Robert de Quincy

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Sir Robert de Quincy
Baron of Prestoungrange
Noble family Quincy family
Spouse(s)Orabilis
Eve

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

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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. [1]

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. [1]

Robert accompanied King Richard I of England on the Third Crusade in 1190. [2] He led a force to take aid to Antioch in 1191 and also collected prisoners from Tyre. [2] 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. [1]

Marriage and issue

Robert married Orabilis, daughter of Nes fitz William, Lord of Leuchars. [3]

They had:

Orabilis and Robert divorced. [5]

Secondly, he married Eve(possibly the daughter of Uhtred, lord of Galloway). [6]

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Baronage of Scotland
Preceded by
New Creation
Baron of Prestoungrange
1189-1197
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