A manuscript history of the Lacy family names “Rogerium de Hell…alium filium…Eustachium et plures alios” as the children of “Johannes constabularium Cestriæ” & his wife, adding that Roger was called “de Hell” by the Welsh because a Welsh rebellion was crushed there, and that he died in 1206 “in festo sancti Remigii” and was buried “in choro monachorum de Stanlaw”.
Constable of Chester. He was heir to his paternal grandmother's first cousin, Robert de Lacy, in 1193 and adopted the name Lacy. The Red Book of the Exchequer, listing scutage payments in [1194/95], records "Rogerus de Cestria successor Henrici de Lascy" paying "xliii l xv s, xliii milites et tres partes" in Yorkshire.
Matthew Paris records the death in 1211 of "Rogerus Cestriæ constabularius”. 1
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