Robert de Quincy facts for kids

Sir Robert de Quincy, 1st Baron of Prestoungrange (c. 1140 – c. 1197), Justiciar of Lothian, was a 12th-century English and Scottish noble.

Life

Quincy was a younger son of Saer de Quincy and Maud de Senlis, daughter of Simon I de Senlis, Earl of Huntingdon-Northampton and Maud of Huntingdon, stepdaughter of King David I of Scotland.

Robert was granted the castle of Forfar and a "toft" (a homestead) in Haddington 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, daughter of Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester
• Unknown (daughter) de Quincy married de St Andrew

Orabilis and Robert divorced.

Secondly, he married Eve(possibly the daughter of Uhtred, lord of Galloway).