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Sir Robert de Quincy, 1st Baron of Prestoungrange (c. 1140 – c. 1197), Justiciar of Lothian, was a 12th-century English and Scottish noble.

Life

Quincy was a younger son of Saer de Quincy and Maud de Senlis, daughter of Simon I de Senlis, Earl of Huntingdon-Northampton and Maud of Huntingdon, stepdaughter of King David I of Scotland.

Robert was granted the castle of Forfar and a "toft" (a homestead) in Haddington He served as joint Justiciar of Lothian serving from 1171 to 1178.

Robert accompanied King Richard I of England on the Third Crusade in 1190. He led a force to take aid to Antioch in 1191 and also collected prisoners from Tyre. Returning from the crusade, Robert took part in Richard I's campaigns in Normandy in 1194 and 1196. He succeeded to the English estates of his nephew Saer in 1192.

The title Baron of Prestoungrange was first created in 1189 when he granted the lands to the monks of Newbattle Abbey according to a charter of 1170, with a 20-year lease. This original grant was expanded by Robert's son, Saer de Quincy, to include rights to coal and quarry working down to the low water mark on the Firth of Forth, making Prestoungrange one of the earliest sites of coal mining in Scotland.

Marriage and issue

Robert married Orabilis, daughter of Nes fitz William, Lord of Leuchars. . They had:

• Saer de Quincy (died 1219), married Margaret de Beaumont, daughter of Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester
• Unknown (daughter) de Quincy married de St Andrew

Orabilis and Robert divorced.

Secondly, he married Eve of Galloway, who was previously married to Walter Barclay. .

References

1. ^ Stringer 1985, p. 130.
2. ^ Macquarie 1997, p. 29.
3. Prestonpans : ahttps://archive.org/details/prestonpanssocia0000unse/page/5/mode/1up?q=de+quincy
4. Marshall 2021, p. 173.
5. Oram 2005.
6. Hammond 2006, p. 287-288.
7. People of Medieval Scotland 1093 - 1371 Walter Barclay, chamberlain (d.c.1193) https://poms.ac.uk/record/person/6/

Bibliography

• Hammond, Matthew (2006). "Orabilis (or Orabila), Countess of Mar". In Ewan, Elizabeth L.; Innes, Sue; Reynolds, Sian (eds.). Biographical Dictionary of ScottishWomen. Edinburgh University Press.
• Macquarie, Alan (1997). Scotland and the Crusades, 1095-1560. John Donald. ISBN 9780859764452.
• Marshall, Susan (2021). Illegitimacy in Medieval Scotland, 1100-1500. Boydell Press.
• Oram, Richard D. (2005). "Quincy, Saer de, earl of Winchester (d. 1219)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press.
• Stringer, Keith John (1985). Earl David of Huntingdon, 1152-1219: a study in Anglo-Scottish history. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9780852244869.
• Grant G. Simpson, "An Anglo-Scottish Baron of the Thirteenth century: the Acts of Roger de Quincy Earl of Winchester and Constable of Scotland" (Published PhD Thesis, Edinburgh 1966). Retrieved 2024-12-19
• Prestonpans : a social & economic history across 1000 years 2006). Retrieved 2024-12-21

External links

• People of Medieval Scotland 1093-1371 - Robert de Quincy (d.1200x01) Retrieved 2024-12-20
• People of Medieval Scotland 1093-1371 - Saer of St Andrews - Also known as Serlo. Nephew of Earl Saer de Quincy. Had a brother, Roger. Retrieved 2024-12-20
• People of Medieval Scotland 1093-1371 - Roger of St Andrews - nepos of Earl Saer de Quincy had a brother, Saer. Retrieved 2024-12-20
• People of Medieval Scotland 1093-1371 - Walter Barclay, chamberlain (d.c.1193) Retrieved 2024-12-20
• People of Medieval Scotland 1093-1371 - Ness, son of William, lord of Leuchars (d.1178×83) Retrieved 2024-12-21
• Geni.com Sir Robert de Quincy, Lord of Long Buckby

• 12th-century Scottish nobility
• 12th-century English nobility
• Medieval Scottish knights
• Medieval English knights
• Scoto-Normans
• Christians of the Third Crusade
• 1140s births