LINCOLN. 91 VI. 1257. J. Henry (he Lacy), Earl Of Lincoln, s. and h., h. about 1250. being knighted and invested with the Earldom, 13 Out. 1272. Ho was one of the greatest nobles of his time and was distinguished in the wars with Wales, Scotland.' ' and France, to which last country he was several times sent as Envoy. He was bearer of the sword at the Coronation of Kd. 11., 25 Feb. 130S, and was Guardian ok the IIkai.m, 1 Sep. 1310, (taring the King's absence in Scotland. He mi. firstly (marriage contract 22 Dec. 125d . Margaret, generally con- sidered as suo jure COUNTE89 Of Salisbury, she being da. ami h. of William DE LuNGKsr-KK, the 3d EaRI. (ik SALIsiil;RV( b ) of that race, by Matilda, da. and h. of Walter (CLIFFORD), LOBD UK Clifford.^) She d. 22 Nov. 1310. He m. secondly Joan, da. of William i'Martin), Lord Martin, by Eleanor, da. of William DE MoHUN. He d. s.p.rn. at his house called " Lincoln's Inn" near Chancery lane, Lonoon, 5 Eeb. 1310,1, and was bur. in St. Paul's cathedral. His widow, who in 1326 became coheir to her brother, m. Nicholas (Audley), 1st Louu Al'DLEY, who d. 1317. [Edmund DE Lacy, s. and h. ap., young and v. p., being drowned in a well at Denbigh Castle.] VII. 1311, {. Alice, sun jure Countess of Lincoln, and [probably] to Couxtess ok Salisbury, only surv. da. and h., 4. about 1283, IB. on 1348. or before 28 Oct. 1291 (at her age of 1 1) Thomas (Plantagk.net), Earl ok Laxcabtkr and Earl of Leicester, who .vie. his father, Edmund (yr. son of King Henry HX) in those dignities, 5 June 129(5, and who, jure n.com, may be considered as E.VllL ()!•' LINCOLN and perhaps also Earl ok Salisbury, and who received the £20 a year "pro trrtio denario in com. Lincoln " in 1312, which had belonged to his wife's father. He d s.p., being beheaded at the castle of Pontefract, 22 March 1321/2. aged about 41, when, having been attainted, all hit lionnurt were fur/cited. (See fuller account of him under Lancaster" Earldom.) The King seized on all the lands of the Countess' inheritance " till she had made a regular conveyance of them to him, which she did by deed 26 June [1322], 15 Ed. II., and acknowledged such surrender in Chancery, 11 July [1322], 10 Ed. II. On 29 Sep. fullowing( d ) he restored to her far life the annuity of £20 which her father had received in lieu of the third penny of the county of Lincoln. The suo jure Countess who had in 1317 during her coverture been forcibly carried away from Earl Thomas, her then husband, (•) in. before 1326 Ecbulus LE Strange who >j At the siege of Carlaveinck. 1 300. he is styled " Henri le bon Coute de Nichole." () This William (who (/. s.p.ni. in 12'rtS) was s. and h. of another William, Earl of Salisbury (who (/. 12.10), neither of them having been actually invested with that Earldom, HI©' both of them were generally considered to have been entitled thereto. The last named William was s. and h. of William de Longespee [d. 1226] who had received the Earldom of Salisbury from King Kichard I. on his marriage with Ela, da. and h. of a former William, Earl of Salisbury, who rf. s.p.m. in 1196. This Ela, by some considered as suo jure Countess of Salisbury, and who unquestionably was " the original heiress of the Earldom of Salisbury, died an aged womau in 1261, her great grandaughter and her affianced husband [the Earl of Lincoln] beiug then minors." See " The Earldom of Salisbury " by J. G. Nichols.
- c , One would have expected that (according to the custom of the period) he would
jure uxoris have styled himself Earl ok Salisbury ; indeed Dugdale says that he " had thereupon the Earldom of Salisbury," but Mr. To.vnsend in his notes thereon (Coll. Top. el lien., Vol. vi, p. 149). says, " I think it will appear that this Henry de Lacy never en joyed that honour. He is not called so in any writ of summons, but his daui/hter is called Countess ok Lincoln and Sarum, 15 Ed. II. [ 'ine., No. i, 145."] (•■i) Coll. Top. et Gen., vol. vi, p. 151. (°) It appears that " a person of very low stature, lame, and hunchbacked, called Richard de St. Martin, challenged her for his wife, confidently affirming that he had carnally known her before she was married to the Earl, which she denied not, where- upon he grew so bold to make elaiiu lo the Earldoms of Linenlii and Salisbury in her right, the news whereof being brought to the Pope he sent two Cardinals to make pence between the King and his Barons and especially with this Earl Thomas." [Dugdale.] Sandford, speaking of this lady's "four husbands," adds, "if we may call that match of her's with Kichard dc St. Martin, in the lifetime of her first husband, a marriage, for, indeed, she was of very light behaviour, which was no small stain to her good name."
