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Sir John "John of Chester, Earl of Lincoln, Constable of Chester" Lacy Knt
(Abt 1192 - 22 Jul 1240)
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== Biography =="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." ''Magna Carta Barons''
Above text courtesy of Professor Nigel Saul and the [http://magnacarta800th.com/ Magna Carta 800th Anniversary Committee]
===Sir John de Lacy burial at Whalley Abbey===Whalley Abbey is also known as the Parish Church of St. Mary and All Saints, in Whalley, Clitheroe, Lancashire. The Abbey was partly destroyed in 1537 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Presently some fine ruins and other buildings. The intact parish church of St. Mary & All Saints, Whalley, antedates the founding of the Abbey. A premier visitor attraction.
Alton Rogers received an e-mail dated February 29, 2008 from Sharon at Whalley Abbey Reception (central.office@whalleyabbey.org) noting that the Lacy family were major land owners in the area surrounding Whalley Abbey in Lancashire and other areas in Lancashire and Yorkshire. The family very generously donated the land for the Abbey to build upon and there is a de Lacy family tomb presently within its grounds.
John de Lacy married as his 2nd wife, before 21 June 1221, Margaret (or Margery) de Quincy, daughter and heiress of Robert de Quincy, by Hawise. ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'' Vol. II, page 514 She was born before 1217. They had one son, Edmund, Knight (Constable of Chester), and three daughters, including Maud and Margaret.''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'' Vol. II, page 514 Sir John de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, died 22 July 1240, ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'' Vol. II, page 515 and his widow Margaret married as her second husband on 6 January 1214/2, Walter Marshal, Knight, 8th Earl of Pembroke. ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'' page 514, 515
=== Marriage ===
: Husband: [[De LACY-95|John de LACY]]
: Wife: [[De QUINCY-85|Margaret de QUINCY]]
: Child: [[De LACY-102|Maud de LACY]]
: Child: [[De LACY-98|Idonea de LACY]]
: Child: [[De LACY-99|Edmund de LACY]]
: Marriage: 1223, LIN, England
===Questionable Daughter, Idonia===
In 2005, Richardson was mentioning Edmund, Maud/Matilda, and 2, as of yet, unnamed daughters...and, possibly, an illegitimate son. From: "Douglas Richardson"; Subject: Complete Peerage Addition: Children of John de Lacy; Date: 3 Oct 2005 08:52:31 -0700 [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/2005-10/1128354751] In ''Magna Carta Ancestry'', Richardson only includes children Edmund, Maud/Matlida, and Margaret. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, 2011, p 517 [https://books.google.ca/books?id=8JcbV309c5UC&pg=RA1-PA517]
The source for naming the other daughter "Idonia" seems to come from a Cheshire Visitation, which has her marrying a Roger de Camville. The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580, Volume 18, p 6 [https://books.google.ca/books?id=Q_wUAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA6] Now, Richardson has stated that there was no issue from first wife, Alice, but this Visitation pedigree has also given a verified daughter, Maud/Matilda, to Alice. Idonia may also have been assigned to the incorrect mother. Richardson, having acknowledged another unnamed daughter, means the only conflict is with who her mother was, not whether she exists, or not.
However, Idonia is also involved in questionable Magna Carta lines of descent, through a claimed second marriage, into the Dutton family. While Marlyn Lewis generally tries to cite Richardson, as much as possible, and provides a great on line resource, this falls outside of Richardson's research, so he relied on other sources, ''"Pedigrees of Some of Charlemagne's Descendants, Vol. III, p. 168; Magna Charta by Wurts, p. 1005"'', giving us an indication of where this claim comes from. Marlyn Lewis: Idonea Lacie, F, #11736 [http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p391.htm#i11736]
The Charlemagne source has her as the daughter of Magna Carta John de Lacy and Margaret de Quincy, calls her "Alice (Idonia)", and marries her off to "Crusader", Geoffrey de Dutton, who dies in 1248. Wurts is the same. That would be this [[De_Dutton-57|Geoffrey]] (who needs a LNAB fix) who married this [[Lacy-124|Alice]], daughter of this John's grandfather, also a [[Lacy-276|John]], also a Crusader, like Geoffrey, also a Constable of Chester, and Baron of Halton, like his grandson.
== Gateway Ancestors ==:Descendants of [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Surety_Barons Magna Carta surety barons] who immigrated to the Americas are referred to as Gateway Ancestors. Douglas Richardson documents the ancestry of many who immigrated before 1700 in his ''Magna Carta Ancestry'' ([[#Richardson]]). WikiTree's [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Magna_Carta Magna Carta project] exists "to categorize and improve profiles of the twenty-five medieval barons who were surety for Magna Carta; about two hundred proven American colonial Gateway Ancestors who were their descendants; and the documented lineages that connect them." Using Richardson as its primary source, the project has identified most Magna Carta Gateway Ancestors with profiles in WikiTree (collected in the category [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Gateway_Ancestors Gateway Ancestors]).
:For profiles of descendants and Gateway Ancestors of } } } that have been improved and categorized by the Magna Carta project, see [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Lacy-284_Descendants Lacy-284 Descendants] (see this [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Index_of_Surety_Barons_to_Gateway_Ancestors index] for links to other surety barons and category pages for their descendants).
== Sources ==
*Royal Ancestry 2013 D. Richardson Vol. III p. 466-470
*Magna Carta Ancestry 2011 2nd ed. Vol. II p. 514-517
*http://www.whalleyabbey.co.uk/
: See also:* Nigel Saul, ''Magna Carta Barons'', database online, accessed 3 June 2014, entry for [http://www.magnacartabarons.info/john-de-lacy John de Lacy], Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK: England & Wales License
* Richardson, ''[http://www.royalancestry.net/ Magna Carta Ancestry]'', (2011), Douglas Richardson, ''[http://amzn.com/1461045207 Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families]'', Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), volume II, page 514 - 515.
* ''Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England between 1623 and 1650'', 6th ed. Weis, Frederick Lewis. (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1988).
* Harleian Society. ''The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580'', [[Space:The Publicatons of The Harleian Society|The Publicatons of The Harleian Society]] (London: The Society, 1882) [https://books.google.com/books?id=hlYN_LmEu8YC&pg=PA6 Vol. 18, Page 6]: Appendix: The Visitation of a Part of Cheshire, A.D. 1533: ::: "Joh'es Lascy Comes Lincolnie Baro de Halton et Constabul. Cestriae fundator Abbatie de Whalley". First wife: "Margareta Quincy Comitissa Lincone vxor prima." Second wife: "Alicia filia D'ni Gilberti de Auila uxor secunda."
* Hulton, W.A. ed., ''The Coucher Book or Cartulary of Whalley Abbey. Vol. I'', [[Space:Remains Historical & Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester|Remains Historical & Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester]] (Printed for The Chetham Society, 1846) [https://books.google.ca/books?id=2_0rAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA3 Vol. 10, Page 3]
* Farrer, William & Brownbill, J. ''[[Space:The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster|The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster]]'' (Archibald Constable and Co. Limited, London, 1906) [https://archive.org/stream/victoriahistoryo01farruoft#page/304/mode/1up Vol. 1, Page 304-7]
* Mastin, John. ''[[Space:The History and Antiquities of Naseby, in the County of Northampton|The History and Antiquities of Naseby, in the County of Northampton]]'' (Francis Hodson, Cambridge, 1792) [https://books.google.com/books?id=g65BAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA62 Page 62]
* Mary Hillard Hinton, Genealogist, Raleigh, NC •Extinct and Dormant Peerages, 1831 •Magna Carta Barons and their Descendants, pgs. 159, 241, 269, 270, 292 •Virginia Heraldica, pgs. 66, 69, 87, 88 •Ancestral Papers #119, of the National Society of Runnymeade •Wurt's Magna Carta •The Carter Family
* ''[[Space:Reports and Papers of the Architectural and Archaeological Societies of the Counties of Lincoln and Northampton|Reports and Papers]] of the Architectural and Archaeological Societies of the Counties of Lincoln and Northampton'' (Savill and Edwards, London, 1852-3) Vol. 2, [https://archive.org/stream/reportspapersofa02asso#page/93/mode/1up Page 93]
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== Biography =="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." ''Magna Carta Barons''
Above text courtesy of Professor Nigel Saul and the [http://magnacarta800th.com/ Magna Carta 800th Anniversary Committee]
==Sir John de Lacy burial at Whalley Abbey==Whalley Abbey is also known as the Parish Church of St. Mary and All Saints, in Whalley, Clitheroe, Lancashire. The Abbey was partly destroyed in 1537 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Presently some fine ruins and other buildings. The intact parish church of St. Mary & All Saints, Whalley, antedates the founding of the Abbey. A premier visitor attraction.
Alton Rogers received an e-mail dated February 29, 2008 from Sharon at Whalley Abbey Reception (central.office@whalleyabbey.org) noting that the Lacy family were major land owners in the area surrounding Whalley Abbey in Lancashire and other areas in Lancashire and Yorkshire. The family very generously donated the land for the Abbey to build upon and there is a de Lacy family tomb presently within its grounds.
