Saher de Quincy Born ± 1072 at of Winchester,Hampshire,England, died 1106, approximately 34 years Married ± 1136 at ,,England (approximately -30 years married) to: Maud de Senlis, daughter of Simon de St. Liz Earl of Northampton and Matilda (Maud) of Northumbria. Born 1094 at Hampshire,England, died 1140, 45 or 46 years, 1st marriage to: Robert (Fitzrichard) de Clare, 2nd marriage to: Saher de Quincy Alt Birth: Abt 1094 of Tunbridge, Hampshire, England Children: 1. Saher IV de Quincy 1st Earl of Winchester , 1st Earl of WinchesterBorn 1155 at Winchester,Hampshire,England, died Nov 3, 1219 at Damietta,Holy Land, 63 or 64 years, buried at Acre,Holy Land Saier de Quincy was created Earl of Winchester by King John about the year 1210. This nobleman was one of the lords present at Lincoln when William, King of Scotland, did homage to the English monarch, and he subsequently obtained large grants and immunities from King John; when, however, the baronial war broke out, his lordship's pennant waved on the side of freedom and he became so eminent amongst those sturdy chiefs that he was chosen one of the celebrated twenty-five barons appointed to enforce the observance of Magna Carta. Adhering to the same party after the accession of Henry III, the Earl of Winchester had a principal command at the battle of Lincoln and, there being defeated, was taken prisoner by the royalists. But submitting in the following October, he had restitution of all his lands and proceeded soon after, in company with the Earls of Chester and Arundel and others of the nobility, to the Holy Land where he assisted at the siege of Damietta, anno 1219, and d. the same year in his progress towards Jerusalem. His lordship m. Margaret, younger sister and co-heir of Robert Fitz-Parnell, Earl of Leicester, by which alliance he acquired a very considerable inheritance, and had issue, Robert, Roger, and Robert. At the decease of the earl, his 2nd son, Roger de Quincy, had livery of his father's estates. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 447, Quincy, Earls of Winchester] 2. Robert de QuincyBorn 1127 at of Winchester,Hampshire,England, died Sep 29, 1197 at Y, 69 or 70 years This page is just a start. Not all information has bee varified. |