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Birth:          ABT 1192 Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England
Death:          22 Jul 1240 Stanlaw, Chester, England
Burial:         Cisterina Abbey, Stanlaw, Chester, England

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_de_Lacy,_2nd_Earl_of_Lincoln
John de Lacy[1] (c.?1192 – 22 July 1240) was the 2nd Earl of Lincoln, of the fourth 
creation.
Background[edit]

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).[2]

Public life[edit]

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, 7th 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.
[3]

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[edit]

He married firstly Alice in 1214 in Pontefract, daughter of Gilbert de Aquila, who gave 
him one daughter Joan.[4] Alice died in 1216 in Pontefract and, after his marked 
gallantry at the siege of Damietta.

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.[2] 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, Edmund de Lacy, Baron of Pontefract, and two 
daughters, of one, Maud, married Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester.[5]

Later life[edit]

He died on 22 July 1240 and was buried at the Cisterian Abbey of Stanlaw, 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.

Parents
DE LACY Roger (ABT 1176 - 1 Oct 1211)
DE CLERE Maud (Matilda) ()

Siblings
DE LACY John (ABT 1192 - 22 Jul 1240)

Marriage To DE QUINCY Margaret (ABT 1206 - Mar 1266)
    m. BEF 21 Jun 1221 

Notes

Parents
DE QUINCY Robert (ABT 1186 - Aug 1257)
DE MESCHINES Hawise (1180 - AFT 6 Jun 1241)

Children by DE QUINCY Margaret ABT 1206 - Mar 1266
DE LACY Maud (25 Jan 1223 - 10 Mar 1289)

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