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Roger de Quincy

Male Abt 1195 - 1264  (~ 69 years)


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  • Name Roger de Quincy  [1, 2
    Birth Abt 1195  [3, 4
    Baptism Brackley, Northamptonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5
    Gender Male 
    Death 25 Apr 1264  [1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
    Siblings 4 siblings 
    Person ID I1912  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of JMF, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of LMW, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK, Ancestor of UKL, Ancestor of WPF
    Last Modified 12 Oct 2018 

    Father Saher de Quincy,   b. 1155, Winchester, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Nov 1219, Damietta, Egypt Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 64 years) 
    Mother Margaret of Leicester   d. 12 Jan 1235 
    Marriage Bef 1173  [4, 7
    Family ID F6071  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Helen of Galloway   d. Aft 21 Nov 1245 
    Children 
    +1. Elizabeth de Quincy   d. Bef 4 May 1303
    +2. Ellen de Quincy,   b. Abt 1222, Winchester, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 20 Aug 1296 (Age ~ 74 years)
    +3. Margaret de Quincy,   b. Bef 1223   d. Bef 12 Mar 1281 (Age < 58 years)
    Family ID F4157  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 16 Jun 2018 

    Family 2 Eleanor de Ferrers   d. Bef 26 Oct 1274 
    Family ID F426  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 10 Mar 2017 

  • Notes 
    • Earl of Winchester. In right of his first wife, hereditary Constable of Scotland. "At his death he was probably the greatest Anglo-Scottish landowner of his day" [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography].

      From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:

      "Little is known of Roger de Quincy before 1219. He was probably the son whom Saer delivered to King John in 1213 as a Scottish hostage for the security of the Anglo-Scottish treaty of 1212. He emerged onto the political stage in 1215 when, along with Saer and the leaders of the baronial rebellion against John, he was excommunicated by Innocent III (r. 1198–1216), but did not figure prominently in the civil war that followed the king's death. [...]

      "Roger de Quincy did not hold the prominence in politics that his father had commanded in England [...] but his wealth secured him an important role. In 1239 and 1246 he joined in written remonstrances from the English nobility to Gregory IX (r. 1227–41) and Innocent IV (r. 1243–54) concerning papal interference in English affairs. Association with the stirrings of dissatisfaction with the government of Henry III expressed in the parliaments of 1248 and 1254 led to identification with the baronial opposition in 1258. At the Oxford parliament Quincy was elected by the barons to the twelve-member commission charged with attendance at the three annual parliaments provided for under the provisions of Oxford, and was appointed also to the committee that arranged the financial aid promised to Henry. In 1259 he led a delegation to St Omer to intercept Richard, earl of Cornwall (d. 1272), and forbid him to return to England until he had sworn to observe the provisions of Oxford. This appears to have been Roger de Quincy's last major act, for he played little part in subsequent events which culminated in open conflict between the king and his baronial opponents, and died on 25 April 1264, eighteen days after Henry had precipitated the country into civil war."

  • Sources 
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