John de Lacy married as his 2nd wife, before 21 June 1221, Margaret (or Margery) de Quincy, daughter and heiress of Robert de Quincy, by Hawise. ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'' Vol. II, page 514 She was born before 1217. They had one son, Edmund, Knight (Constable of Chester), and three daughters, including Maud and Margaret.''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'' Vol. II, page 514 Sir John de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, died 22 July 1240, ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'' Vol. II, page 515 and his widow Margaret married as her second husband on 6 January 1214/2, Walter Marshal, Knight, 8th Earl of Pembroke. ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'' page 514, 515
=== Marriage ===
: Husband: [[De LACY-95|John de LACY]]
: Wife: [[De QUINCY-85|Margaret de QUINCY]]
: Child: [[De LACY-102|Maud de LACY]]
: Child: [[De LACY-98|Idonea de LACY]]
: Child: [[De LACY-99|Edmund de LACY]]
: Marriage: 1223, LIN, England
=== Gateway Ancestors ===:Descendants of [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Surety_Barons Magna Carta surety barons] who immigrated to the Americas are referred to as Gateway Ancestors. Douglas Richardson documents the ancestry of many who immigrated before 1700 in his ''Magna Carta Ancestry'' ([[#Richardson]]). WikiTree's [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Magna_Carta Magna Carta project] exists "to categorize and improve profiles of the twenty-five medieval barons who were surety for Magna Carta; about two hundred proven American colonial Gateway Ancestors who were their descendants; and the documented lineages that connect them." Using Richardson as its primary source, the project has identified most Magna Carta Gateway Ancestors with profiles in WikiTree (collected in the category [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Gateway_Ancestors Gateway Ancestors]).
:For profiles of descendants and Gateway Ancestors of } } } that have been improved and categorized by the Magna Carta project, see [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Lacy-284_Descendants Lacy-284 Descendants] (see this [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Index_of_Surety_Barons_to_Gateway_Ancestors index] for links to other surety barons and category pages for their descendants).
== Sources ==
*Royal Ancestry 2013 D. Richardson Vol. III p. 466-470
*Magna Carta Ancestry 2011 2nd ed. Vol. II p. 514-517
*http://www.whalleyabbey.co.uk/
: See also:* Nigel Saul, ''Magna Carta Barons'', database online, accessed 3 June 2014, entry for [http://www.magnacartabarons.info/john-de-lacy John de Lacy], Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK: England & Wales License
* Richardson, ''[http://www.royalancestry.net/ Magna Carta Ancestry]'', (2011), Douglas Richardson, ''[http://amzn.com/1461045207 Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families]'', Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), volume II, page 514 - 515.
* ''Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England between 1623 and 1650'', 6th ed. Weis, Frederick Lewis. (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1988).
* Harleian Society. ''The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580'', [[Space:The Publicatons of The Harleian Society|The Publicatons of The Harleian Society]] (London: The Society, 1882) [https://books.google.com/books?id=hlYN_LmEu8YC&pg=PA6 Vol. 18, Page 6]: Appendix: The Visitation of a Part of Cheshire, A.D. 1533: ::: "Joh'es Lascy Comes Lincolnie Baro de Halton et Constabul. Cestriae fundator Abbatie de Whalley". First wife: "Margareta Quincy Comitissa Lincone vxor prima." Second wife: "Alicia filia D'ni Gilberti de Auila uxor secunda."
* Hulton, W.A. ed., ''The Coucher Book or Cartulary of Whalley Abbey. Vol. I'', [[Space:Remains Historical & Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester|Remains Historical & Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester]] (Printed for The Chetham Society, 1846) [https://books.google.ca/books?id=2_0rAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA3 Vol. 10, Page 3]
* Farrer, William & Brownbill, J. ''[[Space:The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster|The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster]]'' (Archibald Constable and Co. Limited, London, 1906) [https://archive.org/stream/victoriahistoryo01farruoft#page/304/mode/1up Vol. 1, Page 304-7]
== Acknowledgements ==This page has been edited according to [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Acknowledgements Style Standards] adopted by January 2014. Descriptions of imported gedcoms for this profile are under the Changes tab.
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== Biography ==
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== Biography =="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." ''Magna Carta Barons''
Above text courtesy of Professor Nigel Saul and the [http://magnacarta800th.com/ Magna Carta 800th Anniversary Committee]
===Sir John de Lacy burial at Whalley Abbey===Whalley Abbey is also known as the Parish Church of St. Mary and All Saints, in Whalley, Clitheroe, Lancashire. The Abbey was partly destroyed in 1537 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Presently some fine ruins and other buildings. The intact parish church of St. Mary & All Saints, Whalley, antedates the founding of the Abbey. A premier visitor attraction.
Alton Rogers received an e-mail dated February 29, 2008 from Sharon at Whalley Abbey Reception (central.office@whalleyabbey.org) noting that the Lacy family were major land owners in the area surrounding Whalley Abbey in Lancashire and other areas in Lancashire and Yorkshire. The family very generously donated the land for the Abbey to build upon and there is a de Lacy family tomb presently within its grounds.
John de Lacy married as his 2nd wife, before 21 June 1221, Margaret (or Margery) de Quincy, daughter and heiress of Robert de Quincy, by Hawise. ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'' Vol. II, page 514 She was born before 1217. They had one son, Edmund, Knight (Constable of Chester), and three daughters, including Maud and Margaret.''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'' Vol. II, page 514 Sir John de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, died 22 July 1240, ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'' Vol. II, page 515 and his widow Margaret married as her second husband on 6 January 1214/2, Walter Marshal, Knight, 8th Earl of Pembroke. ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'' page 514, 515
=== Marriage ===
: Husband: [[De LACY-95|John de LACY]]
: Wife: [[De QUINCY-85|Margaret de QUINCY]]
: Child: [[De LACY-102|Maud de LACY]]
: Child: [[De LACY-98|Idonea de LACY]]
: Child: [[De LACY-99|Edmund de LACY]]
: Marriage: 1223, LIN, England
===Questionable Daughter, Idonia===
In 2005, Richardson was mentioning Edmund, Maud/Matilda, and 2, as of yet, unnamed daughters...and, possibly, an illegitimate son. From: "Douglas Richardson"; Subject: Complete Peerage Addition: Children of John de Lacy; Date: 3 Oct 2005 08:52:31 -0700 [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/2005-10/1128354751] In ''Magna Carta Ancestry'', Richardson only includes children Edmund, Maud/Matlida, and Margaret. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, 2011, p 517 [https://books.google.ca/books?id=8JcbV309c5UC&pg=RA1-PA517]
The source for naming the other daughter "Idonia" seems to come from a Cheshire Visitation, which has her marrying a Roger de Camville. The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580, Volume 18, p 6 [https://books.google.ca/books?id=Q_wUAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA6] Now, Richardson has stated that there was no issue from first wife, Alice, but this Visitation pedigree has also given a verified daughter, Maud/Matilda, to Alice. Idonia may also have been assigned to the incorrect mother. Richardson, having acknowledged another unnamed daughter, means the only conflict is with who her mother was, not whether she exists, or not.
However, Idonia is also involved in questionable Magna Carta lines of descent, through a claimed second marriage, into the Dutton family. While Marlyn Lewis generally tries to cite Richardson, as much as possible, and provides a great on line resource, this falls outside of Richardson's research, so he relied on other sources, ''"Pedigrees of Some of Charlemagne's Descendants, Vol. III, p. 168; Magna Charta by Wurts, p. 1005"'', giving us an indication of where this claim comes from. Marlyn Lewis: Idonea Lacie, F, #11736 [http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p391.htm#i11736]
The Charlemagne source has her as the daughter of Magna Carta John de Lacy and Margaret de Quincy, calls her "Alice (Idonia)", and marries her off to "Crusader", Geoffrey de Dutton, who dies in 1248. Wurts is the same. That would be this [[De_Dutton-57|Geoffrey]] (who needs a LNAB fix) who married this [[Lacy-124|Alice]], daughter of this John's grandfather, also a [[Lacy-276|John]], also a Crusader, like Geoffrey, also a Constable of Chester, and Baron of Halton, like his grandson.
== Gateway Ancestors ==:Descendants of [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Surety_Barons Magna Carta surety barons] who immigrated to the Americas are referred to as Gateway Ancestors. Douglas Richardson documents the ancestry of many who immigrated before 1700 in his ''Magna Carta Ancestry'' ([[#Richardson]]). WikiTree's [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Magna_Carta Magna Carta project] exists "to categorize and improve profiles of the twenty-five medieval barons who were surety for Magna Carta; about two hundred proven American colonial Gateway Ancestors who were their descendants; and the documented lineages that connect them." Using Richardson as its primary source, the project has identified most Magna Carta Gateway Ancestors with profiles in WikiTree (collected in the category [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Gateway_Ancestors Gateway Ancestors]).
:For profiles of descendants and Gateway Ancestors of } } } that have been improved and categorized by the Magna Carta project, see [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Lacy-284_Descendants Lacy-284 Descendants] (see this [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Index_of_Surety_Barons_to_Gateway_Ancestors index] for links to other surety barons and category pages for their descendants).
