• General Notes

  [Johnson.FTW]
  
  [1144734.FTW]
  
  Cause of Death:<CAUS> Decapitated by an Irishman while he was showing him how t o use a pick.
  Custom Field:<_FA#> Took part in campaign of 1165 from Shrewsbur y into North Wales.@@S005967@@
  Custom Field:<_FA#> In Ireland with Henry II from October 1171 & remained aft Henry ret to England.@@S005967@@
  Custom Field:<_FA# > Held Verneuil w/ Hugh de Beauchamp under seige by Louis VII.@@S005967@@
  Custom Field:<_FA#> Given the city of Dublin (1173) & its castle.@@S005967@@
  Custom Fi eld:<_FA#> Viceroy of Dublin 1178-84.@@S005967@@
  Custom Field:<_FA#> Restless na ture & intolerant of inefficiency.@@S005967@@
  Custom Field:<_FA#> Judiciar of Ir eland, Lord of Meath.@@S005967@@
  Custom Field:<_FA#> The Lordship of Meath conta ined 800, 000 acres.@@S005967@@
  REFN: 4628
  [G675.ged]
  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 i nto North Wales.  He was
  in
  Ireland with the king from October 1171, and rem ained 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 be sieged by
  Louis VII in July.  He spent some time during the year in Ireland, w here
  he
  had acquired the old kingsom of Meath, so that from now onwards he s pent a
  good deal of time on the west side of St. George's Channel.  In the sam e
  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
  Con naught.  At Durrow in July 1186 he had his head cut off by an Irishman
  while h e was showing him how to use a pick, according to the graphic
  desctiprion in t he chronicle of St. Mary, Dublin -- a commentary on his
  restless nature, appar ently intolerant of inefficiency to the end."
  --- W E Wightman, *The Lacy Fami ly in England and Normandy, 1066-1194*,
  Oxford (Clarendon Press) 1966, p 190-1 91

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

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