Roger de Lacy Constable of Chester, Earl of Lincoln
- Born: Abt 1171, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England
- Marriage: Maud de Clare 141
- Died: 22 Jul 1240, Lincoln Cathedral, London England about age 69 141
 General Notes:
~Weis' Ancestral Roots . . ., 8th Edition, 54:29, husband to Maud de Clare, and parents of John de Lacy, Earl of Lincolnshire. 160
~Boyer's Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 121, Constable of Chester, may have died in 1211, m. Maud de Clare. 722
~Cockayne's Complete Peerage, (Chart - Family of Lacy & the Earldom of Lincoln), Vol. VII, p. 677, Roger, took name of Lacy, died in 1211, married to Maud de Clare, son of John, Constable of Chester and Alice, and Roger and maud were the paretns of John de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln who married Margaret de Quincy. 141
Noted events in his life were:
• Background Information. 877
Abreda de Lacy was married to Robert de Lissours and they had a daughter also named Albreda. Albreda de Lissours married, 1st to Richard Fitz Eustace and 2nd to William Fitz Godric. When Robert de Lacy, last male of his line, died in 1193, Albreda de Lacy handed over the family estates to her grandson, Roger Fitz Eustace who assumed the name de Lacy.
Roger de Lacy appears to have been a man of power and influence as well as a benefactor to the Church. Pontefract remained in the hands of his successors until the beginning of the fourteenth century, when the male line came to an end. The estates of the Lacy family pass to Alice, daughter of Henry de Lacy and wife of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster.
~Picturesque History of Yorkshire, p. 333
• Point of Interest.
His gravestone is enscribed "Roger Hell de Lacy, Constable of Chester"
Roger married Maud de Clare, daughter of Richard de Clare Earl of Hertford and Amice fila William Fitz Robert Countess of Gloucester.141 (Maud de Clare was born about 1175 and died in 1213.)
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