The Complete Peerage gives him as the 3rd Earl,[disputed – discuss] but notes that "he does not appear to have been formally invested with the earldom, presumably because his mother outlived him".
[2][verification needed] Although he signed as Constable of Chester on documents, contemporaries would refer to him as Earl of Lincoln and he is known to have held the estates of the earldom.
[3] Somewhere between 1248 and his death in 1258 he was the leader of a group of twenty knights headed for a tournament between Tickhill Castle and Blyth.
You will have heard that on the morrow of the Purification [February 3] we are to arrive with all our household at the estate that we have committed to your faithful keeping.
We shall be coming to you with Lord E[dmund] de Lacy, constable of Chester, who will be traveling through those parts with twenty knights to the tournament at Blyth.