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Persoonlijke gegevens Walter II of Lacy 

• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1172 in Ewyas Lacy, Herefordshire, England.
• Hij is overleden op 24 februari 1241 in Trim Castle, Meath, Ireland, hij was toen 69 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Hugh III of Lacy en Rohesia of Monmouth

Gezin van Walter II of Lacy

Hij heeft/had een relatie met Margaret of Braose.

Kind(eren):

1. Gilbert II of Lacy  1206-1230 
2. Petronilla of Lacy  ± 1198-± 1288 
3. Egidia of Lacy  ± 1205-1240 

Notities over Walter II of Lacy

Hugh’s son Walter de Lacy was born in about 1172 in Ewias Lacy and was a minor at the time of his father’s death in 1185/6. He eventually succeeded to Hugh’s estates in England, Wales and Normandy, becoming Lord of Ludlow and Weobley in the final quarter of 1188/9 – although Ludlow Castle, which had been taken from his father by Henry II to curb the power of the de Lacys in the Marches, remained in the King’s hands. It was not until 1194 that Walter de Lacy regained full possession of the Irish estates as Lord of Meath [Mide], after considerable political and other difficulties.

It was not only in Ireland that Walter de Lacy had problems; by 1197 he was in the position of having to offer payments to King Richard to try and recover his Norman and English lands, which the King had sequestrated, probably for actions taken by de Lacy to reinforce his position in Ireland. However by 1199 Walter de Lacy seems to have been restored to favour in King John’s court, and by 1205 had not only extended his own lands in Ireland but also seen his brother Hugh de Lacy installed as Earl of Ulster.

Walter de Lacy married Margaret [?Margery] de Braose [Briouze], the daughter of William de Braose of Brecknock, Lord of Bramber, in November 1195 [?November 1200], and his son and heir Gilbert de Lacy was born c.1205 [1196?] in Ewyas. Walter’s new father-in-law also had extensive holdings in the Welsh Marches and in Ireland, so the alliance had considerable mutual benefit as the two men looked after each others interests in both places. The downside of this was that the King’s suspicions of the powerful Marcher Lords with additional holdings in Ireland were reinforced, and the power struggles continued, especially after William de Braose rebelled against the King and fled across the Irish Sea in 1210, and Walter de Lacy’s English and Irish estates were again confiscated by King John.

By 1213 an English Baronial revolt in alliance with Welsh ruler Llewellyn ap Iorwerth had placed the security of the Marches under threat, and Walter de Lacy returned to England as King John’s ally, recovering all his lands [on payment of a substantial sum to the crown] by about 1215. The following year he was additionally made Castellan and Sheriff of Hereford, and appointed custos of the vacant see of Hereford.

In 1220 Walter de Lacy returned to Ireland after a long absence, and in the years following was heavily engaged in a series of wars that had broken out there. Matters again became complicated when, in 1233, his brother Hugh arrived in Ireland and, having failed to negotiate the recovery of the Earldom of Ulster that King John had taken from him, proceeded to ‘wage war against the King and pillage the King’s land’. Hugh was captured and detained, but by 1227 the earldom of Ulster was restored to him. He died in Ulster shortly before 26th December 1242 without male heirs, and his lands reverted to the crown.

Meanwhile, Walter de Lacy in 1225 again found himself having to raise money to pay fines to the King and became heavily reliant on loans from Jewish financiers, although this did not deter him from making substantial donations to religious houses including Llanthony Prima and Secunda, and founding the Grandmontine priory at Craswall in Herefordshire. However, his profligacy finally caught up with him, and on 19th November 1240 the Crown issued orders for the distraint of his estates for the recovery of debts. At the time of his death on the 24th February 1241 in Meath, Ireland, Walter de Lacy was blind and feeble, bankrupt, and without male heirs, a sad end for a man and a family line that had shaped and ruled Ewyas Lacy and wider estates in the Marches, Herefordshire and Ireland for nearly two centuries.

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