== Sources ==
*Royal Ancestry 2013 D. Richardson Vol. III p. 466-470
*Magna Carta Ancestry 2011 2nd ed. Vol. II p. 514-517
*http://www.whalleyabbey.co.uk/
: See also:* Nigel Saul, ''Magna Carta Barons'', database online, accessed 3 June 2014, entry for [http://www.magnacartabarons.info/john-de-lacy John de Lacy], Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK: England & Wales License
* Richardson, ''[http://www.royalancestry.net/ Magna Carta Ancestry]'', (2011), Douglas Richardson, ''[http://amzn.com/1461045207 Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families]'', Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), volume II, page 514 - 515.
* ''Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England between 1623 and 1650'', 6th ed. Weis, Frederick Lewis. (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1988).
* Harleian Society. ''The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580'', [[Space:The Publicatons of The Harleian Society|The Publicatons of The Harleian Society]] (London: The Society, 1882) [https://books.google.com/books?id=hlYN_LmEu8YC&pg=PA6 Vol. 18, Page 6]: Appendix: The Visitation of a Part of Cheshire, A.D. 1533: ::: "Joh'es Lascy Comes Lincolnie Baro de Halton et Constabul. Cestriae fundator Abbatie de Whalley". First wife: "Margareta Quincy Comitissa Lincone vxor prima." Second wife: "Alicia filia D'ni Gilberti de Auila uxor secunda."
* Hulton, W.A. ed., ''The Coucher Book or Cartulary of Whalley Abbey. Vol. I'', [[Space:Remains Historical & Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester|Remains Historical & Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester]] (Printed for The Chetham Society, 1846) [https://books.google.ca/books?id=2_0rAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA3 Vol. 10, Page 3]
* Farrer, William & Brownbill, J. ''[[Space:The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster|The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster]]'' (Archibald Constable and Co. Limited, London, 1906) [https://archive.org/stream/victoriahistoryo01farruoft#page/304/mode/1up Vol. 1, Page 304-7]
* Mastin, John. ''[[Space:The History and Antiquities of Naseby, in the County of Northampton|The History and Antiquities of Naseby, in the County of Northampton]]'' (Francis Hodson, Cambridge, 1792) [https://books.google.com/books?id=g65BAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA62 Page 62]
* ••Mary Hillard Hinton, Genealogist, Raleigh, NC •Extinct and Dormant Peerages, 1831 •Magna Carta Barons and their Descendants, pgs. 159, 241, 269, 270, 292 •Virginia Heraldica, pgs. 66, 69, 87, 88 ���Ancestral Papers #119, of the National Society of Runnymeade •Wurt's Magna Carta •The Carter Family
}}
}
== Biography =="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." ''Magna Carta Barons''
Above text courtesy of Professor Nigel Saul and the [http://magnacarta800th.com/ Magna Carta 800th Anniversary Committee]
===Sir John de Lacy burial at Whalley Abbey===Whalley Abbey is also known as the Parish Church of St. Mary and All Saints, in Whalley, Clitheroe, Lancashire. The Abbey was partly destroyed in 1537 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Presently some fine ruins and other buildings. The intact parish church of St. Mary & All Saints, Whalley, antedates the founding of the Abbey. A premier visitor attraction.
Alton Rogers received an e-mail dated February 29, 2008 from Sharon at Whalley Abbey Reception (central.office@whalleyabbey.org) noting that the Lacy family were major land owners in the area surrounding Whalley Abbey in Lancashire and other areas in Lancashire and Yorkshire. The family very generously donated the land for the Abbey to build upon and there is a de Lacy family tomb presently within its grounds.
John de Lacy married as his 2nd wife, before 21 June 1221, Margaret (or Margery) de Quincy, daughter and heiress of Robert de Quincy, by Hawise. ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'' Vol. II, page 514 She was born before 1217. They had one son, Edmund, Knight (Constable of Chester), and three daughters, including Maud and Margaret.''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'' Vol. II, page 514 Sir John de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, died 22 July 1240, ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'' Vol. II, page 515 and his widow Margaret married as her second husband on 6 January 1214/2, Walter Marshal, Knight, 8th Earl of Pembroke. ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'' page 514, 515
=== Marriage ===
: Husband: [[De LACY-95|John de LACY]]
: Wife: [[De QUINCY-85|Margaret de QUINCY]]
: Child: [[De LACY-102|Maud de LACY]]
: Child: [[De LACY-98|Idonea de LACY]]
: Child: [[De LACY-99|Edmund de LACY]]
: Marriage: 1223, LIN, England
===Questionable Daughter, Idonia===
In 2005, Richardson was mentioning Edmund, Maud/Matilda, and 2, as of yet, unnamed daughters...and, possibly, an illegitimate son. From: "Douglas Richardson"; Subject: Complete Peerage Addition: Children of John de Lacy; Date: 3 Oct 2005 08:52:31 -0700 [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/2005-10/1128354751] In ''Magna Carta Ancestry'', Richardson only includes children Edmund, Maud/Matlida, and Margaret. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, 2011, p 517 [https://books.google.ca/books?id=8JcbV309c5UC&pg=RA1-PA517]
The source for naming the other daughter "Idonia" seems to come from a Cheshire Visitation, which has her marrying a Roger de Camville. The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580, Volume 18, p 6 [https://books.google.ca/books?id=Q_wUAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA6] Now, Richardson has stated that there was no issue from first wife, Alice, but this Visitation pedigree has also given a verified daughter, Maud/Matilda, to Alice. Idonia may also have been assigned to the incorrect mother. Richardson, having acknowledged another unnamed daughter, means the only conflict is with who her mother was, not whether she exists, or not.
However, Idonia is also involved in questionable Magna Carta lines of descent, through a claimed second marriage, into the Dutton family. While Marlyn Lewis generally tries to cite Richardson, as much as possible, and provides a great on line resource, this falls outside of Richardson's research, so he relied on other sources, ''"Pedigrees of Some of Charlemagne's Descendants, Vol. III, p. 168; Magna Charta by Wurts, p. 1005"'', giving us an indication of where this claim comes from. Marlyn Lewis: Idonea Lacie, F, #11736 [http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p391.htm#i11736]
The Charlemagne source has her as the daughter of Magna Carta John de Lacy and Margaret de Quincy, calls her "Alice (Idonia)", and marries her off to "Crusader", Geoffrey de Dutton, who dies in 1248. Wurts is the same. That would be this [[De_Dutton-57|Geoffrey]] (who needs a LNAB fix) who married this [[Lacy-124|Alice]], daughter of this John's grandfather, also a [[Lacy-276|John]], also a Crusader, like Geoffrey, also a Constable of Chester, and Baron of Halton, like his grandson.
== Gateway Ancestors ==:Descendants of [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Surety_Barons Magna Carta surety barons] who immigrated to the Americas are referred to as Gateway Ancestors. Douglas Richardson documents the ancestry of many who immigrated before 1700 in his ''Magna Carta Ancestry'' ([[#Richardson]]). WikiTree's [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Magna_Carta Magna Carta project] exists "to categorize and improve profiles of the twenty-five medieval barons who were surety for Magna Carta; about two hundred proven American colonial Gateway Ancestors who were their descendants; and the documented lineages that connect them." Using Richardson as its primary source, the project has identified most Magna Carta Gateway Ancestors with profiles in WikiTree (collected in the category [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Gateway_Ancestors Gateway Ancestors]).
:For profiles of descendants and Gateway Ancestors of } } } that have been improved and categorized by the Magna Carta project, see [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Lacy-284_Descendants Lacy-284 Descendants] (see this [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Index_of_Surety_Barons_to_Gateway_Ancestors index] for links to other surety barons and category pages for their descendants).
== Sources ==
*Royal Ancestry 2013 D. Richardson Vol. III p. 466-470
*Magna Carta Ancestry 2011 2nd ed. Vol. II p. 514-517
*http://www.whalleyabbey.co.uk/
: See also:* Nigel Saul, ''Magna Carta Barons'', database online, accessed 3 June 2014, entry for [http://www.magnacartabarons.info/john-de-lacy John de Lacy], Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK: England & Wales License
* Richardson, ''[http://www.royalancestry.net/ Magna Carta Ancestry]'', (2011), Douglas Richardson, ''[http://amzn.com/1461045207 Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families]'', Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), volume II, page 514 - 515.
* ''Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England between 1623 and 1650'', 6th ed. Weis, Frederick Lewis. (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1988).
* Harleian Society. ''The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580'', [[Space:The Publicatons of The Harleian Society|The Publicatons of The Harleian Society]] (London: The Society, 1882) [https://books.google.com/books?id=hlYN_LmEu8YC&pg=PA6 Vol. 18, Page 6]: Appendix: The Visitation of a Part of Cheshire, A.D. 1533: ::: "Joh'es Lascy Comes Lincolnie Baro de Halton et Constabul. Cestriae fundator Abbatie de Whalley". First wife: "Margareta Quincy Comitissa Lincone vxor prima." Second wife: "Alicia filia D'ni Gilberti de Auila uxor secunda."
