39979012. Earl Saire de Quincy & 39979013. Margaret de Beaumont
12/19/1154, Henry II crowned king of England.
~1165, Margaret born in Hampshire, England, d/o 79958026. Sir Robert de Beaumont & 79958027. Petronilla de Grandmesnil.
~1173, Saier married Margaret.
4/1173, Saire, in Normandy, a supporter of young King Henry
against his father King Henry II. (S) The Angevin Empire, Ramsay, 1903, P168.
1176-78, Montfort. Justices: … William Malet, Hugh de
Cressi, Seher de Quinci, … constables of Pontaudemer, Rouen, Nonacourt and
Neufachatel. (S) Norman Institutions, Haskings, 1918, P334.
1180-4, Saire castellan of Nonancourt in the Aure.
1188 at Geddington, Charter of King Henry to the church of Bungay. Witnesses … Earl William of Sussex; Earl David, brother of the King of Scots; Rannulf de Glanville; William de Humez; Walter fitz Robert; Seher de Quinci; William Marshall; … Richard de Camville; … (S) Hugh de Puiset – Bishop of Durham, Scammell, P284, 2011.
11/3/1189, Richard I crowned king of England.
1180-4, Saire castellan of Nonancourt in the Aure.
1188 at Geddington, Charter of King Henry to the church of Bungay. Witnesses … Earl William of Sussex; Earl David, brother of the King of Scots; Rannulf de Glanville; William de Humez; Walter fitz Robert; Seher de Quinci; William Marshall; … Richard de Camville; … (S) Hugh de Puiset – Bishop of Durham, Scammell, P284, 2011.
11/3/1189, Richard I crowned king of England.
1190, Saier de Quincy an envoy to the Scots.
1196, Saire’s father died.
8/1198, Saire with King Richard I at Roche d’Orval.
5/27/1199, John crowned king
of England.
8/18/1199, Saire witness to agreement between King John and the
Count of Boulogne at Chateau Gaillard.
1200, Seher de Quinci, earl of Winton, held court at
Leuchars. (S) Registrum Monasterii S. Marie de Cambuskenneth, 1872, P346.
10/1200, Saire a baron present at Lincoln when William the Lion of Scotland did homage to the English monarch. He obtained large grants and immunities from King John.
10/1200, Saire a baron present at Lincoln when William the Lion of Scotland did homage to the English monarch. He obtained large grants and immunities from King John.
1202, King John refused King Philip’s summons to Paris as his
vassal. The French court awarded his lands to his nephew Arthur of Brittany.
King Philip attacked Norman territories capturing most of Brai.
3/1203, King John granted Saher the manors of Chinnor and
Sydenham, Oxfordshire, for 1.5 knights’ fee.
1203, King Philip of France attacked King John’s lands in
Normandy and Angiers, capturing Chateau-Gaillard and the city of Rouen. King
John sent forces commanded by William Marshall to repel the invasion.
6/1203, Saire, governor of the Castle of Ruil [Vaudreuil] in Normandy with his cousin Robert Fitz Walter. They surrendered the castle after help from King John never arrived. Saire and Robert were imprisoned at Compiegne until a ransom payment of £5000 was made.
7/5/1203 at Rouen, William Marshall wrote to King John: “Know that Robert Fitz-Walter and Saher de Quinci have returned the castle of Valle Rodol to the King of France by our order. … enjoin that they, ald all those who were with them in the castle, may be on that account acquitted of blame.” (S) King John of England, Chadwick, 1865, P235.
5/28/1204 at Rouen, King John acquitted “our faithful Saher de Quincy” 300 marks which are due to the Jews. (S) The Athenaeum, Buckingham, 1835, P724.
6/1203, Saire, governor of the Castle of Ruil [Vaudreuil] in Normandy with his cousin Robert Fitz Walter. They surrendered the castle after help from King John never arrived. Saire and Robert were imprisoned at Compiegne until a ransom payment of £5000 was made.
7/5/1203 at Rouen, William Marshall wrote to King John: “Know that Robert Fitz-Walter and Saher de Quinci have returned the castle of Valle Rodol to the King of France by our order. … enjoin that they, ald all those who were with them in the castle, may be on that account acquitted of blame.” (S) King John of England, Chadwick, 1865, P235.
