Saher de Quincy, Earl of Winchester

1155 - 1219  (64 years)

• Name	Saher de Quincy
  Relationship	with Robert Alan Roy
  Birth	1155  [2, 4]
  History	birth to death
  	His singular christian name of Saher, or Saier, is a likely a corruption from the Saxon Segher, Sigher, or Seagar, a Conqueror. Eliza S. Quincy refers to him as "John de Quincy, created Earl of Winchester by King John, 1207." [4] In 1207, he was created the first Earl of Winchester. [5] In 1213, Saher de Quincy was one of the twenty-five sureties of the Magna Charta, for which he was excommunicated. He was a leader of the Barons who forced John to sign the Magna Charta. [2, 4, 6]
  Death	3 Nov 1219	Damietta, Egypt   [1, 2, 4, 6]
  Siblings	2 Siblings
  1. Saher de Quincy, Earl of Winchester,   b. 1155   d. 3 Nov 1219, Damietta, Egypt  (Age 64 years) ▻ Margaret de Beaumont,  m. 1175   2. daughter de Quincy   3. Simon de Quincy
  Person ID	I5397	| Roy Line, Boudreau Line
  Last Modified	2 Sep 2020

  
  

  Father	Robert de Quincy, Lord of Buckley and Fawside   d. After 20 Aug 1201
  Mother	Orabella de Leuchars   d. Before 30 Jun 1203, England
  Family ID	F4185	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret de Beaumont   d. 12 Jan 1635/36  [2]
  Marriage	1175  [4, 5, 6, 7]
  	Weis (1982) gives the marriage date as before 1173. [2]
  Age at Marriage	He : ~ 20 years - She : ??.
  Children	1. Robert de Quincy + 2. Robert de Quincy   d. 1217, London, England   3. Roger de Quincy, Earl of Winchester,   b. Abt 1174   d. 25 Apr 1264 (Age 90 years)   4. Hawise de Quincy   5. Orabella de Quincy
  Family ID	F2984	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Sep 2020

  
  

• Event Map		Death - 3 Nov 1219 - Damietta, Egypt  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Photos

  Armes of Saher de Quincy

  
  

• Sources

  [S1862] McAndrew, Bruce. "The Heraldry of the Early Fife Earls: Kin-Based Succession and Promogeniture", (Vowchurch, UK: Foundations: Journal of the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, Volume 4, 2012). [S59] Weis, Frederick Lewis. Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England Between 1623 and 1650 Fifth Editionif, (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1982). [S2000] ------------- Sources Below not Reviewed -------------. [S65] Sewell, Robert James. Sewell: A History of the Sewell Family from the Earliest Times, (unknown: manuscript, March 2008). [S1449] Cokayne, George E. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the UK, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, volume VII , (London: The St. Catherine Press, 1929). [S63] von Redlisch, Marcellus Donald Alexander R. Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants volume 1 , (Cottonport, Louisiana: Order of the Crown of Charlemagne, 1941). [S1465] Barlow, Lundie W. "The Ancestry of Saher de Quincy, Earl of Winchester" , (Boston: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, volume CXII, January 1958).