Hawise of Chester, 1st Countess of Lincoln

Female 1180 - 1243  (~ 61 years)


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  • Name Hawise of Chester 
    Suffix 1st Countess of Lincoln 
    Born ca 1180  Chester, Cheshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died Between 6 Jun 1241 and 3 May 1243  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
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      Also known as Hawise of Kevelioc, she was an Anglo-Norman noblewoman and a wealthy heiress. Her father was Hugh de Kevelioc, 5th Earl of Chester. She was the sister and a co-heiress of Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester. She was created 1st Countess of Lincoln in her own right in 1232. She was the wife of Robert de Quincy, by whom she had one daughter, Margaret, who became heiress to her title and estates.

      Hawise was born in 1180 in Chester, Cheshire, England, the youngest child of Hugh de Kevelioc, 5th Earl of Chester and Bertrade de Montfort of Évreux, a cousin of King Henry II of England. Hawise had five siblings, including Maud of Chester, Countess of Huntingdon, Mabel of Chester, Countess of Arundel, Agnes of Chester, Countess of Derby, Beatrice de Keviloc and a brother Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester.

      Her paternal grandparents were Ranulf de Gernon, 4th Earl of Chester, and Maud of Gloucester, the granddaughter of King Henry I of England, and her maternal grandparents were Simon III de Montfort and Mahaut.

      In 1181, when Hawise was a year old, her father died. He had served in Henry II's Irish campaigns after his estates had been restored to him in 1177. They had been confiscated by the King as a result of his having taken part in the baronial Revolt of 1173-1174. Her only brother Ranulf succeeded him as the 6th Earl of Chester.

      Sometime before 1206, she married Robert de Quincy, son of Saer de Quincy, 1st Earl of Winchester and Margaret de Beaumont of Leicester. The marriage produced one daughter:

      Margaret de Quincy, 2nd Countess of Lincoln in her own right (c.1206-March 1266), married firstly in 1221 John de Lacy, 2nd Earl of Lincoln by whom she had two children, Edmund de Lacy, Baron of Pontefract, and Maud de Lacy; she married secondly on 6 January 1242 Walter Marshal, 5th Earl of Pembroke.

      Hawise's husband Robert died in 1217 in London. He had been accidentally poisoned through medicine prepared by a Cistercian monk. Robert and his father had both been excommunicated in December 1215 as a result of the latter having been one of the 25 sureties of the Magna Carta six months before.

      Hawisse was married a second time to Sir Warren de Bostoke; they had a son, Sir Henry de Bostoke.

      She inherited the castle and manor of Bolingbroke, and other large estates from her brother to whom she was co-heiress after his death on 26 October 1232. Hawise had already become 1st Countess of Lincoln in April 1231, when her brother Ranulf de Blondeville, 1st Earl of Lincoln resigned the title in her favor. He granted her the title by a formal charter under his seal which was confirmed by King Henry III. She was formally invested as 1st Countess of Lincoln in her own right by King Henry III on 27 October 1232 the day after her brother's death.

      Less than a month later, in the same manner as her brother Ranulf de Blondeville, 1st Earl of Lincoln, she likewise made a gift, after receiving dispensation from the crown, of the Earldom of Lincoln to her daughter Margaret de Quincy who then became 2nd Countess of Lincoln in her own right and her son-in-law John de Lacy, Baron of Pontefract who then became the 2nd Earl of Lincoln by right of his wife.

      Hawise died sometime between 6 June 1241 and 3 May 1243. She was more than sixty years of age.
    Person ID I36123  Master File
    Last Modified 21 Sep 2016 

    Family Robert de Quincy,   d. ca 1217, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Margaret de Quincy, Countess of Lincoln,   b. ca 1206, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Mar 1266, Hampstead, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 60 years)
    Last Modified 21 Sep 2016 
    Family ID F14896  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart