John de Lacy, 2nd Earl of Lincoln

1192 - 1240  (~ 48 years)

• Name	John de Lacy
  Suffix	2nd Earl of Lincoln
  Born	ca 1192	Lincoln Lincolnshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Died	22 Jul 1240	Cheshire, England
  Buried	Stanlow Abbey, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England
  	Grave location and biography: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=66773859
  Notes	Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_de_Lacy,_2nd_Earl_of_Lincoln 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.
  Person ID	I36118	Master File
  Last Modified	21 Sep 2016

  
  

  Father	Roger de Lacy, 6th Baron of Pontefract, 7th Lord of Bowland, Lord of Blackburnshire, 7th Baron of Halton,   b. ca 1170, Cheshire, England ,   d. 1211, Pontefract West Yorkshire, England  (Age ~ 41 years)
  Mother	Maude de Clere
  Family ID	F14895	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret de Quincy, Countess of Lincoln,   b. ca 1206, England ,   d. Mar 1266, Hampstead, England  (Age ~ 60 years)
  Children	1. Maude de Lacy, Countess of Hertford and Gloucester,   b. 25 Jan 1223, Lincoln Lincolnshire, England ,   d. 10 Mar 1289, Lincoln Lincolnshire, England  (Age 66 years)
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2016
  Family ID	F14894	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart