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De Quincey
De Quincy, De Quincey, DeQuincy, or DeQuincey is a name. It can occur as both a masculine given name and as a surname. Geographically, it can be found in the United Kingdom, France, the United States, and New Zealand. Notable people with this name include: De Quincy * Barthélemy de Quincy (died 1302), a marshal of the Knights Templar * Charles Sevin de Quincy (1660? – 1738), a French artillery general * Margaret de Quincy, Countess of Lincoln (c. 1206 – 1266), an English noblewoman * Quatremère de Quincy (1755 – 1849), a French archaeologist and writer * Robert de Quincy (c. 1140 – c. 1197), an English and Scottish nobleman * Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester (c. 1195 – 1264), a Scottish earl * Saer de Quincy, 1st Earl of Winchester (c. 1155 – 1219), also a Scottish earl De Quincey * Christian de Quincey, an American author * Gabriel Cortois de Quincey (1714 – 1791), a French bishop * Paul Frederick de Quincey (1828 – 1894), a New Zealand polit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barthélemy De Quincy
Barthélemy de Quincy (died 26 September 1302) was Marshal of the Knights Templar during the mastership of Jacques de Molay. Career Barthélemy probably originated from the Duchy of Burgundy. The date of his departure for the Holy Land and his entry into the order of the Temple are unknown. He was named marshal of the order around 1294. In the meantime, the Order tried to organize a campaign to reconquer the Holy Land in alliance with the Mongols under Ghazan. By the end of September 1300, Ghazan set out from Tabriz, while Templars and Hospitallers and the King of Cyprus positioned their troops on the island of Ruad in front of the former Templar stronghold of Tartus. However, an unusually severe winter halted the Mongol advance, and Ghazan was forced to delay attacking the Mamluks until a later date. Meanwhile, the Templars held the island and from there repeatedly made forays into the mainland. In November 1301, Pope Boniface VIII granted the island of Ruad to the Templars. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Sevin De Quincy
Charles Sevin, marquis de Quincy (Meaux, 1660? – Paris, 10 January 1738Quincy (1901), p. 301) was a French artillery general and historian of the Wars of Louis XIV, who is still considered an authoritative source by modern historians. Life Personal life Charles was the son of Augustin Sevin, seigneur de Quincy, and Marguerite Françoise de Glapion.Quincy (1898), p. 4 He married Geneviève Pecquot de Saint-Maurice on 31 July 1696, and they had a daughter, Catherine Charlotte, who married Governor of the Bastille#René Jourdan de Launay, René Jourdan de Launay, then governor of the Bastille, in 1721.Quincy (1901), p. 307Quincy (1898), p. 69, note 2 His uncle Thierry, seigneur de Quincy (president of the Parlement of Paris), made him his universal heir, which left Charles very well off, despite the fact that the will was contested by Thierry's widow, and he had to pay back her dowry.Quincy (1898), pp. 4, note 3; 26, note 5 Career Charles entered service in the French army in 167 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret De Quincy, Countess Of Lincoln
Margaret is a feminine given name, which means "pearl". It is of Latin origin, via Ancient Greek and ultimately from Old Iranian. It has been an English name since the 11th century, and remained popular throughout the Middle Ages. It became less popular between the 16th and 18th century, but became more common again after this period, becoming the second-most popular female name in the United States in 1903. Since this time, it has become less common, but was still the ninth-most common name for women of all ages in the United States as of the 1990 census. Margaret has many diminutive forms in many languages, including Daisy, Greta, Gretchen, Maggie, Madge, Maisie, Marge, Margie, Margo, Margot, Marnie, Meg, Megan, Molly, Peggy, and Rita. Etymology Margaret is derived via French () and Latin () from (), via Persian ''murwārīd'', meaning "pearl". Margarita (given name) traces the etymology further as مروارید, ''morvārīd'' in modern Persian, derived ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quatremère De Quincy
