John de Lacy

• Preferred Name: John de Lacy^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• Burial: in Stanlow Abbey, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire West and Chester Unitary Authority Cheshire, England at LATI: N2.5833 LONG: E2.3 with note: 23 Oct 2022: Standardizing location inputted by another user without sources.
  
• LifeSketch: with note: Description: John de Lacy (c. 1192 – 22 July 1240) was the 2nd Earl of Lincoln, of the fourth creation. He was also the, 7th Baron of Pontefract, 8th Baron of Halton, 8th Lord of Bowland. Background He was the eldest son and heir of Roger de Lacy and his wife, Maud or Matilda de Clere (not of the de Clare family). Public life He was hereditary constable of Chester and, in the 15th year of King John, undertook the payment of 7,000 marks to the crown, in the space of four years, for livery of the lands of his inheritance, and to be discharged of all his father's debts due to the exchequer, further obligating himself by oath, that in case he should ever swerve from his allegiance, and adhere to the king's enemies, all of his possessions should devolve upon the crown, promising also, that he would not marry without the king's licence. By this agreement it was arranged that the king should retain the castles of Pontefract and Dunnington, still in his own hands; and that he, the said John, should allow 40 pounds per year, for the custody of those fortresses. But the next year he had Dunnington restored to him, upon hostages. John de Lacy, 8th Baron of Halton Castle, 5th Lord of Bowland and hereditary constable of Chester, was one of the earliest who took up arms at the time of the Magna Charta, and was 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. In 1237, his lordship was one of those appointed to prohibit Oto, the pope's prelate, from establishing anything derogatory to the king's crown and dignity, in the council of prelates then assembled; and the same year he was appointed High Sheriff of Cheshire, being likewise constituted Governor of the castle of Chester. Private life He married firstly Alice in 1214 in Pontefract, daughter of Gilbert, lord of L'Aigle, who gave him one daughter, 1. Joan. Alice died in 1216 in Pontefract. He married secondly in 1221 Margaret de Quincy, only daughter and heiress of Robert de Quincy, son of Saer de Quincy, 1st Earl of Winchester, by Hawyse, 4th sister and co-heir of Ranulph de Mechines, Earl of Chester and Lincoln, which Ranulph, by a formal charter under his seal, granted the Earldom of Lincoln, that is, so much as he could grant thereof, to the said Hawyse, "to the end that she might be countess, and that her heirs might also enjoy the earldom;" which grant was confirmed by the king, and at the especial request of the countess, this John de Lacy, constable of Chester, through his marriage was allowed to succeed de Blondeville and was created by charter, dated Northampton, 23 November 1232, Earl of Lincoln, with remainder to the heirs of his body, by his wife, the above-mentioned Margaret. In the contest which occurred during the same year, between the king and Richard Marshal, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, Earl Marshal, Matthew Paris states that the Earl of Lincoln was brought over to the king's party, with John of Scotland, 7th Earl of Chester, by Peter de Rupibus, Bishop of Winchester, for a bribe of 1,000 marks. By this marriage he had one son, 1. Edmund de Lacy, Baron of Pontefract, and two daughters, of one, 2. Maud, married Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester. [3. unnamed daughter] Later life He died on 22 July 1240 and was buried at the Cisterian Abbey of Stanlow, 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. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_de_Lacy,_2nd_Earl_of_Lincoln .............................................................................. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “JOHN DE LACY (or LASCY) (also known as JOHN OF CHESTER), Knt., of Pontefract, Yorkshire, Naseby, Northamptonshire, Hatton, Cheshire, etc., hereditary Constable of Chester, Keeper of Duninton Castle, 1214, Constable of Whitchurch Castle, 1233, Privy Councillor, 1237, Sheriff of Cheshire, 1237, Constable of Chester and Beeston Castles, 1237, son and heir, born about 1192 (of age in 1213). He married (1st) ALICE DE L'AIGLE, daughter of Gilbert de l'Aigle, of Pevensey, Sussex, by Isabel de Warenne, daughter of Hamelin, 5th Earl of Surrey (illegitimate son of Geoffrey Plantagenet, (Count of Anjou) [see WARENNE 7.iv for her ancestry]. . (This is incorrect, they had 1 daughter, Joan) She was buried at Norton Priory, Cheshire. He obtained livery of his inheritance in July 1213. In 1213-14 he was with the king in Poitou. He was one of the few English barons to take the Cross for the Crusades along with the king 4 March 1214. In 1215 he joined the confederacy of the barons against the king. He was one of the twenty-five barons elected to guarantee the observance of Magna Carta, signed by King John 15 June 1215. In consequence he was among the barons excommunicated by Pope Innocent III 16 Dec. 1215. At the end of the year he made peace with the king, but next summer was again in rebellion, and King John destroyed his castle of Donington. In August 1217 he was pardoned by King Henry III, and in Nov. 1217 he was commissioned to conduct the King of Scots to him. In 1218 he accompanied Ranulph, Earl of Chester, on crusade, and fought at the Siege of Damietta. He returned to England about August 1220, and in Feb. 1220/1 took part in the reduction of Skipton Castle. He married (2nd) in 1221, before 21 June MARGARET (or MARGERY) DE QUINCY, daughter and heiress of Robert de Quincy, by Hawise, suo jure Countess of Lincoln, daughter of Hugh, Earl of Chester [see QUINCY 6.i for her ancestry]. She was born before 1217. They had one son, Edmund, Knt. [Constable of Chester], and three daughters, including Maud and Margaret. In 1223 he held the prescriptive right to a weekly market held at the manor of Snaith, Yorkshire. In 1226 he acted as itinerant judge in Lincolnshire and Lancashire, and, in the former county in 1233. In 1227 he was sent on an embassy to Antwerp. He presented to the churches of Naseby, Northamptonshire in 1227 and 1231, and Wadenhoe, Rutland, 1237, and two portions of the church of Clipstone, Northamptonshire in 1228, 1229, 1230, and 1235. In 1229 he was appointed to conduct Alexander II, King of Scots to England to meet King Henry III of England at York. From about 1230 he was about the court, and in that year was a commissioner to treat for a truce with France. In 1230 John and Margaret released their claim to the main Quincy estates to her uncle, Roger de Quincy; Roger in return granted them and their issue her mother's dower, including the manor of Grantchester, Cambridgeshire, to hold of Roger and his heirs. In 1231 he was in Wales on the king's service. Sometime before 1232, he exchanged one acre of land in the vill of Kingston with Christchurch Priory, Hampshire, in return for an acre of the priory's land also in Kingston. In 1232 he took a prominent part as the king's commissioner in the proceedings against Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent. On 22 Nov. 1232, at the instance of Margaret's mother, Hawise de Quincy, the king granted John the £20 per annum which Ranulph, late Earl of Chester and Lincoln, had received for the 3rd penny of the county as Earl of Lincoln, and which the Earl had in his lifetime granted to Hawise his sister: to hold in nomine comitis Lincolnie to the said John and his heirs by Margaret his wife, whereby he became Earl of Lincoln. In 1233 he was one of Hubert de Burgh's keepers at Devizes Castle until he should become a Templar. The same year he joined the party against Peter des Roches, Bishop of Winchester, but the Bishop gained him over, and from that time he acted with the Court, becoming one of the king's unpopular councillors. He was a justice in Lincolnshire in 1234. In 1236 he carried one of the State swords at the Coronation of Queen Eleanor. The same year a dispute occured between John, Earl of Lincoln, and Margaret his wife and the Prior of Wimborne, the former alleging that a new market had been raised in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, to the detriment of their existing market in the town. In 1237 he was a plenipotentiary to make peace with Scotland. SIR JOHN DE LACY, Earl of Lincoln, Constable of Chester, died 22 July 1240, and was buried near his father in the monk's choir at Stanlaw Abbey, his body being removed later to Whalley Abbey.
  
• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: 5th Lord Bowland de Lacy
  
• Fact: with note: Description: The title "Earl of Lincoln" came from his wife, Margaret, who inherited the title Countess of Chester on the death of her mother Hawise de Chester. ... the special request of the countess, this John de Lacy, constable of Chester, through his marriage was allowed to succeed de Blondeville (Margarets Brother) and was created by charter, dated Northampton, 23 November 1232, Earl of Lincoln, with remainder to the heirs of his body, by his wife, the above-mentioned Margaret
  
• Occupation: Constable of Chester
  
• LdsEndowment: 29 OCT 1937 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Magna+Carta+Surety+Baron: with note: Description: John de Lacy, the constable of Chester, was a member of one of the oldest, wealthiest and most important baronial families of twelfth- and thirteenth-century England, with territorial interests distributed widely across the counties of the north Midlands and north. John (c. 1192-1240) was the eldest son and heir of Roger de Lacy, constable of Chester (d. 1211) and his wife, Maud de Clere. He was a minor at the time of his father’s death and did not enter into possession of his lands until September 1213. Like a number of the rebels, he was a young man at the time that he became involved in the revolt. Although a natural royalism is suggested by his decision to join John on his expedition to Poitou in 1214, he nurtured a sense of grievance against the king owing to the terms on which he was granted possession of his father’s estates. The de Lacy inheritance was a highly valuable one, comprising more than a hundred knights’ fees, together with the baronies of Pontefract (Yorks.), and Clitheroe, Penwortham, Widnes and Halton (Lancs.). John, when he permitted the young heir to enter, therefore exacted his price. He insisted that the latter offer a massive fine of 7000 marks repayable over three years, in the meantime handing over to a royal keeper his chief castles of Pontefract (Yorks.) and Castle Donington (Leics.), to be garrisoned by the king at Lacy’s expense on pain of confiscation should the latter rebel. As late as the end of May 1215 Lacy was still assumed to be on the king’s side. However, with the fall of London he threw in his lot with the rebels and was present at Runnymede and named to the Twenty Five. Thereafter he veered opportunistically between the rebel and royalist camps. On New Year’s Day 1216 he submitted to the king, agreeing to terms which shed remarkable light on the latter’s own attitude to the Charter imposed on him at Runnymede. Lacy was obliged not only to submit to the king personally but also to renounce the cause for which he https://magnacarta800th.com/schools/biographies/the-25-barons-of-magna-carta/john-de-lacy/
  
• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: Sir Knight
  
• Fact: 1215 with note: Description: He was one of twenty-five barons charged with overseeing the observance of Magna Carta in 1215
  
• Occupation: Enforcer of Magna Carter in Counties of Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire, England at LATI: N3.1155 LONG: E1.0272 with note: John de Lacy (c. 1192 – 22 July 1240), 2nd Earl of Lincoln (from 1232), 7th Baron of Pontefract, 8th Baron of Halton, 8th Lord of Bowland, son of Roger. He and his cousin Robert de Vere, Earl of Oxford, chosen surety to enforce the King's adherence to Magna Carta. Was one of the earliest who took up arms at the time of the Magna Charta, and was appointed to see that the new statutes were properly carried into effect and observed in the counties of York and Nottingham.
  
• FSID: LB88-FWT
  
• LdsBaptism: 29 APR 1936 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Death: 22 JUL 1240 in Stanlow Abbey, Cheshire, England at LATI: N3.2838 LONG: E2.8624
  
• Title (Nobility): 23 NOV 1232 with note: Description: 2nd Earl of Lincoln (of the fourth creation)
  
• Birth: 1192 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England at LATI: N3.2316 LONG: E0.5394
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  John de Lacy (c. 1192 - 22 July 1240) was the 2nd Earl of Lincoln, of the fourth creation. He was also the, 7th Baron of Pontefract, 8th Baron of Halton, 8th Lord of Bowland.
  
  Background
  He was the eldest son and heir of Roger de Lacy and his wife, Maud or Matilda de Clere (not of the de Clare family).
  
  Public life
  He was hereditary constable of Chester and, in the 15th year of King John, undertook the payment of 7,000 marks to the crown, in the space of four years, for livery of the lands of his inheritance, and to be discharged of all his father's debts due to the exchequer, further obligating himself by oath, that in case he should ever swerve from his allegiance, and adhere to the king's enemies, all of his possessions should devolve upon the crown, promising also, that he would not marry without the king's licence. By this agreement it was arranged that the king should retain the castles of Pontefract and Dunnington, still in his own hands; and that he, the said John, should allow 40 pounds per year, for the custody of those fortresses. But the next year he had Dunnington restored to him, upon hostages.
  
  John de Lacy, 8th Baron of Halton Castle, 5th Lord of Bowland and hereditary constable of Chester, was one of the earliest who took up arms at the time of the Magna Charta, and was 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. In 1237, his lordship was one of those appointed to prohibit Oto, the pope's prelate, from establishing anything derogatory to the king's crown and dignity, in the council of prelates then assembled; and the same year he was appointed High Sheriff of Cheshire, being likewise constituted Governor of the castle of Chester.
  
  Private life
  He married firstly Alice in 1214 in Pontefract, daughter of Gilbert, lord of L'Aigle, who gave him one daughter,
  1. Joan.
  Alice died in 1216 in Pontefract.
  
  He married secondly in 1221 Margaret de Quincy, only daughter and heiress of Robert de Quincy, son of Saer de Quincy, 1st Earl of Winchester, by Hawyse, 4th sister and co-heir of Ranulph de Mechines, Earl of Chester and Lincoln, which Ranulph, by a formal charter under his seal, granted the Earldom of Lincoln, that is, so much as he could grant thereof, to the said Hawyse, "to the end that she might be countess, and that her heirs might also enjoy the earldom;" which grant was confirmed by the king, and at the especial request of the countess, this John de Lacy, constable of Chester, through his marriage was allowed to succeed de Blondeville and was created by charter, dated Northampton, 23 November 1232, Earl of Lincoln, with remainder to the heirs of his body, by his wife, the above-mentioned Margaret. In the contest which occurred during the same year, between the king and Richard Marshal, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, Earl Marshal, Matthew Paris states that the Earl of Lincoln was brought over to the king's party, with John of Scotland, 7th Earl of Chester, by Peter de Rupibus, Bishop of Winchester, for a bribe of 1,000 marks.
  
  By this marriage he had one son,
  1. Edmund de Lacy, Baron of Pontefract, and two daughters, of one,
  2. Maud, married Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester.
  [3. unnamed daughter]
  
  Later life
  He died on 22 July 1240 and was buried at the Cisterian Abbey of Stanlow, 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.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_de_Lacy,_2nd_Earl_of_Lincoln
  
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  “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
  “JOHN DE LACY (or LASCY) (also known as JOHN OF CHESTER), Knt., of Pontefract, Yorkshire, Naseby, Northamptonshire, Hatton, Cheshire, etc., hereditary Constable of Chester, Keeper of Duninton Castle, 1214, Constable of Whitchurch Castle, 1233, Privy Councillor, 1237, Sheriff of Cheshire, 1237, Constable of Chester and Beeston Castles, 1237, son and heir, born about 1192 (of age in 1213). He married (1st) ALICE DE L'AIGLE, daughter of Gilbert de l'Aigle, of Pevensey, Sussex, by Isabel de Warenne, daughter of Hamelin, 5th Earl of Surrey (illegitimate son of Geoffrey Plantagenet, (Count of Anjou) [see WARENNE 7.iv for her ancestry]. . (This is incorrect, they had 1 daughter, Joan) She was buried at Norton Priory, Cheshire. He obtained livery of his inheritance in July 1213. In 1213-14 he was with the king in Poitou. He was one of the few English barons to take the Cross for the Crusades along with the king 4 March 1214. In 1215 he joined the confederacy of the barons against the king. He was one of the twenty-five barons elected to guarantee the observance of Magna Carta, signed by King John 15 June 1215. In consequence he was among the barons excommunicated by Pope Innocent III 16 Dec. 1215. At the end of the year he made peace with the king, but next summer was again in rebellion, and King John destroyed his castle of Donington. In August 1217 he was pardoned by King Henry III, and in Nov. 1217 he was commissioned to conduct the King of Scots to him. In 1218 he accompanied Ranulph, Earl of Chester, on crusade, and fought at the Siege of Damietta. He returned to England about August 1220, and in Feb. 1220/1 took part in the reduction of Skipton Castle. He married (2nd) in 1221, before 21 June MARGARET (or MARGERY) DE QUINCY, daughter and heiress of Robert de Quincy, by Hawise, suo jure Countess of Lincoln, daughter of Hugh, Earl of Chester [see QUINCY 6.i for her ancestry]. She was born before 1217. They had one son, Edmund, Knt. [Constable of Chester], and three daughters, including Maud and Margaret. In 1223 he held the prescriptive right to a weekly market held at the manor of Snaith, Yorkshire. In 1226 he acted as itinerant judge in Lincolnshire and Lancashire, and, in the former county in 1233. In 1227 he was sent on an embassy to Antwerp. He presented to the churches of Naseby, Northamptonshire in 1227 and 1231, and Wadenhoe, Rutland, 1237, and two portions of the church of Clipstone, Northamptonshire in 1228, 1229, 1230, and 1235. In 1229 he was appointed to conduct Alexander II, King of Scots to England to meet King Henry III of England at York. From about 1230 he was about the court, and in that year was a commissioner to treat for a truce with France. In 1230 John and Margaret released their claim to the main Quincy estates to her uncle, Roger de Quincy; Roger in return granted them and their issue her mother's dower, including the manor of Grantchester, Cambridgeshire, to hold of Roger and his heirs. In 1231 he was in Wales on the king's service. Sometime before 1232, he exchanged one acre of land in the vill of Kingston with Christchurch Priory, Hampshire, in return for an acre of the priory's land also in Kingston. In 1232 he took a prominent part as the king's commissioner in the proceedings against Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent. On 22 Nov. 1232, at the instance of Margaret's mother, Hawise de Quincy, the king granted John the £20 per annum which Ranulph, late Earl of Chester and Lincoln, had received for the 3rd penny of the county as Earl of Lincoln, and which the Earl had in his lifetime granted to Hawise his sister: to hold in nomine comitis Lincolnie to the said John and his heirs by Margaret his wife, whereby he became Earl of Lincoln. In 1233 he was one of Hubert de Burgh's keepers at Devizes Castle until he should become a Templar. The same year he joined the party against Peter des Roches, Bishop of Winchester, but the Bishop gained him over, and from that time he acted with the Court, becoming one of the king's unpopular councillors. He was a justice in Lincolnshire in 1234. In 1236 he carried one of the State swords at the Coronation of Queen Eleanor. The same year a dispute occured between John, Earl of Lincoln, and Margaret his wife and the Prior of Wimborne, the former alleging that a new market had been raised in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, to the detriment of their existing market in the town. In 1237 he was a plenipotentiary to make peace with Scotland. SIR JOHN DE LACY, Earl of Lincoln, Constable of Chester, died 22 July 1240, and was buried near his father in the monk's choir at Stanlaw Abbey, his body being removed later to Whalley Abbey.
  
