Lord Meath Hugh de Lacy

• General Notes
  •  [Pullen010502.FTW]
    
    Hugh is possibly Gilbert's brother rather than son.
    
    "Much more is known of the actions of Hugh II than of any previous member of the family. He paid no scutage in 1164-5, so that he was probably present in person on the campaign of 1165 from Shrewsbury into North Wales. He was in Ireland with the king from October 1171, and remained there after the king returned in April 1172. He was back in England by 29 December 1172, when he distinguished himself at the first public festival of St. Thomas at Canterbury. The archbishop was carried away by the occasion and expressed himself rather too strongly, only to be rebuked firmly by Hugh II. In the summer of 1173 he was in Normandy helping to quell the rising, and with Hugh de Beauchamp held the castle of Verneuil while it was being besieged by Louis VII in July. He spent some time during the year in Ireland, where he had acquired the old kingsom of Meath, so that from now onwards he spent a good deal of time on the west side of St. George's Channel. In the same year he had been given the city of Dublin and its castle, a grant followed five years later by his promotion to Viceroy. That post he held until 1184, although he had been deprived of Dublin castle for a short period in 1181-2 as a penalty for marrying the daughter of Rory O'Connor, the last king of Connaught. At Durrow in July 1186 he had his head cut off by an Irishman while he was showing him how to use a pick, according to the graphic desctiprion in the chronicle of St. Mary, Dublin -- a commentary on his restless nature, apparently intolerant of inefficiency to the end."
    
    --- W E Wightman, *The Lacy Family in England and Normandy, 1066-1194*, Oxford (Clarendon Press) 1966, p 190-191
    
    
    Sources:
    
       1. Abbrev: Baldwin, Stewart
          Title: Baldwin, Stewart
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          contributor to soc.genealogy.medieval, sbald@auburn.campus.mci.net
          Text: no title, no parents
       2. Abbrev: Pullen010502.FTW
          Title: Pullen010502.FTW
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          Text: Date of Import: Jan 5, 2002
       3. Abbrev: Baldwin, Stewart
          Title: Baldwin, Stewart
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          contributor to soc.genealogy.medieval, sbald@auburn.campus.mci.net
          Text: d 1186, no place 

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