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Birth:          ABT 1301 Blankney, Lincolnshire, England
Death:          2 Jun 1364 East Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, England

Notes
http://www.stirnet.com/HTML/genie/british/tt/tzmisc01.htm (and pages to which it 
leads)
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I13455
Sir William Deincourt of Blankney, co. Lincoln, 2nd Lord Deincourt, d. 2 June 1364. 
[Magna Charta Sureties]

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2nd Lord (Baron) Deincourt (b. c 1301; d. 2 June 1364). [Burke's Peerage]

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BARONY OF DEINCOURT

II. 2. WILLIAM [DEINCOURT), LORD DEINCOURT, grandson and heir, being 2nd but 
1st surviving son of John DEINCOURT, who was son and heir apparent of the last 
Lord, but died v.p. The King took his homage and he had livery of his grandfather's 
lands, 7 February 1326/7, being then aged 26 and more. He did homage and fealty to 
the Archbishop of York for his lands in Burnby, 11 February 1326/7. On 20 February 
1327/8, after the death of Joan, wife ot Hamon de Mascy, he obtained possession of 
the messuage, &C., in Elmton, as the right heir of Edmund Deincourt, his grandfather. 
He was summoned for Military Service against the Scots from 5 April 1327 to 23 
December 1355 to Councils from 24 August 1336 to 20 June 1358 and to Parliament 
from 20 July 1332 to 1 June 1363, by writs directed Willelmo de Eyncourt, Deyncourt, 
or Dayncourt. Appointed a justice in cos. Notts and Derby, to hear and determine the 
oppressions committed by the King's ministers and others, 10 December 1340: he was 
then a banneret. A commander at the battle of Neville's Cross, 17 October 1346, being 
one of those who were thanked, 20 October following, for their services. On 14 May 
1347 he was summoned to join the King before Calais. He was the principal warder of 
the King of France when that monarch was a prisoner in England, 29 July 1359 to 4 
May 1360, at Somerton Castle, co. Lincoln and afterwards at Berkhamstead Castle the 
King being removed to the latter place in March 1359/60, by order of the Council, 
there being a scare of a French invasion.

He married, before 26 March 1326, Milicent, 1st daughter of Sir William LA ZOUCHE, 
of Harringworth, Northants [LORD ZOUCHE], by Maud, daughter of Sir John LOVEL, 
of Titchmarsh, Northants, and Minster Lovell, Oxon [LORD LOVEL]. He died 2 June 
1364. His widow's dower was ordered to be assigned, 5 July 1364. She died 22 June 
1379. [Complete Peerage IV:120-2, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

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William, 9th Lord d'Eyncourt, s. his grandfather when twenty-six years of age, both as 
heir by descent as well as by virtue of the licensed entail. He was an eminent warrior 
and active servant of King Edward III through the glorious period of his reign, 
participating in the immortal achievement of that era in France and Scotland, and on 
17 October, 1346, he was one of the commanders in the famous battle of Neville's 
Cross, near Durham. He is particularly mentioned as an object of the king's gratitude 
in his letter of thanks dated 20 October, written on the occasion of that celebrated 
victory when David, King of Scotland, was taken prisoner. King Edward being then 
before Calais, his queen, Philippa, is stated by some writers to have been present at 
the battle. At any rate, it is clear she was in the field prior to its commencement, when 
she rode in front of the army on a white courser and, in the words of the historian, 
"sweetly exhorted them." She was attended by Lord d'Eyncourt at the head of her 
guard, a post of honour and responsibility, which shows that he was deemed one of 
the first gentlemen of his day. This is further evidenced by the circumstance that 
John, King of France, taken prisoner at the battle of Poictiers -- who, during his 
captivity in England, was treated with that respectful and generous which shed a 
lustre over those times -- was consigned to Lord d'Eyncourt's custody and so remained 
until the period when he passed out to Lincolnshire, under Lord d'Eyncourt's charge, 
to the metropolis and thence to France, King Edward himself conducting him to the 
sea-side, and the Black Prince attending him to Calais, having felt his durance so little 
personally irksome, that he afterwards returned on a visit to King Edward, and died in 
England before it was completed. On 14 May, 1347, Lord d'Eyncourt was commanded 
to attend the king before Calais, and was present at all the interesting scenens there 
enacted and, at the final surrender of the place, followed by the heroic self-devotion 
of six of the inhabitants, who, with Eustace St. Pierre at their head, were saved by the 
gentle but urgent intercession of Queen Philippa, who, after the battle of Durham, had 
joined her husband at Calais. Lord d'Eyncourt d. 2 June, 1364, aged sixty-four. He m. 
Millicent, dau. of William, Lord Roos, of Hamlake. William, his eldest son, m. Margaret, 
dau. of Adam de Welles, and d. v. p., leaving an only son, who s. his grandfather as 
William, 10th Lord d'Eyncourt. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and 
Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 170, d'Eyncourt, 
Barons d'Eyncourt]

Parents
DEINCOURT John (ABT 1265 - BEF 6 Jan 1327)
DE MULTON ----- (ABT 1270 - )

Siblings
DEINCOURT Roberta (Bamburga) (ABT 1290 - )
DEINCOURT William (ABT 1301 - 2 Jun 1364)

Marriage To LA ZOUCHE Milicent (ABT 1307 - 22 Jun 1379)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
LA ZOUCHE William (Dec 1276 - 11 Feb 1352)
LOVELL Maud (ABT 1280 - BEF 1346)

Children by LA ZOUCHE Milicent ABT 1307 - 22 Jun 1379
DEINCOURT Margaret (1344 - 2 Apr 1380)

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