Sir Roger QUINCY

Abt 1195 - 1264  (~ 69 years)

• Name	Roger QUINCY
  Prefix	Sir
  Born	Abt 1195	Winchester, Hampshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	2nd Earl of Winchester
  Died	25 Apr 1264	Brackley, Northamptonshire, England
  Buried	Church of St Peter & St James
  Person ID	I43324	Main
  Last Modified	26 May 2019

  
  

  Father	Sir Saher QUINCY,   b. Abt 1155, Winchester, Hampshire, England ,   d. 3 Nov 1219, Damietta, Egypt  (Age ~ 64 years)
  Mother	Margaret BEAUMONT,   b. Abt 1154, Leicestershire, England ,   d. 12 Jan 1235, Brackley, Northamptonshire, England  (Age ~ 81 years)
  Family ID	F30530	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ellen DE GALLOWAY,   b. Abt 1204, Carrick, Ayershire, Scotland ,   d. Aft 21 Nov 1245, Winchester, Hampshire, England  (Age ~ 41 years)
  Children	+ 1. Lady Margaret QUINCY,   b. Abt 1218,   d. 12 Mar 1280  (Age ~ 62 years) + 2. Ellen QUINCY,   b. Abt 1222,   d. Bef 20 Aug 1296, England  (Age ~ 74 years)
  Last Modified	3 May 2019
  Family ID	F30529	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  He probably joined his father on the Fifth Crusade in 1219, where the elder de Quincy fell sick and died. His elder brother having died a few years earlier, Roger thus inherited his father's titles and properties. However, he did not take possession of his father's lands until February 1221, probably because he did not return to England from the crusade until then. He did not formally become earl until after the death of his mother in 1235. Roger married Helen, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Alan, Lord of Galloway. Without legitimate sons to succeed him, Alan's lands and dignities were divided between the husbands of his three daughters, so Roger acquired Alan's position as Constable of Scotland, and one-third of the lordship of Galloway (although the actual title of Lord of Galloway went through Helen's half-sister Devorguilla to her husband John I de Balliol). In the following years Roger was one of the leaders of the baronial opposition to Henry III of England, although he fought for Henry against the Welsh in the 1250s and 1260s. "In the parliament of Oxford of 1258 he was one of the twelve elected by the ‘community’ to attend the three annual parliaments and exercise the rights of parliament. He was further elected one of the twenty-four commissioners to treat of aid to the king (Annals of Burton, i. 449–50), and was one of the witnesses to the king's confirmation of the acts of the council (ib. p. 456). When Richard of Cornwall was returning from Germany early in 1259, Earl Roger, in company with Walter, bishop of Worcester, and others, on behalf of the barons met him at St. Omer, and forbade him to cross over to England until he had sworn to observe the provisions of Oxford. After eleven days of dispute they obtained a satisfactory guarantee (Wykes, iv. 121–2).