* Hulton, W.A. ed., ''The Coucher Book or Cartulary of Whalley Abbey. Vol. I'', [[Space:Remains Historical & Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester|Remains Historical & Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester]] (Printed for The Chetham Society, 1846) [https://books.google.ca/books?id=2_0rAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA3 Vol. 10, Page 3]
* Farrer, William & Brownbill, J. ''[[Space:The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster|The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster]]'' (Archibald Constable and Co. Limited, London, 1906) [https://archive.org/stream/victoriahistoryo01farruoft#page/304/mode/1up Vol. 1, Page 304-7]
* Mastin, John. ''[[Space:The History and Antiquities of Naseby, in the County of Northampton|The History and Antiquities of Naseby, in the County of Northampton]]'' (Francis Hodson, Cambridge, 1792) [https://books.google.com/books?id=g65BAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA62 Page 62]
* ••Mary Hillard Hinton, Genealogist, Raleigh, NC •Extinct and Dormant Peerages, 1831 •Magna Carta Barons and their Descendants, pgs. 159, 241, 269, 270, 292 •Virginia Heraldica, pgs. 66, 69, 87, 88 ���Ancestral Papers #119, of the National Society of Runnymeade •Wurt's Magna Carta •The Carter Family
}}
}
== Biography =="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." ''Magna Carta Barons''
Above text courtesy of Professor Nigel Saul and the [http://magnacarta800th.com/ Magna Carta 800th Anniversary Committee]
===Sir John de Lacy burial at Whalley Abbey===Whalley Abbey is also known as the Parish Church of St. Mary and All Saints, in Whalley, Clitheroe, Lancashire. The Abbey was partly destroyed in 1537 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Presently some fine ruins and other buildings. The intact parish church of St. Mary & All Saints, Whalley, antedates the founding of the Abbey. A premier visitor attraction.
Alton Rogers received an e-mail dated February 29, 2008 from Sharon at Whalley Abbey Reception (central.office@whalleyabbey.org) noting that the Lacy family were major land owners in the area surrounding Whalley Abbey in Lancashire and other areas in Lancashire and Yorkshire. The family very generously donated the land for the Abbey to build upon and there is a de Lacy family tomb presently within its grounds.
John de Lacy married as his 2nd wife, before 21 June 1221, Margaret (or Margery) de Quincy, daughter and heiress of Robert de Quincy, by Hawise. ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'' Vol. II, page 514 She was born before 1217. They had one son, Edmund, Knight (Constable of Chester), and three daughters, including Maud and Margaret.''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'' Vol. II, page 514 Sir John de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, died 22 July 1240, ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'' Vol. II, page 515 and his widow Margaret married as her second husband on 6 January 1214/2, Walter Marshal, Knight, 8th Earl of Pembroke. ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'' page 514, 515
=== Marriage ===
: Husband: [[De LACY-95|John de LACY]]
: Wife: [[De QUINCY-85|Margaret de QUINCY]]
: Child: [[De LACY-102|Maud de LACY]]
: Child: [[De LACY-98|Idonea de LACY]]
: Child: [[De LACY-99|Edmund de LACY]]
: Marriage: 1223, LIN, England
===Questionable Daughter, Idonia===
In 2005, Richardson was mentioning Edmund, Maud/Matilda, and 2, as of yet, unnamed daughters...and, possibly, an illegitimate son. From: "Douglas Richardson"; Subject: Complete Peerage Addition: Children of John de Lacy; Date: 3 Oct 2005 08:52:31 -0700 [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/2005-10/1128354751] In ''Magna Carta Ancestry'', Richardson only includes children Edmund, Maud/Matlida, and Margaret. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, 2011, p 517 [https://books.google.ca/books?id=8JcbV309c5UC&pg=RA1-PA517]
The source for naming the other daughter "Idonia" seems to come from a Cheshire Visitation, which has her marrying a Roger de Camville. The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580, Volume 18, p 6 [https://books.google.ca/books?id=Q_wUAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA6] Now, Richardson has stated that there was no issue from first wife, Alice, but this Visitation pedigree has also given a verified daughter, Maud/Matilda, to Alice. Idonia may also have been assigned to the incorrect mother. Richardson, having acknowledged another unnamed daughter, means the only conflict is with who her mother was, not whether she exists, or not.
However, Idonia is also involved in questionable Magna Carta lines of descent, through a claimed second marriage, into the Dutton family. While Marlyn Lewis generally tries to cite Richardson, as much as possible, and provides a great on line resource, this falls outside of Richardson's research, so he relied on other sources, ''"Pedigrees of Some of Charlemagne's Descendants, Vol. III, p. 168; Magna Charta by Wurts, p. 1005"'', giving us an indication of where this claim comes from. Marlyn Lewis: Idonea Lacie, F, #11736 [http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p391.htm#i11736]
The Charlemagne source has her as the daughter of Magna Carta John de Lacy and Margaret de Quincy, calls her "Alice (Idonia)", and marries her off to "Crusader", Geoffrey de Dutton, who dies in 1248. Wurts is the same. That would be this [[De_Dutton-57|Geoffrey]] (who needs a LNAB fix) who married this [[Lacy-124|Alice]], daughter of this John's grandfather, also a [[Lacy-276|John]], also a Crusader, like Geoffrey, also a Constable of Chester, and Baron of Halton, like his grandson.
== Gateway Ancestors ==:Descendants of [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Surety_Barons Magna Carta surety barons] who immigrated to the Americas are referred to as Gateway Ancestors. Douglas Richardson documents the ancestry of many who immigrated before 1700 in his ''Magna Carta Ancestry'' ([[#Richardson]]). WikiTree's [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Magna_Carta Magna Carta project] exists "to categorize and improve profiles of the twenty-five medieval barons who were surety for Magna Carta; about two hundred proven American colonial Gateway Ancestors who were their descendants; and the documented lineages that connect them." Using Richardson as its primary source, the project has identified most Magna Carta Gateway Ancestors with profiles in WikiTree (collected in the category [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Gateway_Ancestors Gateway Ancestors]).
:For profiles of descendants and Gateway Ancestors of } } } that have been improved and categorized by the Magna Carta project, see [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Lacy-284_Descendants Lacy-284 Descendants] (see this [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Index_of_Surety_Barons_to_Gateway_Ancestors index] for links to other surety barons and category pages for their descendants).
== Sources ==
*Royal Ancestry 2013 D. Richardson Vol. III p. 466-470
*Magna Carta Ancestry 2011 2nd ed. Vol. II p. 514-517
*http://www.whalleyabbey.co.uk/
: See also:* Nigel Saul, ''Magna Carta Barons'', database online, accessed 3 June 2014, entry for [http://www.magnacartabarons.info/john-de-lacy John de Lacy], Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK: England & Wales License
* Richardson, ''[http://www.royalancestry.net/ Magna Carta Ancestry]'', (2011), Douglas Richardson, ''[http://amzn.com/1461045207 Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families]'', Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), volume II, page 514 - 515.
* ''Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England between 1623 and 1650'', 6th ed. Weis, Frederick Lewis. (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1988).
* Harleian Society. ''The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580'', [[Space:The Publicatons of The Harleian Society|The Publicatons of The Harleian Society]] (London: The Society, 1882) [https://books.google.com/books?id=hlYN_LmEu8YC&pg=PA6 Vol. 18, Page 6]: Appendix: The Visitation of a Part of Cheshire, A.D. 1533: ::: "Joh'es Lascy Comes Lincolnie Baro de Halton et Constabul. Cestriae fundator Abbatie de Whalley". First wife: "Margareta Quincy Comitissa Lincone vxor prima." Second wife: "Alicia filia D'ni Gilberti de Auila uxor secunda."
* Hulton, W.A. ed., ''The Coucher Book or Cartulary of Whalley Abbey. Vol. I'', [[Space:Remains Historical & Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester|Remains Historical & Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester]] (Printed for The Chetham Society, 1846) [https://books.google.ca/books?id=2_0rAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA3 Vol. 10, Page 3]
* Farrer, William & Brownbill, J. ''[[Space:The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster|The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster]]'' (Archibald Constable and Co. Limited, London, 1906) [https://archive.org/stream/victoriahistoryo01farruoft#page/304/mode/1up Vol. 1, Page 304-7]
* Mastin, John. ''[[Space:The History and Antiquities of Naseby, in the County of Northampton|The History and Antiquities of Naseby, in the County of Northampton]]'' (Francis Hodson, Cambridge, 1792) [https://books.google.com/books?id=g65BAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA62 Page 62]
* ••Mary Hillard Hinton, Genealogist, Raleigh, NC •Extinct and Dormant Peerages, 1831 •Magna Carta Barons and their Descendants, pgs. 159, 241, 269, 270, 292 •Virginia Heraldica, pgs. 66, 69, 87, 88 ���Ancestral Papers #119, of the National Society of Runnymeade •Wurt's Magna Carta •The Carter Family
}
}
== Biography =="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." ''Magna Carta Barons''
Above text courtesy of Professor Nigel Saul and the [http://magnacarta800th.com/ Magna Carta 800th Anniversary Committee]
===Sir John de Lacy burial at Whalley Abbey===Whalley Abbey is also known as the Parish Church of St. Mary and All Saints, in Whalley, Clitheroe, Lancashire. The Abbey was partly destroyed in 1537 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Presently some fine ruins and other buildings. The intact parish church of St. Mary & All Saints, Whalley, antedates the founding of the Abbey. A premier visitor attraction.
