Eustace de Vesci

Eustace de Vesci
Lord of Alnwick
Arms of Eustace de Vescy, Lord of Alnwick Castle.
Gules, a cross flory/patonce argent
Died1216
Barnard Castle, County Durnham
BuriedAlnwick Abbey
Noble familyde Vesci
Spouse(s)Margaret of Scotland
Issue
FatherWilliam de Vesci
MotherBurga de Stuteville

Eustace de Vesci (1169–1216) was an English lord of Alnwick Castle, and a Magna Carta surety.[1] He also held lands in Sprouston, Roxburghshire, Scotland as brother in-law to King Alexander II of Scotland. Eustace was a leader during the Barons' War in 1215 and was killed while undertaking a siege of Barnard Castle in 1216.

  1. ^ Richardson, Douglas, Magna Carta Ancestry, Baltimore, Md., 2005, p.xi, ISBN 0-8063-1759-0