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Biography of Roger de Quincy 2nd Earl Winchester 1195-1264

Paternal Family Tree: Quincy

Maternal Family Tree: Petronilla Grandesmil Countess Leicester 1135-1212

In or before 1186 [his father] Saer Quincy 1st Earl Winchester (age 15) and [his mother] Margaret Beaumont Countess Winchester were married. She the daughter of [his grandfather] Robert Beaumont 3rd Earl of Leicester and [his grandmother] Petronilla Grandesmil Countess Leicester (age 50).

Around 1195 Roger de Quincy 2nd Earl Winchester was born to Saer Quincy 1st Earl Winchester (age 25) and Margaret Beaumont Countess Winchester.

On 3rd November 1219 [his father] Saer Quincy 1st Earl Winchester (age 49) died at Damietta. His son Roger (age 24) succeeded 2nd Earl Winchester.

1236 Battle of Galloway

Chronica Majora.

April 1236. About the same time, several nobles and powerful men from the various provinces of the West, namely from Galloway, the Isle of Man, and parts of Ireland, assembled at the instance of Hugh de Lacy (age 60), whose daughter had been married to Alan of Galloway, lately deceased, and they all united together for the purpose of restoring Galloway to the illegitimate son of the aforesaid Alan, and of annulling by force the just disposition made by the king of Scots (age 37), who had distributed the inheritance amongst the three daughters of Alan, to whom it belonged by hereditary right. In order, therefore, to revoke and annul his distribution, and to restore the territory to the aforesaid Thomas, or to the son of Thomas, Alan's brother, or at least to one of that family, these presumptuous chiefs flew to arms, and, bursting forth into insolence, endeavoured to free themselves from the authority of the king. And in order to bring their attempts to the desired result, they entered into a strange kind of treaty, by means of a certain mode of divination, yet according to an abominable custom of their ancestors. For all these barbarians and their chiefs and magistrates drew blood from a vein near the heart, and poured it into a large cup, they then stirred and mixed it up, and afterwards, drinking to one another, quaffed it off, as a token that they were from that time forth allied by an indissoluble and, as it were, kindred treaty, and indivisible both in prosperity and adversity, even at the risk of their heads. They therefore provoked the king and the kingdom to war, burning their own houses and those of their neighbours, that the king, when he arrived, might not find either shelter or food for his army, and indulged in rapine and incendiarism, heaping injury on injury. On hearing of this, the king of Scotland collected his forces from all quarters, and, marching to meet them, drew up his forces in order and engaged them in open battle; and the fortune of war turning against the Galwegians, they were put to flight, and the royal troops, pursuing them at the sword's point, slew many thousands of them, and those who were taken alive by the king and his soldiers were put to an ignominious death without any chance of ransoming themselves. Some threw themselves on the king's mercy, and were consigned to close imprisonment by him till he could consult as to what should be done with them, and all of them, together with their descendants, he, not without good reason, disinherited. Having gained this victory the king glorified God, the lord of armies, and listening to good counsel, he sent word to Roger de Quincy (age 41), earl of Winchester, John Baliol (age 28), and William, the son of the earl of Albemarle, that, as they had married the three sisters, the daughters of Alan of Galloway, they might now, as the disturbances were quelled, hold peaceable possession of the rights pertaining to them. This battle took place in the month of April, the fortune of war favouring the king of Scots.

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In 1238 [his son-in-law] William Ferrers 5th Earl of Derby (age 45) and [his daughter] Margaret Quincy Countess Derby were married. She the daughter of Roger de Quincy 2nd Earl Winchester (age 43) and [his future wife] Helen Galloway Countess Winchester. He the son of William Ferrers 4th Earl of Derby (age 70) and Agnes Gernon Countess Derby. They were first cousin twice removed. He a great x 3 grandson of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England.

In or before 1242 [his son-in-law] Alan Zouche (age 38) and [his daughter] Helen or Ela Quincy were married. She the daughter of Roger de Quincy 2nd Earl Winchester (age 46) and [his future wife] Helen Galloway Countess Winchester.

Before 1250 Roger de Quincy 2nd Earl Winchester (age 54) and Helen Galloway Countess Winchester were married. She by marriage Countess Winchester. He the son of Saer Quincy 1st Earl Winchester and Margaret Beaumont Countess Winchester. They were half third cousins. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England.

In 1250 William Vaux (age 35) and [his future wife] Eleanor Ferrers Countess Winchester (age 14) were married. The difference in their ages was 21 years. She the daughter of [his son-in-law] William Ferrers 5th Earl of Derby (age 57) and [his future mother-in-law] Sibyl Marshal (age 49).

In or before 1252 [his wife] Maud Bohun Countess Pembroke and Winchester died.