Alton Rogers received an e-mail dated February 29, 2008 from Sharon at Whalley Abbey Reception (central.office@whalleyabbey.org) noting that the Lacy family were major land owners in the area surrounding Whalley Abbey in Lancashire and other areas in Lancashire and Yorkshire. The family very generously donated the land for the Abbey to build upon and there is a de Lacy family tomb presently within its grounds.
John de Lacy married as his 2nd wife, before 21 June 1221, Margaret (or Margery) de Quincy, daughter and heiress of Robert de Quincy, by Hawise. ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'' Vol. II, page 514 She was born before 1217. They had one son, Edmund, Knight (Constable of Chester), and three daughters, including Maud and Margaret.''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'' Vol. II, page 514 Sir John de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, died 22 July 1240, ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'' Vol. II, page 515 and his widow Margaret married as her second husband on 6 January 1214/2, Walter Marshal, Knight, 8th Earl of Pembroke. ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'' page 514, 515
=== Marriage ===
: Husband: [[De LACY-95|John de LACY]]
: Wife: [[De QUINCY-85|Margaret de QUINCY]]
: Child: [[De LACY-102|Maud de LACY]]
: Child: [[De LACY-98|Idonea de LACY]]
: Child: [[De LACY-99|Edmund de LACY]]
: Marriage: 1223, LIN, England
===Questionable Daughter, Idonia===
In 2005, Richardson was mentioning Edmund, Maud/Matilda, and 2, as of yet, unnamed daughters...and, possibly, an illegitimate son. From: "Douglas Richardson"; Subject: Complete Peerage Addition: Children of John de Lacy; Date: 3 Oct 2005 08:52:31 -0700 [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/2005-10/1128354751] In ''Magna Carta Ancestry'', Richardson only includes children Edmund, Maud/Matlida, and Margaret. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, 2011, p 517 [https://books.google.ca/books?id=8JcbV309c5UC&pg=RA1-PA517]
The source for naming the other daughter "Idonia" seems to come from a Cheshire Visitation, which has her marrying a Roger de Camville. The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580, Volume 18, p 6 [https://books.google.ca/books?id=Q_wUAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA6] Now, Richardson has stated that there was no issue from first wife, Alice, but this Visitation pedigree has also given a verified daughter, Maud/Matilda, to Alice. Idonia may also have been assigned to the incorrect mother. Richardson, having acknowledged another unnamed daughter, means the only conflict is with who her mother was, not whether she exists, or not.
However, Idonia is also involved in questionable Magna Carta lines of descent, through a claimed second marriage, into the Dutton family. While Marlyn Lewis generally tries to cite Richardson, as much as possible, and provides a great on line resource, this falls outside of Richardson's research, so he relied on other sources, ''"Pedigrees of Some of Charlemagne's Descendants, Vol. III, p. 168; Magna Charta by Wurts, p. 1005"'', giving us an indication of where this claim comes from. Marlyn Lewis: Idonea Lacie, F, #11736 [http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p391.htm#i11736]
The Charlemagne source has her as the daughter of Magna Carta John de Lacy and Margaret de Quincy, calls her "Alice (Idonia)", and marries her off to "Crusader", Geoffrey de Dutton, who dies in 1248. Wurts is the same. That would be this [[De_Dutton-57|Geoffrey]] (who needs a LNAB fix) who married this [[Lacy-124|Alice]], daughter of this John's grandfather, also a [[Lacy-276|John]], also a Crusader, like Geoffrey, also a Constable of Chester, and Baron of Halton, like his grandson.
== Gateway Ancestors ==:Descendants of [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Surety_Barons Magna Carta surety barons] who immigrated to the Americas are referred to as Gateway Ancestors. Douglas Richardson documents the ancestry of many who immigrated before 1700 in his ''Magna Carta Ancestry'' ([[#Richardson]]). WikiTree's [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Magna_Carta Magna Carta project] exists "to categorize and improve profiles of the twenty-five medieval barons who were surety for Magna Carta; about two hundred proven American colonial Gateway Ancestors who were their descendants; and the documented lineages that connect them." Using Richardson as its primary source, the project has identified most Magna Carta Gateway Ancestors with profiles in WikiTree (collected in the category [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Gateway_Ancestors Gateway Ancestors]).
:For profiles of descendants and Gateway Ancestors of } } } that have been improved and categorized by the Magna Carta project, see [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Lacy-284_Descendants Lacy-284 Descendants] (see this [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Index_of_Surety_Barons_to_Gateway_Ancestors index] for links to other surety barons and category pages for their descendants).
== Sources ==
*Royal Ancestry 2013 D. Richardson Vol. III p. 466-470
*Magna Carta Ancestry 2011 2nd ed. Vol. II p. 514-517
*http://www.whalleyabbey.co.uk/
: See also:* Nigel Saul, ''Magna Carta Barons'', database online, accessed 3 June 2014, entry for [http://www.magnacartabarons.info/john-de-lacy John de Lacy], Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK: England & Wales License
* Richardson, ''[http://www.royalancestry.net/ Magna Carta Ancestry]'', (2011), Douglas Richardson, ''[http://amzn.com/1461045207 Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families]'', Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), volume II, page 514 - 515.
* ''Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England between 1623 and 1650'', 6th ed. Weis, Frederick Lewis. (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1988).
* Harleian Society. ''The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580'', [[Space:The Publicatons of The Harleian Society|The Publicatons of The Harleian Society]] (London: The Society, 1882) [https://books.google.com/books?id=hlYN_LmEu8YC&pg=PA6 Vol. 18, Page 6]: Appendix: The Visitation of a Part of Cheshire, A.D. 1533: ::: "Joh'es Lascy Comes Lincolnie Baro de Halton et Constabul. Cestriae fundator Abbatie de Whalley". First wife: "Margareta Quincy Comitissa Lincone vxor prima." Second wife: "Alicia filia D'ni Gilberti de Auila uxor secunda."
* Hulton, W.A. ed., ''The Coucher Book or Cartulary of Whalley Abbey. Vol. I'', [[Space:Remains Historical & Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester|Remains Historical & Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester]] (Printed for The Chetham Society, 1846) [https://books.google.ca/books?id=2_0rAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA3 Vol. 10, Page 3]
* Farrer, William & Brownbill, J. ''[[Space:The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster|The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster]]'' (Archibald Constable and Co. Limited, London, 1906) [https://archive.org/stream/victoriahistoryo01farruoft#page/304/mode/1up Vol. 1, Page 304-7]
* Mastin, John. ''[[Space:The History and Antiquities of Naseby, in the County of Northampton|The History and Antiquities of Naseby, in the County of Northampton]]'' (Francis Hodson, Cambridge, 1792) [https://books.google.com/books?id=g65BAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA62 Page 62]
* Mary Hillard Hinton, Genealogist, Raleigh, NC •Extinct and Dormant Peerages, 1831 •Magna Carta Barons and their Descendants, pgs. 159, 241, 269, 270, 292 •Virginia Heraldica, pgs. 66, 69, 87, 88 •Ancestral Papers #119, of the National Society of Runnymeade •Wurt's Magna Carta •The Carter Family
* ''[[Space:Reports and Papers of the Architectural and Archaeological Societies of the Counties of Lincoln and Northampton|Reports and Papers]] of the Architectural and Archaeological Societies of the Counties of Lincoln and Northampton'' (Savill and Edwards, London, 1852-3) Vol. 2, [https://archive.org/stream/reportspapersofa02asso#page/93/mode/1up Page 93]
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== Biography =="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." ''Magna Carta Barons''
Above text courtesy of Professor Nigel Saul and the [http://magnacarta800th.com/ Magna Carta 800th Anniversary Committee]
==Sir John de Lacy burial at Whalley Abbey==Whalley Abbey is also known as the Parish Church of St. Mary and All Saints, in Whalley, Clitheroe, Lancashire. The Abbey was partly destroyed in 1537 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Presently some fine ruins and other buildings. The intact parish church of St. Mary & All Saints, Whalley, antedates the founding of the Abbey. A premier visitor attraction.
Alton Rogers received an e-mail dated February 29, 2008 from Sharon at Whalley Abbey Reception (central.office@whalleyabbey.org) noting that the Lacy family were major land owners in the area surrounding Whalley Abbey in Lancashire and other areas in Lancashire and Yorkshire. The family very generously donated the land for the Abbey to build upon and there is a de Lacy family tomb presently within its grounds.