Antoine-Chrysostome Quatremère de Quincy (21 October 1755 – 28 December 1849) was a French armchair archaeologist and architectural theorist, a Freemason, and an effective arts administrator and influential writer on art. Life Born in Paris, Quatremère de Quincy trained for the law, then followed courses in art and history at the Collège Louis-le-Grand and apprenticed for a time in the atelier of Guillaume Coustou the Younger and Pierre Julien, getting some practical experience in the art of sculpture. A trip to Naples in the company of Jacques-Louis David sparked his interest in Greek and Roman architecture. He was involved in the troubles of the French Revolution. He was a royalist in the National Legislative Assembly of 1791–1792, and his politics were monarchist and Catholic. As a member of the Revolutionary Committee of Public Instruction his set of three ''Considerations on the arts of design in France'' was offered before the Assemblée Nationale at a time (17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert De Quincy
Sir Robert de Quincy, 1st Baron of Prestoungrange ( 1140 – ), Justiciar of Lothian, was a 12th-century English and Scottish noble. Life Quincy was a younger son of Saer de Quincy and Maud de Senlis, daughter of Simon I de Senlis, Earl of Huntingdon-Northampton and Maud of Huntingdon, stepdaughter of King David I of Scotland. Robert was granted the castle of Forfar and a "toft" (a homestead) in Haddington He served as joint Justiciar of Lothian serving from 1171 to 1178. Robert accompanied King Richard I of England on the Third Crusade in 1190. He led a force to take aid to Antioch in 1191 and also collected prisoners from Tyre. Returning from the crusade, Robert took part in Richard I's campaigns in Normandy in 1194 and 1196. He succeeded to the English estates of his nephew Saer in 1192. Marriage and issue Robert married Orabilis, daughter of Nes fitz William, Lord of Leuchars. They had: * Saer de Quincy (died 1219), married Margaret de Beaumont, daughter of Robe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger De Quincy, 2nd Earl Of Winchester
Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester ( – 25 April 1264), (Roger de Quincy is a subarticle in his father's article.) His dates are given as 1195?-1265 at the beginning of the subarticle, but his death date is given as 25 April 1264 near the bottom of the page. and the hereditary Constable of Scotland, was a nobleman of Anglo-Norman and Scottish descent who was prominent in both England and Scotland, at his death having one of the largest baronial landholdings in the two kingdoms. Early life The de Quincy family, originating from the village of Cuinchy in Artois, had been prominent in England and Scotland from about 1130. Roger, second son and eventual heir of Saer de Quincy, 1st Earl of Winchester, and his wife Margaret, younger daughter of Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester, and wife Petronilla de Grandmesnil. Roger was likely the son that Saer handed over to King John in 1213 as a Scottish hostage to ensure the Anglo-Scottish treaty of 1212. He first became i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saer De Quincy, 1st Earl Of Winchester
Saer de Quincy, 1st Earl of Winchester (c. 1155 – 3 November 1219) was one of the leaders of the baronial rebellion against John, King of England, and a major figure in both the kingdoms of Kingdom of Scotland, Scotland and Kingdom of England, England in the decades around the turn of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Scottish upbringing Although he was an Anglo-Norman, Saer de Quincy's father, Robert de Quincy, had married and held important lordships in the Scottish kingdom of his cousin King William the Lion. His mother, Orabilis, was the heiress of the lordship of Leuchars and through her husband Robert became lord over lands in Fife, Perth and Lothian. Saer's own rise to prominence in England came partly through his marriage to Margaret, the younger sister of Robert de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Leicester. Earl Robert died in 1204, and left Margaret as co-heiress to the vast earldom along with her elder sister. The estate was split in half, and after the final division wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian De Quincey
Christian de Quincey is an American philosopher and author who teaches consciousness, spirituality and cosmology at universities and colleges in the United States and Europe. He is also an international speaker on consciousness. Biography De Quincey is a professor of Philosophy and Consciousness Studies at John F. Kennedy University, Dean of Consciousness Studies and the Arthur M. Young Professor of Philosophy at the University of Philosophical Research (), and adjunct faculty at the Holmes Institute, and at Schumacher College, Devon, England. He is the founder of The Wisdom Academy, which offers personal mentoring in consciousness studies. See also *Panpsychism *Intersubjectivity * Bohmian Dialogue *Transformation *Alfred North Whitehead *Ken Wilber Kenneth Earl Wilber II (born January 31, 1949) is an American theorist and writer on transpersonal psychology and his own integral theory, a four-quadrant grid which purports to encompass all human knowledge and experience. St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Cortois De Quincey