  John de Lacy
  John de Lacy, the constable of Chester, was a member of one of the oldest, wealthiest and most important baronial families of twelfth- and thirteenth-century England, with territorial interests distri
  
  BIO
  BIO: from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL1.htm#JohnLacyLincolndied1240B as of 2/1/2016
  
  JOHN de Lacy, son of ROGER de Lacy & his wife Matilda de Clare ([1192]-22 Jul 124
  
  === !BIR-MAR-DEA: Bk, Medieval Knight by Ste ===
  !BIR-MAR-DEA: Bk, Medieval Knight by Stephen Turnbull.
  
  === My PAF Notes ===
  from thepeerage.com, 2/2009:
  John de Lacy, 1st Earl of Lincoln1
  M, #106821, d. 1240
  Last Edited=1 Dec 2008
  John de Lacy, 1st Earl of Lincoln married, firstly, Alice de l'Aigle , daughter of Gilbert de l'Aigle, Lord of Pevensey and Isabella de Warenne .2 He married, secondly, Margaret de Quincey , daughter of Robert de Quincey and Hawise of Chester, Countess of Lincoln , before 21 June 1221.3 He died in 1240.
  In 1215 he was one of the Magna Carta Sureties. He gained the title of 1st Earl of Lincoln [England] on 22 November 1232.4
  Children of John de Lacy, 1st Earl of Lincoln and Margaret de Quincey
  Matilda de Lacy + d. b 12895
  Edmund de Lacy, 2nd Earl of Lincoln + b. 1230, d. 1258
  Citations
  [S6 ] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume VII, page 676. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
  [S79 ] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry (Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004), page 747. Hereinafter cited as Plantagenet Ancestry.
  [S6 ] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume VII, page 679.
  [S6 ] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume VII, page 678.
  [S11 ] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 68. Hereinafter cited as Britain's Royal Family.
  
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  [Digges6.ftw] National Society Magna Charta Dames and Barons Magna Charta Baron Page for John De Lacie Lord of Halton Castle, Cheshire Return to Barons at Runnymede Page Return to Home Page WURTS’ MAGNA CHARTA provided a brief accounting of the feudal headquarters of some of the Magna Charta Barons. Some of the castles have been badly damaged. Some have disappeared entirely. Often we can learn of them through Medieval and Renaissance accounts, and some of them require the discerning eye of the archeologist. Others await the evidence brought out with a shovel and pick, by the trained archeological historian. A portion of the information concerning Surety Baron JOHN de LACIE is as follows: The Lacie strongholds on the Welsh border are Beeston, Chester and Halton Castles. Beeston is now a crumbling ruin. It is hard even to identify the keep, but it could be the large wall tower East of the gate house. The Castle is perched on a height bounded on three sides by sheer drops, and a steep slope on the fourth. Its strength as a defense lay in its inaccessibility. There are two baileys, the innermost on a summit and the other situated on the sloping ground. The inner bailey was guarded on the approachable side by a gate house, two wall towers and a ditch thirty-five feet wide and thirty feet deep, which cut across the promontory. It is important to note that the artificial ravine was fashioned two hundred fifty years before blasting was known. The date of founding was in the 13th Century, and it was founded by Randolph de Blondevill, Earl of Chester. Chester was the last City to yield to William the Conqueror, and the surrender came in 1070. Once the Normans had the Castle, William's nephew, Hugh Lupus, Palatine Earl of Chester, was appointed as head of the border patrol. Chester Castle was originally built by the first Norman Earl of Chester, and now consists of modern buildings, the assize-court, jail and barracks. The one remaining Norman relic is "Julius Caesar's Towe r," standing by the River. It is a square tower which has been used as a powder magazine, but is scarcely recognizable as a Norman building, because it has been recently recased in red stone. With the exception of this tower, another of the round style, and adjacent buildings in the upper ward, the Castle was dismantled at the end of the 18th Century. From Julius Caesar's Tower one can see the ruins of Beeston Castle, which met a like fate in 1646. Of Halton Castle nothing is left. But Lincoln Castle, on the other side of the Island(l, is an important monument. Lincoln was the fourth City of the Realm when the Normans invaded, and it seemed to William to be a logical site for a castle. The Domesday Book states that one hundred sixty-six houses were torn down to make way for it. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle held that on his return to York in 1068, William erected the Castle on the site of a Roman fort. Since the land was rather flat, a great bank was built up around it. There are two mottes, the larger one crowned by a polygonal shell wall, which may have been built by Ralph de Gernon's widow. In 1140 King Stephen captured the Castle and, in 1216, the Surety Barons had charge of it. JOHN de LACIE, the Surety, born 1192, seventh Baron of Halton Castle and hereditary constable of Chester, was one of the earliest Barons to take up arms at the time of Magna Charta. He was also appointed to see that the new statutes were properly carried into effect and observed in the counties of York and Nottingham. 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, rendering valuable service at the Siege of Damietta. In 1232 Lacie was made Earl of Lincoln and, in 1240, governor of Chester and Beeston Castles. He died 22 July 1240, and was buried in the Cistercian Abbey of Stanlaw in co. Chester. The monk, Matthew Paris, records: "On the 22d day of July, in this year (1240), which was St. Magdalen's Day, John, Earl of Lincoln, after suffering from a long illness went the way of all flesh." His first wife was Alice, daughter of Gilbert 'd’Aquila, but by her he had no issue. She died in 1215 and he married second, after his marked gallantry at the Siege of Damietta, Margaret, only daughter and heiress of Robert de Quincey, a fellow Crusader, who died in the Holy Land, eldest son of Saire de Quincey, the Surety. They had three children, Lady Margaret survived him and married second Walter Marshall, Earl of Pembroke. Appreciation is expressed to Reed M. W. Wurts, one of the Heralds of the Society for furnishing the Baron’s Shield on this page. Return to Barons at Runnymede Page Return to Home Page Send mail to webmaster@@magnacharta.org with questions or comments about this web site. Copyright © 1997-1999 National Society Magna Charta Dames and Barons Last modified: August 28, 1998 [Coats of Arms.FTW] National Society Magna Charta Dames and Barons Magna Charta Baron Page for John De Lacie Lord of Halton Castle, Cheshire Return to Barons at Runnymede Page Return to Home Page WURTS’ MAGNA CHARTA provided a brief accounting of the feudal headquarters of some of the Magna Charta Barons. Some of the castles have been badly damaged. Some have disappeared entirely. Often we can learn of them through Medieval and Renaissance accounts, and some of them require the discerning eye of the archeologist. Others await the evidence brought out with a shovel and pick, by the trained archeological historian. A portion of the information concerning Surety Baron JOHN de LACIE is as follows: The Lacie strongholds on the Welsh border are Beeston, Chester and Halton Castles. Beeston is now a crumbling ruin. It is hard even to identify the keep, but it could be the large wall tower East of the gate house. The Castle is perched on a height bounded on three sides by sheer drops, and a steep slope on the fourth. Its strength as a defense lay in its inaccessibility. There are two bail eys, the innermost on a summit and the other situated on the sloping ground. The inner bailey was guarded on the approachable side by a gate house, two wall towers and a ditch thirty-five feet wide and thirty feet deep, which cut across the promontory. It is important to note that the artificial ravine was fashioned two hundred fifty years before blasting was known. The date of founding was in the 13th Century, and it was founded by Randolph de Blondevill, Earl of Chester. Chester was the last City to yield to William the Conqueror, and the surrender came in 1070. Once the Normans had the Castle, William's nephew, Hugh Lupus, Palatine Earl of Chester, was appointed as head of the border patrol. Chester Castle was originally built by the first Norman Earl of Chester, and now consists of modern buildings, the assize-court, jail and barracks. The one remaining Norman relic is "Julius Caesar's Tower," standing by the River. It is a square tower which has been used as a powder magazine, but is scarcely recognizable as a Norman building, because it has been recently recased in red stone. With the exception of this tower, another of the round style, and adjacent buildings in the upper ward, the Castle was dismantled at the end of the 18th Century. From Julius Caesar's Tower one can see the ruins of Beeston Castle, which met a like fate in 1646. Of Halton Castle nothing is left. But Lincoln Castle, on the other side of the Island(l, is an important monument. Lincoln was the fourth City of the Realm when the Normans invaded, and it seemed to William to be a logical site for a castle. The Domesday Book states that one hundred sixty-six houses were torn down to make way for it. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle held that on his return to York in 1068, William erected the Castle on the site of a Roman fort. Since the land was rather flat, a great bank was built up around it. There are two mottes, the larger one crowned by a polygonal shell wall, which may have been built by Ralph de Ge rnon's widow. In 1140 King Stephen captured the Castle and, in 1216, the Surety Barons had charge of it. JOHN de LACIE, the Surety, born 1192, seventh Baron of Halton Castle and hereditary constable of Chester, was one of the earliest Barons to take up arms at the time of Magna Charta. He was also appointed to see that the new statutes were properly carried into effect and observed in the counties of York and Nottingham. 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, rendering valuable service at the Siege of Damietta. In 1232 Lacie was made Earl of Lincoln and, in 1240, governor of Chester and Beeston Castles. He died 22 July 1240, and was buried in the Cistercian Abbey of Stanlaw in co. Chester. The monk, Matthew Paris, records: "On the 22d day of July, in this year (1240), which was St. Magdalen's Day, John, Earl of Lincoln, after suffering from a long illness went the way of all flesh." His first wife was Alice, daughter of Gilbert 'd’Aquila, but by her he had no issue. She died in 1215 and he married second, after his marked gallantry at the Siege of Damietta, Margaret, only daughter and heiress of Robert de Quincey, a fellow Crusader, who died in the Holy Land, eldest son of Saire de Quincey, the Surety. They had three children, Lady Margaret survived him and married second Walter Marshall, Earl of Pembroke. 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  === 1. MWG. LACY 8. 2. of Halton. 3. Son of ===
  1. MWG. LACY 8. 2. of Halton. 3. Son of Roger de Lacy and Maud de Clare, cr Earl of Lincoln, 1232. Constable of Chester, MAGNA CARTA SURETY, 1215. 4. Sheriff of Chester. 5. Descendant of Alfred the Great (AR 1-15).
  
  === !Ancestral Roots by Weis, Seventh Editio ===
  !Ancestral Roots by Weis, Seventh Edition L 554-29 !Earl of Lincoln, Constaple of Chester, Magna Charta Surety, 1215
  
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  He was a Surety for the Magna Carta[2753682.ged]
  
  !Earl of Lincoln (created 1232), Constable of Chester, Magna ChartaSurety, 1215. [Ped. of Ch arlemagne]
  
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  !Margaret de Quincy was his second wife. [Magna Charta Sureties]
  
  !Baron of Halton and hereditary constable of Chester, who, in 1214,undertook the payment o f 7000 marks in the space of 4 years, forlivery of the lands of his inheritance, and to be d ischarged of allhis father's debts, further obliging himself by oath, that in case heshoul d ever swerve from his allegiance all his possessions shoulddevolve upon the crown; promisin g also that he would not marrywithout the king's license. By this agreement it was arrange d thatthe king should retain the castles of Pontefract and Dunnington, andthat de Lacie sho uld pay him rent for their use. This was a hardbargain, and it is not surprising that shortl y afterwards he joinedthe baronial standard as one of the earliest who took up arms, and was elected one of the Sureties for the observance of the Magna Charta.He was also appointe d to see that the new statutes were properlycarried into effect and observed in the countie s of York andNottingham, and was, of course, excommunicated by the Pope. Upon theaccessio n of Henry III he joined a party of noblemen and made apilgrimage to the Holy Land, and di d good service at the siege ofDamietta. During the dispute between Henry III and Richard, lo rdmarshal, John de Lacy remained attached to the king, probably becauseof his gratitude, a s this monarch had created him, by charter datedNov. 23, 1232, Earl of Lincoln, with remaind er to the heirs of hisbody, by his wife Margaret, in whose right only he had previously enjoyed the title. In 1237 the Earl was one of those appointed toprohibit Otto, the Pope's lega te, from establishing anythingderogatory to the king's crown and dignity, in the great counc il ofEnglish prelates, and was deputed with the marshal to protect thelegate as he went t o and from the council. In this year, and in1240, he had a grant of the sheriffalty of Ches ter, and was madegovernor of Chester and Beeston Castle. [Magna Charta Barons, pp.101-2, 42 1]
  
  The earldom of Lincoln came to the Lacy family from the defunctChester complex. [Angevin Eng land, p. 77]
  
  The lands of the Lacy family, constables of Chester, outside Cheshire,when in royal custod y in 1211-12 were worth a total of 1258 pounds.[Angevin England, p. 79]
  
  b. 1192, d. 22 July 1240, of Hatton; son of Roger de Lacy and Maud deClare; cr. Earl of Linc oln, 1232; Constable of Chester; Magna ChartaSurety 1215; m. Margaret de Quincy; father of M aud de Lacy.[Ancestral Roots, p. 58]
  
  m. M. Tuincey; father of Maude de Lacie who m. ?? de Clare. [WFT Vol 1Ped 1847]
  
  Son of Roger de Lacy and Maud/Matilda de Clare; m. Margaret de Quincy;father of Maud de Lacy . [GRS 3.03, Automated Archives, CD#100]
  
  The "Manor of Bradford" was first held by the de Lacy family until1311 and then in turn by t he Earls of Lincoln, John Gaunt and theCrown before passinginto private hands in 1620. [Bradford--History
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  In 1213/4 he was with King John in Poitou, but in 1215 he was one ofthe 25 barons appointe d to guarantee the observance of the MagnaCarta. In 1218 he accompanied the Earl of Cheste r on Crusade andfought at the Battle of Damietta; d. 22 July 1240; had issue: Maud whom. Ri chard de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford. [CP, VII, pp. 676-80;Weis, p. 58; Sanders, p. 138 as q uoted by Robert O'Connor
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  27 John de Lacie the Surety, was 15th in descent from Alfred the Greata nd 28th in descent from Cerdic. He married second Margaret,granddaught er of the Surety Saire de Quincey and had 26 Maud Laciemarried to Rich ard de Clare, died 1262
  
  JOHN DE LACIE, Earl of Lincoln and one of the Magna Charta Barons. Hew as one of the chief nobles present in Westminster Hall when (40thHenry II I.) Boniface, Archbishop of Canterbury, pronounced thatsolemn curse wi th candles lighted against all those who shouldthenceforth violate Mag na Charta. He died 1262[CALDWELL.GED]
  
  27 John de Lacie the Surety, was 15th in descent from Alfred the Greata nd 28th in descent from Cerdic. He married second Margaret,granddaught er of the Surety Saire de Quincey and had 26 Maud Laciemarried to Rich ard de Clare, died 1262
  
  JOHN DE LACIE, Earl of Lincoln and one of the Magna Charta Barons. Hew as one of the chief nobles present in Westminster Hall when (40thHenry II I.) Boniface, Archbishop of Canterbury, pronounced thatsolemn curse wi th candles lighted against all those who shouldthenceforth violate Mag na Charta. He died 1262[De Keveliock.ged]
  
  Earl of Lincoln , in England. 1232.
  Constable of Chester
  
  John de Lacie the Surety, was 15th in descent from Alfred the Greatand 28 th in descent from Cerdic. He married second Margaret,granddaughter of t he Surety Saire de Quincey and had 26 Maud Laciemarried to Richard de Cla re, died 1262
  
  JOHN DE LACIE, Earl of Lincoln and one of the Magna Charta Barons. Hew as one of the chief nobles present in Westminster Hall when (40thHenry II I.) Boniface, Archbishop of Canterbury, pronounced thatsolemn curse wi th candles lighted against all those who shouldthenceforth violate Mag na Charta. He died 1262
  
  === Sources: CP; Kraentzler 1103, 1112; Colk ===
  Sources: CP; Kraentzler 1103, 1112; Colket; Bye; A. Roots 54; Wurts; Burke's Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire; English Baronies: A study of Their Origin and Descent, 1086-1327by I.J. Sanders; Young. A Magna Charta Surety. Lord of Halton Castle, Cheshire. Earl ofLincoln, 1232, and constable of Chester. Margaret de Quincy was his second wife. Roots: John de Lacy of Hatton, created Earl of Lincoln 1232, Constableof. Chester, Magna Charta Surety 1215. Young: John de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln. Burke: John de Lacy "left issue, Edmund, his successor, and twodaughters, which ladies in the 27th Henry III were removed to Windsor, there to be educated with the king's own daughters; of these, Maud, m. Richard deClare, Earl of Gloucester." "Richard...clandestinely married, but from whom hewas probably divorced, for we find the king marrying him the next year toMaude, daughter of John de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, in consideration whereof thesaid John paid to the crown 5,000 marks and remitted a debt of 2,000 more." CP: "An order was made in 1243 for the late Earl of Lincoln's twodaughters to be sent to Windsor to be brought up with the King's daughters." Unknow name of second daughter. (Things don't jibe. The "late Earl" reference at odds with John payingthe crown to have Maude marry Richard--he'd still be alive after the girlswent to Windsor).
  
  === MARRIAGE: First husband of Margaret Qui ===
  MARRIAGE: First husband of Margaret Quincy.
  
  BIOGRAPHY: He was one of those great persons of England whom pope Innocent the Third excommunicated for conspiring against king John, 1216. In 1218 he went with Randle, Earl of Chester to Damiata, Egypt to lay seige. Magna Charta Surety, Constable of Chester.
  
  === Held Halton, Beeston and Chester Castles ===
  Held Halton, Beeston and Chester Castles. One of the 25 suretiesof theMagna Charta. He was one of the earliest who took up armsat the time ofthe Magna Charta. He was excommunicated by thePope. Upon the accession ofKing Henry III, he joined a party ofnobleman and made pilgrimage to theholy land, and did goodservice at the seige of Damietta.
  