John de Lacy married as his 2nd wife, before 21 June 1221, Margaret (or Margery) de Quincy, daughter and heiress of Robert de Quincy, by Hawise. ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'' Vol. II, page 514 She was born before 1217. They had one son, Edmund, Knight (Constable of Chester), and three daughters, including Maud and Margaret.''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'' Vol. II, page 514 Sir John de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, died 22 July 1240, ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'' Vol. II, page 515 and his widow Margaret married as her second husband on 6 January 1214/2, Walter Marshal, Knight, 8th Earl of Pembroke. ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'' page 514, 515
=== Marriage ===
: Husband: [[De LACY-95|John de LACY]]
: Wife: [[De QUINCY-85|Margaret de QUINCY]]
: Child: [[De LACY-102|Maud de LACY]]
: Child: [[De LACY-98|Idonea de LACY]]
: Child: [[De LACY-99|Edmund de LACY]]
: Marriage: 1223, LIN, England
=== Gateway Ancestors ===:Descendants of [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Surety_Barons Magna Carta surety barons] who immigrated to the Americas are referred to as Gateway Ancestors. Douglas Richardson documents the ancestry of many who immigrated before 1700 in his ''Magna Carta Ancestry'' ([[#Richardson]]). WikiTree's [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Magna_Carta Magna Carta project] exists "to categorize and improve profiles of the twenty-five medieval barons who were surety for Magna Carta; about two hundred proven American colonial Gateway Ancestors who were their descendants; and the documented lineages that connect them." Using Richardson as its primary source, the project has identified most Magna Carta Gateway Ancestors with profiles in WikiTree (collected in the category [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Gateway_Ancestors Gateway Ancestors]).
:For profiles of descendants and Gateway Ancestors of } } } that have been improved and categorized by the Magna Carta project, see [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Lacy-284_Descendants Lacy-284 Descendants] (see this [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Index_of_Surety_Barons_to_Gateway_Ancestors index] for links to other surety barons and category pages for their descendants).
== Sources ==
*Royal Ancestry 2013 D. Richardson Vol. III p. 466-470
*Magna Carta Ancestry 2011 2nd ed. Vol. II p. 514-517
*http://www.whalleyabbey.co.uk/
: See also:* Nigel Saul, ''Magna Carta Barons'', database online, accessed 3 June 2014, entry for [http://www.magnacartabarons.info/john-de-lacy John de Lacy], Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK: England & Wales License
* Richardson, ''[http://www.royalancestry.net/ Magna Carta Ancestry]'', (2011), Douglas Richardson, ''[http://amzn.com/1461045207 Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families]'', Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), volume II, page 514 - 515.
* ''Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England between 1623 and 1650'', 6th ed. Weis, Frederick Lewis. (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1988).
* Harleian Society. ''The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580'', [[Space:The Publicatons of The Harleian Society|The Publicatons of The Harleian Society]] (London: The Society, 1882) [https://books.google.com/books?id=hlYN_LmEu8YC&pg=PA6 Vol. 18, Page 6]: Appendix: The Visitation of a Part of Cheshire, A.D. 1533: ::: "Joh'es Lascy Comes Lincolnie Baro de Halton et Constabul. Cestriae fundator Abbatie de Whalley". First wife: "Margareta Quincy Comitissa Lincone vxor prima." Second wife: "Alicia filia D'ni Gilberti de Auila uxor secunda."
* Hulton, W.A. ed., ''The Coucher Book or Cartulary of Whalley Abbey. Vol. I'', [[Space:Remains Historical & Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester|Remains Historical & Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester]] (Printed for The Chetham Society, 1846) [https://books.google.ca/books?id=2_0rAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA3 Vol. 10, Page 3]
* Farrer, William & Brownbill, J. ''[[Space:The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster|The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster]]'' (Archibald Constable and Co. Limited, London, 1906) [https://archive.org/stream/victoriahistoryo01farruoft#page/304/mode/1up Vol. 1, Page 304-7]
== Acknowledgements ==This page has been edited according to [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Acknowledgements Style Standards] adopted by January 2014. Descriptions of imported gedcoms for this profile are under the Changes tab.
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== Biography ==
== Sources ==
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== Biography =="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." ''Magna Carta Barons''
Above text courtesy of Professor Nigel Saul and the [http://magnacarta800th.com/ Magna Carta 800th Anniversary Committee]
===Sir John de Lacy burial at Whalley Abbey===Whalley Abbey is also known as the Parish Church of St. Mary and All Saints, in Whalley, Clitheroe, Lancashire. The Abbey was partly destroyed in 1537 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Presently some fine ruins and other buildings. The intact parish church of St. Mary & All Saints, Whalley, antedates the founding of the Abbey. A premier visitor attraction.
Alton Rogers received an e-mail dated February 29, 2008 from Sharon at Whalley Abbey Reception (central.office@whalleyabbey.org) noting that the Lacy family were major land owners in the area surrounding Whalley Abbey in Lancashire and other areas in Lancashire and Yorkshire. The family very generously donated the land for the Abbey to build upon and there is a de Lacy family tomb presently within its grounds.
John de Lacy married as his 2nd wife, before 21 June 1221, Margaret (or Margery) de Quincy, daughter and heiress of Robert de Quincy, by Hawise. ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'' Vol. II, page 514 She was born before 1217. They had one son, Edmund, Knight (Constable of Chester), and three daughters, including Maud and Margaret.''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'' Vol. II, page 514 Sir John de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, died 22 July 1240, ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'' Vol. II, page 515 and his widow Margaret married as her second husband on 6 January 1214/2, Walter Marshal, Knight, 8th Earl of Pembroke. ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'' page 514, 515
=== Marriage ===
: Husband: [[De LACY-95|John de LACY]]
: Wife: [[De QUINCY-85|Margaret de QUINCY]]
: Child: [[De LACY-102|Maud de LACY]]
: Child: [[De LACY-98|Idonea de LACY]]
: Child: [[De LACY-99|Edmund de LACY]]
: Marriage: 1223, LIN, England
===Questionable Daughter, Idonia===
In 2005, Richardson was mentioning Edmund, Maud/Matilda, and 2, as of yet, unnamed daughters...and, possibly, an illegitimate son. From: "Douglas Richardson"; Subject: Complete Peerage Addition: Children of John de Lacy; Date: 3 Oct 2005 08:52:31 -0700 [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/2005-10/1128354751] In ''Magna Carta Ancestry'', Richardson only includes children Edmund, Maud/Matlida, and Margaret. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, 2011, p 517 [https://books.google.ca/books?id=8JcbV309c5UC&pg=RA1-PA517]
The source for naming the other daughter "Idonia" seems to come from a Cheshire Visitation, which has her marrying a Roger de Camville. The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580, Volume 18, p 6 [https://books.google.ca/books?id=Q_wUAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA6] Now, Richardson has stated that there was no issue from first wife, Alice, but this Visitation pedigree has also given a verified daughter, Maud/Matilda, to Alice. Idonia may also have been assigned to the incorrect mother. Richardson, having acknowledged another unnamed daughter, means the only conflict is with who her mother was, not whether she exists, or not.
However, Idonia is also involved in questionable Magna Carta lines of descent, through a claimed second marriage, into the Dutton family. While Marlyn Lewis generally tries to cite Richardson, as much as possible, and provides a great on line resource, this falls outside of Richardson's research, so he relied on other sources, ''"Pedigrees of Some of Charlemagne's Descendants, Vol. III, p. 168; Magna Charta by Wurts, p. 1005"'', giving us an indication of where this claim comes from. Marlyn Lewis: Idonea Lacie, F, #11736 [http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p391.htm#i11736]
The Charlemagne source has her as the daughter of Magna Carta John de Lacy and Margaret de Quincy, calls her "Alice (Idonia)", and marries her off to "Crusader", Geoffrey de Dutton, who dies in 1248. Wurts is the same. That would be this [[De_Dutton-57|Geoffrey]] (who needs a LNAB fix) who married this [[Lacy-124|Alice]], daughter of this John's grandfather, also a [[Lacy-276|John]], also a Crusader, like Geoffrey, also a Constable of Chester, and Baron of Halton, like his grandson.
== Gateway Ancestors ==:Descendants of [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Surety_Barons Magna Carta surety barons] who immigrated to the Americas are referred to as Gateway Ancestors. Douglas Richardson documents the ancestry of many who immigrated before 1700 in his ''Magna Carta Ancestry'' ([[#Richardson]]). WikiTree's [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Magna_Carta Magna Carta project] exists "to categorize and improve profiles of the twenty-five medieval barons who were surety for Magna Carta; about two hundred proven American colonial Gateway Ancestors who were their descendants; and the documented lineages that connect them." Using Richardson as its primary source, the project has identified most Magna Carta Gateway Ancestors with profiles in WikiTree (collected in the category [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Gateway_Ancestors Gateway Ancestors]).
:For profiles of descendants and Gateway Ancestors of } } } that have been improved and categorized by the Magna Carta project, see [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Lacy-284_Descendants Lacy-284 Descendants] (see this [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Index_of_Surety_Barons_to_Gateway_Ancestors index] for links to other surety barons and category pages for their descendants).
== Sources ==
*Royal Ancestry 2013 D. Richardson Vol. III p. 466-470
*Magna Carta Ancestry 2011 2nd ed. Vol. II p. 514-517
*http://www.whalleyabbey.co.uk/
: See also:* Nigel Saul, ''Magna Carta Barons'', database online, accessed 3 June 2014, entry for [http://www.magnacartabarons.info/john-de-lacy John de Lacy], Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK: England & Wales License
* Richardson, ''[http://www.royalancestry.net/ Magna Carta Ancestry]'', (2011), Douglas Richardson, ''[http://amzn.com/1461045207 Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families]'', Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), volume II, page 514 - 515.
