Jane BIGOD

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• _UID: 4D7CA9F937954C50B61501EE6B6A97CEC78F

Family/Spouse: Richard. Richard and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Alice De VERE. Alice (daughter of Alberic II De VERE and Adeliza De CLARE) was born before 1141; died after 1185. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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According to "The Roll of the House of Lacy", she was the sister of William Mandeville, 3rd Earl of Essex. Cokayne, however, in Appendix J to V. 10 of CP says she was dau. of ALICE (sister of AUBREY, 1st Earl of Oxford [RIN 3283]) and her 2nd husband, ROGER FITZRICHARD. I place greater trust in Cokayne. Cokayne notes the unusual use by Alice of her mother's surname rather than her father's.

Family/Spouse: Constable John, Of Chester. John (son of Richard FITZEUSTACE and Albreda De LISOURES) was born in 1150; died on 11 Oct 1190 in Palestine, Holy Land. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Title (Facts Page): ; Magna Charta Baron
• Title (Nobility): ; 1st Earl of Lincoln
• Name: Roger DE LACY
• Name: Roger DE LACY
• Occupation: ; Constable of Chester
• _UID: 2242C52E0BC14AE985E375EBE305F0FAF025
• MilitaryService: 1192; Third Crusade

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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 Ch?teau 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.]

Roger married Maud De CLERE in Stanlaw, Cheshire, England. Maud (daughter of Roger DE CLARE and Mathilde DE SAINT-HILAIRE) was born in 1181 in Clare, Risbridge, Suffolk, England; died in 1213; was buried in Stanlow Abbey, Stanlow, Cheshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]