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This family is said to have adopted its surname from the town of St. Quintin, the capital of Lower Picardy. Sir Herbert de St. Quintin came into England with the Conqueror and was father of Oliver, father of Sir Robert de St. Quintin. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 469, St. Quintin, Baron St. Quintin]
Sir Herbert St. Quintin, one of the companions in arms of the Norman, acquired at the Conquest, as his division of the spoil, the manor of Skipsey, with the borough of Woodshall and Brandsburton, in Mapleton, sixteen oxgangs of land in Killing, the manor of Houlbridge, with the Fen and the Marsh, from the bank to the sea-dkye, and Carltown, in the county of Nottingham. Sir Herbert was father of Oliver St. Quintin. [John Burke & John Bernard Burke, Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland, Second Edition, Scott, Webster, & Geary, London, 1841, p. 462, St. Quintin, of Harpham]