Robert de Quincy
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Sir Robert de Quincy | |
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| Baron of Prestoungrange | |
| Noble family | Quincy family |
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Sir Robert de Quincy, 1st Baron of Prestoungrange (c. 1140 – c. 1197), Justiciar of Lothian, was a 12th-century English and Scottish noble.
Quincy was a younger son of Saer de Quincy and Maud de Senlis, daughter of Simon I de Senlis, Earl of Huntingdon-Northampton and Maud of Huntingdon, stepdaughter of King David I of Scotland.[1]
Robert was granted the castle of Forfar and a "toft" (a homestead) in Haddington He served as joint Justiciar of Lothian serving from 1171 to 1178.[1]
Robert accompanied King Richard I of England on the Third Crusade in 1190.[2] He led a force to take aid to Antioch in 1191 and also collected prisoners from Tyre.[2] Returning from the crusade, Robert took part in Richard I's campaigns in Normandy in 1194 and 1196. He succeeded to the English estates of his nephew Saer in 1192.[1]