* ''Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England between 1623 and 1650'', 6th ed. Weis, Frederick Lewis. (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1988).
* Harleian Society. ''The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580'', [[Space:The Publicatons of The Harleian Society|The Publicatons of The Harleian Society]] (London: The Society, 1882) [https://books.google.com/books?id=hlYN_LmEu8YC&pg=PA6 Vol. 18, Page 6]: Appendix: The Visitation of a Part of Cheshire, A.D. 1533: ::: "Joh'es Lascy Comes Lincolnie Baro de Halton et Constabul. Cestriae fundator Abbatie de Whalley". First wife: "Margareta Quincy Comitissa Lincone vxor prima." Second wife: "Alicia filia D'ni Gilberti de Auila uxor secunda."
* Hulton, W.A. ed., ''The Coucher Book or Cartulary of Whalley Abbey. Vol. I'', [[Space:Remains Historical & Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester|Remains Historical & Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester]] (Printed for The Chetham Society, 1846) [https://books.google.ca/books?id=2_0rAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA3 Vol. 10, Page 3]
* Farrer, William & Brownbill, J. ''[[Space:The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster|The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster]]'' (Archibald Constable and Co. Limited, London, 1906) [https://archive.org/stream/victoriahistoryo01farruoft#page/304/mode/1up Vol. 1, Page 304-7]
* Mastin, John. ''[[Space:The History and Antiquities of Naseby, in the County of Northampton|The History and Antiquities of Naseby, in the County of Northampton]]'' (Francis Hodson, Cambridge, 1792) [https://books.google.com/books?id=g65BAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA62 Page 62]
* ••Mary Hillard Hinton, Genealogist, Raleigh, NC •Extinct and Dormant Peerages, 1831 •Magna Carta Barons and their Descendants, pgs. 159, 241, 269, 270, 292 •Virginia Heraldica, pgs. 66, 69, 87, 88 ���Ancestral Papers #119, of the National Society of Runnymeade •Wurt's Magna Carta •The Carter Family
}}
}
== Biography =="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." ''Magna Carta Barons''
Above text courtesy of Professor Nigel Saul and the [http://magnacarta800th.com/ Magna Carta 800th Anniversary Committee]
===Sir John de Lacy burial at Whalley Abbey===Whalley Abbey is also known as the Parish Church of St. Mary and All Saints, in Whalley, Clitheroe, Lancashire. The Abbey was partly destroyed in 1537 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Presently some fine ruins and other buildings. The intact parish church of St. Mary & All Saints, Whalley, antedates the founding of the Abbey. A premier visitor attraction.
Alton Rogers received an e-mail dated February 29, 2008 from Sharon at Whalley Abbey Reception (central.office@whalleyabbey.org) noting that the Lacy family were major land owners in the area surrounding Whalley Abbey in Lancashire and other areas in Lancashire and Yorkshire. The family very generously donated the land for the Abbey to build upon and there is a de Lacy family tomb presently within its grounds.
John de Lacy married as his 2nd wife, before 21 June 1221, Margaret (or Margery) de Quincy, daughter and heiress of Robert de Quincy, by Hawise. ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'' Vol. II, page 514 She was born before 1217. They had one son, Edmund, Knight (Constable of Chester), and three daughters, including Maud and Margaret.''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'' Vol. II, page 514 Sir John de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, died 22 July 1240, ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'' Vol. II, page 515 and his widow Margaret married as her second husband on 6 January 1214/2, Walter Marshal, Knight, 8th Earl of Pembroke. ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'' page 514, 515
=== Marriage ===
: Husband: [[De LACY-95|John de LACY]]
: Wife: [[De QUINCY-85|Margaret de QUINCY]]
: Child: [[De LACY-102|Maud de LACY]]
: Child: [[De LACY-98|Idonea de LACY]]
: Child: [[De LACY-99|Edmund de LACY]]
: Marriage: 1223, LIN, England
===Questionable Daughter, Idonia===
In 2005, Richardson was mentioning Edmund, Maud/Matilda, and 2, as of yet, unnamed daughters...and, possibly, an illegitimate son. From: "Douglas Richardson"; Subject: Complete Peerage Addition: Children of John de Lacy; Date: 3 Oct 2005 08:52:31 -0700 [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/2005-10/1128354751] In ''Magna Carta Ancestry'', Richardson only includes children Edmund, Maud/Matlida, and Margaret. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, 2011, p 517 [https://books.google.ca/books?id=8JcbV309c5UC&pg=RA1-PA517]
The source for naming the other daughter "Idonia" seems to come from a Cheshire Visitation, which has her marrying a Roger de Camville. The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580, Volume 18, p 6 [https://books.google.ca/books?id=Q_wUAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA6] Now, Richardson has stated that there was no issue from first wife, Alice, but this Visitation pedigree has also given a verified daughter, Maud/Matilda, to Alice. Idonia may also have been assigned to the incorrect mother. Richardson, having acknowledged another unnamed daughter, means the only conflict is with who her mother was, not whether she exists, or not.
However, Idonia is also involved in questionable Magna Carta lines of descent, through a claimed second marriage, into the Dutton family. While Marlyn Lewis generally tries to cite Richardson, as much as possible, and provides a great on line resource, this falls outside of Richardson's research, so he relied on other sources, ''"Pedigrees of Some of Charlemagne's Descendants, Vol. III, p. 168; Magna Charta by Wurts, p. 1005"'', giving us an indication of where this claim comes from. Marlyn Lewis: Idonea Lacie, F, #11736 [http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p391.htm#i11736]
The Charlemagne source has her as the daughter of Magna Carta John de Lacy and Margaret de Quincy, calls her "Alice (Idonia)", and marries her off to "Crusader", Geoffrey de Dutton, who dies in 1248. Wurts is the same. That would be this [[De_Dutton-57|Geoffrey]] (who needs a LNAB fix) who married this [[Lacy-124|Alice]], daughter of this John's grandfather, also a [[Lacy-276|John]], also a Crusader, like Geoffrey, also a Constable of Chester, and Baron of Halton, like his grandson.
== Gateway Ancestors ==:Descendants of [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Surety_Barons Magna Carta surety barons] who immigrated to the Americas are referred to as Gateway Ancestors. Douglas Richardson documents the ancestry of many who immigrated before 1700 in his ''Magna Carta Ancestry'' ([[#Richardson]]). WikiTree's [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Magna_Carta Magna Carta project] exists "to categorize and improve profiles of the twenty-five medieval barons who were surety for Magna Carta; about two hundred proven American colonial Gateway Ancestors who were their descendants; and the documented lineages that connect them." Using Richardson as its primary source, the project has identified most Magna Carta Gateway Ancestors with profiles in WikiTree (collected in the category [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Gateway_Ancestors Gateway Ancestors]).
:For profiles of descendants and Gateway Ancestors of } } } that have been improved and categorized by the Magna Carta project, see [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Lacy-284_Descendants Lacy-284 Descendants] (see this [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Index_of_Surety_Barons_to_Gateway_Ancestors index] for links to other surety barons and category pages for their descendants).
== Sources ==
*Royal Ancestry 2013 D. Richardson Vol. III p. 466-470
*Magna Carta Ancestry 2011 2nd ed. Vol. II p. 514-517
*http://www.whalleyabbey.co.uk/
: See also:* Nigel Saul, ''Magna Carta Barons'', database online, accessed 3 June 2014, entry for [http://www.magnacartabarons.info/john-de-lacy John de Lacy], Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK: England & Wales License
* Richardson, ''[http://www.royalancestry.net/ Magna Carta Ancestry]'', (2011), Douglas Richardson, ''[http://amzn.com/1461045207 Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families]'', Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), volume II, page 514 - 515.
* ''Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England between 1623 and 1650'', 6th ed. Weis, Frederick Lewis. (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1988).
* Harleian Society. ''The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580'', [[Space:The Publicatons of The Harleian Society|The Publicatons of The Harleian Society]] (London: The Society, 1882) [https://books.google.com/books?id=hlYN_LmEu8YC&pg=PA6 Vol. 18, Page 6]: Appendix: The Visitation of a Part of Cheshire, A.D. 1533: ::: "Joh'es Lascy Comes Lincolnie Baro de Halton et Constabul. Cestriae fundator Abbatie de Whalley". First wife: "Margareta Quincy Comitissa Lincone vxor prima." Second wife: "Alicia filia D'ni Gilberti de Auila uxor secunda."