  === MAGNA CARTA SURITY ===
  signed Magna Carta
  
  === John de Lacy 1st Earl of Lincoln ===
  “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
  “JOHN DE LACY (or LASCY) (also known as JOHN OF CHESTER), Knt., of Pontefract, Yorkshire, Naseby, Northamptonshire, Hatton, Cheshire, etc., hereditary Constable of Chester, Keeper of Duninton Castle, 1214, Constable of Whitchurch Castle, 1233, Privy Councillor, 1237, Sheriff of Cheshire, 1237, Constable of Chester and Beeston Castles, 1237, son and heir, born about 1192 (of age in 1213). He married (1st) ALICE DE L'AIGLE, daughter of Gilbert de l'Aigle, of Pevensey, Sussex, by Isabel de Warenne, daughter of Hamelin, 5th Earl of Surrey (illegitimate son of Geoffrey Plantagenet, (Count of Anjou) [see WARENNE 7.iv for her ancestry]. They had no issue. She was buried at Norton Priory, Cheshire. He obtained livery of his inheritance in July 1213. In 1213-14 he was with the king in Poitou. He was one of the few English barons to take the Cross for the Crusades along with the king 4 March 1214. In 1215 he joined the confederacy of the barons against the king. He was one of the twenty-five barons elected to guarantee the observance of Magna Carta, signed by King John 15 June 1215. In consequence he was among the barons excommunicated by Pope Innocent III 16 Dec. 1215. At the end of the year he made peace with the king, but next summer was again in rebellion, and King John destroyed his castle of Donington. In August 1217 he was pardoned by King Henry III, and in Nov. 1217 he was commissioned to conduct the King of Scots to him. In 1218 he accompanied Ranulph, Earl of Chester, on crusade, and fought at the Siege of Damietta. He returned to England about August 1220, and in Feb. 1220/1 took part in the reduction of Skipton Castle. He married (2nd) in 1221, before 21 June MARGARET (or MARGERY) DE QUINCY, daughter and heiress of Robert de Quincy, by Hawise, suo jure Countess of Lincoln, daughter of Hugh, Earl of Chester [see QUINCY 6.i for her ancestry]. She was born before 1217. They had one son, Edmund, Knt. [Constable of Chester], and three daughters, including Maud and Margaret. In 1223 he held the prescriptive right to a weekly market held at the manor of Snaith, Yorkshire. In 1226 he acted as itinerant judge in Lincolnshire and Lancashire, and, in the former county in 1233. In 1227 he was sent on an embassy to Antwerp. He presented to the churches of Naseby, Northamptonshire in 1227 and 1231, and Wadenhoe, Rutland, 1237, and two portions of the church of Clipstone, Northamptonshire in 1228, 1229, 1230, and 1235. In 1229 he was appointed to conduct Alexander II, King of Scots to England to meet King Henry III of England at York. From about 1230 he was about the court, and in that year was a commissioner to treat for a truce with France. In 1230 John and Margaret released their claim to the main Quincy estates to her uncle, Roger de Quincy; Roger in return granted them and their issue her mother's dower, including the manor of Grantchester, Cambridgeshire, to hold of Roger and his heirs. In 1231 he was in Wales on the king's service. Sometime before 1232, he exchanged one acre of land in the vill of Kingston with Christchurch Priory, Hampshire, in return for an acre of the priory's land also in Kingston. In 1232 he took a prominent part as the king's commissioner in the proceedings against Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent. On 22 Nov. 1232, at the instance of Margaret's mother, Hawise de Quincy, the king granted John the £20 per annum which Ranulph, late Earl of Chester and Lincoln, had received for the 3rd penny of the county as Earl of Lincoln, and which the Earl had in his lifetime granted to Hawise his sister: to hold in nomine comitis Lincolnie to the said John and his heirs by Margaret his wife, whereby he became Earl of Lincoln. In 1233 he was one of Hubert de Burgh's keepers at Devizes Castle until he should become a Templar. The same year he joined the party against Peter des Roches, Bishop of Winchester, but the Bishop gained him over, and from that time he acted with the Court, becoming one of the king's unpopular councillors. He was a justice in Lincolnshire in 1234. In 1236 he carried one of the State swords at the Coronation of Queen Eleanor. The same year a dispute occured between John, Earl of Lincoln, and Margaret his wife and the Prior of Wimborne, the former alleging that a new market had been raised in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, to the detriment of their existing market in the town. In 1237 he was a plenipotentiary to make peace with Scotland. SIR JOHN DE LACY, Earl of Lincoln, Constable of Chester, died 22 July 1240, and was buried near his father in the monk's choir at Stanlaw Abbey, his body being removed later to Whalley Abbey. She presented to the church of North Thoresby, Lincolnshire in 1241. His widow, Margaret, married (2nd) 6 Jan. 1241/2 WALTER MARSHAL, Knt., 8th Earl of Pembroke, hereditary Master Marshal [see MARSHAL 3.iv], hereditary Steward of Leinster, of Hampstead Marshall, Berkshire, Bere and Sturminster, Dorset, Silchester, Hampshire, Hinxworth, Hertfordshire, Goodrich Castle, Herefordshire, Box, Great Bedwyn, Wexcombe (in Great Bedwyn), and Wootton Rivers, Wiltshire, etc., seigneur of Orbec and Longueville, and, in right of his wife, Earl of Lincoln, 4th son of William Marshal, Knt., 4th Earl of Pembroke (or Sttiguil), by Isabel, daughter of Richard Fitz Gilbert (nicknamed Strongbow), 2nd Earl of Pembroke (or Striguil) [see MARSHAL 3 for his ancestry]. He was born after 1198. They had no issue. In 1233 he supported his brother Richard Marshal against the king's foreign favorites and his lands were forfeited. In 1234 he was in Ireland with his brother Richard, who sent him away before the fatal Battle of Kildare, lest his family should be extirpated. He passed over to Wales with his brothers and was pardoned with them. In 1239 he was alienated from King Henry III, by the king's hostility to his brother Gilbert Marshal. In 1240 he was sent into Wales with a large army to strengthen Cardigan Castle, and he took for his brother Gilbert lands appurtenant to the honour of Carmarthen. In June 1241 he took part in the tournament at which Gilbert Marshal was mortally wounded. The king at first refused to invest Walter in the Earldom of Pembroke as Gilbert's heir, because he had forbidden the tournament, but on 27 October the king relented and invested Walter with both the earldom and office of Marshal. He served as a captain in the king's army in Gascony and Poitou in 1242. In 1243 he surrendered his wife's castle of Bolingbroke, Lincolnshire and her mother's lands in Lincolnshire, which estates were subsequently restored to him and his wife, Margaret. In 1244 he was one of the laymen who was elected to consider the king's demand for a subsidy. He presented to the church of West Halton, Lincolnshire in 1242, and to a mediety of the church of Toynton St. Peter, Lincolnshire in 1245. SIR WALTER MARSHAL, Earl of Pembroke, died at Goodrich Castle, Herefordshire 24 Nov. 1245, and was buried at Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire. By judgments of the King's court, his widow, Margaret, recovered dower out of lands in Ireland held by Walter Marshal, and she received seisin of one-third of all of the Earl's lands and tenements in Ireland. In 1252 his widow, Margaret, and Richard de Wiltshire were granted a yearly fair at the manor of Chelbury, Lincolnshire. In 1262 an action of recaption was brought against Margaret, Countess of Lincoln, Joce de Stepping [her steward], and John de Lusby. In 1263 the king promised that her executors should have free administration of her goods. In the period, 1263-6, Master Walter of Stainsby filed a writ of attachment against Joce de Stepping, Steward of Margaret, Countess of Lincoln, which required Joce to answer for having distrained Master Walter to perform suit at the court of Lusby contrary to law. Margaret, Countess of Lincoln and Pembroke, died at Hampstead, Middlesex shortly before 30 March 1266, and was buried near her father in the Church of the Hospitallers, Clerkenwell, Middlesex.
  Throsby Thornton's Hist. of Nottinghamshire 3 (1790): 132-135. Bridges Hist. & Antiqs. of Northamptonshire 1 (1791): 544-545, 574-577. Mastin Hist. & Antiqs. of Nase (1792). Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 6 (1807): 134-135. Ormerod Hist. of Chester 1 (1819): 28, 512-513. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1(1822-30): 563 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 123; 6(1) (1830): 315-317 (Norton Priory) (Ped. and Hist. of the Founders). Burke Dict. of the Peerages... Extinct, Dormant & in Abeyance (1831): 442-443 (sub Quincy). Coll. Top. et Gen. 6 (1840): 147-151. Halliwell Chronicle of the Monastery of Abingdon (1844): 6 (sub A.D. 1248: `Walterus Marescallus, comes de Penbrocke, obiit."). Hulton Coacher Book, or Chartulary, of Whalky Abbey 2 (Chetham Soc. 11) (1847): 394, 419-420, 484 (charters of John de Lacy, Constable of Chester). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped.). Mems. Ill. of the Hist. & Antiqs. of Lincoln (1850): 253-279, esp. 272-274. Giles Matthew Paris's English Hist. 2 (1853): 122 (sub 1245: "The last of the brothers but one, Earl Walter Marshal, followed in his steps; for although he had most faithfully promised a revenue of sixty shillings to the house of St. Mary, belonging to the monks of Hertford, and had given a written promise thereof, because his brother Earl Gilbert died there, and his bowels still remained buried there, he forgot the pledge and promise which he had made for the redemption of his brother, and, after causing much useless vexation to the prior of the said house, he proved himself a manifest deceiver and transgressor."). Hulton Coucher Book or Chartulary of Whalley Abbey 1 (Chethatn Soc. 10) (1867): 32-33 (charters of John de Lascy, Constable of Chester), 36-37 (charter of John de Lascy, Earl of Lincoln), 63-64, 72-74 (charters of John de Lascy, Constable of Chester), 74-
  
  === 6. John de Lacy , born in 1195, heredit ===
  6. John de Lacy , born in 1195, hereditary constable of Chester, in the 15th year of King John, undertook the payment of 7,000 marks to the crown, in the space of four years, for livery of the lands of his inheritance, and to be discharged of all his father's debts due to the exchequer, further obligating himself by oath, that in case he should ever swerve from his allegiance, and adhere to the king's enemies, all of his possessions should devolve upon the crown, promising also, that he would not marry without the king's license. By this agreement it was arranged that the king should retain the castles of Pontefract and Dunnington, still in his own hands; and that he, the said John, should allow 40 pounds per year, for the custody of those fortresses. But the next year he had Dunnington restored to him, upon hostages. About this period he joined the baronial standard, and was one of the celebrated twenty-five barons, one of the Sureties, appointed to enforce the observance of the Magna Charta. But the next year, he obtained letters of safe conduct to come to the king to make his peace, and he had similar letters, upon the accession of Henry III., in the second year of which monarch's reign, he went with divers other noblemen into the Holy Land John de Lacy (Lacie), 7th Baron of Halton Castle, and hereditary constable of Chester, was one of the earliest who took up arms at the time of the Magna Charta, and was appointed to see that the new statutes were properly carried into effect and observed in the counties of York and Nottingham. 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 died July 22, 1240, and was buried at the Cisterian Abbey of Stanlaw, in co. 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." He married (1) Alice, daughter of Gilbert de Aquila, but by her had no issue. She died in 1215 and, after his marked gallantry at the siege of Damietta, he married (2) Margaret Quincy, only daughter and heir of Robert de Quincy, Earl of Winchester, by Hawyse, 4th sister and co-heir of Ranulph de Mechines, Earl of Chester and Lincoln, which Ranulph, by a formal charter under his seal, granted the Earldom of Lincoln, that is, so much as he could grant thereof, to the said Hawyse, "to the end that she might be countess, and that her heirs might also enjoy the earldom;" which grant was confirmed by the king, and at the especial request of the countess, this John de Lacy, constable of Chester, was created by charter, dated Northampton, November 23, 1232, Earl of Lincoln, with remainder to the heirs of his body, by his wife, the above-mentioned Margaret. In the contest which occurred during the same year, between the king and Richard Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, Earl Marshal, Matthew Paris states that the Earl of Lincoln was brought over to the king's party, with John le Scot, Earl of Chester, by Peter de Rupibus, Bishop of Winchester, for a bribe of 1,000 marks. In 1237, his lordship was one of those appointed to prohibit Oto, the pope's prelate, from establishing anything derogatory to the king's crown and dignity, in the council of prelates then assembled; and the same year he had a grant of the sheriffalty of Cheshire, being likewise constituted Governor of the castle of Chester. The earl died in 1240, leaving Margaret, his wife, surviving, who remarried William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke. He and his wife had the following children: The Lacie strongholds on the Welsh border are Beeston, Chester and Halton Castles. Beeston is now a crumbling ruin. It is hard even to identify the keep, but it could be the large wall tower East of the gate house. The Ca stle is perched on a height bounded on three sides by sheer drops, and a steep slope on the fourth. Its strength as a defense lay in its inaccessibility. There are two baileys, the innermost on a summit and the other situated on the sloping ground. The inner bailey was guarded on the approachable side by a gate house, two wall towers and a ditch thirty-five feet wide and thirty feet deep, which cut across the promontory. It is important to note that the artificial ravine was fashioned two hundred fifty years before blasting was known. The date of founding was in the 13th Century, and it was founded by Randolph de Blondevill, Earl of Chester. Chester was the last City to yield to William the Conqueror, and the surrender came in 1070. Once the Normans had the Castle, William's nephew, Hugh Lupus, Palatine Earl of Chester, was appointed as head of the border patrol. Chester Castle was originally built by the first Norman Earl of Chester, and now consists of modern buildings, the assize-court, jail and barracks. The one remaining Norman relic is "Julius Caesar's Tower," standing by the River. It is a square tower which has been used as a powder magazine, but is scarcely recognizable as a Norman building, because it has been recently recased in red stone. With the exception of this tower, another of the round style, and adjacent buildings in the upper ward, the Castle was dismantled at the end of the 18th Century. From Julius Caesar's Tower one can see the ruins of Beeston Castle, which met a like fate in 1646. Of Halton Castle nothing is left. But Lincoln Castle, on the other side of the Island(l, is an important monument. Lincoln was the fourth City of the Realm when the Normans invaded, and it seemed to William to be a logical site for a castle. The Domesday Book states that one hundred sixty-six houses were torn down to make way for it. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle held that on his return to York in 1068, William erected the Castle on the site of a Roman fort. Since the land was rather flat, a great bank was built up around it. There are two mottes, the larger one crowned by a polygonal shell wall, which may have been built by Ralph de Gernon's widow. In 1140 King Stephen captured the Castle and, in 1216, the Surety Barons had charge of it. JOHN de LACIE, the Surety, born 1192, seventh Baron of Halton Castle and hereditary constable of Chester, was one of the earliest Barons to take up arms at the time of Magna Charta. He was also appointed to see that the new statutes were properly carried into effect and observed in the counties of York and Nottingham. 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, rendering valuable service at the Siege of Damietta. In 1232 Lacie was made Earl of Lincoln and, in 1240, governor of Chester and Beeston Castles. He died 22 July 1240, and was buried in the Cistercian Abbey of Stanlaw in co. Chester. The monk, Matthew Paris, records: "On the 22d day of July, in this year (1240), which was St. Magdalen's Day, John, Earl of Lincoln, after suffering from a long illness went the way of all flesh." His first wife was Alice, daughter of Gilbert 'd’Aquila, but by her he had no issue. She died in 1215 and he married second, after his marked gallantry at the Siege of Damietta, Margaret, only daughter and heiress of Robert de Quincey, a fellow Crusader, who died in the Holy Land, eldest son of Saire de Quincey, the Surety. They had three children, Lady Margaret survived him and married second Walter Marshall, Earl of Pembroke.
  
  === John de Lacy (c. 1192 - 22 July 1240) wa ===
  John de Lacy (c. 1192 - 22 July 1240) was the 2nd Earl of Lincoln, of the fourth creation. He was also the, 7th Baron of Pontefract, 8th Baron of Halton, 8th Lord of Bowland.
  
  Background
  He was the eldest son and heir of Roger de Lacy and his wife, Maud or Matilda de Clere (not of the de Clare family).
  
  Public life
  He was hereditary constable of Chester and, in the 15th year of King John, undertook the payment of 7,000 marks to the crown, in the space of four years, for livery of the lands of his inheritance, and to be discharged of all his father's debts due to the exchequer, further obligating himself by oath, that in case he should ever swerve from his allegiance, and adhere to the king's enemies, all of his possessions should devolve upon the crown, promising also, that he would not marry without the king's licence. By this agreement it was arranged that the king should retain the castles of Pontefract and Dunnington, still in his own hands; and that he, the said John, should allow 40 pounds per year, for the custody of those fortresses. But the next year he had Dunnington restored to him, upon hostages.
  
  John de Lacy, 8th Baron of Halton Castle, 5th Lord of Bowland and hereditary constable of Chester, was one of the earliest who took up arms at the time of the Magna Charta, and was 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. In 1237, his lordship was one of those appointed to prohibit Oto, the pope's prelate, from establishing anything derogatory to the king's crown and dignity, in the council of prelates then assembled; and the same year he was appointed High Sheriff of Cheshire, being likewise constituted Governor of the castle of Chester.
  
  Private life
  He married firstly Alice in 1214 in Pontefract, daughter of Gilbert, lord of L'Aigle, who gave him one daughter,
  1. Joan.
  Alice died in 1216 in Pontefract.
  
  He married secondly in 1221 Margaret de Quincy, only daughter and heiress of Robert de Quincy, son of Saer de Quincy, 1st Earl of Winchester, by Hawyse, 4th sister and co-heir of Ranulph de Mechines, Earl of Chester and Lincoln, which Ranulph, by a formal charter under his seal, granted the Earldom of Lincoln, that is, so much as he could grant thereof, to the said Hawyse, "to the end that she might be countess, and that her heirs might also enjoy the earldom;" which grant was confirmed by the king, and at the especial request of the countess, this John de Lacy, constable of Chester, through his marriage was allowed to succeed de Blondeville and was created by charter, dated Northampton, 23 November 1232, Earl of Lincoln, with remainder to the heirs of his body, by his wife, the above-mentioned Margaret. In the contest which occurred during the same year, between the king and Richard Marshal, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, Earl Marshal, Matthew Paris states that the Earl of Lincoln was brought over to the king's party, with John of Scotland, 7th Earl of Chester, by Peter de Rupibus, Bishop of Winchester, for a bribe of 1,000 marks.
  
