General Notes

Saier's marriage to his wife, Margaret De Beaumont, ultimately made him
very wealthy.  When Margaret's only brother, Robert Fitz-Pernel, died in
1204, shebecame his heiress and Saier succeeded to a part of Robert's
vast estates inLeicester and Grandmesnil.  Saier was the royal Justice
in many counties andKing John "Lackland" Plantagenet made him the first
Earl of Winchester in 1210.  King John's reign was a difficult one and
the barons were very unhappy with the state of affairs.  Saire joined t
barons' rebellion against King John.  The rebel barons, including Saier,
went to Paris in 1216 to talk to KingLouis VIII of France.  They offered
Louis the throne of England if he would help them in their cause against
King John.  Louis agreed and led an expedition to England.  Saier was a
principal commander in Louis' fight; however, they were defeated at the
Battle of Lincoln and Louis returned to France.  Saier's lands were
seized for his part in the rebellion and he was taken prisoner by the
royalists.  King John had died in 1216., and now, Saier submitted to the
rule of John's sone, King Henry III, and all of Saier's lands were
restored to him.  In 1218, he went to the Holy Land but shortly after h
arrival,he became ill and died.
MISC:  Earl of Wincester, Magna Carta Surety, 1215, Crusader 1219 (s
Robert de Quincy, d . ca. 1198), Lord of Buckley and of Fawside,
Crusader; m. Orabella, dau. of Ness; and grandso n of Maud de St. Liz by
her 2nd husb., Saher de Quincy of Buckley and Daventry.  He was a Baron
present at Lincoln when WILLIAM the Lion of Scotland did homage to the
English monarch in October 1200.  He obtained large grants and immuniti
form King JOHN and was created Earl of Winchester on 2 Mar 1207, having
been governor in 1203 of the Castle of Ruil in Normandy.  He is credited
with rewriting the Magna Charta from the Charts of King HENRY I and the
Saxon Code . Because he had opposed the King's concession to Pope's
legate, he was bitterly hated by King JOHN.  One of the Barons to whom
the City and Tower of London were resigned, SAIRE was excommunicated wi
the other Barons the following year.  He was sent, with ROBERT
FITZWALTER, the Surety, by the other Barons, to invite the Dauphin of
France to assume the Crown of England and, even after the death of King
JOHN, he kept a strong garrison in Montsorell Castle in behalf ofPrince
LOUIS.  When the Barons, being greatly outnumbered, were defeated by the
troops of King HENRY III, SAIRE was made prisoner and his estates were
forfeited.  In the following October his immense estates were restored
upon his submission.  In 1218 the Earl of Winchester went with the Earls
of Chesterand Arundel to the Holy Land, assisted at the siege of
Damietta in 1219, anddied on 3 Nov of the same year, on the way to
Jerusalem.
SAIRE is associated with two stalwart Castles in the South of England:
Colchester and Winchester, both with the Latin "castrum" root, signifyi
that they were once the sites of Roman forts.  Colchester was the large
Norman keep in England.  It measures one hundred fifty-two by one hundr
seventeeen feet, enclosing nearlytwice the area of the Tower of London. 
Its walls vary between eleven and thirty feet in thickness.  Winchester
Castle was first erected by WILLIAM the Conqueror with later alterations
by HENRY III.
Earl of Manchester and signer of the Magna Charta.   When the baronial
war brok e out, his lordship's pennant waved on the side of freedom and
he became so eminent amongst those sturdychiefs that he was chosen one
of the celebrated twenty-five barons appointedto enforce the observance
of Magna Carta.  Adhering to the same party after the accession of Henry
III, the Earl of Winchester had a principal command atthe battle of
Lincoln and, there being defeated, was taken prisoner by the royalists.
But submitting in the following Octob




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