Gabriel Cortois de Quincey (born in Dijon in 1714, died in Belley on January 14, 1791), clergyman, was Bishop of Belley from 1751 to 1791, the last of the ''Ancien Régime''. Biography Gabriel Cortois de Quincey was the third son of Antoine Cortois-Humbert, Baron of Attignat (1738) and Anne Guillaume de Quincey. Destined for the Church, he was archdeacon and then vicar general of the first Bishop of Dijon and of his successor. In 1746 he was made commendatory abbot of the Abbey of St Martin, Autun. Named Bishop of Belley in 1751, he was confirmed in the post on July 19 that year and consecrated bishop in August by Guillaume d'Hugues, Archbishop of Vienne. In 1759, he translated the relics of Saint Anthelme. In 1762 he took the part of the Jesuits. In 1764 he was made commendatory abbot of the Abbey of Conches in the diocese of Evreux. In 1772 as the representative of the Holy See, he presided over the general chapter of the Friars Minor in Grenoble. In 1783 he was made commend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Frederick De Quincey
Paul Frederick de Quincey (26 November 1828 – 15 April 1894) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament in Auckland, New Zealand. Early life De Quincey was born at Grasmere, Westmoreland. He was the son of the great English writer Thomas De Quincey. He received his education at the High School, Edinburgh, and at the Lasswade School, near that city. He entered the army 2 May 1845 as ensign in the 70th (Surrey) Regiment, and served with distinction in India from 1846, including being present with the 80th (Staffordshire Volunteers) Regiment at the Battle of Sobraon in February 1846, during the first Anglo-Sikh War, for which he was awarded the campaign medal. He became a lieutenant on 31 July 1846, and captain on 9 January 1858. In 1860, having become successively captain and major of brigade on the permanent staff of the Bengal Presidency, he was ordered with his old regiment, which he had rejoined after serving with several others, for active service in New Zealand. New Zealan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard De Quincey
Captain Richard Saher de Quincey ("the Captain") (12 November 1896, Surbiton, Surrey30 December 1965, Marden, Herefordshire) was a noted British cattle breeder. De Quincey fought in World War I as a fighter pilot in the Royal Flying Corps but was invalided out of the service as result of the effects of flying at high altitude. De Quincy's father bought The Vern - a farm at Bodenham, Herefordshire - in 1922. The farm came with a herd of Hereford cattle The Hereford is a British List of cattle breeds, breed of beef cattle originally from Herefordshire in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England. It was the result of selective breeding from the mid-eighteenth century by a few famil ... which the younger de Quincey successfully improved, his bulls winning many prizes and export markets. References 1896 births 1965 deaths People from Surbiton People from Herefordshire Royal Flying Corps officers Cattle in the United Kingdom {{England-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas De Quincey
Thomas Penson De Quincey (; Thomas Penson Quincey; 15 August 17858 December 1859) was an English writer, essayist, and literary critic, best known for his ''Confessions of an English Opium-Eater'' (1821).Eaton, Horace Ainsworth, ''Thomas De Quincey: A Biography'', New York, Oxford University Press, 1936; reprinted New York, Octagon Books, 1972;Lindop, Grevel. The Opium-Eater: A Life of Thomas De Quincey'. J. M. Dent & Sons, 1981. Many scholars suggest that in publishing this work De Quincey inaugurated the tradition of addiction literature in the West. Life and work Child and student Thomas Penson Quincey was born at 86 Cross Street, Manchester, Lancashire. His father was a successful merchant with an interest in literature. Soon after Thomas's birth, the family moved to ''The Farm'' and then later to Greenheys, a larger country house in Chorlton-on-Medlock near Manchester. In 1796, three years after the death of his father, Thomas Quincey, his mother – the erstwhile Elizabe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
