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Birth:          1180 of Chester, Cheshire, England
Death:          AFT 6 Jun 1241 
Burial:         BEF 3 Mar 1242 

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_de_Quincy,_Countess_of_Lincoln
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawise_of_Chester,_1st_Countess_of_Lincoln
Hawise of Chester, 1st Countess of Lincoln suo jure (1180- 6 June 1241/3 May 1243
[1]), was an Anglo-Norman noblewoman and a wealthy heiress. Her father was Hugh 
de Kevelioc, 5th Earl of Chester. She was the sister and a co-heiress of Ranulf de 
Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester. She was created suo jure 1st Countess of Lincoln in 
1232.[2] She was the wife of Robert de Quincy, by whom she had one daughter, 
Margaret, who became heiress to her title and estates. She was also known as Hawise 
of Kevelioc.
Family[edit]

Hawise was born in 1180 in Chester, Cheshire, England, the youngest child of Hugh 
de Kevelioc, 5th Earl of Chester and Bertrade de Montfort of Évreux, a cousin of King 
Henry II of England. Hawise had five siblings, including Maud of Chester, Countess of 
Huntingdon, Mabel of Chester, Countess of Arundel, Agnes of Chester, Countess of 
Derby, Beatrice de Keviloc and a brother Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester.[3] 
She also had an illegitimate half-sister, Amice of Chester who married Ralph de 
Mainwaring, Justice of Chester by whom she had children.

Her paternal grandparents were Ranulf de Gernon, 4th Earl of Chester, and Maud of 
Gloucester, the granddaughter of King Henry I of England, and her maternal 
grandparents were Simon III de Montfort (fr) and Mahaut.

In 1181, when Hawise was a year old, her father died. He had served in Henry II's 
Irish campaigns after his estates had been restored to him in 1177. They had been 
confiscated by the King as a result of his having taken part in the baronial Revolt of 
1173–1174. Her only brother Ranulf succeeded him as the 6th Earl of Chester.

She inherited the castle and manor of Bolingbroke, and other large estates from her 
brother to whom she was co-heiress after his death on 26 October 1232. Hawise had 
already become 1st Countess of Lincoln in April 1231, when her brother Ranulf de 
Blondeville, 1st Earl of Lincoln resigned the title in her favour.[4] He granted her the 
title by a formal charter under his seal which was confirmed by King Henry III. She was 
formally invested as suo jure 1st Countess of Lincoln by King Henry III on 27 October 
1232 the day after her brother's death.

Less than a month later, in the same manner as her brother Ranulf de Blondeville, 1st 
Earl of Lincoln, she likewise made an inter vivos gift, after receiving dispensation from 
the crown, of the Earldom of Lincoln to her daughter Margaret de Quincy who then 
became 2nd Countess of Lincoln suo jureand her son-in-law John de Lacy, Baron of 
Pontefract who then became the 2nd Earl of Lincoln by right of his wife. (John de 
Lacy is mistakenly called the 1st Earl of Lincoln in many references.) They were 
formally invested by King Henry III as Countess and Earl of Lincoln on 23 November 
1232.[5]

Marriage and issue[edit]

Sometime before 1206, she married Robert de Quincy, son of Saer de Quincy, 1st Earl 
of Winchester and Margaret de Beaumont of Leicester. The marriage produced one 
daughter:
Margaret de Quincy, 2nd Countess of Lincoln suo jure (c.1206 – March 1266), married 
firstly in 1221 John de Lacy, 2nd Earl of Lincoln by whom she had two children, 
Edmund de Lacy, Baron of Pontefract, and Maud de Lacy; she married secondly on 6 
January 1242 Walter Marshal, 5th Earl of Pembroke.

Hawise's husband Robert died in 1217 in London. He had been accidentally poisoned 
through medicine prepared by a Cistercian monk.[6] Robert and his father had both 
been excommunicated in December 1215 as a result of the latter having been one of 
the 25 sureties of the Magna Carta six months before. Hawise died sometime between 
6 June 1241 and 3 May 1243. She was more than sixty years of age.

Hawisse was married a second time to Sir Warren de Bostoke; they had a son, Sir 
Henry de Bostoke.

Parents
DE MESCHINES HUGH OF KEVELIOC (1147 - 30 Jun 1181)
DE MONTFORT (EVREUX) Bertrade (1155 - 12 Jul 1189)

Siblings
DE MESCHINES [OF CHESTER] Maud (Matilda) (ABT 1171 - 6 Jan 1233)
DE MESCHINES (OF CHESTER) Mabel (ABT 1173 - )
DE MESCHINES Agnes (ABT 1174 - 2 Nov 1247)
DE MESCHINES Beatrix (ABT 1175 - )
DE MESCHINES Amicia (ABT 1177 - )
DE MESCHINES Hawise (1180 - AFT 6 Jun 1241)

Marriage To DE QUINCY Robert (ABT 1186 - Aug 1257)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
DE QUINCY Saher IV (1155 - 3 Nov 1219)
DE HARCOURT [DE BEAUMONT] Margaret (ABT 1156 - 12 Jan 1236)

Children by DE QUINCY Robert ABT 1186 - Aug 1257
DE QUINCY Margaret (ABT 1206 - Mar 1266)

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