In 1252 Roger de Quincy 2nd Earl Winchester (age 57) and Eleanor Ferrers Countess Winchester (age 16) were married. She by marriage Countess Winchester. The difference in their ages was 41 years. She the daughter of William Ferrers 5th Earl of Derby (age 59) and Sibyl Marshal (age 51). He the son of Saer Quincy 1st Earl Winchester and Margaret Beaumont Countess Winchester. They were third cousin once removed. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England.

On 25th April 1264 Roger de Quincy 2nd Earl Winchester (age 69) died. Earl Winchester extinct.

Before 8th September 1267 Roger Leybourne (age 52) and [his former wife] Eleanor Ferrers Countess Winchester (age 31) were married. The difference in their ages was 21 years. She the daughter of [his former son-in-law] William Ferrers 5th Earl of Derby and [his former mother-in-law] Sibyl Marshal (age 66).

On 16th October 1274 [his former wife] Eleanor Ferrers Countess Winchester (age 38) died.

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[his daughter] Margaret Quincy Countess Derby was born to Roger de Quincy 2nd Earl Winchester and Helen Galloway Countess Winchester.

[his daughter] Elizabeth Quincy Countess Buchan was born to Roger de Quincy 2nd Earl Winchester and Helen Galloway Countess Winchester.

[his daughter] Helen or Ela Quincy was born to Roger de Quincy 2nd Earl Winchester and Helen Galloway Countess Winchester.

Royal Ancestors of Roger de Quincy 2nd Earl Winchester 1195-1264

Kings Wessex: Great x 11 Grand Son of King Alfred "The Great" of Wessex

Kings Franks: Great x 13 Grand Son of Louis "Pious" King Aquitaine I King Franks

Kings France: Great x 5 Grand Son of Robert "Pious" II King France

Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 10 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine

Royal Descendants of Roger de Quincy 2nd Earl Winchester 1195-1264

Philippa of Lancaster Queen Consort Portugal

King Henry IV of England

Joan Beaufort Queen Consort Scotland

King Edward IV of England

King Richard III of England

Anne Neville Queen Consort England

King Henry VII of England and Ireland

Queen Anne Boleyn of England

Queen Jane Seymour

Catherine Parr Queen Consort England

Queen Catherine Howard of England

Jane Grey I Queen England and Ireland

King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland

George Wharton

President George Washington

Brigadier-General Charles FitzClarence

Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

Queen Consort Camilla Shand

Diana Spencer Princess Wales

Catherine Middleton Princess of Wales

Ancestors of Roger de Quincy 2nd Earl Winchester 1195-1264

Great x 1 Grandfather: Saer Quincy

GrandFather: Robert Quincy

Great x 2 Grandfather: Simon Senlis 1st Earl of Northampton, Earl of Huntingdon

Great x 1 Grandmother: Maud Senlis

Great x 4 Grandfather: Siward "Stout" Earl of Northumbria

Great x 3 Grandfather: Waltheof Northumbria 1st Earl of Northampton 1st Earl Huntingdon

Great x 4 Grandmother: Aelfflaed Northumbria

Great x 2 Grandmother: Maud Queen Consort Scotland

Father: Saer Quincy 1st Earl Winchester

Roger de Quincy 2nd Earl Winchester

Great x 4 Grandfather: Humphrey "Vielles" Beaumont

Great x 3 Grandfather: Roger "Bearded" Beaumont

Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Beaumont 1st Earl of Leicester Count Meulan

Great x 3 Grandmother: Adeline Meulan

Great x 1 Grandfather: Robert Beaumont 2nd Earl of Leicester

Great x 4 Grandfather: King Henry I of France

Great x 3 Grandfather: Hugh "Great" Capet

Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Rurik Queen Consort France

Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Capet Countess Leicester, Meulan and Surrey

Great x 3 Grandmother: Adelaide I Countess Vermandois

Great x 4 Grandmother: Adela Valois Countess Blois and Vermandois

GrandFather: Robert Beaumont 3rd Earl of Leicester

Great x 4 Grandfather: Ralph "Staller" Gael 1st Earl East Anglia

Great x 3 Grandfather: Ralph de Gael 2nd Earl East Anglia

Great x 2 Grandfather: Raoul Gael

Great x 4 Grandfather: William Fitzosbern 1st Earl Hereford

Great x 3 Grandmother: Emma Fitzosbern Countess East Anglia

Great x 4 Grandmother: Adelise Tosny Countess Hereford

Great x 1 Grandmother: Amice Gael Countess Leicester

Mother: Margaret Beaumont Countess Winchester

Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Grandesmil

Great x 3 Grandfather: Hugh Grandesmil

Great x 4 Grandmother: Hawisa Échauffour

Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Grandesmil

Great x 4 Grandfather: Ivo Beaumont Oise Count Beaumont sur l'Oise

Great x 3 Grandmother: Adelize Beaumont Oise

Great x 1 Grandfather: William Grandesmil

GrandMother: Petronilla Grandesmil Countess Leicester