John de , Earl of Lincoln LACY

Sources:

The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by WalterLee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999, 54-1, 107-3
Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles MosleyEditor-in-Chief, 1999, 2026
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Notes:

                   on the Earldom of Lincoln, prior creations, [Burke's Peerage, p. 1712]:

The Earldom of Lincoln was revived twenty years after the 2nd Earl'sdeath in favour of his cousin, Ranulph Earl of Chester, who of coursealso had a long-standing connection with the county through their commonancestress Countess Lucy.  Ranulph's prominent role in defeating theFrench invaders at the Battle of Lincoln earlier in 1217, the year he wasmade Earl of Lincoln, played a part in his elevation.  Soon afterMichaelmas 1230 he made over the Earldom to his sister Hawise, from whomit was conveyed to her son-in-law John de Lacy, the traffic in thedignity being approved by Henry III in both cases in the autumn of 1232.

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John de Lacy, Constable of Chester, in the 15th year of King John,undertook the payment of 7,000 marks to the crown in the space of fouryears for the livery of the lands of his inheritance and to be dischargedof all his father's debts due to the exchequer; further obliging himselfby oath that, in case he should ever swerve from his allegiance andadhere to the king's enemies, all his possessions should devolve upon thecrown; promising also that he would not marry without the king's license.By this agreement it was arranged that the king should retain the castlesof Pontefract and Dunnington, still in his own hands; and that he, thesaid John, should allow 40 per annum for the custody of thosefortresses. But the next year he had Dunnington restored to him uponhostages. About this period he joined the baronial standard and was oneof the celebrated twenty-five barons appointed to enforce the observanceof Magna Carta. But the next year he obtained letters of safe conduct tocome to the king to make his peace, and he had similar letters upon theaccession of Henry III, in the 2nd year of which monarch's reign he wentwith divers other noblemen into the Holy Land. He m. Margaret, dau. andheir of Robert de Quincy, Earl of Winchester, by Hawyse, 4th sister andco-heir of Ranulph de Meschines, Earl of Chester and Lincoln, whichRanulph, by a formal charter under his seal, granted the Earldom ofLincoln, that is, so much as he could grant thereof, to the said Hawyse,"to the end that she might be countess and that her heirs might alsoenjoy the earldom;" which grant was confirmed by the king and, at theespecial request of the countess, this John de Lacy, constable ofChester, was created by charter, dated at Northampton, 23 November, 1232,Earl of Lincoln, with remainder to the heirs of his body, by his wife,the above-named Margaret. In the contest which occurred during the sameyear between the king and Richard Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, EarlMarshal, Matthew Paris states that the Earl of Lincoln was brought overto the king's party with John le Scot, Earl of Chester, by Peter deRupibus, bishop of Winchester, for a bribe of 1,000 marks. In 1237, hislordship was one of those appointed to prohibit Oto, the pope's legate,from establishing anything derogatory to the king's crown and dignity inthe council of prelates then assembled; and the same year he had a grantof the sheriffalty of Cheshire, being likewise constituted governor ofthe castle of Chester. The earl d. in 1240, leaving Margaret, his wife,surviving, who re-m. William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke. His lordship leftissue, Edmund, his successor, and two daus., which ladies in the 27thHenry III, were removed to Windsor, there to be educated with the king'sown daus.; of these, Maud m. Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester. [SirBernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London,1883]