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Robert was the second son of Saher de Quincy and Maud/Matilda de Senlis. He was probably born in about 1140.[1][2][3][4]
Robert married Orabilis, daughter and heiress of Ness of Leuchars.[1][2][3][4] They had at least one child:
Douglas Richardson says they also had a daughter, whose name is not known.[1]
Robert and Orabilis's marriage was formally ended. He subsequently married someone called Eve/Eva,[1][2][3] who, according to Charles Cawley, was sister of Christine who married William Brus of Annandale, though there seems to be no firm source for this. That Eva had a sister called Christine, and a brother Roland, is evidenced by a donation (recorded in an undated charter) she made to Melrose Abbey for the souls of her "Lords" Walter de Berkeley and Robert de Quincy, her brother Roland, and her sister Christine.[3] Walter de Berkeley was presumably a husband of Orabilis: Charles Cawley assumes that Orabilis married him after her marriage to Robert de Quincy ended[3] but Richardson says that she wed Gilchrist, Earl of Mar (presumably Gillecrist) after her Quincy marriage,[1] and Cokayne agrees,[2] as does The Scots Peerage.[5][6]
Robert appears to have gone to Scotland while a young man. He witnessed a Scottish charter which may have been drawn top in 1163.[2]
His first marriage brought him lands in Fife, Lothian and Perth. William the Lion granted him the castle of Forfar[2] and appointed him Justice of Lothian.[1]
In 1190 Robert joined Richard I in the Holy Land. In July 1191 he was in charge of a group of men taking aid to Antioch. The next month he and the Duke of Burgundy went to Tyre to collect prisoners from Philip Augustus.[2]
In 1192 Robert was an heir to his nephew Saher, son of his brother Saher.[2][3] Among the English lands he inherited was Buckby, Northamptonshire, for which there is a scutage record of 1194-5.[3][7]
Robert fought in Normandy in 1194 and 1196.[2]
Cokayne says that Robert died before Michaelmas 1197, citing an entry in the Pipe Rolls, but this appears to be wrong.[2] In 1200 Robert and his son Saher witnessed a charter of Gilbert, Earl of Strathearn and Robert's niece Maud d'Aubeney relating to the foundation of Inchaffray Abbey.[1][3] People of Medieval Scotland gives Robert's death date as 1200-1201.[8] Douglas Richardson says he was alive in 1205-1206, when there is a record of a debt he had incurred of £20, but died by 1207-8, when his son Saher answered for the debt.[1]
A past profile for another Robert de Quincy has been merged into this one: Quincy-210. It was unsourced and reflected muddle in an unsourced family tree on Geni.com.[9] One entry in that family tree is for a "Richard de Quincy" who is shown there as father of Saher de Quincy (father of the Robert of this profile) whose parents and family origins are in fact not known; this "Sir Richard's" wife has an entry in the tree which names her as "Lady Judith de Quincy (Orabilis)" - the "Orabilis" suggests that there is confusion with Orabella de Leuchars, wife of the Robert of this profile, called Orabilis in sources in Latin cited in Medlands.[10] - Michael Cayley 13:22, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
In an 1898 article, William Ireland suggested that the name of Robert's first wife was Eva.[11] Joseph Bain, in a 1900 article in the same periodical, produced evidence that her name was Orabilis,[12] but William Ireland the same year wrote a response maintaining his position, adding that he regarded "Orabilis" as being an adjective not a name.[13] Both authors seems to have become confused about Eva, Robert's second wife.
Keats-Rohan says that Robert's second wife was called Hawise, a daughter of the Earl of Chester, and that the Surety Baron Saher de Quincy was her son.[4] That Robert' second wife was Eva rather than Hawise would appear to be disproved by the donation of Eva to Melrose Abbey cited in Medlands and referred to above.[3] Keats-Rohan also gives Robert a death date of 1217.[4] She cites Sanders' English Baronies[14] but she appears to have confused the Robert of this profile with his grandson Robert who married Hawise, daughter of Hugh, Earl of Chester, and died in 1217. See also the corrections to Keats-Rohan on the website of the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy which also mentions additional confusion with a third Robert de Quincy.[15]
Robert has previously been shown on WikiTree as father of Simon de Quincy. In his entry for Saher de Quincy, the Magna Carta Surety Baron, Douglas Richardson refers to a quarrel in 1205-6 between Saher and St Andrew's Cathedral, Scotland over the presentation of a Simon de Quincy to the church of Leuchars in Fife.[16][17] There is no indication how Simon fits into the de Quincy family.
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edited by Michael Cayley
Unless I missed something? Let me know if I did. Otherwise, and if no objections, I'll disconnect her as his wife.