  By this marriage he had one son,
  1. Edmund de Lacy, Baron of Pontefract, and two daughters, of one,
  2. Maud, married Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester.
  [3. unnamed daughter]
  
  Later life
  He died on 22 July 1240 and was buried at the Cisterian Abbey of Stanlow, 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.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_de_Lacy,_2nd_Earl_of_Lincoln
  
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  “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
  “JOHN DE LACY (or LASCY) (also known as JOHN OF CHESTER), Knt., of Pontefract, Yorkshire, Naseby, Northamptonshire, Hatton, Cheshire, etc., hereditary Constable of Chester, Keeper of Duninton Castle, 1214, Constable of Whitchurch Castle, 1233, Privy Councillor, 1237, Sheriff of Cheshire, 1237, Constable of Chester and Beeston Castles, 1237, son and heir, born about 1192 (of age in 1213). He married (1st) ALICE DE L'AIGLE, daughter of Gilbert de l'Aigle, of Pevensey, Sussex, by Isabel de Warenne, daughter of Hamelin, 5th Earl of Surrey (illegitimate son of Geoffrey Plantagenet, (Count of Anjou) [see WARENNE 7.iv for her ancestry]. . (This is incorrect, they had 1 daughter, Joan) She was buried at Norton Priory, Cheshire. He obtained livery of his inheritance in July 1213. In 1213-14 he was with the king in Poitou. He was one of the few English barons to take the Cross for the Crusades along with the king 4 March 1214. In 1215 he joined the confederacy of the barons against the king. He was one of the twenty-five barons elected to guarantee the observance of Magna Carta, signed by King John 15 June 1215. In consequence he was among the barons excommunicated by Pope Innocent III 16 Dec. 1215. At the end of the year he made peace with the king, but next summer was again in rebellion, and King John destroyed his castle of Donington. In August 1217 he was pardoned by King Henry III, and in Nov. 1217 he was commissioned to conduct the King of Scots to him. In 1218 he accompanied Ranulph, Earl of Chester, on crusade, and fought at the Siege of Damietta. He returned to England about August 1220, and in Feb. 1220/1 took part in the reduction of Skipton Castle. He married (2nd) in 1221, before 21 June MARGARET (or MARGERY) DE QUINCY, daughter and heiress of Robert de Quincy, by Hawise, suo jure Countess of Lincoln, daughter of Hugh, Earl of Chester [see QUINCY 6.i for her ancestry]. She was born before 1217. They had one son, Edmund, Knt. [Constable of Chester], and three daughters, including Maud and Margaret. In 1223 he held the prescriptive right to a weekly market held at the manor of Snaith, Yorkshire. In 1226 he acted as itinerant judge in Lincolnshire and Lancashire, and, in the former county in 1233. In 1227 he was sent on an embassy to Antwerp. He presented to the churches of Naseby, Northamptonshire in 1227 and 1231, and Wadenhoe, Rutland, 1237, and two portions of the church of Clipstone, Northamptonshire in 1228, 1229, 1230, and 1235. In 1229 he was appointed to conduct Alexander II, King of Scots to England to meet King Henry III of England at York. From about 1230 he was about the court, and in that year was a commissioner to treat for a truce with France. In 1230 John and Margaret released their claim to the main Quincy estates to her uncle, Roger de Quincy; Roger in return granted them and their issue her mother's dower, including the manor of Grantchester, Cambridgeshire, to hold of Roger and his heirs. In 1231 he was in Wales on the king's service. Sometime before 1232, he exchanged one acre of land in the vill of Kingston with Christchurch Priory, Hampshire, in return for an acre of the priory's land also in Kingston. In 1232 he took a prominent part as the king's commissioner in the proceedings against Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent. On 22 Nov. 1232, at the instance of Margaret's mother, Hawise de Quincy, the king granted John the £20 per annum which Ranulph, late Earl of Chester and Lincoln, had received for the 3rd penny of the county as Earl of Lincoln, and which the Earl had in his lifetime granted to Hawise his sister: to hold in nomine comitis Lincolnie to the said John and his heirs by Margaret his wife, whereby he became Earl of Lincoln. In 1233 he was one of Hubert de Burgh's keepers at Devizes Castle until he should become a Templar. The same year he joined the party against Peter des Roches, Bishop of Winchester, but the Bishop gained him over, and from that time he acted with the Court, becoming one of the king's unpopular councillors. He was a justice in Lincolnshire in 1234. In 1236 he carried one of the State swords at the Coronation of Queen Eleanor. The same year a dispute occured between John, Earl of Lincoln, and Margaret his wife and the Prior of Wimborne, the former alleging that a new market had been raised in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, to the detriment of their existing market in the town. In 1237 he was a plenipotentiary to make peace with Scotland. SIR JOHN DE LACY, Earl of Lincoln, Constable of Chester, died 22 July 1240, and was buried near his father in the monk's choir at Stanlaw Abbey, his body being removed later to Whalley Abbey.
  
  from thepeerage.com, 2/2009:
  John de Lacy, 1st Earl of Lincoln1
  M, #106821, d. 1240
  Last Edited=1 Dec 2008
  John de Lacy, 1st Earl of Lincoln married, firstly, Alice de l'Aigle , daughter of Gilbert de l'Aigle, Lord of Pevensey and Isabella de Warenne .2 He married, secondly, Margaret de Quincey , daughter of Robert de Quincey and Hawise of Chester, Countess of Lincoln , before 21 June 1221.3 He died in 1240.
  In 1215 he was one of the Magna Carta Sureties. He gained the title of 1st Earl of Lincoln [England] on 22 November 1232.4
  Children of John de Lacy, 1st Earl of Lincoln and Margaret de Quincey
  Matilda de Lacy + d. b 12895
  Edmund de Lacy, 2nd Earl of Lincoln + b. 1230, d. 1258
  Citations
  [S6 ] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United
  
  === PEDIGREES OF SOME OF THE EMPEROR CHARLEM ===
  PEDIGREES OF SOME OF THE EMPEROR CHARLEMAGNE'S DESCENDANTS, Vol. 2, Page 50. John De LACY, Constable of Chester, Earl of Lincoln, Crusader, Surety for Magna Charta, b. ca. 1191; d. July 22, 1240. COMPLETE PEERAGE; by G. E. COKAYNE; Volume IV, Page 670 - chart IV. Volume V, Page 695 and chart on 736. Volume VII, Page 676-680. VICTORIA COUNTY HISTORIES, LANC.; Volume I, Page 306.
  
  === Created Earl of Lincoln, 1232, Constable ===
  Created Earl of Lincoln, 1232, Constable of Chester, Magna CartaSurety 1215. From Magna Charta, p. 89: "seventh Baron of Halton Castle, and hereditary constable of Chester.He was one of the earliest who took up arms at the time of MagnaCharta, and was also appointed to see that the new statutes wereproperly carried into effect and observed in the counties of York andNottingham. He was excommunicated by the Pope. Upon the accession ofKing Henry III he joined a party of noblemen and made a pilgrimage tothe Holy Land, and did good service at the Siege of Damietta."
  
  === JOHN DE LACIE, married Margaret, daught ===
  JOHN DE LACIE, married Margaret, daughter of Robert de Quincey, son of Saher de Quincey. He was one of the Sureties for the Magna Charta. He was created by Henry III as Earl of Lincoln on November 23, 1233. He died in 1240 and was buried in the Cistercian Abbey of Stanlaw, Chester.
  
  === A portion of the information concerning ===
  A portion of the information concerning Surety Baron JOHN de LACIE is as follows:
  
  The Lacie strongholds on the Welsh border are Beeston, Chester and Halton Castles. Beeston is now a crumbling ruin. It is hard even to identify the keep, but it could be the large wall tower East of the gate house. The Castle is perched on a height bounded on three sides by sheer drops, and a steep slope on the fourth. Its strength as a defense lay in its inaccessibility. There are two baileys, the innermost on a summit and the other sitmacted on the sloping ground. The inner bailey was gmacrded on the approachable side by a gate house, two wall towers and a ditch thirty-five feet wide and thirty feet deep, which cut across the promontory. It is important to note that the artificial ravine was fashioned two hundred fifty years before blasting was known. The date of founding was in the 13th Century, and it was founded by Randolph de Blondevill, Earl of Chester.
  
  Chester was the last City to yield to William the Conqueror, and the surrender came in 1070. Once the Normans had the Castle, William's nephew, Hugh Lupus, Palatine Earl of Chester, was appointed as head of the border patrol.
  
  Chester Castle was originally built by the first Norman Earl of Chester, and now consists of modern buildings, the assize-court, jail and barracks. The one remaining Norman relic is "Julius Caesar's Tower," standing by the River. It is a square tower which has been used as a powder magazine, but is scarcely recognizable as a Norman building, because it has been recently recased in red stone. With the exception of this tower, another of the round style, and adjacent buildings in the upper ward, the Castle was dismantled at the end of the 18th Century. From Julius Caesar's Tower one can see the ruins of Beeston Castle, which met a like fate in 1646. Of Halton Castle nothing is left. But Lincoln Castle, on the other side of the Island(l, is an important monument.
  
  Lincoln was the fourth City of the Realm when the Normans invaded, and it seemed to William to be a logical site for a castle. The Domesday Book states that one hundred sixty-six houses were torn down to make way for it. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle held that on his return to York in 1068, William erected the Castle on the site of a Roman fort. Since the land was rather flat, a great bank was built up around it. There are two mottes, the larger one crowned by a polygonal shell wall, which may have been built by Ralph de Gernon's widow. In 1140 King Stephen captured the Castle and, in 1216, the Surety Barons had charge of it.
  
  JOHN de LACIE, the Surety, born 1192, seventh Baron of Halton Castle and hereditary constable of Chester, was one of the earliest Barons to take up arms at the time of Magna Charta. He was also appointed to see that the new statutes were properly carried into effect and observed in the counties of York and Nottingham. 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, rendering valmacble service at the Siege of Damietta.
  
  In 1232 Lacie was made Earl of Lincoln and, in 1240, governor of Chester and Beeston Castles. He died 22 July 1240, and was buried in the Cistercian Abbey of Stanlaw in co. Chester. The monk, Matthew Paris, records: "On the 22d day of July, in this year (1240), which was St. Magdalen's Day, John, Earl of Lincoln, after suffering from a long illness went the way of all flesh." His first wife was Alice, daughter of Gilbert 'd’Aquila, but by her he had no issue. She died in 1215 and he married second, after his marked gallantry at the Siege of Damietta, Margaret, only daughter and heiress of Robert de Quincey, a fellow Crusader, who died in the Holy Land, eldest son of Saire de Quincey, the Surety. They had three children, Lady Margaret survived him and married second Walter Marshall, Earl of Pembroke. [National Society Magna Charta Dames and Barons; www.magnacharta.org]
  
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  John de Lacy, Magna Charta Surety 1215, b. c 1192, d. 22 July 1240, Earl of Lincoln 1232, Constable of Chester, son of Roger de Lacy and Maud de Clare; m. (2) bef. 21 June 1221, Margaret de Quincy. [Magna Charta Sureties]
  
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  on the Earldom of Lincoln, prior creations, [Burke's Peerage, p. 1712]:
  
  The Earldom of Lincoln was revived twenty years after the 2nd Earl's death in favour of his cousin, Ranulph Earl of Chester, who of course also had a long-standing connection with the county through their common ancestress Countess Lucy. Ranulph's prominent role in defeating the French invaders at the Battle of Lincoln earlier in 1217, the year he was made Earl of Lincoln, played a part in his elevation. Soon after Michaelmas 1230 he made over the Earldom to his sister Hawise, from whom it was conveyed to her son-in-law John de Lacy, the traffic in the dignity being approved by Henry III in both cases in the autumn of 1232.
  
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  John de Lacy, Constable of Chester, in the 15th year of King John, undertook the payment of 7,000 marks to the crown in the space of four years for the livery of the lands of his inheritance and to be discharged of all his father's debts due to the exchequer; further obliging himself by oath that, in case he should ever swerve from his allegiance and adhere to the king's enemies, all his possessions should devolve upon the crown; promising also that he would not marry without the king's license. By this agreement it was arranged that the king should retain the castles of Pontefract and Dunnington, still in his own hands; and that he, the said John, should allow £40 per annum for the custody of those fortresses. But the next year he had Dunnington restored to him upon hostages. About this period he joined the baronial standard and was one of the celebrated twenty-five barons appointed to enforce the observance of Magna Carta. But the next year he obtained letters of safe conduct to come to the king to make his peace, and he had similar letters upon the accession of Henry III, in the 2nd year of which monarch's reign he went with divers other noblemen into the Holy Land. He m. Margaret, dau. and heir of Robert de Quincy, Earl of Winchester, by Hawyse, 4th sister and co-heir of Ranulph de Meschines, Earl of Chester and Lincoln, which Ranulph, by a formal charter under his seal, granted the Earldom of Lincoln, that is, so much as he could grant thereof, to the said Hawyse, "to the end that she might be countess and that her heirs might also enjoy the earldom;" which grant was confirmed by the king and, at the especial request of the countess, this John de Lacy, constable of Chester, was created by charter, dated at Northampton, 23 November, 1232, Earl of Lincoln, with remainder to the heirs of his body, by his wife, the above-named Margaret. In the contest which occurred during the same year between the king and Richard Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, Earl Marshal, Matthew Paris states that the Earl of Lincoln was brought over to the king's party with John le Scot, Earl of Chester, by Peter de Rupibus, bishop of Winchester, for a bribe of 1,000 marks. In 1237, his lordship was one of those appointed to prohibit Oto, the pope's legate, from establishing anything derogatory to the king's crown and dignity in the council of prelates then assembled; and the same year he had a grant of the sheriffalty of Cheshire, being likewise constituted governor of the castle of Chester. The earl d. in 1240, leaving Margaret, his wife, surviving, who re-m. William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke. His lordship left issue, Edmund, his successor, and two daus., which ladies in the 27th Henry III, were removed to Windsor, there to be educated with the king's own daus.; of these, Maud m. Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883]
  
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  JOhn de Lacy, first Earl of Lincoln of the Lacy family (d 1240), was son of Roger de Lacy, justiciar, by Maud de Clere. He was probably a minor at the time of his father's death in January 1212 as he did not receive full livery till September 1213, when, althought a part of the fine was remitted, his castles of Pontefract and Donington were still retained in the king's handle. Donington was restored in July 1214, Lacy giving hostages for his good conduct. IN 1215 he was one of the confederate barons, and was among the twenty-five appointed to see to the observance of the Great Charter. Afterwards he appears for a time to have gone over to the king, for on 1 Jan 1216 he received the royal pardon, and his lands were restored, and in August he received letters of protection. Nevertheless he had been excommunicated by Innocent III with the other barons, and his fortress of Donington was destroyed by order of the king. In September 1216 his land at Navesby, Nottinghamshire, was entrusted to Ernald de Ambleville, but he was finally pardoned and his lands restored in August 1217. In 1218 he went on the crusade with Earl Randulf of Chester and was present at the seige of Damietta; he had taked the cross as early as March 1215. After his return to England, about August 1220, he joined with Earl Randulf in his opposition to the king's government, but submitted at the same time as his leader, and surrendered his castles. In September 1227 he was sent on an embassy to Antwerp, and on 6 Sept 1230 was a commissioner to treat for a trace with France. After the death of Earl Randulf, Lacy was made Earl of Lincoln on 22 Nov 1282, in the right of his wife, Margaret, daughter of Robert de Quince, and Hawise, countess of Lincoln, as sister of Earl Randulf. In 1233 he at first supported Richard Marshal, earl of Pembroke, in his opposition to Peter del Roches, but was eventually won over by a bribe of a thousand marks from the bishop. Hi
  
  === John was one of the 25 barons appointed to enforce Magna Carta ===
  ohn was one of the 25 barons appointed to enforce the terms of the Magna Carta. He was created Earl 11-23-1232 in right of his wife, and was bribed to support the King. John served as Constable of Chester and Sheriff of Cheshire, and was 7th Baron of Halton Castle.
  
  === 1st Earl of Lincoln One of the Magna Car ===
  1st Earl of Lincoln One of the Magna Carta Sureties !Birthdate is a guess.
  
  === Baron of Halton. A "Magna Charta Baron". ===
  Baron of Halton. A "Magna Charta Baron". Earl of Lincoln by charter of Henry III, dated at Northampton 11/23/1232. Constable of Chester.
  
  === *John De Lacy Lord of Pontefract Castle ===
  *John De Lacy Lord of Pontefract Castle Surname: De Lacy Given Name:*John NSFX: Lord of Pontefract Castle Sex: M Birth: 1192 in Lincoln,Lincoln, England Death: 22 Jul 1240 in Stanlaw, Chester, EnglandReference Number: 6259 _UID: ECCDF0E23C78D511AD2400036D1D4CBF8E15 Note:Surety of the Magna Carta Change Date: 14 Jul 2001 at 10:59:23 Father: *Roger De Lacy b: 1171 Mother: *Maud Matilda De Clare b: ABT.1175 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England Marriage 1 *Margaret De Quincy b: 1208 in , Lincoln, Lincoln, EnglandMarried: 1223 in Of, , Lincolnshire, England Children *Maud De Lacy b:ABT. 1223 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England Idonea De Lacy b: ABT. 1226in Of, , Lincolnshire, England Edmund De Lacy b: 1230 in Of, ,Lincolnshire, England *John de Lacy Sex: M Birth: ABT 1192 Death: 22 JUL1240 Occupation: 7th Baron of Halton Castle, Magna Carta Surety ChangeDate: 12 FEB 2002 Father: **Roger de Lacy b: ABT 1171 in Lincoln, England Mother: **Maud deClare b: ABT 1175 in Lincoln, England Marriage 1 **Margaret de Quincy b: 1208 in Lincoln, England Married: BEF21 JUN 1221 Children **Maude de Lacy b: 1223 in Lincoln, England**Alice (Idonia) de Lacy b: ABT 1223
  
  === SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 S ===
  SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO68) P.22, 24, 26; ENGLAND PUBLICATION A1C20, P.277; ENGLAND PUBLICATION V, VOL 7 P.678; YORKSHIRE PUBLICATION 2; BANK'S DORMANT AND EXTINCT PEERAGE; ANCESTRAL FILE, LDS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY;
  
  === NOTES: John de LACIE; Crusader, Magna ===
  NOTES: John de LACIE; Crusader, Magna Charta Surety, 7th Baron of Halton Castle, Earl of Lincoln, Governor of Chester and Beeston Castles, Constable of Chester, Sheriff of Chester. Was the First (1) Husband of Wife Margaret de QUINCEY Sirname May Be Spelled LACIE !SOURCES: Royal Ancestors of Some American Families; by Call, chart #11332
  
  === !BIRTH-DEATH: The Plantagenet Connection ===
  !BIRTH-DEATH: The Plantagenet Connection, April 1994 Earl of Lincoln !BIRTH-DEATH: Diary and autobiography of Edmund Bohun, 1853 Royal Genealogies of Magna Carte Barons Magna Carta Surety
  === Life Sketch ===
  John de Lacy (c. 1192 – 22 July 1240) was the 2nd Earl of Lincoln, of the fourth creation. He was also the, 7th Baron of Pontefract, 8th Baron of Halton, 8th Lord of Bowland.
  
  Background
  He was the eldest son and heir of Roger de Lacy and his wife, Maud or Matilda de Clere (not of the de Clare family).
  
  Public life
  He was hereditary constable of Chester and, in the 15th year of King John, undertook the payment of 7,000 marks to the crown, in the space of four years, for livery of the lands of his inheritance, and to be discharged of all his father's debts due to the exchequer, further obligating himself by oath, that in case he should ever swerve from his allegiance, and adhere to the king's enemies, all of his possessions should devolve upon the crown, promising also, that he would not marry without the king's licence. By this agreement it was arranged that the king should retain the castles of Pontefract and Dunnington, still in his own hands; and that he, the said John, should allow 40 pounds per year, for the custody of those fortresses. But the next year he had Dunnington restored to him, upon hostages.
  
