Lord Roger De LACY

1176 - 1211  (35 years)

• Name	Roger De LACY
  Prefix	Lord
  Birth	1176	Halton, Cheshire, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  FamilySearch ID	M3DW-6QG
  MilitaryService	1192  [1]
  	Third Crusade
  Title (Facts Page)	[1]
  	Magna Charta Baron
  Title (Nobility)	[1]
  	1st Earl of Lincoln
  Name	Roger DE LACY  [1]
  Name	Roger DE LACY  [1]
  Occupation	[1]
  	Constable of Chester
  _UID	2242C52E0BC14AE985E375EBE305F0FAF025
  Burial	1211	Stanlow, Cheshire, England   [1]
  Death	1 Oct 1211	Pontefract, West Riding, Yorkshire, England   [1]
  Person ID	I623	Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
  Last Modified	30 Dec 2022

  
  

  Father	Constable John, Of Chester,   b. 1150   d. 11 Oct 1190, Palestine, Holy Land (Age 40 years)
  Mother	Alice De VERE,   b. Abt 1155   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F399	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Maud De CLERE,   b. 1181, Clare, Risbridge, Suffolk, England d. 1213 (Age 32 years)
  Marriage	Stanlaw, Cheshire, England   [1]
  Children	1. Helen DE LACY,   b. Kippax, Yorkshire, England d. Between 1209 and 1238, Galloway Dumfriesshire Scotland   2. John De LACY,   b. 1192, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England d. 22 Jul 1240, Stanlow Abbey, Cheshire, England (Age 48 years)
  Family ID	F398	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Dec 2022

  
  

• Notes

  He took the de Lacy name by virtue of his inheritance of the lordship of Ponterfract. Was also constable of Chester. W E Wightman, *The Lacy Family in England and Normandy, 1066-1194*, genealogical chart following p 260. (pp. 85-86): "Roger 'Helle', constable of Chester, . . . took the name Lacy when he was allowed to inherit the lands. He had to pay a relief of three thousand marks, three times the amount that Robert [de Lacy (RIN 2816*)] had paid sixteen years before. Thus the honours of Halton and Widnes became joined to those of Pontefract and Clitheroe built up by the first Lacy line, the whole forming the basis of the power of the earls of Lincoln in the next century." LACY, ROGER de (d. 1212), justiciar, and constable of Chester, was son of John de Lacy, by Alice de Vere, sister of William de Mandeville, earl of Essex [q. v.] . . . On his father's death Roger de Lacy became constable of Chester. In 1192, having been entrusted by the chancellor with the custody of the castles of Tickhill and Nottingham, he hanged two knights who had conspired to surrender these castles to [King] John. John in revenge plundered Lacy's lands. In April 1199 Lacy swore fealty to John on his accession, and from this time remained in high favour with the new king. In November 1200 he was sent to escort William the Lion to Lincoln, and was present when the Scottish king did homage there to John on 22 Nov. In 1201 he was sent with William Marshal, earl of Pembroke, in command of one hundred knights to defend the king's possessions in Normandy. In 1203 Philip Augustus besieged him in the famous Château Gaillard, which he defended with incomparable fidelity for nearly a year, and only surrendered through stress of famine on 5 March 1204. Matthew Paris relates that the French king, in recognition of his gallant defence, put him in free custody. Lacy was ransomed by John's assistance for a thousand marks (Rot. Claus. i. 4). He was further rewarded by being made sheriff of York and Cheshire, which offices he held till 1210. In 1209 he was a justiciar. He is said to have rescued Earl Randulf of Chester (see Blundevill, Randulf de] when besieged by the Welsh at Rhuddlan, Flintshire. His fierce raids against the Welsh are said to have earned him the name of 'Roger of Hell.' Lacy was on familiar terms with John, and a record is preserved of the king's losses to him 'in ludo ad tabulas' [in a board game]. He died in January 1212, and was buried at Stanlaw. He was a benefactor of that abbey, and also of Fountains. Dugdale prints an epitaph on him from Cotton MS. Cleop. C. iii. (Mon. Angl. v. 648). Dugdale's statement that he was present at the sieges of Acre and Damietta is due to a confusion with his father and son. Roger de Lacy married Maud de Clere, sister of the treasurer of York Cathedral, and left by her two sons, John, earl of Lincoln [q. v.], and Roger. [Roger de Hoveden; Matt. Paris; Annales Monastici (all these are in the Rolls Ser.); Dugdale's Monasticon, v. 533– 4, 647– 8; Dugdale's Baronage, i. 100– 1; Foss's Judges of England, ii. 87– 8.]

  
  

• Sources

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