Robert de Quincy

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 the first Saer de Quincy and Maud de Senlis.^[1] Robert was granted the castle of Forfar and a "toft" (a homestead) in Haddington by King William of Scotland, his cousin. 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. 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]

The title Baron of Prestoungrange was first created in 1189 when he granted the lands to the monks of Newbattle Abbey. This original grant was expanded by Robert's son, Seyer de Quincy, to include rights to coal and quarry working down to the low water mark on the Firth of Forth, making Prestoungrange one of the earliest sites of coal mining in Scotland.^[3][4]

Robert married Orabilis, daughter of Nes fitz William, Lord of Leuchars.^[5] They had:

• Saer de Quincy (died 1219), married Margaret de Beaumont, had issue.

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