  John de Lacy, 8th Baron of Halton Castle, 5th Lord of Bowland and hereditary constable of Chester, was one of the earliest who took up arms at the time of the Magna Charta, and was 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. In 1237, his lordship was one of those appointed to prohibit Oto, the pope's prelate, from establishing anything derogatory to the king's crown and dignity, in the council of prelates then assembled; and the same year he was appointed High Sheriff of Cheshire, being likewise constituted Governor of the castle of Chester.
  
  Private life
  He married firstly Alice in 1214 in Pontefract, daughter of Gilbert, lord of L'Aigle, who gave him one daughter,
  1. Joan.
  Alice died in 1216 in Pontefract.
  
  He married secondly in 1221 Margaret de Quincy, only daughter and heiress of Robert de Quincy, son of Saer de Quincy, 1st Earl of Winchester, by Hawyse, 4th sister and co-heir of Ranulph de Mechines, Earl of Chester and Lincoln, which Ranulph, by a formal charter under his seal, granted the Earldom of Lincoln, that is, so much as he could grant thereof, to the said Hawyse, "to the end that she might be countess, and that her heirs might also enjoy the earldom;" which grant was confirmed by the king, and at the especial request of the countess, this John de Lacy, constable of Chester, through his marriage was allowed to succeed de Blondeville and was created by charter, dated Northampton, 23 November 1232, Earl of Lincoln, with remainder to the heirs of his body, by his wife, the above-mentioned Margaret. In the contest which occurred during the same year, between the king and Richard Marshal, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, Earl Marshal, Matthew Paris states that the Earl of Lincoln was brought over to the king's party, with John of Scotland, 7th Earl of Chester, by Peter de Rupibus, Bishop of Winchester, for a bribe of 1,000 marks.
  
  By this marriage he had one son,
  1. Edmund de Lacy, Baron of Pontefract, and two daughters, of one,
  2. Maud, married Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester.
  [3. unnamed daughter]
  
  Later life
  He died on 22 July 1240 and was buried at the Cisterian Abbey of Stanlow, 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.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_de_Lacy,_2nd_Earl_of_Lincoln
  
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  “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
  “JOHN DE LACY (or LASCY) (also known as JOHN OF CHESTER), Knt., of Pontefract, Yorkshire, Naseby, Northamptonshire, Hatton, Cheshire, etc., hereditary Constable of Chester, Keeper of Duninton Castle, 1214, Constable of Whitchurch Castle, 1233, Privy Councillor, 1237, Sheriff of Cheshire, 1237, Constable of Chester and Beeston Castles, 1237, son and heir, born about 1192 (of age in 1213). He married (1st) ALICE DE L'AIGLE, daughter of Gilbert de l'Aigle, of Pevensey, Sussex, by Isabel de Warenne, daughter of Hamelin, 5th Earl of Surrey (illegitimate son of Geoffrey Plantagenet, (Count of Anjou) [see WARENNE 7.iv for her ancestry]. . (This is incorrect, they had 1 daughter, Joan) She was buried at Norton Priory, Cheshire. He obtained livery of his inheritance in July 1213. In 1213-14 he was with the king in Poitou. He was one of the few English barons to take the Cross for the Crusades along with the king 4 March 1214. In 1215 he joined the confederacy of the barons against the king. He was one of the twenty-five barons elected to guarantee the observance of Magna Carta, signed by King John 15 June 1215. In consequence he was among the barons excommunicated by Pope Innocent III 16 Dec. 1215. At the end of the year he made peace with the king, but next summer was again in rebellion, and King John destroyed his castle of Donington. In August 1217 he was pardoned by King Henry III, and in Nov. 1217 he was commissioned to conduct the King of Scots to him. In 1218 he accompanied Ranulph, Earl of Chester, on crusade, and fought at the Siege of Damietta. He returned to England about August 1220, and in Feb. 1220/1 took part in the reduction of Skipton Castle. He married (2nd) in 1221, before 21 June MARGARET (or MARGERY) DE QUINCY, daughter and heiress of Robert de Quincy, by Hawise, suo jure Countess of Lincoln, daughter of Hugh, Earl of Chester [see QUINCY 6.i for her ancestry]. She was born before 1217. They had one son, Edmund, Knt. [Constable of Chester], and three daughters, including Maud and Margaret. In 1223 he held the prescriptive right to a weekly market held at the manor of Snaith, Yorkshire. In 1226 he acted as itinerant judge in Lincolnshire and Lancashire, and, in the former county in 1233. In 1227 he was sent on an embassy to Antwerp. He presented to the churches of Naseby, Northamptonshire in 1227 and 1231, and Wadenhoe, Rutland, 1237, and two portions of the church of Clipstone, Northamptonshire in 1228, 1229, 1230, and 1235. In 1229 he was appointed to conduct Alexander II, King of Scots to England to meet King Henry III of England at York. From about 1230 he was about the court, and in that year was a commissioner to treat for a truce with France. In 1230 John and Margaret released their claim to the main Quincy estates to her uncle, Roger de Quincy; Roger in return granted them and their issue her mother's dower, including the manor of Grantchester, Cambridgeshire, to hold of Roger and his heirs. In 1231 he was in Wales on the king's service. Sometime before 1232, he exchanged one acre of land in the vill of Kingston with Christchurch Priory, Hampshire, in return for an acre of the priory's land also in Kingston. In 1232 he took a prominent part as the king's commissioner in the proceedings against Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent. On 22 Nov. 1232, at the instance of Margaret's mother, Hawise de Quincy, the king granted John the £20 per annum which Ranulph, late Earl of Chester and Lincoln, had received for the 3rd penny of the county as Earl of Lincoln, and which the Earl had in his lifetime granted to Hawise his sister: to hold in nomine comitis Lincolnie to the said John and his heirs by Margaret his wife, whereby he became Earl of Lincoln. In 1233 he was one of Hubert de Burgh's keepers at Devizes Castle until he should become a Templar. The same year he joined the party against Peter des Roches, Bishop of Winchester, but the Bishop gained him over, and from that time he acted with the Court, becoming one of the king's unpopular councillors. He was a justice in Lincolnshire in 1234. In 1236 he carried one of the State swords at the Coronation of Queen Eleanor. The same year a dispute occured between John, Earl of Lincoln, and Margaret his wife and the Prior of Wimborne, the former alleging that a new market had been raised in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, to the detriment of their existing market in the town. In 1237 he was a plenipotentiary to make peace with Scotland. SIR JOHN DE LACY, Earl of Lincoln, Constable of Chester, died 22 July 1240, and was buried near his father in the monk's choir at Stanlaw Abbey, his body being removed later to Whalley Abbey.
  
  John de Lacy
  John de Lacy, the constable of Chester, was a member of one of the oldest, wealthiest and most important baronial families of twelfth- and thirteenth-century England, with territorial interests distri
  
  BIO
  BIO: from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL1.htm#JohnLacyLincolndied1240B as of 2/1/2016
  
  JOHN de Lacy, son of ROGER de Lacy & his wife Matilda de Clare ([1192]-22 Jul 124
  
  === [mwballard.ged] ===
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  He was a Surety for the Magna Carta[2753682.ged]
  
  !Earl of Lincoln (created 1232), Constable of Chester, Magna ChartaSurety, 1215. [Ped. of Ch arlemagne]
  
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  !Margaret de Quincy was his second wife. [Magna Charta Sureties]
  
  !Baron of Halton and hereditary constable of Chester, who, in 1214,undertook the payment o f 7000 marks in the space of 4 years, forlivery of the lands of his inheritance, and to be d ischarged of allhis father's debts, further obliging himself by oath, that in case heshoul d ever swerve from his allegiance all his possessions shoulddevolve upon the crown; promisin g also that he would not marrywithout the king's license. By this agreement it was arrange d thatthe king should retain the castles of Pontefract and Dunnington, andthat de Lacie sho uld pay him rent for their use. This was a hardbargain, and it is not surprising that shortl y afterwards he joinedthe baronial standard as one of the earliest who took up arms, and was elected one of the Sureties for the observance of the Magna Charta.He was also appointe d to see that the new statutes were properlycarried into effect and observed in the countie s of York andNottingham, and was, of course, excommunicated by the Pope. Upon theaccessio n of Henry III he joined a party of noblemen and made apilgrimage to the Holy Land, and di d good service at the siege ofDamietta. During the dispute between Henry III and Richard, lo rdmarshal, John de Lacy remained attached to the king, probably becauseof his gratitude, a s this monarch had created him, by charter datedNov. 23, 1232, Earl of Lincoln, with remaind er to the heirs of hisbody, by his wife Margaret, in whose right only he had previously enjoyed the title. In 1237 the Earl was one of those appointed toprohibit Otto, the Pope's lega te, from establishing anythingderogatory to the king's crown and dignity, in the great counc il ofEnglish prelates, and was deputed with the marshal to protect thelegate as he went t o and from the council. In this year, and in1240, he had a grant of the sheriffalty of Ches ter, and was madegovernor of Chester and Beeston Castle. [Magna Charta Barons, pp.101-2, 42 1]
  
  The earldom of Lincoln came to the Lacy family from the defunctChester complex. [Angevin Eng land, p. 77]
  
  The lands of the Lacy family, constables of Chester, outside Cheshire,when in royal custod y in 1211-12 were worth a total of 1258 pounds.[Angevin England, p. 79]
  
  b. 1192, d. 22 July 1240, of Hatton; son of Roger de Lacy and Maud deClare; cr. Earl of Linc oln, 1232; Constable of Chester; Magna ChartaSurety 1215; m. Margaret de Quincy; father of M aud de Lacy.[Ancestral Roots, p. 58]
  
  m. M. Tuincey; father of Maude de Lacie who m. ?? de Clare. [WFT Vol 1Ped 1847]
  
  Son of Roger de Lacy and Maud/Matilda de Clare; m. Margaret de Quincy;father of Maud de Lacy . [GRS 3.03, Automated Archives, CD#100]
  
  The "Manor of Bradford" was first held by the de Lacy family until1311 and then in turn by t he Earls of Lincoln, John Gaunt and theCrown before passinginto private hands in 1620. [Bradford--History
  1st Earl/Lincoln MCSurety [Mayflower PAF]
  
  In 1213/4 he was with King John in Poitou, but in 1215 he was one ofthe 25 barons appointe d to guarantee the observance of the MagnaCarta. In 1218 he accompanied the Earl of Cheste r on Crusade andfought at the Battle of Damietta; d. 22 July 1240; had issue: Maud whom. Ri chard de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford. [CP, VII, pp. 676-80;Weis, p. 58; Sanders, p. 138 as q uoted by Robert O'Connor
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  27 John de Lacie the Surety, was 15th in descent from Alfred the Greata nd 28th in descent from Cerdic. He married second Margaret,granddaught er of the Surety Saire de Quincey and had 26 Maud Laciemarried to Rich ard de Clare, died 1262
  
  JOHN DE LACIE, Earl of Lincoln and one of the Magna Charta Barons. Hew as one of the chief nobles present in Westminster Hall when (40thHenry II I.) Boniface, Archbishop of Canterbury, pronounced thatsolemn curse wi th candles lighted against all those who shouldthenceforth violate Mag na Charta. He died 1262[CALDWELL.GED]
  
  27 John de Lacie the Surety, was 15th in descent from Alfred the Greata nd 28th in descent from Cerdic. He married second Margaret,granddaught er of the Surety Saire de Quincey and had 26 Maud Laciemarried to Rich ard de Clare, died 1262
  
  JOHN DE LACIE, Earl of Lincoln and one of the Magna Charta Barons. Hew as one of the chief nobles present in Westminster Hall when (40thHenry II I.) Boniface, Archbishop of Canterbury, pronounced thatsolemn curse wi th candles lighted against all those who shouldthenceforth violate Mag na Charta. He died 1262[De Keveliock.ged]
  
  Earl of Lincoln , in England. 1232.
  Constable of Chester
  
  John de Lacie the Surety, was 15th in descent from Alfred the Greatand 28 th in descent from Cerdic. He married second Margaret,granddaughter of t he Surety Saire de Quincey and had 26 Maud Laciemarried to Richard de Cla re, died 1262
  
  JOHN DE LACIE, Earl of Lincoln and one of the Magna Charta Barons. Hew as one of the chief nobles present in Westminster Hall when (40thHenry II I.) Boniface, Archbishop of Canterbury, pronounced thatsolemn curse wi th candles lighted against all those who shouldthenceforth violate Mag na Charta. He died 1262
  
  === PEDIGREES OF SOME OF THE EMPEROR CHARLEM ===
  PEDIGREES OF SOME OF THE EMPEROR CHARLEMAGNE'S DESCENDANTS, Vol. 2, Page 50. John De LACY, Constable of Chester, Earl of Lincoln, Crusader, Surety for Magna Charta, b. ca. 1191; d. July 22, 1240. COMPLETE PEERAGE; by G. E. COKAYNE; Volume IV, Page 670 - chart IV. Volume V, Page 695 and chart on 736. Volume VII, Page 676-680. VICTORIA COUNTY HISTORIES, LANC.; Volume I, Page 306.
  
  === My PAF Notes ===
  from thepeerage.com, 2/2009:
  John de Lacy, 1st Earl of Lincoln1
  M, #106821, d. 1240
  Last Edited=1 Dec 2008
  John de Lacy, 1st Earl of Lincoln married, firstly, Alice de l'Aigle , daughter of Gilbert de l'Aigle, Lord of Pevensey and Isabella de Warenne .2 He married, secondly, Margaret de Quincey , daughter of Robert de Quincey and Hawise of Chester, Countess of Lincoln , before 21 June 1221.3 He died in 1240.
  In 1215 he was one of the Magna Carta Sureties. He gained the title of 1st Earl of Lincoln [England] on 22 November 1232.4
  Children of John de Lacy, 1st Earl of Lincoln and Margaret de Quincey
  Matilda de Lacy + d. b 12895
  Edmund de Lacy, 2nd Earl of Lincoln + b. 1230, d. 1258
  Citations
  [S6 ] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume VII, page 676. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
  [S79 ] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry (Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004), page 747. Hereinafter cited as Plantagenet Ancestry.
  [S6 ] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume VII, page 679.
  [S6 ] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume VII, page 678.
  [S11 ] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 68. Hereinafter cited as Britain's Royal Family.
  
  === Created Earl of Lincoln, 1232, Constable ===
  Created Earl of Lincoln, 1232, Constable of Chester, Magna CartaSurety 1215. From Magna Charta, p. 89: "seventh Baron of Halton Castle, and hereditary constable of Chester.He was one of the earliest who took up arms at the time of MagnaCharta, and was also appointed to see that the new statutes wereproperly carried into effect and observed in the counties of York andNottingham. He was excommunicated by the Pope. Upon the accession ofKing Henry III he joined a party of noblemen and made a pilgrimage tothe Holy Land, and did good service at the Siege of Damietta."
  
