LACY, Earl John de

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• Name	LACY, John de
  Prefix	Earl
  Birth	Abt 1192	Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Death	22 Jul 1240	Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England
  WAC	29 Oct 1937	SLAKE   [1]
  _TAG	Reviewed on FS
  Burial	Ellesmere Port, Cheshire West and Chester Unitary Authority, Cheshire, England
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  Person ID	I31857	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
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  Father	LACY, Lord Roger de ,   b. 1159, Chester, Cheshire, England Chester, Cheshire, Englandd. 1 Oct 1211, Pontefract, Yorkshire, England (Age 52 years)
  Mother	CLARE, Maud Mathilda de ,   b. 1184, Mellent, Gloucestershire, England Mellent, Gloucestershire, Englandd. 1213, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England (Age 29 years)
  Marriage	1204	England   [2]
  Notes	~SEALING_SPOUSE: Also shown as SealSp 3 Feb 1950, IFALL.
  Family ID	F15796	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	AQUILA, Countess Alice de ,   b. Abt 1191, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England Lincoln, Lincolnshire, Englandd. 1222, Pontefract, Yorkshire, England (Age 31 years)
  Marriage	1217	Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England   [3]
  Notes	MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married Abt 1211
  Family ID	F18139	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

  Family 2	QUINCY, Countess Margaret de ,   b. 1208, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England Lincoln, Lincolnshire, Englandd. Mar 1266, Clerkenwell, Middlesex, England (Age 58 years)
  Marriage	1223	Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England   [4]
  Notes	~SEALING_SPOUSE: Also shown as SealSp 4 Jan 1949, SLAKE.
  Children	1 son and 3 daughters
  + 1. LACY, Countess Maud ,   b. 25 Jan 1223, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England Lincoln, Lincolnshire, Englandd. 10 Mar 1289, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England (Age 66 years)   2. LACY, Alice de ,   b. 1226, Pedham Castle, Lancashire, England Pedham Castle, Lancashire, Englandd. 1270 (Age 44 years)   3. LACY, Baron Edmund ,   b. May 1227, Halton, Cheshire, England Halton, Cheshire, Englandd. 21 Jun 1258 (Age 31 years)   4. LACY, Idonea ,   b. 1229, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England
  Family ID	F16659	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  John de Lacy[1] (c. 1192 – 22 July 1240) was the 2nd Earl of Lincoln, of the fourth creation. [Wikipedia, 14 August 2018.] ================================================== BY PROFESSOR NIGEL SAUL, ROYAL HOLLOWAY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. 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 and north. John (c. 1192-1240) was the eldest son and heir of Roger de Lacy, constable of Chester (d. 1211) and his wife, Maud de Clere. He was a minor at the time of his father’s death and did not enter into possession of his lands until September 1213. Like a number of the rebels, he was a young man at the time that he became involved in the revolt. Although a natural royalism is suggested by his decision to join John on his expedition to Poitou in 1214, he nurtured a sense of grievance against the king owing to the terms on which he was granted possession of his father’s estates. The de Lacy inheritance was a highly valuable one, comprising more than a hundred knights’ fees, together with the baronies of Pontefract (Yorks.), and Clitheroe, Penwortham, Widnes and Halton (Lancs.). John, when he permitted the young heir to enter, therefore exacted his price. He insisted that the latter offer a massive fine of 7000 marks repayable over three years, in the meantime handing over to a royal keeper his chief castles of Pontefract (Yorks.) and Castle Donington (Leics.), to be garrisoned by the king at Lacy’s expense on pain of confiscation should the latter rebel. As late as the end of May 1215 Lacy was still assumed to be on the king’s side. However, with the fall of London he threw in his lot with the rebels and was present at Runnymede and named to the Twenty Five. Thereafter he veered opportunistically between the rebel and royalist camps. On New Year’s Day 1216 he submitted to the king, agreeing to terms which shed remarkable light on the latter’s own attitude to the Charter imposed on him at Runnymede. Lacy was obliged not only to submit to the king personally but also to renounce the cause for which he had been fighting. In the words of the submission ‘If I have sworn an oath to the king’s enemies, then I will not hold to it, nor will I adhere in any way to the charter of liberties which the lord king has granted in common to the barons of England and which the lord pope has annulled’. Through the imposition of such terms, John was hoping to kill off the charter at birth. Although ostensibly entering into the terms of his own free will, Lacy was probably agreeing to a formula devised by the king’s clerks. Precisely the same wording is found in the charter of submission of Gilbert FitzReinfrey, who likewise made his peace in January 1216. In May 1216 Lacy was still at the king’s side, but by the time of the latter’s death at Newark in October he was in rebellion again. He was probably active on the rebels’ behalf for much of 1217, but appears not to have been present at the baronial defeat at Lincoln. He submitted and was readmitted to fealty in August, a time when a good many rebels submitted to the new king. In the following month he was ordered to oversee the restoration of Carlisle Castle by the king of Scots. By now, however, his thoughts were now turning to the crusade, and in May 1218 he embarked for Damietta in Egypt with his overlord, Ranulph, earl of Chester. He did not return to England until August 1220. In 1225 he was witness to the definitive reissue of Magna Carta and in the following year he served as a king’s justice in Lincolnshire and Lancashire. Following Ranulph’s death in 1232 he was allowed to inherit one of the earl’s titles, that of the earldom of Lincoln, as the son-in-law of the earl’s sister, Hawise. Lacy died on 22 July 1240 and was buried near his father in the choir of the Cistercian abbey of Stanlaw (Lancs.), his bones being moved to Whalley, when the monks transferred there in the 1290s. He left a widow, Margaret, daughter of Roger de Quincy (d. 1217), eldest son of Saer de Quincy, earl of Winchester (d. 1219), another of the Twenty Five. Margaret died in 1266 and was buried in the Hospitallers’ church at Clerkenwell, London. http://magnacarta800th.com/schools/biographies/the-25-barons-of-magna-carta/john-de-lacy/ 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 distri

  
  

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  [S64] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index. John de Lacy; Male; Birth: 1192 Lincoln, Lincoln, England; Death: 22 JUL 1240; Baptism: 29 APR 1936; Endowment: 29 OCT 1937; Sealing to Parents: 03 FEB 1950 IFALL; Roger de Lacy / Maud or Matilda de Clare; Father: Roger de Lacy; Mother: Maud or Matilda de Clare; Spouse: Unavailable; No source information is available. Record of LDS Church ordinance (living or proxy). Search performed using PAF Insight on 01 Oct 2004 [S64] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index. Roger de Lacy; Male; Birth: About 1171 Lincoln, Lincoln, England; Death: 1211; Father: Unavailable; Mother: Alice de Mandeville; Spouse: Maud or Matilde de Clare; Marriage: 1223; No source information is available. Record submitted by a member of the LDS Church Search performed using PAF Insight on 01 Oct 2004 [S64] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index. John de Lacy; Male; Death: 22 JUL 1240; Spouse: Alice de Aquila; Marriage: About 1217 Lincoln, Lincoln, England; No source information is available. Record submitted after 1991 by a member of the LDS Church. Search performed using PAF Insight on 01 Oct 2004 [S64] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index. John DE LACY; Male; Death: 22 JUL 1240; Spouse: Margaret DE QUINCY; Marriage: 1223 Of, Lincoln, Lincoln, England; No source information is available. Record submitted after 1991 by a member of the LDS Church. Search performed using PAF Insight on 01 Oct 2004