* Hulton, W.A. ed., ''The Coucher Book or Cartulary of Whalley Abbey. Vol. I'', [[Space:Remains Historical & Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester|Remains Historical & Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester]] (Printed for The Chetham Society, 1846) [https://books.google.ca/books?id=2_0rAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA3 Vol. 10, Page 3]
* Farrer, William & Brownbill, J. ''[[Space:The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster|The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster]]'' (Archibald Constable and Co. Limited, London, 1906) [https://archive.org/stream/victoriahistoryo01farruoft#page/304/mode/1up Vol. 1, Page 304-7]
* Mastin, John. ''[[Space:The History and Antiquities of Naseby, in the County of Northampton|The History and Antiquities of Naseby, in the County of Northampton]]'' (Francis Hodson, Cambridge, 1792) [https://books.google.com/books?id=g65BAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA62 Page 62]
* ••Mary Hillard Hinton, Genealogist, Raleigh, NC •Extinct and Dormant Peerages, 1831 •Magna Carta Barons and their Descendants, pgs. 159, 241, 269, 270, 292 •Virginia Heraldica, pgs. 66, 69, 87, 88 ���Ancestral Papers #119, of the National Society of Runnymeade •Wurt's Magna Carta •The Carter Family
}}
}
== Biography =="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." ''Magna Carta Barons''
Above text courtesy of Professor Nigel Saul and the [http://magnacarta800th.com/ Magna Carta 800th Anniversary Committee]
===Sir John de Lacy burial at Whalley Abbey===Whalley Abbey is also known as the Parish Church of St. Mary and All Saints, in Whalley, Clitheroe, Lancashire. The Abbey was partly destroyed in 1537 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Presently some fine ruins and other buildings. The intact parish church of St. Mary & All Saints, Whalley, antedates the founding of the Abbey. A premier visitor attraction.
Alton Rogers received an e-mail dated February 29, 2008 from Sharon at Whalley Abbey Reception (central.office@whalleyabbey.org) noting that the Lacy family were major land owners in the area surrounding Whalley Abbey in Lancashire and other areas in Lancashire and Yorkshire. The family very generously donated the land for the Abbey to build upon and there is a de Lacy family tomb presently within its grounds.
John de Lacy married as his 2nd wife, before 21 June 1221, Margaret (or Margery) de Quincy, daughter and heiress of Robert de Quincy, by Hawise. ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'' Vol. II, page 514 She was born before 1217. They had one son, Edmund, Knight (Constable of Chester), and three daughters, including Maud and Margaret.''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'' Vol. II, page 514 Sir John de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, died 22 July 1240, ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'' Vol. II, page 515 and his widow Margaret married as her second husband on 6 January 1214/2, Walter Marshal, Knight, 8th Earl of Pembroke. ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'' page 514, 515
=== Marriage ===
: Husband: [[De LACY-95|John de LACY]]
: Wife: [[De QUINCY-85|Margaret de QUINCY]]
: Child: [[De LACY-102|Maud de LACY]]
: Child: [[De LACY-98|Idonea de LACY]]
: Child: [[De LACY-99|Edmund de LACY]]
: Marriage: 1223, LIN, England
===Questionable Daughter, Idonia===
In 2005, Richardson was mentioning Edmund, Maud/Matilda, and 2, as of yet, unnamed daughters...and, possibly, an illegitimate son. From: "Douglas Richardson"; Subject: Complete Peerage Addition: Children of John de Lacy; Date: 3 Oct 2005 08:52:31 -0700 [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/2005-10/1128354751] In ''Magna Carta Ancestry'', Richardson only includes children Edmund, Maud/Matlida, and Margaret. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, 2011, p 517 [https://books.google.ca/books?id=8JcbV309c5UC&pg=RA1-PA517]
The source for naming the other daughter "Idonia" seems to come from a Cheshire Visitation, which has her marrying a Roger de Camville. The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580, Volume 18, p 6 [https://books.google.ca/books?id=Q_wUAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA6] Now, Richardson has stated that there was no issue from first wife, Alice, but this Visitation pedigree has also given a verified daughter, Maud/Matilda, to Alice. Idonia may also have been assigned to the incorrect mother. Richardson, having acknowledged another unnamed daughter, means the only conflict is with who her mother was, not whether she exists, or not.
However, Idonia is also involved in questionable Magna Carta lines of descent, through a claimed second marriage, into the Dutton family. While Marlyn Lewis generally tries to cite Richardson, as much as possible, and provides a great on line resource, this falls outside of Richardson's research, so he relied on other sources, ''"Pedigrees of Some of Charlemagne's Descendants, Vol. III, p. 168; Magna Charta by Wurts, p. 1005"'', giving us an indication of where this claim comes from. Marlyn Lewis: Idonea Lacie, F, #11736 [http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p391.htm#i11736]
The Charlemagne source has her as the daughter of Magna Carta John de Lacy and Margaret de Quincy, calls her "Alice (Idonia)", and marries her off to "Crusader", Geoffrey de Dutton, who dies in 1248. Wurts is the same. That would be this [[De_Dutton-57|Geoffrey]] (who needs a LNAB fix) who married this [[Lacy-124|Alice]], daughter of this John's grandfather, also a [[Lacy-276|John]], also a Crusader, like Geoffrey, also a Constable of Chester, and Baron of Halton, like his grandson.
== Gateway Ancestors ==:Descendants of [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Surety_Barons Magna Carta surety barons] who immigrated to the Americas are referred to as Gateway Ancestors. Douglas Richardson documents the ancestry of many who immigrated before 1700 in his ''Magna Carta Ancestry'' ([[#Richardson]]). WikiTree's [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Magna_Carta Magna Carta project] exists "to categorize and improve profiles of the twenty-five medieval barons who were surety for Magna Carta; about two hundred proven American colonial Gateway Ancestors who were their descendants; and the documented lineages that connect them." Using Richardson as its primary source, the project has identified most Magna Carta Gateway Ancestors with profiles in WikiTree (collected in the category [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Gateway_Ancestors Gateway Ancestors]).
:For profiles of descendants and Gateway Ancestors of } } } that have been improved and categorized by the Magna Carta project, see [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Lacy-284_Descendants Lacy-284 Descendants] (see this [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Index_of_Surety_Barons_to_Gateway_Ancestors index] for links to other surety barons and category pages for their descendants).
== Sources ==
*Royal Ancestry 2013 D. Richardson Vol. III p. 466-470
*Magna Carta Ancestry 2011 2nd ed. Vol. II p. 514-517
*http://www.whalleyabbey.co.uk/
: See also:* Nigel Saul, ''Magna Carta Barons'', database online, accessed 3 June 2014, entry for [http://www.magnacartabarons.info/john-de-lacy John de Lacy], Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK: England & Wales License
* Richardson, ''[http://www.royalancestry.net/ Magna Carta Ancestry]'', (2011), Douglas Richardson, ''[http://amzn.com/1461045207 Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families]'', Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), volume II, page 514 - 515.
* ''Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England between 1623 and 1650'', 6th ed. Weis, Frederick Lewis. (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1988).
* Harleian Society. ''The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580'', [[Space:The Publicatons of The Harleian Society|The Publicatons of The Harleian Society]] (London: The Society, 1882) [https://books.google.com/books?id=hlYN_LmEu8YC&pg=PA6 Vol. 18, Page 6]: Appendix: The Visitation of a Part of Cheshire, A.D. 1533: ::: "Joh'es Lascy Comes Lincolnie Baro de Halton et Constabul. Cestriae fundator Abbatie de Whalley". First wife: "Margareta Quincy Comitissa Lincone vxor prima." Second wife: "Alicia filia D'ni Gilberti de Auila uxor secunda."
* Hulton, W.A. ed., ''The Coucher Book or Cartulary of Whalley Abbey. Vol. I'', [[Space:Remains Historical & Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester|Remains Historical & Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester]] (Printed for The Chetham Society, 1846) [https://books.google.ca/books?id=2_0rAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA3 Vol. 10, Page 3]
* Farrer, William & Brownbill, J. ''[[Space:The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster|The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster]]'' (Archibald Constable and Co. Limited, London, 1906) [https://archive.org/stream/victoriahistoryo01farruoft#page/304/mode/1up Vol. 1, Page 304-7]
* Mastin, John. ''[[Space:The History and Antiquities of Naseby, in the County of Northampton|The History and Antiquities of Naseby, in the County of Northampton]]'' (Francis Hodson, Cambridge, 1792) [https://books.google.com/books?id=g65BAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA62 Page 62]
* ••Mary Hillard Hinton, Genealogist, Raleigh, NC •Extinct and Dormant Peerages, 1831 •Magna Carta Barons and their Descendants, pgs. 159, 241, 269, 270, 292 •Virginia Heraldica, pgs. 66, 69, 87, 88 ���Ancestral Papers #119, of the National Society of Runnymeade •Wurt's Magna Carta •The Carter Family
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Events
| Birth | Abt 1192 | Lincolnshire, England | |||
| Marriage | 21 Jun 1221 | Margaret Quincy | |||
| Death | 22 Jul 1240 | Stanlaw, Chester, England | |||
| Alt name | John Lacy Knt | ||||
| Alt name | Lascy | ||||
| Title (Nobility) | Sir | ||||
| Reference No | 2175744 | ||||
| Reference No | 2205570 | ||||
| Reference No | 60 |
Families
| Spouse | Margaret Quincy (1217 - 1266) |
| Child | Maud Lacy (1222 - 1289) |
| Child | Idonea Lacy (1223 - ) |
| Child | Edmund Lacy (1230 - 1258) |
| Father | Roger Lacy (1165 - 1211) |
| Mother | Matilda Clare (1182 - 1238) |
| Sibling | Roger Lacy (1194 - ) |