5/28/1204 at Rouen, King John acquitted “our faithful Saher de Quincy” 300 marks which are due to the Jews. (S) The Athenaeum, Buckingham, 1835, P724.
1204, Many Normandy barons, having their English-titled lands
captured by King Philip of France, moved to England in support of King John.
1204, Saher de Quincy, recovered the advowson of Eynesbury
which had been given by his ancestor Simon de St. Liz to St. Neots. (S)
Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, Vs59-62, 1996, P71.
10/21/1204, Margaret’s coheir to her brother Robert fitz Parnel,
4th Earl of Leicester. (S) Women, Art and Patronage, Gee, 2002, P70.
Saher de Quency was granted custody of all his lands except the
castle of Mountsorrel, offering 1000 marks for custody in right of his wife, or
5000 marks for full possession.
3/2/1207, Saire, 1st Earl of Winchester, Hampshire.
3/10/1207, After the ratification of the division of Margaret’s
brother’s estates, the honor of Leicester divided between Saher de Quency and
Simon de Montfort [married to Margaret’s sister.] Simon received the third
penny of the town of Leicester and the dignity of seneschal of England; and was
forgiven half the promised money for possession; and granted 10£ a year from
Hampshire.
1208, Saher de Quincy, earl of Winchester, in a plea as to
the advowson of Wimpole, Cambs., said that his grandfather, Saher de
Quincy, had held it in Henry II's reign. (S) Northampton Record
Society, V15, 1950, P194.
7/25/1210, Saire accompanied King John to Carrickfergus,
Scotland.
1211, Saher de Quency and Gilbert de Ghent were pressed for
their debts to the crown.
2/1212, Saire, lord of Leuchars and Tranent in Scotland,
commanded 100 knights & 100 seargents in William the Lion’s campaign
against the MacWilliam rebels of Scotland.
5/1212, Saher de Quency, earl William of Salisbury, and William
de Cornhill, archdeacon of Huntingdon, attested letters patent and close at
Westminster. [King John was travelling around England.]
1212, Saier de Quincy sent as an ambassador to Emperor Otto IV.
5/15/1213, Saire a witness of the document in which King John
resigned his crown to the Pope. (S) The Reign of King John, Painter, 1949,
P194.
1213-19, Grant of Maurice de Gant, …. Witnesses: Robert Fitz
Walter, Saier de Quincy, and Henry de Bohun.
3/4/1215, Saier de Quincy joined King John in taking the cross
of a crusader.
By 5/25/1215, Saher de Quency, earl of Winchester, had joined
the barons in revolt.
11/20/1215 at Bury St. Edmunds, Saher, 1 of only 25 Barons, selected by the rest, to
enforce the Magna Carta.
1215, Saher de Quincy, earl of Winchester, laid seige to and
captured the castle and town of Colchester [later recaptured by King John –
Saher moved his forces to Bury St. Edmond’s.] (S) Gentleman’s Magazine, V93,
Pt2, 1823, P405.
1216, Saire and Robert Fitz Walter sent by the barons to
France to offer the crown to Prince Louis, the Dauphin.
12/16/1215, Saire excommunicated with his son Roger.
1/9/1216, Saire and Robert Fitz Walter returned with 42 ships of French knights. They kept a strong garrison in Montsorell Castle in Leicester on behalf of Prince Louis. (S) Gentleman’s Magazine, V87, Pt2, 1817, P492.
5/20/1216, Prince Louis crossed to England in 10 warships, with 1200 knight and 900 troops. Louis quickly captured all the Cinque Ports except Dover, held by Hubert de Burgh. Louis captured the town of Lincoln, but not the castle.
6/2/1216, Prince Louis proclaimed King in London. (S) A Primary History of Britain, Smith, 1873, P66.
12/16/1215, Saire excommunicated with his son Roger.
1/9/1216, Saire and Robert Fitz Walter returned with 42 ships of French knights. They kept a strong garrison in Montsorell Castle in Leicester on behalf of Prince Louis. (S) Gentleman’s Magazine, V87, Pt2, 1817, P492.
5/20/1216, Prince Louis crossed to England in 10 warships, with 1200 knight and 900 troops. Louis quickly captured all the Cinque Ports except Dover, held by Hubert de Burgh. Louis captured the town of Lincoln, but not the castle.
