• General Notes

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  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 Clare