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 FEUDAL BARONAGE 1236 and again in 1239/ He died 22 July, 1240, after a long and tedious sickness,' and was buried at Stanlaw Abbey, to which he had given the church of Eccles, half the church of Blackburn, and land in Staining, Hardhorn, and Newton in Amounderness.' His wife Margaret survived him, and afterwards married Walter Marshall, earl of Pembroke, her dower being assigned in 1241, in the counties of Lincoln, Nottingham, York, and Lancaster, viz., 40 knights' fees, besides many demesne manors.* Edmund, only son of John de Lacy by Margaret de Quincy, his second wife, was a minor at his father's death, being born after 26 May, 1228.^ Through the influence of Peter of Savoy he married Alicia, elder daughter of Manfred IIL, marquis of Saluzzo,* a marriage which, according to Matthew Paris, occasioned much discontent among the nobles of England.'' Edmund was never formally invested with the earldom of Lincoln. He is named simply as Edmund de Lacy in a commission of 2 September, 1255, with the king's brothers Geoffrey and William, and the earls of Norfolk, Warenne, and Albemarle, to conduct the king and queen of Scotland to the king, but in the letters of safe-conduct to the same king and queen, dated three days later, as Edmund de Lacy 'earl of Lincoln.'* But again on 17 January, 1258, he is summoned with his knights to do military service in Scotland as Edmund de Lacy.' Again, in 1249, ^251, and 1257, he was the recipient of charters of free warren in his demesne lands, of markets at Bradford in Yorkshire and Rochdale, and of a market and fair at Tanshelf in his manor of Pontefract, but in no case is he styled ' earl of Lincoln.' ^^ The fact was that his mother being countess of Lincoln in her own right, her son could not be earl during her lifetime, and dying before her never attained to that title.^^ Notwith- standing this he seems to have enjoyed the third penny of co. Lincoln, as his father had done.^^ He is said to have founded the hospital of White Friars at Pontefract.^* To Stanlaw Abbey he gave the other half of the church of Blackburn with his body, and the vill of Cronton. By Alice his wife he had issue Henry ,^* his heir, John, and Margaret, who both died young.^^ He died 5 June, 1258, and was buried at Stanlaw. ^^ Henry de Lacy was born on Christmas Day, 1249,^'' ^""^ °" 22 December, 1256, was contracted to be married by his father (with the king's consent, obtained by a fine of ten marks of gold) " to Margaret, eldest daughter and heir 1 Pat. R. 2 1 Hen. III. m. 5 ; Pipe R. 24 Hen. III. Ches. 2 Matth. Paris, Hist. Angl. (Rolls Ser.), ii. 436, where his arms are given in trick. Examples of his seal are given by Ormerod and by Whitaker. 3 Mon. Angl. v. 647^. ^ Excerpta e Rot. Fin. (Rec. Com.), ii. 54. * Matth. Paris, Chron. majora (Rolls Ser.), iv. 628. '' Dugdale, Baronage, i. 102^. The king in 1246 had promised Philip, count of Savoy, that he could marry one of the count's granddaughters to Edmund de Lacy, ' qui si vixerit comes erit Lincolnie.' Rymer, Foed. (Rec. Com.), i. 264. 8 Pat. R. 39 Hen. III. m. 3. Rymer, Foed. (Rec. Com.), i. 327. 9 Close R. 42 Hen. III. m. I2d. 10 Cal. Chart. R. i. 346, 356, 362, 472. 11 She is repeatedly styled countess of Lincoln in the Rolls. She lived until shortly before Michaelmas term, 1267 ; Curia Reg. R. 181, m. 11. 13 Cal. Close R. 1307-13, 285. is Mon. Angl. vi. 1581. 1* Coucher of Whalley (Chetham Soc), 77, 811. 1^ Dugdale, Baronage, i. 103. 16 Cott. MS. Cleop. C. iii. 330^. His epitaph is given on f. 325^. Mon. Angl. v. 647-8. 17 Inq. p. m. Vorks. Rec. Soc. xii. 51. See theZ(Z»a. Inq. p. m. Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches. vol. 48, 213-9. In Cal. of Close R, 1272-9, p. 462, he is said to have been of full age on St. Hilary, 56 Hen. III. i.e. 13 January, 1272. This perhaps refers to the date when he was entitled to be styled earl of Lincoln. 18 Excerpta e Rot. Fin. (Rec. Com.), ii. 249. 307
 * Close R. 25 Hen. III. m. 9 and m. 16 ; Rec. Soc. Lane, and Ches. vol. 48, p. 157.