Ancestral Trails 2016 » HUGH de LACY (1140-1186)

Personal data HUGH de LACY 

• He was born in the year 1140 in Ewyas Lacy, Herefordshire.
• Title: Lord of Meath
• Title: 4th Baron de Lacy
• Title: Justiciar of Ireland
• He died on July 26, 1186 in Durrow, Westmeath, Ireland, he was 46 years old.
• A child of GILBERT de LACY

Household of HUGH de LACY

(1) He is married to ROHESE de MONMOUTH.

They got married in the year 1165 at Ewyas Lacy, Herefordshire, he was 25 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Robert de LACY  1168-1195
2. Alice de LACY  1180-????
3. Isotta de LACY  1176-???? 
4. MARY de LACY  1172-???? 
5. Hugh de LACY  1174-1242 
6. WALTER de LACY  1166-???? 

(2) He is married to Rose O'CONOR.

They got married in the year 1182 at Durrow, Westmeath, Ireland, he was 42 years old.

Child(ren):

1. William de LACY  1183-1233

Notes about HUGH de LACY

Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath (before 1135 - 25 July 1186) was the great-grandson of Walter de Lacy of the Norman Conquest.

In addition to his substantial land holdings in Herefordshire and Shropshire, England as 4th Baron de Lacy, Hugh de Lacy was also a substantial land holder in Ireland. Following his participation in the Norman Invasion of Ireland, he was granted the lands of a Gaelic medieval kingdom by the Anglo-Norman King Henry II of England in 1172 by the service of fifty knights. The Lordship of Meath was an extensive seigniorial liberty in medieval Ireland with almost royal authority. The Lordship was roughly co-extensive with the Kingdom of Meath. At its greatest extent, it included all of the modern counties of Fingal, Meath (which takes its name from the kingdom), Westmeath as well as parts of counties Cavan, Kildare, Longford, Louth and Offaly. The Lordship's caput was Trim Castle. With an area of 30,000 m², it is the largest castle in Ireland. The design of the central three-story keep (also known as a donjon or great tower) is unique for a Norman keep being of cruciform shape, with twenty corners.

These lords were reliant on their own aggression for laying claim to their lands and for securing them. Castles, by virtue of their defensive and offensive capabilities as well as their symbolic status, were indispensable for dominating the area of the lordship. Known as a great builder of castles, by c. 1200, de Lacy had settlements all over the lordship, either in his own hands or the hands of his barons. With his son Walter (1180 - 1240) he built Trim Castle and Kilkea Castle. Some time after 1196, Walter granted "the whole land of Rathtowth" to his younger brother, Hugh. This sub-division, named the Barony of Ratoath, was perhaps the first instance of the use of the term barony in Ireland for a division of a county. By letters patent from John, King of England, the prescriptive barony was granted to Walter de Lacy and his heirs in perpetuity in 1208.
SOURCE: Wikipedia

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