| Birth: | 1155 in Winchester, Hampshire, England |
| Death: | 3 Nov 1219 in Damietta, Egypt, on way to Holy Land |
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| Unknown Mistress (Wife) b. Wft Est 1175 in England
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 Robert de Quincy b. About 1200 in Colne Quincy, Essex, England
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| Margaret de Beaumont (Wife) b. 1154 in Leicestershire, England
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| Marriage: | BEF 1173 in England |
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- Robert de Quincy , Earl of Lincoln b. About 1172 in Winchester Buckley, Hampshire, England
 Roger de Quincy , 2nd Earl of Winchester b. 1174 in Winchester, Hamptonshire, England
- Loretta de Quincy b. 1176 in Winchester, Hampshire, England
- Orabella de Quincy b. About 1185 in Winchester, Hampshire, England
- Hawise de Quincy b. About 1195 in Winchester, Hampshire, England
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Individual:
Saier de Quincy was created Earl of Winchester by King John about theyear 1210. This noblema
n was one of the lords present at Lincoln whenWilliam, King of Scotland, did homage to the English monarch, and hesubsequently obtained large grants and immunities from King John; when,however, the baronial war broke out, his lordship's pennant waved on theside of freedom and he became so eminent amongst those sturdy chiefs thathe was chosen one of the celebrated twenty-five barons appointed toenforce the observance of Magna Carta. Adhering to the same party afterthe accession of Henry III, the Earl of Winchester had a principalcommand at the battle of Lincoln and, there being defeated, was takenprisoner by the royalists. But submitting in the following October, hehad restitution of all his lands and proceeded soon after, in companywith the Earls of Chester and Arundel and others of the nobility, to theHoly Land where he assisted at the siege of Damietta, anno 1219, and d.the same year in his progress towards Jerusalem. His lordship m.Margaret, younger sister and co-heir of Robert Fitz-Parnell, Earl ofLeicester, by which alliance he acquired a very considerable inheritance,and had issue, Robert, Roger, and Robert. At the decease of the earl,his 2nd son, Roger de Quincy, had livery of his father's estates.
[Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages,Burke's Peerage, Ltd., L ondon, England, 1883, p. 447, Quincy, Earls ofWinchester]
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