade. Then Guillaume also stabbed with his squadron consisting of 33 ships to sea to circumnavigate these the Iberian Peninsula. He united on July 24 at the mouth of the Tagus with Sablé and Camville who had previously plundered Lisbon. Combines the fleet sailed on to Marseille where she received King Richard. In Sicily he was in 1191 one of the witnesses of the assistance contract between Richard and King Tancred of Sicily.

Guillaume died in 1195, his widow married a little later Baudouin de Béthune. With his wife he had a son, who continued the anglicized title of Earl of Albemarle after the loss of Aumale in 1196:

• William de Forz († March 29, 1241 )