John, constable of Chester

Soldier and landowner

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 1190, probably on 11 October.

Place of Death: the siege of Acre.

The date and place are given by Suppe (ODNB).

Relationships

Father: Richard fitz Eustace (died 1163).

This relationship is given by Suppe (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (p. 250, p. 553), and by the Complete Peerage (7:677), which calls him Robert fitz Eustace.

Mother: Albreda de Lisours (died 1194).

This relationship is given by Suppe (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (p. 250, p. 553), and by Wightman. It is recorded in the Blyth Priory Cartulary (no. 337).

Spouse: Alice, daughter of Alice de Vere and Roger fitz Richard of Warkworth (or Alice's first husband, Robert of Essex).

Robert of Essex is given by Suppe (ODNB), by Timson (p. xxxvi), and by the Victoria County History of Lancashire (1:299-300). Keats-Rohan (p. 250) gives Alice's parents as Roger of Warkworth and Adelisa de Vere. The Complete Peerage (7:677) does not give parents for Alice.

Children:

Roger de Lacy (died 1 October 1211) married Maud de Clere.

Richard of Chester.

Geoffrey.

Eustace of Chester. Eustace may have been illegitimate.

(Probably) a daughter married Geoffrey de Dutton. 

References

Cawley, Charles. “John” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59).

Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).

Kingsford, C.L. “Lacy, Roger de (d. 1211)”, rev. Paul Dalton, in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, January 2008).

Page, William (ed.) The Victoria History of the Counties of England. Lancashire. Volume 1. (London: 1906).

Suppe, Frederick. “John (d. 1190)" in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).

The Cartulary of Blyth Priory. Timson, R.T. ed. (London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1973).

Wightman, W.E. The Lacy Family in England and Normandy 1066-1194 (Oxford at the Clarendon Press: 1966).