John de Lacy, 2nd Earl of Lincoln

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He was the 2nd Earl of Lincoln,the eldest son and heir of Roger de Lacy and his wife, Maud or Matilda de Clere ( not de Clare).

He was hereditary constable of Chester and was one of the earliest who took up arms at the time of the Magna Carta. As a result, he appointed to see that the new statutes were properly carried into effect and observed in the counties of York and Nottingham. He was one of twenty-five barons charged with overseeing the observance of Magna Carta in 1215.

He was excommunicated by the Pope. Upon the accession of King Henry III, he joined a party of noblemen and made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, and did good service at the siege of Damietta. In 1232 he was made Earl of Lincoln and in 1240, governor of Chester and Beeston Castles.

He married first Alice in 1214 in Pontefract, daughter of Gilbert de Aquila, who gave him one daughter Joan. Then he married in 1221 Margaret de Quincy, only daughter and heiress of Robert de Quincy, son of Saer de Quincy, 1st Earl of Winchester, by Hawyse. By this marriage he had one son, Edmund de Lacy, Baron of Pontefract, and two daughters, of one, Maud, married Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester.

He died on 22 July 1240 and was buried at the Cisterian Abbey of Stanlaw, in County Chester. The monk Matthew Paris, records: "On the 22nd day of July, in the year 1240, which was St. Magdalen's Day, John, Earl of Lincoln, after suffering from a long illness went the way of all flesh". Margaret, his wife, survived him and remarried Walter Marshal, 5th Earl of Pembroke.

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John married Margaret de Quincy, Countess of Lincoln. Margaret (daughter of Robert de Quincy and Hawise of Chester, 1st Countess of Lincoln) was born ca 1206, England; died Mar 1266, Hampstead, England; was buried , Church of The Hospitallers, Clerkenwell, London, England. [Group Sheet]

1. Maude de Lacy, Countess of Hertford and Gloucester was born 25 Jan 1223, Lincoln Lincolnshire, England; died 10 Mar 1289, Lincoln Lincolnshire, England.

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Roger de Lacy was also known as Roger FitzJohn (son of John, constable of Chester). He was the son of John FitzRichard (son of Richard), Baron of Halton, Lord of Bowland, Lord of Flamborough and Constable of Chester. Roger became Baron of Pontefract on the death of his paternal grandmother Albreda de Lisours. In agreements with his grandmother Roger adopted the name of de Lacy, received the right to inherit the Barony of Pontefract and its lands, and the lands of Bowland, and Blackburnshire. He gave up all claims to his grandmother's de Lisours lands.

He failed to support King Henry I during his power struggle with his brother and the King confiscated Pontefract Castle from the family during the 12th century. Roger paid King Richard I 3,000 marks for the Honor of Pontefract, but the King retained possession of the castle. He joined King Richard for the Third Crusade. When John I became king, Roger was a person of great eminence, for we find him shortly after the coronation of that prince, deputed with the Sheriff of Northumberland, and other great men, to conduct William, King of Scotland, to Lincoln, where the English king had fixed to give him an interview. King John gave de Lacy Pontefract Castle in 1199, the year he ascended the throne.

Roger joined Richard the Lionheart for the Third Crusade. Roger assisted at the Siege of Acre, in 1192 and clearly earned the favor and the trust of King Richard as a soldier and loyal subject as judged by his subsequent service.

Roger, Ranulph, Earl of Chester, having entered Wales at the head of some forces, was compelled, by superior numbers, to shut himself up in the castle of Rothelan (Rhuddlan Castle), where, being closely besieged by the Welsh, he sent for aid. Roger de Lacy, forthwith marched to his relief, at the head of a concourse of people, then collected at the fair of Chester, consisting of minstrels, and loose characters of all description, forming altogether so numerous a body, that the besiegers, at their approach, mistaking them for soldiers, immediately raised the siege.






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Roger married Maude de Clere. [Group Sheet]