Saher IV de , 1st Earl of Winchester QUINCY

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The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by WalterLee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999, 74-1, 107-1, 120-2, 114-2
Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles MosleyEditor-in-Chief, 1999, 3045
Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by FrederickLewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr.,, 53-27
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Notes:

                   Saier de Quincy was created Earl of Winchester by King John about theyear 1210.  This nobleman was one of the lords present at Lincoln whenWilliam, King of Scotland, did homage to the English monarch, and hesubsequently obtained large grants and immunities from King John; when,however, the baronial war broke out, his lordship's pennant waved on theside of freedom and he became so eminent amongst those sturdy chiefs thathe was chosen one of the celebrated twenty-five barons appointed toenforce the observance of Magna Carta. Adhering to the same party afterthe accession of Henry III, the Earl of Winchester had a principalcommand at the battle of Lincoln and, there being defeated, was takenprisoner by the royalists. But submitting in the following October, hehad restitution of all his lands and proceeded soon after, in companywith the Earls of Chester and Arundel and others of the nobility, to theHoly Land where he assisted at the siege of Damietta, anno 1219, and d.the same year in his progress towards Jerusalem.  His lordship m.Margaret, younger sister and co-heir of Robert Fitz-Parnell, Earl ofLeicester, by which alliance he acquired a very considerable inheritance,and had issue, Robert, Roger, and Robert.  At the decease of the earl,his 2nd son, Roger de Quincy, had livery of his father's estates.

[Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages,Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 447, Quincy, Earls ofWinchester]
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