Matilda (Senlis) de Quincy

Born [date unknown] in England

Ancestors

Wife of Robert (Clare) de Clare — married 1119 in England

Wife of Saher (Quincy) de Quincy — married after 1136 in England

Descendants

Died about 1163 in England

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Biography

Matilda was the daughter of Simon de St Liz/Senlis and Maud, daughter of Waltheof, Earl of Huntingdon.^[1][2][3]

Matilda married twice. Her first husband was Robert de Clare, who died in the period 1134-1136.^[1][2][4][5] They had at least three children

• Walter^[1][4]
• Maud^[3][4][5][6]
• Simon, named as Walter's brother and son of Walter and Matilda in a foundation charter of Daventry Priory^[6]

Robert de Clare died in 1137.^[4]

Matilda's second husband was Saher de Quincy.^[1][2][3] They had at least two children:

• Saher^[2][7][8][4]
• Robert^[2][3][6][4]

They probably had one other daughter:

• Alice, who married Roger de Huntingfield^[9][10]

Matilda's second husband probably died in about 1157, when the Pipe Rolls record his son Saher inheriting some of his lands.^[8] There is also a Pipe Rolls record for 1157-8 of Maud coming into possession of what appear to be dower lands from her marriage to him.^[1] She died no later than 1163, when her son Saher paid a fine of 1 mark in relation to her manor at Eynesbury, Huntingdonshire.^[2]

Research Notes

Douglas Richardson's entry for Maud/Matilda in Royal Ancestry conflates her second husband Saher de Quincy with their son of the same first name.^[4]

Keats-Rohan suggests that Jueta who married Robert FitzLancelin may possibly have been a daughter of Maud and Saher de Quincy. Her basis for this is that Saher's son Saher restored a knight's fee at Childerley, Cambridgeshire to Jueta's son William and grandson Rainald/Reginald.^[7][8] The charter confirming this is also cited in Farrer's Honors and Knights' Fees,^[11] but Farrer does not name Jueta's parents, and Keats-Rohan's tentative identification of them must be regarded as very uncertain.

A manuscript relating to the foundation of Dunmow Priory suggests that Matilda died in 1140, but dates in this are not reliable.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5} Charles Cawley. MATILDA de Senlis, entry in "Medieval Lands" database (accessed 1 October 2021)
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5} G E Cokayne. The Complete Peerage, revised edition, Vol XII, Part II, St Catherine Press, 1916, pp. 745-746, viewable on Familysearch
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} K S B Keats-Rohan. Domesday Descendants, The Boydell Press, 2002, pp. 709-710
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), Vol. II, pp. 644-645, FITZ WALTER 4
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Frederick Lewis Weis, with additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr and William R Beall. The Magna Carta Sureties, 1215, 5th edition, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1999, pp. 187-188, line 157.1
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2} Charles Cawley. ROBERT FitzRichard de Clare, entry in "Medieval Lands" database (accessed 1 October2021)
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} K S B Keats-Rohan. Domesday Descendants, p. 652
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2} Charles Cawley. SAHER I de Quincy, entry in "Medieval Lands" database (accessed 1 October 2021)
9. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, pp. 373-374, discussion in footnote to HUNTINGFIELD 5
10. ↑ Douglas Richardson post of 17 December 2002 on soc.genealogy.medieval in the thread Alice de Senlis (d. 1204)
11. ↑ William Farrer. Honors and Knights' Fees, Vol. II, Manchester University Press, 1925, pp. 352-353