Robert de Quency

Constable of Leinster

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 1172.

Place of Death: Kildare.

The date and place are given by Orpen (1:322).

Relationships

Father: uncertain.

Mother: uncertain.

Orpen (1:322) suggests that he was “probably a relative of Sayer de Quency, the future Earl of Winchester.”

Spouse: a daughter of Richard fitz Gilbert de Clare, 2nd earl of Pembroke. Married 1171.

Orpen (1:391) states that Maud was Robert’s daughter by a daughter of Strongbow. Orpen cites (1:323 note) the Annals of Innisfallen that Robert de Quincy was a son-in-law of the earl of Striguil. The Complete Peerage (10 appendix H, p. 103) states that a daughter of Richard, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, married Robert de Quenci, constable of Leinster, in 1171. It further states that Robert was slain shortly after, leaving an infant daughter. Some sources give her name as Basilea, but the Complete Peerage explains that this is an error. She may have been named Aline.

Children:

Maud de Quency married Philip de Prendergast.

References

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).

Orpen, Goddard Henry. Ireland under the Normans: 1169-1216 vol. 1, vol. 2 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1911).