6/2/1216, Prince Louis proclaimed King in London. (S) A Primary History of Britain, Smith, 1873, P66.
10/28/1216, Henry III, age 9, crowned king of England.
1/9/1217, Saire and Robert Fitz Walter returned with 42 ships of
French knights. They kept a strong garrison in Montsorell Castle in Leicester on
behalf of Prince Louis. (S) Gentleman’s
Magazine, V87, Pt2, 1817, P492.
5/20/1217, the Barons, being greatly outnumbered, were besieged
and defeated at the battle of Lincoln by the troops of King Henry III,
commanded by Ranulph de Blundeville, earl of Chester. Saire with many others
was made prisoner and his estates forfeited.
10/4/1217, Saire’s lands restored following his submission.
1218, Saire, Earl of Winchester went with the Earls of Chester
and Arundel to the Holy Land.
1219, Saire a commander at the siege of Damietta.
11/3/1219, Saire died on the way to Jerusalem. He was buried in
Acre, the capital of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. His heart was brought back and
interred at Garendon Abbey near Loughborough, a house endowed by his wife’s
family. (S) Middle Ages in the Highlands, Maclean, 1981, P138.
8/2/1220, To the sheriff of Wiltshire. S. earl of Winchester,
who has died, as the king has heard for certain, … (S) FRsHIII.
8/9/1220, To the sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire.
Order to cause the corn formerly of S. earl of Winchester in his bailiwick, …,
to be valued, with chattels found therein, by the view and testimony of
law-worthy men, and to cause the same corn and chattels to be delivered to
Margaret who was the wife of S. earl of Winchester. (S) FRsHIII.
11/13/1221, Pledges for Isabella de Bolbec, countess of Oxford:
… Margaret countess of Winchester fo 100 m., … Roger de Quincy for 100
m. (S) FRsHIII.
2/11/1223, Margaret countess of Winchester has made fine with
the king by 400 m. that Hawise, her daughter, may be married to Hugh, son and
heir of R. de Vere, formerly earl of Oxford, … (S) FRsHIII.
11/18/1228, To the sheriff of Northamptonshire. The king has pardoned
to Margaret, countess of Winchester, the third part of her scutage from the
knights’ fees she holds of the king in chief in his bailiwick. (S) FRsHIII.
7/13/1229, Margaret, countess of
Winchester, gives the king 80 m. for having his grant of the lands of the
Normans which are of her fee and which are in her hand, or of other lands that
others hold by the same countess of the same lands of the Normans that are of
her fee, to have and hold to the same countess for life and to Roger de Quincy,
her son and heir, after her death.
8/1231-11/1232, To Margaret de Quincy, countess of Winchester,
concerning the Jews of Leicester and one of Margaret agents … Robert,
archdeacon of Leicester, sends greeting … (S) Letters of Robert Grosseteste,
Bishop of Lincoln, 2009, P65.
11/19/1233, Margaret, countess of Winchester, has made fine
with the king by 40 m. for having seisin of the manor of Marden , formerly of
Gilbert Basset, which is of the fee of the same countess, without prejudice to
the right of each who will wish to claim right in the said manor, and she has
given the king surety for the aforesaid 40 m. by Roger de Quincy, her son. (S)
FRsHIII.
1/12/1234, Margaret died.
(S) Magna Carta Ancestry, P683. (S) The Reign of King John,
Painter, 1949.
Family notes:
·
~1220, Margaret’s seal: Margaret “is robed in
the lozenges of de Quincy and stands under an arch, next to a tree on which
hangs the shields of de Quincy and Fitzwalter.” (S) Wiltshire Arch. And Nat.
Hist. Soc., V89, P135.
·
“Seyrus de Quinci”, granted a charter to Coupar
priory for an annual gift of a chalder of corn, which his
father Robert gave them, to be received each year at Leuchars, at Christmas.
father Robert gave them, to be received each year at Leuchars, at Christmas.
Children of Saier and Margaret: [5 sons, 3 daughters]
i. Robert de Quincy (39979062), born 1182 in England
ii. Roger de Quincy (19989506), born ~1185 in England.
iii. Robert de Quincy (9994810), born bef. 1200 in England
iv. Hawise de Quincy (47279565), born ~1205 in England.
v. Arabela de Quincy, born ? in England.
Arabela married Sir Richard de Harcourt.
