39979012. Earl Saire de Quincy & 39979013. Countess Margaret de Beaumont
12/19/1154, Henry II crowned king of England.
~1160, Saier born England, s/o 79958024. Robert de Quincy & 79958025. Orabilis
de Mar.
~1164, Margaret born in Hampshire, England, d/o 79958026.
Sir Robert de Beaumont
& 79958027.
Petronilla de Grandmesnil.
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.
[––Saire & Margaret––]
~1180, Saier married to Margaret.
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, 2011, P284.
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.
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.
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.
6/6/1210, King John launched successful attacks in
Ireland [which he split into shires ruled by the crown from Dublin]. King John
launched 700 ships in the attack, and used 10 knights as personal bodyguards in
this campaign.
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.
6/19/1215 at Runnymede near Windsor, King John forced to
agree to the terms of the Magna Carta. [The barons in revolt together held more
castles and knights fees than John did as King.]
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.
1215, 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.
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.
10/28/1216, Henry III, age 9, crowned king of England.
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.
[––Margaret––]
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.
~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.
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:
·
“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.
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. [2nd of the same name.]
iv. Arabela de Quincy, born ? in England.
Arabela married Sir Richard de Harcourt.
v. Hawise de Quincy (47279565), born ~1210 in England.
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