  === [Digges6.ftw] National Society Magna Ch ===
  [Digges6.ftw] National Society Magna Charta Dames and Barons Magna Charta Baron Page for John De Lacie Lord of Halton Castle, Cheshire Return to Barons at Runnymede Page Return to Home Page WURTS’ MAGNA CHARTA provided a brief accounting of the feudal headquarters of some of the Magna Charta Barons. Some of the castles have been badly damaged. Some have disappeared entirely. Often we can learn of them through Medieval and Renaissance accounts, and some of them require the discerning eye of the archeologist. Others await the evidence brought out with a shovel and pick, by the trained archeological historian. A portion of the information concerning Surety Baron JOHN de LACIE is as follows: The Lacie strongholds on the Welsh border are Beeston, Chester and Halton Castles. Beeston is now a crumbling ruin. It is hard even to identify the keep, but it could be the large wall tower East of the gate house. The Castle is perched on a height bounded on three sides by sheer drops, and a steep slope on the fourth. Its strength as a defense lay in its inaccessibility. There are two baileys, the innermost on a summit and the other situated on the sloping ground. The inner bailey was guarded on the approachable side by a gate house, two wall towers and a ditch thirty-five feet wide and thirty feet deep, which cut across the promontory. It is important to note that the artificial ravine was fashioned two hundred fifty years before blasting was known. The date of founding was in the 13th Century, and it was founded by Randolph de Blondevill, Earl of Chester. Chester was the last City to yield to William the Conqueror, and the surrender came in 1070. Once the Normans had the Castle, William's nephew, Hugh Lupus, Palatine Earl of Chester, was appointed as head of the border patrol. Chester Castle was originally built by the first Norman Earl of Chester, and now consists of modern buildings, the assize-court, jail and barracks. The one remaining Norman relic is "Julius Caesar's Towe r," standing by the River. It is a square tower which has been used as a powder magazine, but is scarcely recognizable as a Norman building, because it has been recently recased in red stone. With the exception of this tower, another of the round style, and adjacent buildings in the upper ward, the Castle was dismantled at the end of the 18th Century. From Julius Caesar's Tower one can see the ruins of Beeston Castle, which met a like fate in 1646. Of Halton Castle nothing is left. But Lincoln Castle, on the other side of the Island(l, is an important monument. Lincoln was the fourth City of the Realm when the Normans invaded, and it seemed to William to be a logical site for a castle. The Domesday Book states that one hundred sixty-six houses were torn down to make way for it. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle held that on his return to York in 1068, William erected the Castle on the site of a Roman fort. Since the land was rather flat, a great bank was built up around it. There are two mottes, the larger one crowned by a polygonal shell wall, which may have been built by Ralph de Gernon's widow. In 1140 King Stephen captured the Castle and, in 1216, the Surety Barons had charge of it. JOHN de LACIE, the Surety, born 1192, seventh Baron of Halton Castle and hereditary constable of Chester, was one of the earliest Barons to take up arms at the time of Magna Charta. He was also appointed to see that the new statutes were properly carried into effect and observed in the counties of York and Nottingham. 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, rendering valuable service at the Siege of Damietta. In 1232 Lacie was made Earl of Lincoln and, in 1240, governor of Chester and Beeston Castles. He died 22 July 1240, and was buried in the Cistercian Abbey of Stanlaw in co. Chester. The monk, Matthew Paris, records: "On the 22d day of July, in this year (1240), which was St. Magdalen's Day, John, Earl of Lincoln, after suffering from a long illness went the way of all flesh." His first wife was Alice, daughter of Gilbert 'd’Aquila, but by her he had no issue. She died in 1215 and he married second, after his marked gallantry at the Siege of Damietta, Margaret, only daughter and heiress of Robert de Quincey, a fellow Crusader, who died in the Holy Land, eldest son of Saire de Quincey, the Surety. They had three children, Lady Margaret survived him and married second Walter Marshall, Earl of Pembroke. Appreciation is expressed to Reed M. W. Wurts, one of the Heralds of the Society for furnishing the Baron’s Shield on this page. Return to Barons at Runnymede Page Return to Home Page Send mail to webmaster@magnacharta.org with questions or comments about this web site. Copyright © 1997-1999 National Society Magna Charta Dames and Barons Last modified: August 28, 1998 [Coats of Arms.FTW] National Society Magna Charta Dames and Barons Magna Charta Baron Page for John De Lacie Lord of Halton Castle, Cheshire Return to Barons at Runnymede Page Return to Home Page WURTS’ MAGNA CHARTA provided a brief accounting of the feudal headquarters of some of the Magna Charta Barons. Some of the castles have been badly damaged. Some have disappeared entirely. Often we can learn of them through Medieval and Renaissance accounts, and some of them require the discerning eye of the archeologist. Others await the evidence brought out with a shovel and pick, by the trained archeological historian. A portion of the information concerning Surety Baron JOHN de LACIE is as follows: The Lacie strongholds on the Welsh border are Beeston, Chester and Halton Castles. Beeston is now a crumbling ruin. It is hard even to identify the keep, but it could be the large wall tower East of the gate house. The Castle is perched on a height bounded on three sides by sheer drops, and a steep slope on the fourth. Its strength as a defense lay in its inaccessibility. There are two bail eys, the innermost on a summit and the other situated on the sloping ground. The inner bailey was guarded on the approachable side by a gate house, two wall towers and a ditch thirty-five feet wide and thirty feet deep, which cut across the promontory. It is important to note that the artificial ravine was fashioned two hundred fifty years before blasting was known. The date of founding was in the 13th Century, and it was founded by Randolph de Blondevill, Earl of Chester. Chester was the last City to yield to William the Conqueror, and the surrender came in 1070. Once the Normans had the Castle, William's nephew, Hugh Lupus, Palatine Earl of Chester, was appointed as head of the border patrol. Chester Castle was originally built by the first Norman Earl of Chester, and now consists of modern buildings, the assize-court, jail and barracks. The one remaining Norman relic is "Julius Caesar's Tower," standing by the River. It is a square tower which has been used as a powder magazine, but is scarcely recognizable as a Norman building, because it has been recently recased in red stone. With the exception of this tower, another of the round style, and adjacent buildings in the upper ward, the Castle was dismantled at the end of the 18th Century. From Julius Caesar's Tower one can see the ruins of Beeston Castle, which met a like fate in 1646. Of Halton Castle nothing is left. But Lincoln Castle, on the other side of the Island(l, is an important monument. Lincoln was the fourth City of the Realm when the Normans invaded, and it seemed to William to be a logical site for a castle. The Domesday Book states that one hundred sixty-six houses were torn down to make way for it. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle held that on his return to York in 1068, William erected the Castle on the site of a Roman fort. Since the land was rather flat, a great bank was built up around it. There are two mottes, the larger one crowned by a polygonal shell wall, which may have been built by Ralph de Ge rnon's widow. In 1140 King Stephen captured the Castle and, in 1216, the Surety Barons had charge of it. JOHN de LACIE, the Surety, born 1192, seventh Baron of Halton Castle and hereditary constable of Chester, was one of the earliest Barons to take up arms at the time of Magna Charta. He was also appointed to see that the new statutes were properly carried into effect and observed in the counties of York and Nottingham. 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, rendering valuable service at the Siege of Damietta. In 1232 Lacie was made Earl of Lincoln and, in 1240, governor of Chester and Beeston Castles. He died 22 July 1240, and was buried in the Cistercian Abbey of Stanlaw in co. Chester. The monk, Matthew Paris, records: "On the 22d day of July, in this year (1240), which was St. Magdalen's Day, John, Earl of Lincoln, after suffering from a long illness went the way of all flesh." His first wife was Alice, daughter of Gilbert 'd’Aquila, but by her he had no issue. She died in 1215 and he married second, after his marked gallantry at the Siege of Damietta, Margaret, only daughter and heiress of Robert de Quincey, a fellow Crusader, who died in the Holy Land, eldest son of Saire de Quincey, the Surety. They had three children, Lady Margaret survived him and married second Walter Marshall, Earl of Pembroke. Appreciation is expressed to Reed M. W. Wurts, one of the Heralds of the Society for furnishing the Baron’s Shield on this page. Return to Barons at Runnymede Page Return to Home Page Send mail to webmaster@magnacharta.org with questions or comments about this web site. Copyright © 1997-1999 National Society Magna Charta Dames and Barons Last modified: August 28, 1998 [Digges V.FTW] National Society Magna Charta Dames and Barons Magna Charta Baron Page for John De Lacie Lord of Halton Castle, Cheshire Return to Barons at Runnymede Page Return to Home Page WURTS’ MA
  
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  === John de Lacy 1st Earl of Lincoln ===
  “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
  “JOHN DE LACY (or LASCY) (also known as JOHN OF CHESTER), Knt., of Pontefract, Yorkshire, Naseby, Northamptonshire, Hatton, Cheshire, etc., hereditary Constable of Chester, Keeper of Duninton Castle, 1214, Constable of Whitchurch Castle, 1233, Privy Councillor, 1237, Sheriff of Cheshire, 1237, Constable of Chester and Beeston Castles, 1237, son and heir, born about 1192 (of age in 1213). He married (1st) ALICE DE L'AIGLE, daughter of Gilbert de l'Aigle, of Pevensey, Sussex, by Isabel de Warenne, daughter of Hamelin, 5th Earl of Surrey (illegitimate son of Geoffrey Plantagenet, (Count of Anjou) [see WARENNE 7.iv for her ancestry]. They had no issue. She was buried at Norton Priory, Cheshire. He obtained livery of his inheritance in July 1213. In 1213-14 he was with the king in Poitou. He was one of the few English barons to take the Cross for the Crusades along with the king 4 March 1214. In 1215 he joined the confederacy of the barons against the king. He was one of the twenty-five barons elected to guarantee the observance of Magna Carta, signed by King John 15 June 1215. In consequence he was among the barons excommunicated by Pope Innocent III 16 Dec. 1215. At the end of the year he made peace with the king, but next summer was again in rebellion, and King John destroyed his castle of Donington. In August 1217 he was pardoned by King Henry III, and in Nov. 1217 he was commissioned to conduct the King of Scots to him. In 1218 he accompanied Ranulph, Earl of Chester, on crusade, and fought at the Siege of Damietta. He returned to England about August 1220, and in Feb. 1220/1 took part in the reduction of Skipton Castle. He married (2nd) in 1221, before 21 June MARGARET (or MARGERY) DE QUINCY, daughter and heiress of Robert de Quincy, by Hawise, suo jure Countess of Lincoln, daughter of Hugh, Earl of Chester [see QUINCY 6.i for her ancestry]. She was born before 1217. They had one son, Edmund, Knt. [Constable of Chester], and three daughters, including Maud and Margaret. In 1223 he held the prescriptive right to a weekly market held at the manor of Snaith, Yorkshire. In 1226 he acted as itinerant judge in Lincolnshire and Lancashire, and, in the former county in 1233. In 1227 he was sent on an embassy to Antwerp. He presented to the churches of Naseby, Northamptonshire in 1227 and 1231, and Wadenhoe, Rutland, 1237, and two portions of the church of Clipstone, Northamptonshire in 1228, 1229, 1230, and 1235. In 1229 he was appointed to conduct Alexander II, King of Scots to England to meet King Henry III of England at York. From about 1230 he was about the court, and in that year was a commissioner to treat for a truce with France. In 1230 John and Margaret released their claim to the main Quincy estates to her uncle, Roger de Quincy; Roger in return granted them and their issue her mother's dower, including the manor of Grantchester, Cambridgeshire, to hold of Roger and his heirs. In 1231 he was in Wales on the king's service. Sometime before 1232, he exchanged one acre of land in the vill of Kingston with Christchurch Priory, Hampshire, in return for an acre of the priory's land also in Kingston. In 1232 he took a prominent part as the king's commissioner in the proceedings against Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent. On 22 Nov. 1232, at the instance of Margaret's mother, Hawise de Quincy, the king granted John the £20 per annum which Ranulph, late Earl of Chester and Lincoln, had received for the 3rd penny of the county as Earl of Lincoln, and which the Earl had in his lifetime granted to Hawise his sister: to hold in nomine comitis Lincolnie to the said John and his heirs by Margaret his wife, whereby he became Earl of Lincoln. In 1233 he was one of Hubert de Burgh's keepers at Devizes Castle until he should become a Templar. The same year he joined the party against Peter des Roches, Bishop of Winchester, but the Bishop gained him over, and from that time he acted with the Court, becoming one of the king's unpopular councillors. He was a justice in Lincolnshire in 1234. In 1236 he carried one of the State swords at the Coronation of Queen Eleanor. The same year a dispute occured between John, Earl of Lincoln, and Margaret his wife and the Prior of Wimborne, the former alleging that a new market had been raised in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, to the detriment of their existing market in the town. In 1237 he was a plenipotentiary to make peace with Scotland. SIR JOHN DE LACY, Earl of Lincoln, Constable of Chester, died 22 July 1240, and was buried near his father in the monk's choir at Stanlaw Abbey, his body being removed later to Whalley Abbey. She presented to the church of North Thoresby, Lincolnshire in 1241. His widow, Margaret, married (2nd) 6 Jan. 1241/2 WALTER MARSHAL, Knt., 8th Earl of Pembroke, hereditary Master Marshal [see MARSHAL 3.iv], hereditary Steward of Leinster, of Hampstead Marshall, Berkshire, Bere and Sturminster, Dorset, Silchester, Hampshire, Hinxworth, Hertfordshire, Goodrich Castle, Herefordshire, Box, Great Bedwyn, Wexcombe (in Great Bedwyn), and Wootton Rivers, Wiltshire, etc., seigneur of Orbec and Longueville, and, in right of his wife, Earl of Lincoln, 4th son of William Marshal, Knt., 4th Earl of Pembroke (or Sttiguil), by Isabel, daughter of Richard Fitz Gilbert (nicknamed Strongbow), 2nd Earl of Pembroke (or Striguil) [see MARSHAL 3 for his ancestry]. He was born after 1198. They had no issue. In 1233 he supported his brother Richard Marshal against the king's foreign favorites and his lands were forfeited. In 1234 he was in Ireland with his brother Richard, who sent him away before the fatal Battle of Kildare, lest his family should be extirpated. He passed over to Wales with his brothers and was pardoned with them. In 1239 he was alienated from King Henry III, by the king's hostility to his brother Gilbert Marshal. In 1240 he was sent into Wales with a large army to strengthen Cardigan Castle, and he took for his brother Gilbert lands appurtenant to the honour of Carmarthen. In June 1241 he took part in the tournament at which Gilbert Marshal was mortally wounded. The king at first refused to invest Walter in the Earldom of Pembroke as Gilbert's heir, because he had forbidden the tournament, but on 27 October the king relented and invested Walter with both the earldom and office of Marshal. He served as a captain in the king's army in Gascony and Poitou in 1242. In 1243 he surrendered his wife's castle of Bolingbroke, Lincolnshire and her mother's lands in Lincolnshire, which estates were subsequently restored to him and his wife, Margaret. In 1244 he was one of the laymen who was elected to consider the king's demand for a subsidy. He presented to the church of West Halton, Lincolnshire in 1242, and to a mediety of the church of Toynton St. Peter, Lincolnshire in 1245. SIR WALTER MARSHAL, Earl of Pembroke, died at Goodrich Castle, Herefordshire 24 Nov. 1245, and was buried at Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire. By judgments of the King's court, his widow, Margaret, recovered dower out of lands in Ireland held by Walter Marshal, and she received seisin of one-third of all of the Earl's lands and tenements in Ireland. In 1252 his widow, Margaret, and Richard de Wiltshire were granted a yearly fair at the manor of Chelbury, Lincolnshire. In 1262 an action of recaption was brought against Margaret, Countess of Lincoln, Joce de Stepping [her steward], and John de Lusby. In 1263 the king promised that her executors should have free administration of her goods. In the period, 1263-6, Master Walter of Stainsby filed a writ of attachment against Joce de Stepping, Steward of Margaret, Countess of Lincoln, which required Joce to answer for having distrained Master Walter to perform suit at the court of Lusby contrary to law. Margaret, Countess of Lincoln and Pembroke, died at Hampstead, Middlesex shortly before 30 March 1266, and was buried near her father in the Church of the Hospitallers, Clerkenwell, Middlesex.
  Throsby Thornton's Hist. of Nottinghamshire 3 (1790): 132-135. Bridges Hist. & Antiqs. of Northamptonshire 1 (1791): 544-545, 574-577. Mastin Hist. & Antiqs. of Nase (1792). Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 6 (1807): 134-135. Ormerod Hist. of Chester 1 (1819): 28, 512-513. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1(1822-30): 563 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 123; 6(1) (1830): 315-317 (Norton Priory) (Ped. and Hist. of the Founders). Burke Dict. of the Peerages... Extinct, Dormant & in Abeyance (1831): 442-443 (sub Quincy). Coll. Top. et Gen. 6 (1840): 147-151. Halliwell Chronicle of the Monastery of Abingdon (1844): 6 (sub A.D. 1248: `Walterus Marescallus, comes de Penbrocke, obiit."). Hulton Coacher Book, or Chartulary, of Whalky Abbey 2 (Chetham Soc. 11) (1847): 394, 419-420, 484 (charters of John de Lacy, Constable of Chester). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped.). Mems. Ill. of the Hist. & Antiqs. of Lincoln (1850): 253-279, esp. 272-274. Giles Matthew Paris's English Hist. 2 (1853): 122 (sub 1245: "The last of the brothers but one, Earl Walter Marshal, followed in his steps; for although he had most faithfully promised a revenue of sixty shillings to the house of St. Mary, belonging to the monks of Hertford, and had given a written promise thereof, because his brother Earl Gilbert died there, and his bowels still remained buried there, he forgot the pledge and promise which he had made for the redemption of his brother, and, after causing much useless vexation to the prior of the said house, he proved himself a manifest deceiver and transgressor."). Hulton Coucher Book or Chartulary of Whalley Abbey 1 (Chethatn Soc. 10) (1867): 32-33 (charters of John de Lascy, Constable of Chester), 36-37 (charter of John de Lascy, Earl of Lincoln), 63-64, 72-74 (charters of John de Lascy, Constable of Chester), 74-
  
  === 1. MWG. LACY 8. 2. of Halton. 3. Son of ===
  1. MWG. LACY 8. 2. of Halton. 3. Son of Roger de Lacy and Maud de Clare, cr Earl of Lincoln, 1232. Constable of Chester, MAGNA CARTA SURETY, 1215. 4. Sheriff of Chester. 5. Descendant of Alfred the Great (AR 1-15).
  
  === John was one of the 25 barons appointed to enforce Magna Carta ===
  ohn was one of the 25 barons appointed to enforce the terms of the Magna Carta. He was created Earl 11-23-1232 in right of his wife, and was bribed to support the King. John served as Constable of Chester and Sheriff of Cheshire, and was 7th Baron of Halton Castle.
  
  === A portion of the information concerning ===
  A portion of the information concerning Surety Baron JOHN de LACIE is as follows:
  
  The Lacie strongholds on the Welsh border are Beeston, Chester and Halton Castles. Beeston is now a crumbling ruin. It is hard even to identify the keep, but it could be the large wall tower East of the gate house. The Castle is perched on a height bounded on three sides by sheer drops, and a steep slope on the fourth. Its strength as a defense lay in its inaccessibility. There are two baileys, the innermost on a summit and the other sitmacted on the sloping ground. The inner bailey was gmacrded on the approachable side by a gate house, two wall towers and a ditch thirty-five feet wide and thirty feet deep, which cut across the promontory. It is important to note that the artificial ravine was fashioned two hundred fifty years before blasting was known. The date of founding was in the 13th Century, and it was founded by Randolph de Blondevill, Earl of Chester.
  
  Chester was the last City to yield to William the Conqueror, and the surrender came in 1070. Once the Normans had the Castle, William's nephew, Hugh Lupus, Palatine Earl of Chester, was appointed as head of the border patrol.
  
  Chester Castle was originally built by the first Norman Earl of Chester, and now consists of modern buildings, the assize-court, jail and barracks. The one remaining Norman relic is "Julius Caesar's Tower," standing by the River. It is a square tower which has been used as a powder magazine, but is scarcely recognizable as a Norman building, because it has been recently recased in red stone. With the exception of this tower, another of the round style, and adjacent buildings in the upper ward, the Castle was dismantled at the end of the 18th Century. From Julius Caesar's Tower one can see the ruins of Beeston Castle, which met a like fate in 1646. Of Halton Castle nothing is left. But Lincoln Castle, on the other side of the Island(l, is an important monument.
  
  Lincoln was the fourth City of the Realm when the Normans invaded, and it seemed to William to be a logical site for a castle. The Domesday Book states that one hundred sixty-six houses were torn down to make way for it. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle held that on his return to York in 1068, William erected the Castle on the site of a Roman fort. Since the land was rather flat, a great bank was built up around it. There are two mottes, the larger one crowned by a polygonal shell wall, which may have been built by Ralph de Gernon's widow. In 1140 King Stephen captured the Castle and, in 1216, the Surety Barons had charge of it.
  
  JOHN de LACIE, the Surety, born 1192, seventh Baron of Halton Castle and hereditary constable of Chester, was one of the earliest Barons to take up arms at the time of Magna Charta. He was also appointed to see that the new statutes were properly carried into effect and observed in the counties of York and Nottingham. 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, rendering valmacble service at the Siege of Damietta.
  
