sentences:  While he entered the king's service as a household knight and brother of the king's butler, William d'Aubigny, in the years following the Battle of Tinchebrai in 1106 Nigel was rewarded by Henry with marriage to an heiress who brought him lordship in Normandy and with the lands of several men, primarily that of Robert de Stuteville.The Mowbray honour became one of the wealthiest estates in Norman England.From 1107 to about 1118, Nigel served as a royal official in Yorkshire and Northumberland.