Helen (Ela) de Quincy

Family/Spouse: Baron Zouche of Ashby Alan la Zouche. Alan was born in 1210 in Ashby, Leicester, England; died on 12 Aug 1270. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Margery la Zouche was born in 1252.
2. Baron Zouche Roger la Zouche was born in 1246 in Ashby, Leicester, England.
3. Eudes la Zouche was born in 1245 in Harringworth, Northamptonshire, England.

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]

Robert married Countess of Leuchars Orabilis de Leuchars about 1153 in Brackley, Northamptonshire, England. Orabilis (daughter of Ness de Leuchars) was born about 1135 in Leuchars, Fife, Scotland; died before 30 Jun 1203 in Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Petronella de Grandmesnil in 1152/1180. Petronella (daughter of Baron Hinckley Hugh de Grandmesnil and Alice de Beaumont) was born about 1130 in Leicestershire, England; died on 1 Apr 1212 in Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]