• General Notes

  BURIAL:  Acre, PALESTINE
  NOTE:
  He was one of the Barons present at Lincoln when William the Lion of Scotland did homage to the English monarch.
  He received large grants and tax immunities from King John. He was governor of Ruil Castle in Normandy in 1203. He was also created the first Earl of Winchester shortly before 1210. He seems to have been at or near the center of action for the eve nts leading up to the Magna Charta. He was one of the first Barons to argue for the Charter of Liberty, and he is given credit for being one of the people who created it from the Charter of Henry I and the Saxon Code.
  After Runnemede he was elected one of the Magna Charte Sureties. This was a group of 25 men, elected from among all the barons, to supervise the king's adherance to the Magna Charta. As a result he was excommunicated by the Pope December 1215. When, in 1216, he went with Robert FitzWalter to invite Prince Louis to England his lands were seized by the Crown and granted to William Marshal. He saved the town of St. Albans from being sacked by Louis' army in December 1216; led an expedition from London in 1217 to bring relief to the castle of Mountsorrel but was defeated and captured by the forces of Henry III on May 20, 1217. He returned to his allegiance and his lands were restored September 29, 1217.
  Later he went crusading in 1218 where he assisted in the siege of Damietta in 1219 and later died on the way to Jerusalem. If anyone epitomizes what we in modern times visualize as a chivalrous knight, he would be the one.
  Sayher, Lord of Tranent, was created Earl of Winchester in England, and set out, in 1218, with other English knights for the Crusade. He died at the siege of Damietta, in Egypt. His brother, Roger de Quincy, succeeded him, and left at his death, in 1264, three daughters, co-heiresses, each of whom received some portion of the great Tranent estate. These ladies were closely related to John Balliol, and the husbands of two of them were Englishmen: Sir Alan de la Zouche and William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby. The other sister was married to Alexander Comyn, Earl of Buchan. Their husbands sided with England in the contest for the crown; and when it was finally decided in favor of Bruce, their property in Scotland was given to his nephew and companion-in-arms, whose family had for several generations possessed the neighboring lands of Seton and Winton, while he himself was of the blood of the de Quincys. Sir Alexander Seton was one of the thirty-nine nobles and others who assembled in Parliament at the Abbey of Arbroath on April 6, 1320, and addressed that famous letter to Pope John XXII. at Avignon, which is one of the most spirited and patriotic documents in history. It induced the Holy See to recognize the independence of Scotland and the title of King Robert Bruce. The following passage will give some idea of the energy and determination of the signers: "It is not glory, it is not riches, neither is it honor; but it is LIBERTY alone that we fight and contend for, which no honest man will lose but with his life." As Burton says, much of the power and terseness of this memorable manifesto is lost in translating from the Latin. Sir Alexander was a benefactor of the monastery at Haddington, and looked only to pass his remaining years in piety and repose; but the peace of the kingdom was violently broken by the attempt of Edward Balliol to seize the crown after the death of Bruce, and during the minority of his son David II. Balliol and his party came by sea and made a sudden landing at Wester Kinghorn, on the coast of Fife, in August, 1332. The Scottish army, feebly commanded, kept at a distance; but "Sir Alexander Seton threw
  Saier de Quincy was created Earl of Winchester by King John about the year 1210. This nobleman was one of the lords present at Lincoln when William, King of Scotland, did homage to the English monarch, and he subsequently obtained large grants and immunities from King John; when, howeve

Details of (Earl) Saier's family with (Countess) Margaret De BEAUMONT