Ancestral Trails 2016 » SAHER de QUINCY (1155-1219)

Données personnelles SAHER de QUINCY 

• Il est né en l'an 1155 dans Winchester, Hampshire.

  Attention: L'âge au mariage (??-??-1170) était inférieur à 16 ans (15).

• Titre: 1st Earl of Winchester
• (Event) dans Magna Carta Surety.
• Il est décédé le 3 novembre 1219 dans Damietta, Palestine, il avait 64 ans.
• Un enfant de ROBERT de QUINCY et ORABELLA de LEUCHARS

Famille de SAHER de QUINCY

Il est marié avec MARGARET BEAUMONT.

Ils se sont mariés en l'an 1170 à Winchester, Hampshire, il avait 15 ans.

Enfant(s):

1. ROBERT de QUINCY  1190-1217 
2. Lorette de QUINCY  1177-???? 
3. ROGER de QUINCY  1184-1264 
4. ROBERT de QUINCY  1179-1217 
5. HAWISE de QUINCY  1195-> 1273 
6. Orabella de QUINCY  1198-???? 
7. MARY de QUINCY  1190-1219 

Notes par SAHER de QUINCY

Saer de Quincy, 1st Earl of Winchester (c. 1170 - 3 November 1219) (or Saieur di Quinci]) was one of the leaders of the baronial rebellion against King John of England, and a major figure in both the kingdoms of Scotland and England in the decades around the turn of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

Saer de Quincy's immediate background was in the Scottish kingdom: his father, Robert de Quincy, was a knight in the service of king William the Lion, and his mother, Orabilis de Mar, was the heiress of the lordship of Leuchars in Fife.

His own rise to prominence in England came through his marriage to Margaret, the younger sister of Robert de Beaumont, Earl of Leicester: but it is probably no coincidence that her other brother was the de Quincy's powerful Fife neighbour, Roger de Beaumont, Bishop of St Andrews. Earl Robert died in 1204, and left Margaret as co-heiress to the vast earldom along with her elder sister. The estate was split in half, and after the final division was ratified in 1207, de Quincy was made Earl of Winchester.

Following his marriage, Winchester became a prominent military and diplomatic figure in England. There is no evidence of any close alliance with King John, however, and his rise to importance was probably due to his newly acquired magnate status and the family connections that underpinned it.

One man with whom he does seem to have developed a close personal relationship is his cousin, Robert Fitzwalter (d. 1235). In 1203, they served as co-commanders of the garrison at the major fortress of Vaudreuil in Normandy. They surrendered the castle without a fight to Philip II of France, fatally weakening the English position in northern France. Although popular opinion seems to have blamed them for the capitulation, a royal writ is extant stating that the castle was surrendered at King John's command, and both Winchester and Fitzwalter endured personal humiliation and heavy ransoms at the hands of the French.

In Scotland, he was perhaps more successful. In 1211 to 1212, the Earl of Winchester commanded an imposing retinue of a hundred knights and a hundred serjeants in William the Lion's campaign against the Mac William rebels, a force which some historians have suggested may have been the mercenary force from Brabant lent to the campaign by John.

In 1215, when the baronial rebellion broke out, Robert Fitzwalter became the military commander, and the Earl of Winchester joined him, acting as one of the chief authors of Magna Carta and negotiators with John; both cousins were among the 25 guarantors of the Magna Carta. De Quincy fought against John in the troubles that followed the sealing of the Charter, and, again with Fitzwalter, travelled to France to invite Prince Louis of France to take the English throne. He and Fitzwalter were subsequently among the most committed and prominent supporters of Louis's candidature for the kingship, against both John and the infant Henry III.

The Fifth Crusade
When military defeat cleared the way for Henry III to take the throne, de Quincy went on crusade, perhaps in fulfillment of an earlier vow. In 1219 he left to join the Fifth Crusade, then besieging Damietta. While in the east, he fell sick and died. He was buried in Acre, the capital of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, rather than in Egypt, and his heart was brought back and interred at Garendon Abbey near Loughborough, a house endowed by his wife's family.

Saer de Quincy, the son of Robert de Quincy and Orabilis of Leuchars, was raised largely in Scotland. His absence from English records for the first decades of his life has led some modern historians and genealogists to confuse him with his uncle, Saer II, who took part in the rebellion of Henry the Young King in 1173, when the future Earl of Winchester can have been no more than a toddler. Saer II's line ended without direct heirs, and his nephew and namesake would eventually inherit his estate, uniting his primary Scottish holdings with the family's Northamptonshire patrimony, and possibly some lands in France.

Issue
By his wife Margaret de Beaumont, Earl Saire had three sons and three daughters:

Lora who married Sir William de Valognes, Chamberlain of Scotland.
Arabella who married Sir Richard Harcourt.
Robert (d. 1217), before 1206 he married Hawise of Chester, Countess of Lincoln, sister and co-heiress of Ranulf de Blundeville, Earl of Chester.
Roger, who succeeded his father as earl of Winchester (though he did not take formal possession of the earldom until after his mother's death).
Robert de Quincy (second son of that name; d. 1257) who married Helen, daughter of the Welsh prince Llywelyn the Great.
Hawise, who married Hugh de Vere, Earl of Oxford.
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saer_de_Quincy,_1st_Earl_of_Winchester#Family

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