Margaret (Beaumont) de Quincy (bef. 1172 - abt. 1235)

Born before 1172 in Leicestershire, England [uncertain]

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Died about 12 Jan 1235 after about age 63 in England

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Biography

Margaret was born before 1172.^[1]

She was co-heiress in 1204 to her brother, Robert Fitz Pernel, 4th Earl of Leicester, Steward of England, by which she inherited one-half of the barony of Leicester, Leicestershire.^[2]

Margaret may have been recognised as Countess of Winchester in her own right after the death of her husband Saher de Quincy in 1219.^[2] Saher died owing money to the Crown. On 2 August 1220, the Sheriff of Wiltshire was ordered to safeguard his chattels and corn in lands inherited by himself and his wife, which were to be used to meet his debts and fulfil his will, and held at the date he set out for Jerusalem until he received further orders. A week later the Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire was ordered to have corn and chattels on lands in those counties valued and handed over to Saher's widow after she had given security for debts Saher owed the Crown.^[3]

In February 1223 Margaret agreed to pay a fine of 400 marks, payable in instalments, tp the Crown for the marriage of her daughter Hawise to Hugh de Vere.^[4]

On 13 July 1229 Margaret agreed to pay 80 marks to the Crown for "lands of the Normans" which she or others held and that were in her fee, so that she could hold them for life and they could then pass to her son Roger.^[5][6]

In 1231, Bishop Robert Grosseteste wrote Margaret regarding a complaint of the conduct of her bailiffs in the bishop’'s prebend.^[7][8]

Margaret died between 12 and 15 January or on 12 February 1235.^[1][2] On 12 February 1235 the escheators who had taken her lands and tenements into Henry III's hands were ordered not to prevent her executors disposing of chattels to fulfil her will, on condition that the executors agreed to be answerable for any debt Margaret owed the Crown.^[9]

Burial: Brackley, Northamptonshire, England. NB this is not stated in the sources on this profile. ^{[citation needed]}

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Charles Cawley. entry for Margaret in "Medieval Lands" database, accessed 10 May 2021
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} G E Cokayne. Complete Peerage, revised edition, Vol. XIIB, p. 750, viewable on Familysearch
3. ↑ Henry III Fine Rolls Project, Fine Roll C 60/12, 4 HENRY III (1219–1220), entries 208 and 222, web, accessed 3 October 2021
4. ↑ Henry III Fine Rolls Project, Fine Roll C 60/18, 7 HENRY III (1222–1223), entry 83, web, accessed 3 October 2021
5. ↑ Henry III Fine Rolls Project, Fine Roll C 60/28, 13 HENRY III (1228–1229), entry 260, web, accessed 3 October 2021
6. ↑ '1229, membranes 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6', in Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry III: Volume 2, 1225-1232, ed. H C Maxwell Lyte (London, 1903), pp. 234-258, British History Online, accessed 30 October 2021
7. ↑ Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), Vol. III p. 403-412, QUINCY 1, Google Books
8. ↑ Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), Vol. III, pp. 437-446, QUINCY 6
9. ↑ Henry III Fine Rolls Project, Fine Roll C 60/34, 19 HENRY III (1234–1235), entry 133, web, accessed 3 October 2021

• Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), Vol. III, pp. 437-446, QUINCY 6
• Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), Vol. III p. 403-412, QUINCY 1, Google Books
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, entry by Richard D Oram for 'Quincy, Saer de, earl of Winchester', print and online 2004, revised online 2005

Acknowledgements

Thank you to Carol McDonald for sharing information from the Fine Rolls.