John De LACY

1192 - 1240  (48 years)

• Name	John De LACY
  Born	1192	Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  TitleOfNobility	1200	Lincolnshire, England   [1]
  	Earl
  Fact	1215  [1]
  	He was one of twenty-five barons charged with overseeing the observance of Magna Carta in 1215
  FamilySearch ID	LB88-FWT
  Magna Carta Surety Baron	[1]
  	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
  Title (Nobility)	[1]
  	5th Lord Bowland de Lacy
  Title (Nobility)	[1]
  	Sir Knight
  Title (Nobility)	23 Nov 1232  [1]
  	2nd Earl of Lincoln (of the fourth creation)
  Name	Magna Charta Baron DE LACY, JOHN EARL LINCOLN  [1]
  Occupation	[1]
  	Constable of Chester
  _UID	5437C5ABD9FD48E097D2C716F277ECA337DF
  Died	22 Jul 1240	Stanlow Abbey, Cheshire, England   [1]
  Person ID	I606	Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
  Last Modified	30 Dec 2022

  
  

  Father	Lord Roger De LACY,   b. 1176, Halton, Cheshire, England ,   d. 1 Oct 1211, Pontefract, West Riding, Yorkshire, England  (Age 35 years)
  Mother	Maud De CLERE,   b. 1181, Clare, Risbridge, Suffolk, England ,   d. 1213  (Age 32 years)
  Married	Stanlaw, Cheshire, England   [2]
  Family ID	F398	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret De QUINCY,   b. 1206, Winchester, Hampshire, England ,   d. 30 Mar 1266, Hampstead, Clerkenwell, London, England  (Age 60 years)
  Married	1221
  Children	1. Maud De LACY,   b. Abt 1223, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England ,   d. Bef 10 Mar 1288  (Age ~ 65 years)   2. Alice DE LACY,   b. Abt 1225, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England ,   d. Yes, date unknown   3. Idonea De LACY,   b. Abt 1226, Lincolnshire, England ,   d. Yes, date unknown   4. Edmund DE LACY, Baron of Pontefract,   b. Abt 1230, Halton, Cheshire, England ,   d. Between 21 Jul 1257 and 2 Jun 1258, Stanlow, Cheshire, England  (Age ~ 27 years)
  Last Modified	30 Dec 2022
  Family ID	F388	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  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.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1160] FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 30 Dec 2022), entry for John De LACY, person ID LB88-FWT. (Reliability: 3). [S1160] FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 30 Dec 2022), entry for Roger De LACY, person ID M3DW-6QG. (Reliability: 3).