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| _Simon de St. Liz E of Huntindon_|
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|_Maud de St. Liz__|
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| _Sigurd E of Northumberland__|____________________________________
| _Waltheof II E of Northumberland_|
| | | _Alfred of Bernicia_________________
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|_Maud of Northumberland__________|
| _Hugh II C of Ponthieu______________
| _Enguerrand II C of Ponthieu_|_Bertha of Aumale___________________
|_Judith _________________________|
| _Robert I "The Devil" D of Normandy_
|_Adelize of Normandy_________|_Arletta of Falaise_________________
His older brother, Saher II, inherited the English estates from SAHER I.
Robert started appearing in Scottish records around 1165. His career
was doubtless advanced by his second cousins Malcolm and WILLIAM THE
LION (RIN 1913), successively kings of Scotland, and it was certainly
KING WILLIAM who granted to him the site of the old castle of Forfar and
a toft in Haddington. While his brother Saher II was serving HENRY II as
a justice in Normandy, Robert was acting as Justiciar of Scotland, an
office which he held from 1171 to 1178. Royal favour may also have
brought about his marriage, at a date unknown, to a notable heiress,
ORABILE, daughter of NESS son of WILLIAM. Her father, a prominent but
ill-documented figure, was apparently a first-generation Norman-Scot.
ORABILE was heir to her father's lands, to the exclusion of his sons
Constantine and Patrick, and thus brought to Robert estates at Gask and
Deuglie, in Perthshire, at Leuchars, Lathrisk, Beath and elsewhere in
Fife, and at Tranent, in Lothian. This fortunate marriage helped to raise
Robert in a short time to a level of importance in Scotland greater than
the relatively minor position which his brother Saher II held in English
society.
Twelfth-century Scotland was a land of opportunity and a vigorous
younger son such as Robert de Quincy could make there a name which
might become known well beyond the bounds of the small northern
kingdom. In 1190 Robert joined King Richard I on the Third Crusade, was
constable of a force to take aid to Antioch in 1191 and in the same year
was sent with HUGH III, DUKE OF BURGUNDY (RIN 3796) to Tyre to collect
prisoners from PHILIP AUGUSTUS, KING OF FRANCE (RIN 3163). On his
return from the crusade, Robert took part in Richard I's campaigns in
Normandy in 1194 and 1196. On the death of his nephew Saher III, before
1192, Robert succeeded to the English estates of the family's main line
and added these to his Scottish possessions. By the time of his death,
which took place before Michaelmas, 1197, he had proved himself as a
knight of wide experience and had established his position as an
Anglo-Scottish baron of some prominence. The marriage of Robert and
ORABILE was apparently ended by a separation. She later married
Gilchrist, earl of Mar, while Robert married a lady named Eve, who may
possibly have been of the family of the lords of Galloway. The
matrimonial complexities of this situation have caused a controversy
which need not be entered upon here.