Edmund de Lacy, 2nd Earl of Lincoln

Edmund de Lacy , de facto 2nd Earl of Lincoln (according to another count also 4th Earl of Lincoln ; * around 1230, † June 2, 1258 ) was an English nobleman.

He was the eldest son of John de Lacy and Margaret de Quincy . His father was raised to Earl of Lincoln in 1232 , after his death in 1240 his mother married Walter Marshal, 5th Earl of Pembroke, in 1242 . Edmund grew up at the court of King Henry III. to, where he was raised by Richard , who later became Bishop of Chichester, and grew up with the heir apparent Eduard and his younger brother Edmund . Its lands came under the administration of Archbishop Walter de Gray of York. As early as May 1248, Edmund was declared of legal age and received his father's extensive possessions, which were mainly in the northern Midlands and northern England. However, he did not inherit the title of Earl of Lincoln, as his mother was Countess of Lincoln in her own right and did not die until 1266. Before 1255, however, Edmund received a third of Lincolnshire's tax revenue, making him the de facto Earl of Lincoln. In 1247 he married Adelasia, a daughter of Margrave Manfred III. von Saluzzo , an Italian relative of the English Queen Eleanor , with whom his mother was friends. The wedding took place at the same time as that of Adelasia's younger sister Agnes with John de Vescy , Lord of Alnwick. However, Edmund de Lacy died at the age of around 28. Before that, however, he had arranged the marriage of his underage son and heir Henry to Margaret Longespée , the eldest granddaughter and co-heiress of William Longespée of Salisbury . Like his father and grandfather, he was buried in Stanlaw Abbey in Lincolnshire.

His widow, who had received several northern English estates as Wittum , did not remarry, she died in 1311.

progeny

He had at least two children with his wife:

• Margaret de Lacy
• Henry de Lacy, 3rd Earl of Lincoln (1249-1311)

Web links

• Edmund de Lacy on thepeerage.com , accessed November 17, 2015.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Linda Elizabeth Mitchell: Family life in the Middle Ages. Greenwood, Westport 2007. ISBN 0-313-33630-X , p. 161
2. ↑ Nicholas Vincent: Lacy, John de, third earl of Lincoln (c.1192-1240). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
3. ^ Canon Raine: On a Grant from Edmund de Lacy to his Tenants in Westchap . In: Yorkshire archaeological journal, Vol. 1. Bradbury, Evans & Co., London 1870, p. 171
4. ^ David A. Carpenter: The struggle for mastery. Britain, 1066-1284. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2003. ISBN 0-19-522000-5 , p. 421

predecessor	Office	successor
John de Lacy	Earl of Lincoln 1240-1258	Henry de Lacy