  In 1232 Lacie was made Earl of Lincoln and, in 1240, governor of Chester and Beeston Castles. He died 22 July 1240, and was buried in the Cistercian Abbey of Stanlaw in co. Chester. The monk, Matthew Paris, records: "On the 22d day of July, in this year (1240), which was St. Magdalen's Day, John, Earl of Lincoln, after suffering from a long illness went the way of all flesh." His first wife was Alice, daughter of Gilbert 'd’Aquila, but by her he had no issue. She died in 1215 and he married second, after his marked gallantry at the Siege of Damietta, Margaret, only daughter and heiress of Robert de Quincey, a fellow Crusader, who died in the Holy Land, eldest son of Saire de Quincey, the Surety. They had three children, Lady Margaret survived him and married second Walter Marshall, Earl of Pembroke. [National Society Magna Charta Dames and Barons; www.magnacharta.org]
  
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  John de Lacy, Magna Charta Surety 1215, b. c 1192, d. 22 July 1240, Earl of Lincoln 1232, Constable of Chester, son of Roger de Lacy and Maud de Clare; m. (2) bef. 21 June 1221, Margaret de Quincy. [Magna Charta Sureties]
  
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  on the Earldom of Lincoln, prior creations, [Burke's Peerage, p. 1712]:
  
  The Earldom of Lincoln was revived twenty years after the 2nd Earl's death in favour of his cousin, Ranulph Earl of Chester, who of course also had a long-standing connection with the county through their common ancestress Countess Lucy. Ranulph's prominent role in defeating the French invaders at the Battle of Lincoln earlier in 1217, the year he was made Earl of Lincoln, played a part in his elevation. Soon after Michaelmas 1230 he made over the Earldom to his sister Hawise, from whom it was conveyed to her son-in-law John de Lacy, the traffic in the dignity being approved by Henry III in both cases in the autumn of 1232.
  
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  John de Lacy, Constable of Chester, in the 15th year of King John, undertook the payment of 7,000 marks to the crown in the space of four years for the livery of the lands of his inheritance and to be discharged of all his father's debts due to the exchequer; further obliging himself by oath that, in case he should ever swerve from his allegiance and adhere to the king's enemies, all his possessions should devolve upon the crown; promising also that he would not marry without the king's license. By this agreement it was arranged that the king should retain the castles of Pontefract and Dunnington, still in his own hands; and that he, the said John, should allow £40 per annum for the custody of those fortresses. But the next year he had Dunnington restored to him upon hostages. About this period he joined the baronial standard and was one of the celebrated twenty-five barons appointed to enforce the observance of Magna Carta. But the next year he obtained letters of safe conduct to come to the king to make his peace, and he had similar letters upon the accession of Henry III, in the 2nd year of which monarch's reign he went with divers other noblemen into the Holy Land. He m. Margaret, dau. and heir of Robert de Quincy, Earl of Winchester, by Hawyse, 4th sister and co-heir of Ranulph de Meschines, Earl of Chester and Lincoln, which Ranulph, by a formal charter under his seal, granted the Earldom of Lincoln, that is, so much as he could grant thereof, to the said Hawyse, "to the end that she might be countess and that her heirs might also enjoy the earldom;" which grant was confirmed by the king and, at the especial request of the countess, this John de Lacy, constable of Chester, was created by charter, dated at Northampton, 23 November, 1232, Earl of Lincoln, with remainder to the heirs of his body, by his wife, the above-named Margaret. In the contest which occurred during the same year between the king and Richard Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, Earl Marshal, Matthew Paris states that the Earl of Lincoln was brought over to the king's party with John le Scot, Earl of Chester, by Peter de Rupibus, bishop of Winchester, for a bribe of 1,000 marks. In 1237, his lordship was one of those appointed to prohibit Oto, the pope's legate, from establishing anything derogatory to the king's crown and dignity in the council of prelates then assembled; and the same year he had a grant of the sheriffalty of Cheshire, being likewise constituted governor of the castle of Chester. The earl d. in 1240, leaving Margaret, his wife, surviving, who re-m. William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke. His lordship left issue, Edmund, his successor, and two daus., which ladies in the 27th Henry III, were removed to Windsor, there to be educated with the king's own daus.; of these, Maud m. Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883]
  
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  JOhn de Lacy, first Earl of Lincoln of the Lacy family (d 1240), was son of Roger de Lacy, justiciar, by Maud de Clere. He was probably a minor at the time of his father's death in January 1212 as he did not receive full livery till September 1213, when, althought a part of the fine was remitted, his castles of Pontefract and Donington were still retained in the king's handle. Donington was restored in July 1214, Lacy giving hostages for his good conduct. IN 1215 he was one of the confederate barons, and was among the twenty-five appointed to see to the observance of the Great Charter. Afterwards he appears for a time to have gone over to the king, for on 1 Jan 1216 he received the royal pardon, and his lands were restored, and in August he received letters of protection. Nevertheless he had been excommunicated by Innocent III with the other barons, and his fortress of Donington was destroyed by order of the king. In September 1216 his land at Navesby, Nottinghamshire, was entrusted to Ernald de Ambleville, but he was finally pardoned and his lands restored in August 1217. In 1218 he went on the crusade with Earl Randulf of Chester and was present at the seige of Damietta; he had taked the cross as early as March 1215. After his return to England, about August 1220, he joined with Earl Randulf in his opposition to the king's government, but submitted at the same time as his leader, and surrendered his castles. In September 1227 he was sent on an embassy to Antwerp, and on 6 Sept 1230 was a commissioner to treat for a trace with France. After the death of Earl Randulf, Lacy was made Earl of Lincoln on 22 Nov 1282, in the right of his wife, Margaret, daughter of Robert de Quince, and Hawise, countess of Lincoln, as sister of Earl Randulf. In 1233 he at first supported Richard Marshal, earl of Pembroke, in his opposition to Peter del Roches, but was eventually won over by a bribe of a thousand marks from the bishop. Hi
  
  === JOHN DE LACIE, married Margaret, daught ===
  JOHN DE LACIE, married Margaret, daughter of Robert de Quincey, son of Saher de Quincey. He was one of the Sureties for the Magna Charta. He was created by Henry III as Earl of Lincoln on November 23, 1233. He died in 1240 and was buried in the Cistercian Abbey of Stanlaw, Chester.
  
  === 6. John de Lacy , born in 1195, heredit ===
  6. John de Lacy , born in 1195, hereditary constable of Chester, in the 15th year of King John, undertook the payment of 7,000 marks to the crown, in the space of four years, for livery of the lands of his inheritance, and to be discharged of all his father's debts due to the exchequer, further obligating himself by oath, that in case he should ever swerve from his allegiance, and adhere to the king's enemies, all of his possessions should devolve upon the crown, promising also, that he would not marry without the king's license. By this agreement it was arranged that the king should retain the castles of Pontefract and Dunnington, still in his own hands; and that he, the said John, should allow 40 pounds per year, for the custody of those fortresses. But the next year he had Dunnington restored to him, upon hostages. About this period he joined the baronial standard, and was one of the celebrated twenty-five barons, one of the Sureties, appointed to enforce the observance of the Magna Charta. But the next year, he obtained letters of safe conduct to come to the king to make his peace, and he had similar letters, upon the accession of Henry III., in the second year of which monarch's reign, he went with divers other noblemen into the Holy Land John de Lacy (Lacie), 7th Baron of Halton Castle, and hereditary constable of Chester, was one of the earliest who took up arms at the time of the Magna Charta, and was appointed to see that the new statutes were properly carried into effect and observed in the counties of York and Nottingham. 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 died July 22, 1240, and was buried at the Cisterian Abbey of Stanlaw, in co. 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." He married (1) Alice, daughter of Gilbert de Aquila, but by her had no issue. She died in 1215 and, after his marked gallantry at the siege of Damietta, he married (2) Margaret Quincy, only daughter and heir of Robert de Quincy, Earl of Winchester, by Hawyse, 4th sister and co-heir of Ranulph de Mechines, Earl of Chester and Lincoln, which Ranulph, by a formal charter under his seal, granted the Earldom of Lincoln, that is, so much as he could grant thereof, to the said Hawyse, "to the end that she might be countess, and that her heirs might also enjoy the earldom;" which grant was confirmed by the king, and at the especial request of the countess, this John de Lacy, constable of Chester, was created by charter, dated Northampton, November 23, 1232, Earl of Lincoln, with remainder to the heirs of his body, by his wife, the above-mentioned Margaret. In the contest which occurred during the same year, between the king and Richard Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, Earl Marshal, Matthew Paris states that the Earl of Lincoln was brought over to the king's party, with John le Scot, Earl of Chester, by Peter de Rupibus, Bishop of Winchester, for a bribe of 1,000 marks. In 1237, his lordship was one of those appointed to prohibit Oto, the pope's prelate, from establishing anything derogatory to the king's crown and dignity, in the council of prelates then assembled; and the same year he had a grant of the sheriffalty of Cheshire, being likewise constituted Governor of the castle of Chester. The earl died in 1240, leaving Margaret, his wife, surviving, who remarried William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke. He and his wife had the following children: The Lacie strongholds on the Welsh border are Beeston, Chester and Halton Castles. Beeston is now a crumbling ruin. It is hard even to identify the keep, but it could be the large wall tower East of the gate house. The Ca stle is perched on a height bounded on three sides by sheer drops, and a steep slope on the fourth. Its strength as a defense lay in its inaccessibility. There are two baileys, the innermost on a summit and the other situated on the sloping ground. The inner bailey was guarded on the approachable side by a gate house, two wall towers and a ditch thirty-five feet wide and thirty feet deep, which cut across the promontory. It is important to note that the artificial ravine was fashioned two hundred fifty years before blasting was known. The date of founding was in the 13th Century, and it was founded by Randolph de Blondevill, Earl of Chester. Chester was the last City to yield to William the Conqueror, and the surrender came in 1070. Once the Normans had the Castle, William's nephew, Hugh Lupus, Palatine Earl of Chester, was appointed as head of the border patrol. Chester Castle was originally built by the first Norman Earl of Chester, and now consists of modern buildings, the assize-court, jail and barracks. The one remaining Norman relic is "Julius Caesar's Tower," standing by the River. It is a square tower which has been used as a powder magazine, but is scarcely recognizable as a Norman building, because it has been recently recased in red stone. With the exception of this tower, another of the round style, and adjacent buildings in the upper ward, the Castle was dismantled at the end of the 18th Century. From Julius Caesar's Tower one can see the ruins of Beeston Castle, which met a like fate in 1646. Of Halton Castle nothing is left. But Lincoln Castle, on the other side of the Island(l, is an important monument. Lincoln was the fourth City of the Realm when the Normans invaded, and it seemed to William to be a logical site for a castle. The Domesday Book states that one hundred sixty-six houses were torn down to make way for it. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle held that on his return to York in 1068, William erected the Castle on the site of a Roman fort. Since the land was rather flat, a great bank was built up around it. There are two mottes, the larger one crowned by a polygonal shell wall, which may have been built by Ralph de Gernon's widow. In 1140 King Stephen captured the Castle and, in 1216, the Surety Barons had charge of it. JOHN de LACIE, the Surety, born 1192, seventh Baron of Halton Castle and hereditary constable of Chester, was one of the earliest Barons to take up arms at the time of Magna Charta. He was also appointed to see that the new statutes were properly carried into effect and observed in the counties of York and Nottingham. 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, rendering valuable service at the Siege of Damietta. In 1232 Lacie was made Earl of Lincoln and, in 1240, governor of Chester and Beeston Castles. He died 22 July 1240, and was buried in the Cistercian Abbey of Stanlaw in co. Chester. The monk, Matthew Paris, records: "On the 22d day of July, in this year (1240), which was St. Magdalen's Day, John, Earl of Lincoln, after suffering from a long illness went the way of all flesh." His first wife was Alice, daughter of Gilbert 'd’Aquila, but by her he had no issue. She died in 1215 and he married second, after his marked gallantry at the Siege of Damietta, Margaret, only daughter and heiress of Robert de Quincey, a fellow Crusader, who died in the Holy Land, eldest son of Saire de Quincey, the Surety. They had three children, Lady Margaret survived him and married second Walter Marshall, Earl of Pembroke.
  
  === *John De Lacy Lord of Pontefract Castle ===
  *John De Lacy Lord of Pontefract Castle Surname: De Lacy Given Name:*John NSFX: Lord of Pontefract Castle Sex: M Birth: 1192 in Lincoln,Lincoln, England Death: 22 Jul 1240 in Stanlaw, Chester, EnglandReference Number: 6259 _UID: ECCDF0E23C78D511AD2400036D1D4CBF8E15 Note:Surety of the Magna Carta Change Date: 14 Jul 2001 at 10:59:23 Father: *Roger De Lacy b: 1171 Mother: *Maud Matilda De Clare b: ABT.1175 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England Marriage 1 *Margaret De Quincy b: 1208 in , Lincoln, Lincoln, EnglandMarried: 1223 in Of, , Lincolnshire, England Children *Maud De Lacy b:ABT. 1223 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England Idonea De Lacy b: ABT. 1226in Of, , Lincolnshire, England Edmund De Lacy b: 1230 in Of, ,Lincolnshire, England *John de Lacy Sex: M Birth: ABT 1192 Death: 22 JUL1240 Occupation: 7th Baron of Halton Castle, Magna Carta Surety ChangeDate: 12 FEB 2002 Father: **Roger de Lacy b: ABT 1171 in Lincoln, England Mother: **Maud deClare b: ABT 1175 in Lincoln, England Marriage 1 **Margaret de Quincy b: 1208 in Lincoln, England Married: BEF21 JUN 1221 Children **Maude de Lacy b: 1223 in Lincoln, England**Alice (Idonia) de Lacy b: ABT 1223
  
  === John de Lacy (c. 1192 – 22 July 1240) wa ===
  John de Lacy (c. 1192 – 22 July 1240) was the 2nd Earl of Lincoln, of the fourth creation. He was also the, 7th Baron of Pontefract, 8th Baron of Halton, 8th Lord of Bowland.
  
  Background
  He was the eldest son and heir of Roger de Lacy and his wife, Maud or Matilda de Clere (not of the de Clare family).
  
  Public life
  He was hereditary constable of Chester and, in the 15th year of King John, undertook the payment of 7,000 marks to the crown, in the space of four years, for livery of the lands of his inheritance, and to be discharged of all his father's debts due to the exchequer, further obligating himself by oath, that in case he should ever swerve from his allegiance, and adhere to the king's enemies, all of his possessions should devolve upon the crown, promising also, that he would not marry without the king's licence. By this agreement it was arranged that the king should retain the castles of Pontefract and Dunnington, still in his own hands; and that he, the said John, should allow 40 pounds per year, for the custody of those fortresses. But the next year he had Dunnington restored to him, upon hostages.
  
  John de Lacy, 8th Baron of Halton Castle, 5th Lord of Bowland and hereditary constable of Chester, was one of the earliest who took up arms at the time of the Magna Charta, and was 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. In 1237, his lordship was one of those appointed to prohibit Oto, the pope's prelate, from establishing anything derogatory to the king's crown and dignity, in the council of prelates then assembled; and the same year he was appointed High Sheriff of Cheshire, being likewise constituted Governor of the castle of Chester.
  
  Private life
  He married firstly Alice in 1214 in Pontefract, daughter of Gilbert, lord of L'Aigle, who gave him one daughter,
  1. Joan.
  Alice died in 1216 in Pontefract.
  
  He married secondly in 1221 Margaret de Quincy, only daughter and heiress of Robert de Quincy, son of Saer de Quincy, 1st Earl of Winchester, by Hawyse, 4th sister and co-heir of Ranulph de Mechines, Earl of Chester and Lincoln, which Ranulph, by a formal charter under his seal, granted the Earldom of Lincoln, that is, so much as he could grant thereof, to the said Hawyse, "to the end that she might be countess, and that her heirs might also enjoy the earldom;" which grant was confirmed by the king, and at the especial request of the countess, this John de Lacy, constable of Chester, through his marriage was allowed to succeed de Blondeville and was created by charter, dated Northampton, 23 November 1232, Earl of Lincoln, with remainder to the heirs of his body, by his wife, the above-mentioned Margaret. In the contest which occurred during the same year, between the king and Richard Marshal, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, Earl Marshal, Matthew Paris states that the Earl of Lincoln was brought over to the king's party, with John of Scotland, 7th Earl of Chester, by Peter de Rupibus, Bishop of Winchester, for a bribe of 1,000 marks.
  
  By this marriage he had one son,
  1. Edmund de Lacy, Baron of Pontefract, and two daughters, of one,
  2. Maud, married Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester.
  [3. unnamed daughter]
  
  Later life
  He died on 22 July 1240 and was buried at the Cisterian Abbey of Stanlow, 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.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_de_Lacy,_2nd_Earl_of_Lincoln
  
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  “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
  “JOHN DE LACY (or LASCY) (also known as JOHN OF CHESTER), Knt., of Pontefract, Yorkshire, Naseby, Northamptonshire, Hatton, Cheshire, etc., hereditary Constable of Chester, Keeper of Duninton Castle, 1214, Constable of Whitchurch Castle, 1233, Privy Councillor, 1237, Sheriff of Cheshire, 1237, Constable of Chester and Beeston Castles, 1237, son and heir, born about 1192 (of age in 1213). He married (1st) ALICE DE L'AIGLE, daughter of Gilbert de l'Aigle, of Pevensey, Sussex, by Isabel de Warenne, daughter of Hamelin, 5th Earl of Surrey (illegitimate son of Geoffrey Plantagenet, (Count of Anjou) [see WARENNE 7.iv for her ancestry]. . (This is incorrect, they had 1 daughter, Joan) She was buried at Norton Priory, Cheshire. He obtained livery of his inheritance in July 1213. In 1213-14 he was with the king in Poitou. He was one of the few English barons to take the Cross for the Crusades along with the king 4 March 1214. In 1215 he joined the confederacy of the barons against the king. He was one of the twenty-five barons elected to guarantee the observance of Magna Carta, signed by King John 15 June 1215. In consequence he was among the barons excommunicated by Pope Innocent III 16 Dec. 1215. At the end of the year he made peace with the king, but next summer was again in rebellion, and King John destroyed his castle of Donington. In August 1217 he was pardoned by King Henry III, and in Nov. 1217 he was commissioned to conduct the King of Scots to him. In 1218 he accompanied Ranulph, Earl of Chester, on crusade, and fought at the Siege of Damietta. He returned to England about August 1220, and in Feb. 1220/1 took part in the reduction of Skipton Castle. He married (2nd) in 1221, before 21 June MARGARET (or MARGERY) DE QUINCY, daughter and heiress of Robert de Quincy, by Hawise, suo jure Countess of Lincoln, daughter of Hugh, Earl of Chester [see QUINCY 6.i for her ancestry]. She was born before 1217. They had one son, Edmund, Knt. [Constable of Chester], and three daughters, including Maud and Margaret. In 1223 he held the prescriptive right to a weekly market held at the manor of Snaith, Yorkshire. In 1226 he acted as itinerant judge in Lincolnshire and Lancashire, and, in the former county in 1233. In 1227 he was sent on an embassy to Antwerp. He presented to the churches of Naseby, Northamptonshire in 1227 and 1231, and Wadenhoe, Rutland, 1237, and two portions of the church of Clipstone, Northamptonshire in 1228, 1229, 1230, and 1235. In 1229 he was appointed to conduct Alexander II, King of Scots to England to meet King Henry III of England at York. From about 1230 he was about the court, and in that year was a commissioner to treat for a truce with France. In 1230 John and Margaret released their claim to the main Quincy estates to her uncle, Roger de Quincy; Roger in return granted them and their issue her mother's dower, including the manor of Grantchester, Cambridgeshire, to hold of Roger and his heirs. In 1231 he was in Wales on the king's service. Sometime before 1232, he exchanged one acre of land in the vill of Kingston with Christchurch Priory, Hampshire, in return for an acre of the priory's land also in Kingston. In 1232 he took a prominent part as the king's commissioner in the proceedings against Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent. On 22 Nov. 1232, at the instance of Margaret's mother, Hawise de Quincy, the king granted John the £20 per annum which Ranulph, late Earl of Chester and Lincoln, had received for the 3rd penny of the county as Earl of Lincoln, and which the Earl had in his lifetime granted to Hawise his sister: to hold in nomine comitis Lincolnie to the said John and his heirs by Margaret his wife, whereby he became Earl of Lincoln. In 1233 he was one of Hubert de Burgh's keepers at Devizes Castle until he should become a Templar. The same year he joined the party against Peter des Roches, Bishop of Winchester, but the Bishop gained him over, and from that time he acted with the Court, becoming one of the king's unpopular councillors. He was a justice in Lincolnshire in 1234. In 1236 he carried one of the State swords at the Coronation of Queen Eleanor. The same year a dispute occured between John, Earl of Lincoln, and Margaret his wife and the Prior of Wimborne, the former alleging that a new market had been raised in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, to the detriment of their existing market in the town. In 1237 he was a plenipotentiary to make peace with Scotland. SIR JOHN DE LACY, Earl of Lincoln, Constable of Chester, died 22 July 1240, and was buried near his father in the monk's choir at Stanlaw Abbey, his body being removed later to Whalley Abbey.
  
