Robert de Quincy explained

Robert de Quincy
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Spouse:	Orabilis Basillia
Noble Family:	Quincy family

Sir Robert de Quincy (1140 –), Justiciar of Lothian, was a 12th-century English and Scottish noble.

Life

Quincy was a younger son of the first Saer de Quincy and Maud de Senlis. Robert was granted the castle of Forfar and a "toft" (a homestead) in Haddington by King William of Scotland, his cousin. He served as joint Justiciar of Lothian serving from 1171 to 1178.

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

Marriage and issue

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

• Saer de Quincy (died 1219), married Margaret de Beaumont, had issue.

Sources

• Fleming, Alexander & Mason, Roger. Scotland and the Flemish People. Birlinn Ltd, 2019.
• Book: Macquarie, Alan . Scotland and the Crusades, 1095-1560 . John Donald . 1997 . 9780859764452 .
• Book: Marshall, Susan . Illegitimacy in Medieval Scotland, 1100-1500 . Boydell Press . 2021 .
• Book: Stringer, Keith John . Earl David of Huntingdon, 1152-1219: a study in Anglo-Scottish history . Edinburgh University Press . 1985 . 9780852244869.

External links

• People of Medieval Scotland 1093-1371 - Robert de Quincy (d.1200x01)
• Geni.com Sir Robert de Quincy, Lord of Long Buckby