Roger de Lacy (died 1211)

Soldier and administrator

Roger adopted the surname “de Lacy” on inheriting his grandmother’s estates.

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 1 October 1211.

Place of Death: Stanlaw Abbey.

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

Place of Burial: Stanlaw Abbey.

The place is given by Kingsford (ODNB).

Relationships

Father: John (died 1190), constable of Chester.

This relationship is given by Kingsford (ODNB), by Wightman, and by the Complete Peerage (7:676 fn i).

Mother: Alice de Vere.

This relationship is given by Kingsford (ODNB), who states that Alice was a cousin of William de Mandeville, earl of Essex, and niece of Aubrey (III) de Vere, earl of Oxford. Suppe (ODNB) states that Alice’s parents were Robert of Essex and his wife, Alice. Cawley notes that Domesday Descendants gives Alice [de Vere]’s father as Roger fitz Richard, the first husband of Robert of Essex’s wife, Alice.

Spouse: Maud de Clere.

This relationship is given by Kingsford (ODNB).

Children:

John de Lacy (about 1192 - 22 July 1240), third earl of Lincoln, married (1) Alice, daughter of Gilbert de l’Aigle; married (2) Margaret, daughter of Robert de Quincy.

Roger.

(possibly) Robert, constable of Flamborough.

(probably) a daughter married Alan of Galloway.

References

Cawley, Charles. “Roger” 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).

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).

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

Vincent, Nicholas. “Lacy, John de, third earl of Lincoln (c. 1192 - 1240)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, September 2010).

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