• General Notes

  [SUSANNA KEENE.FTW]
  
  Decapitated by an Irishman while he was showing him how to use
  a pick.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  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

Details of Hugh de Lacy's family with Rohese de Monmouth

Details of Hugh de Lacy's family with Rohese de Clare