  from thepeerage.com, 2/2009:
  John de Lacy, 1st Earl of Lincoln1
  M, #106821, d. 1240
  Last Edited=1 Dec 2008
  John de Lacy, 1st Earl of Lincoln married, firstly, Alice de l'Aigle , daughter of Gilbert de l'Aigle, Lord of Pevensey and Isabella de Warenne .2 He married, secondly, Margaret de Quincey , daughter of Robert de Quincey and Hawise of Chester, Countess of Lincoln , before 21 June 1221.3 He died in 1240.
  In 1215 he was one of the Magna Carta Sureties. He gained the title of 1st Earl of Lincoln [England] on 22 November 1232.4
  Children of John de Lacy, 1st Earl of Lincoln and Margaret de Quincey
  Matilda de Lacy + d. b 12895
  Edmund de Lacy, 2nd Earl of Lincoln + b. 1230, d. 1258
  Citations
  [S6 ] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United
  
  === !Ancestral Roots by Weis, Seventh Editio ===
  !Ancestral Roots by Weis, Seventh Edition L 554-29 !Earl of Lincoln, Constaple of Chester, Magna Charta Surety, 1215
  
  === !BIRTH-DEATH: The Plantagenet Connection ===
  !BIRTH-DEATH: The Plantagenet Connection, April 1994 Earl of Lincoln !BIRTH-DEATH: Diary and autobiography of Edmund Bohun, 1853 Royal Genealogies of Magna Carte Barons Magna Carta Surety
  
  === 1st Earl of Lincoln One of the Magna Car ===
  1st Earl of Lincoln One of the Magna Carta Sureties !Birthdate is a guess.
  
  === Held Halton, Beeston and Chester Castles ===
  Held Halton, Beeston and Chester Castles. One of the 25 suretiesof theMagna Charta. He was one of the earliest who took up armsat the time ofthe Magna Charta. He was excommunicated by thePope. Upon the accession ofKing Henry III, he joined a party ofnobleman and made pilgrimage to theholy land, and did goodservice at the seige of Damietta.
  
  === NOTES: John de LACIE; Crusader, Magna ===
  NOTES: John de LACIE; Crusader, Magna Charta Surety, 7th Baron of Halton Castle, Earl of Lincoln, Governor of Chester and Beeston Castles, Constable of Chester, Sheriff of Chester. Was the First (1) Husband of Wife Margaret de QUINCEY Sirname May Be Spelled LACIE !SOURCES: Royal Ancestors of Some American Families; by Call, chart #11332
  
  === Sources: CP; Kraentzler 1103, 1112; Colk ===
  Sources: CP; Kraentzler 1103, 1112; Colket; Bye; A. Roots 54; Wurts; Burke's Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire; English Baronies: A study of Their Origin and Descent, 1086-1327by I.J. Sanders; Young. A Magna Charta Surety. Lord of Halton Castle, Cheshire. Earl ofLincoln, 1232, and constable of Chester. Margaret de Quincy was his second wife. Roots: John de Lacy of Hatton, created Earl of Lincoln 1232, Constableof. Chester, Magna Charta Surety 1215. Young: John de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln. Burke: John de Lacy "left issue, Edmund, his successor, and twodaughters, which ladies in the 27th Henry III were removed to Windsor, there to be educated with the king's own daughters; of these, Maud, m. Richard deClare, Earl of Gloucester." "Richard...clandestinely married, but from whom hewas probably divorced, for we find the king marrying him the next year toMaude, daughter of John de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, in consideration whereof thesaid John paid to the crown 5,000 marks and remitted a debt of 2,000 more." CP: "An order was made in 1243 for the late Earl of Lincoln's twodaughters to be sent to Windsor to be brought up with the King's daughters." Unknow name of second daughter. (Things don't jibe. The "late Earl" reference at odds with John payingthe crown to have Maude marry Richard--he'd still be alive after the girlswent to Windsor).
  
  === Baron of Halton. A "Magna Charta Baron". ===
  Baron of Halton. A "Magna Charta Baron". Earl of Lincoln by charter of Henry III, dated at Northampton 11/23/1232. Constable of Chester.
  
  === MARRIAGE: First husband of Margaret Qui ===
  MARRIAGE: First husband of Margaret Quincy.
  
  BIOGRAPHY: He was one of those great persons of England whom pope Innocent the Third excommunicated for conspiring against king John, 1216. In 1218 he went with Randle, Earl of Chester to Damiata, Egypt to lay seige. Magna Charta Surety, Constable of Chester.
  
  === SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 S ===
  SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO68) P.22, 24, 26; ENGLAND PUBLICATION A1C20, P.277; ENGLAND PUBLICATION V, VOL 7 P.678; YORKSHIRE PUBLICATION 2; BANK'S DORMANT AND EXTINCT PEERAGE; ANCESTRAL FILE, LDS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY;

• m. 1214 in Pontefract, Yorkshire, England

1. Idonea de Lacy, b. ABT 1226 in Lincolnshire, England    
2. Maud de Lacy, b. 25 JAN 1223 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England     d. 10 MAR 1289 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England

1. Title: Wikipedia, "Stanlow Abbey"
   Author: Wikipedia.org
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanlow_Abbey;
   Note: Stanlow Abbey (or Stanlaw Abbey) was a Cistercian abbey situated on Stanlow Point, on the banks of the River Mersey in the Wirral Peninsula, Cheshire, England (grid reference SJ427773). The abbey was founded in 1178 by John fitz Richard as a daughter abbey of Combermere Abbey.[1] Roger de Lacy, John de Lacy and Edmund de Lacy, respectively the 7th, 8th and 9th Barons of Halton, were buried at Stanlow.[2] The abbey was in an exposed situation near the Mersey estuary and it suffered from a series of disasters. In 1279 it was flooded by water from the Mersey and in 1287 during a fierce storm, its tower collapsed and part of the abbey was destroyed by fire. The monks appealed to the pope for the monastery to be moved to a better site and, with the pope's consent and the agreement of Edward I and Henry de Lacy, the 10th Baron, they moved to Whalley Abbey near Clitheroe, Lancashire.[3] This move took place in 1296.[4][5] However a small cell of monks remained on the site until the Reformation,[3] the site becoming a grange of Whalley Abbey.[6] The remains of the abbey lie between the Mersey and the Manchester Ship Canal. The standing remains include two sandstone walls and a re-used doorway, and the buried features include part of a drain leading to the River Gowy. These remains are recognised as a scheduled monument.[6][7]
   
2. Title: Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-20, 22
   Author: London, England: Oxford University Press; Volume: Vol 11; Page: 380
   Publication: Name: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=1981&h=3571&indiv=try;
   
3. Title: John De Lacy, "Find A Grave Index" reinterred memorial #111318066
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVG9-Q9CR : 10 September 2021), John De Lacy, ; Burial, Whalley, Ribble Valley Borough, Lancashire, England, Saint Mary and All Saints Churchyard; citing record ID 111318066, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVG9-Q9CR;
   Note: Obituary found at Find a Grave memorial #66773859 Lord of Pontefract, of Yorkshire and Hatton, Cheshire. Hereditary Constable of Chester, Sheriff of Chester, Baron of Halton Castle. Son and heir to Sir Roger Fitz John de Lacy of Pontefract and his wife, Maud de Clare. Grandson of John FitzRichard de Lacy and Alice de Mandeville, possibly Sir Richard de Clere and Lady Amice de Muellent. John married Alice d'Aigle, daughter of Gilbert de l'Aigle of Pevensey, Sussex and Isabel de Warenne, daughter of Hamelin, the illegitimate son of Geoffrey Plantagenet. They married in 1214 but had no children. Alice died in 1216 and was buried at Norton. Secondly, John married Margaret de Quincy, the daughter and heiress of Robert de Quincy and Hawise, the Countess of Lincoln, daughter of Hugh, the Earl of Chester. They were married before 21 June 1221 and had one son and two daughters; Sir Edmund, the Earl of Lincoln, Maud, the wife of Sir Richard de Clare, and Idonea, the wife of Geoffrey de Cheadle. John received livery of his inheritance July 1213 after his father's death, after which he was with King John in Poitou, and one of the few English Barons to take the Cross for the Crusades in oath with King John 04 March 1214. The next year, John joined the other Barons in the confederacy against the king, and was one of the elected barons to guarantee the observance of the Magna Carta, and excommunicated by Pope Innocent 16 Dec 1215. John made peace with the king but by summer of 1216 he rebelled again, Richard destroyed his castle of Donington. John was pardoned by King Henry III, commissioned to bring Alexander, the King of Scots to England. John accompanied Ranulph, the Earl of Chester on crusade and fought at the Siege of Damietta, returning to England mid 1220. The remainder of his years were full of appointments and court activity, falling in and out of favor, becoming the Earl of Lincoln in 1232 at the insistence of his wife's mother. Joining the against Peter de Roches, the Bishop of Winchester, in 1233 made him the king's unpopular councillor, yet he was made the justice in Lincolnshire 1234, carried a state sword at the Queen's coronation 1236, and made plenipotentiary (person with full power) for peace with Scotland in 1237. John died 22 July 1240, buried near his father in the monk's choir at Stanlaw Abbey, then later moved to Whalley. His widow, Margaret, married Walter Marshall, Earl of Pembroke and thirdly Richard de Wiltshire. She died at Hampstead, Middlesex shortly before 30 March 1266, buried near her father in the Church of the Hospitallers, Clerkenwell, Middlesex.
   
4. Title: Wikipedia, "John de Lacy, 2nd Earl of Lincoln"
   Author: Wikipedia.com
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_de_Lacy%2C_2nd_Earl_of_Lincoln;
   Note: Biography (but note Issues).
   
5. Title: John de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln
   Publication: Name: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_de_Lacy,_Earl_of_Lincoln;
   Page: I'm wondering if this is the same guy. There's a lot that is similar but a lot that isn't.
   
6. Title: The Medieval Lands Project, "JOHN de Lacy"
   Author: fmg.ac
   Publication: Name: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL1.htm#JohnLacyLincolndied1240B;
   Note: JOHN de Lacy, son of ROGER de Lacy & his wife Matilda de Clare ([1192]-22 Jul 1240[1000], bur Stanlow, later transferred to Whalley). A manuscript history of the Lacy family names “Johannem, secundum constabularium, et comitem Lincolniæ” as son of Roger and his wife “Matildam de Clare”[1001]. Constable of Chester: Matthew Paris records, in 1218, the arrival at Damieta in Egypt of “...Johanne constabulario Cestriæ...”[1002]. He was created Earl of Lincoln in 1232. A manuscript history of the Lacy family records the death “XI Kal Aug 1240” of “Johannes de Lacy primus comes Lincolniæ” and his burial “apud Stanlaw”[1003]. The Annals of Tewkesbury record the death in Aug 1240 of “Johannes de Lacy comes Lyncolniæ”[1004]. m firstly ALICE de Laigle, daughter of GILBERT de Laigle & his wife Isabelle de Warenne [Anjou] (-bur Norton). A manuscript history of the Lacy family names “Aliciam filiam Gilberti de Aquila” as wife of “Johannes de Lacy primus comes Lincolniæ”, adding that she was buried “apud Norton”[1005]. m secondly (1221, before 21 Jun) as her first husband, MARGARET de Quincy, daughter of ROBERT de Quincy & his wife Hawise Ctss of Lincoln (before 1208-Hampstead Mar 1266, bur Clerkenwell, Church of the Hospitallers). The Annales Londonienses name "Margaretam…comitissa Lincolniæ" as the daughter of "Hawisia…de Roberto de Quency"[1006]. The Annales Cestrienses record in 1221 that “Johannes constabularius Cestrie” married “filiam Roberti de Quenci neptam domini Ranulphi comitis Cestrie”[1007]. A manuscript narrating the descent of Hugh Earl of Chester to Alice Ctss of Lincoln records that “Johanni de Laci constabulario Cestriæ” married “Roberto de Quincy…filiam Margaretam comitissam Lincolniæ”[1008]. A manuscript narrating the descent of Hugh Earl of Chester to Alice Ctss of Lincoln records that “Johanni de Laci constabulario Cestriæ” married “Roberto de Quincy…filiam Margaretam comitissam Lincolniæ”[1009]. A manuscript history of the Lacy family records that “Johannes de Lacy primus comes Lincolniæ” married “Margaretam filiam Roberti Quincy comitis Wintoniæ nepotem Ranulphi comitis Cestriæ” after the death of his first wife[1010]. She married secondly ([Jan 1242]) Walter Marshal Earl of Pembroke. The Annals of Tewkesbury record the marriage “circa Epiphaniam Domini” in 1241 of “Walterus Marescallus comes” and “comitissam Lincolniæ…Margeriam, uxorem quondam Johannis comitis Lincolniæ”[1011]. A charter dated 28 Jun 1248 records that "Margaret late Countess of Lincoln…recovered her dower out of the lands in Ireland of W[alter] Marshall late Earl of Pembroke her husband" and that the dower was "taken out of the portions of the inheritance which accrued to William de Vescy and Agnes his wife, Reginald de Moun and Isabel his wife, Matilda de Kyme, Francis de Boun and Sibil his wife, William de Vallibus and Alienor his wife, John de Moun and Joan his wife, Agatha de Ferrers in the king’s custody, and Roger de Mortimer and Matilda his wife"[1012]. She married thirdly (before 7 Jun 1252) Richard de Wilteshir. "Margery countess of Lincoln and Pembroke and Richard de Wilteshir and their heirs" were granted "a yearly fair at their manor of Chelebiry" dated 7 Jun 1252[1013]. The Annals of Worcester record the death in 1266 of “Margareta comitissa Lincolniæ”[1014]. The Annals of Winchester record the death “apud Hamstede” in 1266 of “Margareta comitissa Lyncollniæ”[1015]. Earl John & his second wife had two children: 1. MATILDA de Lacy ([1221/25][1016]-[1287/10 Mar 1289]). The Annales Cambriæ record that "Ricardus de Clare" married "M filiam J de Laci comitis Lincolniæ" in 1238[1017]. The Annals of Tewkesbury record the marriage “circa Purificationem beatæ Virginis” of “filia comitis Lincolniæ” and “Ricardo de Clare”[1018]. The Annales Londonienses record the marriage in 1238 of "Ricardum de Clare filium comitis Gloverniæ" and "Matildæ filiæ comitis Lincolniæ"[1019]. The Chronica de Fundatoribus et Fundatione of Tewkesbury Abbey records the marriage of “Ricardus de Clare secundus filius et hæres…Gilberti et Isabellæ” and “Matildem…filiam comitis Lincolniæ”[1020]. m (25 Jan 1238 or before) as his second wife, RICHARD de Clare Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, son of GILBERT de Clare Earl of Gloucester and Hertford & his wife Isabel Marshal of Pembroke (4 Aug 1222-Ashenfield in Waltham, near Canterbury 15 Jul 1262, bur Tonbridge, transferred 28 Jul 1262 to Tewkesbury). 2. EDMUND (1230-2 Jun 1258, bur Stanlow Abbey). A manuscript history of the Lacy family names “Edmundum de Lacy comitem, constabularium Cestriæ”, born in 1230, as son of “Johannes de Lacy primus comes Lincolniæ” and his second wife, but adding that he predeceased his mother and therefore did not succeed as Earl of Lincoln[1021]. He succeeded his father in 1240 as Earl of Lincoln, although he does not appear to have been formally invested with the earldom[1022]. “Edmundus de Lascy constabularius Cestriæ” donated property to Roche Abbey, for the souls of “patris mei Johannis de Lascy et Margaretæ matris meæ, et Alesiæ uxoris meæ”, by undated charter[1023]. The Annals of Tewkesbury record the death in 1257 of “Eadmundus de Lacy frater Matilidis comitissæ Gloucestriæ” and his burial “apud ---”[1024]. m (Woodstock early May 1247) ALASIA di Saluzzo, daughter of MANFREDO III Marchese di Saluzzo & his wife Béatrix de Savoie ([1236]-before 12 Jul 1311, bur Pontefract, Church of the Black Friars). Henry III King of England agreed that “unam filiarum filiæ...comitis [Sabaudiæ]” would marry “vel Johanni de Warenna qui si vixerit comes erit Warennæ, vel Edmundo de Lacy qui si vixerit comes erit Lincolniæ” by charter dated 1246[1025]. A manuscript history of the Lacy family records that “Edmundum de Lacy comitem” married “dominam Aleciam filiam marchionis de Salves in Italia, cognatam reginæ Anglia ex parte Sabinensi” when she was “in juventute sua”[1026]. “Edmundus de Lascy constabularius Cestriæ” donated property to Roche Abbey, for the souls of “…Alesiæ uxoris meæ”, by undated charter[1027]. This marriage was arranged through Pierre de Savoie, uncle of Queen Eleanor and great-uncle of Alasia[1028]. As Alasia gave birth to her first child in 1250, it is unlikely that she could have been born later than 1236, although at that date her own mother was probably only thirteen years old. Given this tight chronology, it is assumed that Alasia was her parents' first child.