Baron Zouche Roger la Zouche

Notes:

Alan had a military summons in 1242 to attend the King into France, and in ten years had the whole of County of Cheshire and all North Wales placed under his government. In 45th of Henry III, 1261, he obtained a charter for a weekly market at Ashby La Zouche in Leicestershire, and for two fairs in the year at Swavesley. About this time he was made Justice itinerant for Counties Southampton, Buckinghamshire and Northampton and Warden of all the King's forests south of the Trent and Sheriff of Northampton. Upon the arbitration made by Louis, King of France, between Henry III and the barons, he was made one of the sureties on behalf of the King. In three years he was constituted Constable of the Tower of London and Governor of the Castle of Northampton. Sir Alan la Zouche was violently assaulted in Westminster Hall in 1268 by John, Earl of Warren and Surrey, upon a dispute between them regarding some landed property, and with his son Roger, who happened to be with him, was severely wounded. He married Elena, daughter and heir of Roger de Quincey, Earl of Winchester, and his wife Helena, daughter of Alan MacDonald and his wife, Margaret of Scotland, daughter of Prince David of Scotland, son of Prince Henry of Scotland and Ada de Warren, son of King David of Scotland and Maud, Countess of Huntington and Northumberland, son of Malcolm Conmore, King of Scotland, and Margaret, heiress of the Saxon Line. Roger de Quincey was son of Saire de Quincey, Surety for the Magna Charta, and his wife, Margaret de Bellomont, daughter of Robert de Bellomont and Isabel de Vermandois, daughter of Hugh the Great Crusader, son of Henry I, King of France.

Alan married Helen (Ela) de Quincy. Helen (daughter of Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester and Helen "of Galloway") was born in 1228. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Roger married Helen "of Galloway". Helen (daughter of Lord of Galloway Alan FitzRoland) was born about 1196 in Wigtownshire, Scotland; died after 21 Nov 1245 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Burial: Shepshed, Leicestershire, England; Just his heart is here.

Notes:

Saier de Quincy was created Earl of Winchester by King John about the year 1210. This nobleman was one of the lords present at Lincoln when William, King of Scotland, did homage to the English monarch, and he subsequently obtained large grants and immunities from King John; when, however, the baronial war broke out, his lordship's pennant waved on the side of freedom and he became so eminent amongst those sturdy chiefs that he was chosen one of the celebrated twenty-five barons appointed to enforce the observance of Magna Carta. Adhering to the same party after the accession of Henry III, the Earl of Winchester had a principal command at the battle of Lincoln and, there being defeated, was taken prisoner by the royalists. But submitting in the following October, he had restitution of all his lands and proceeded soon after, in company with the Earls of Chester and Arundel and others of the nobility, to the Holy Land where he assisted at the siege of Damietta, anno 1219, and d. the same year in his progress towards Jerusalem. His lordship m. Margaret, younger sister and co-heir of Robert Fitz-Parnell, Earl of Leicester, by which alliance he acquired a very considerable inheritance, and had issue, Robert, Roger, and Robert. At the decease of the earl, his 2nd son, Roger de Quincy, had livery of his father's estates.

[Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 447, Quincy, Earls of Winchester]

Buried:
Church Of Saint Cross

Saer married Margaret de Beaumont in 1173 in Winchester, Hampshire, England. Margaret (daughter of 3rd Earl of Leicester Robert III de Beaumont and Petronella de Grandmesnil) was born in 1156 in Beaumont, Leicestershire, England; died on 12 Jan 1235 in Northamptonshire, England; was buried in Brackley, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]