• General Notes

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  1 TITL LORD OF STANTON LACY
  PED OF AUGUSTINE H. AYERS
  
  TITL Baldwin, Stewart           contributor to soc.genealogy.medieval, sbald@@auburn.campus.mc i.net
  MEDI Electronic
  TEXT no title, no parents
  TEXT d 1186, no place
  CAUS Decapitated by an Irishman while he was showing him how to use a pick.
  _FA1 PLAC Acceded: 1172.  5th Baron.
  _FA2 PLAC Took part in campaign of 1165 from Shrewsbury into North Wales.
  _FA3 PLAC In Ireland with Henry II from October 1171 & remained aft Henry ret to England.
  _FA4 PLAC Summer of 1173 he was in Normandy helping to quell the rising.
  _FA5 PLAC Held Verneuil w/ Hugh de Beauchamp under seige by Louis VII.
  _FA6 PLAC Given the city of Dublin (1173) & its castle.
  _FA7 PLAC Viceroy of Dublin 1178-84.
  _FA8 PLAC Restless nature & intolerant of inefficiency.
  _FA9 PLAC Judiciar of Ireland, Lord of Meath.
  _FA10 PLAC The Lordship of Meath contained 800,000 acres.  Hugh is possibly Gilbert's brothe r rather than son.
  "Much more is known of the actions of Hugh II than of any previous member of the family. He p aid no scutage in 1164-5, so that he was probably present in person on the campaign of 1165 f rom Shrewsbury into North Wales.  He was in Ireland with the king from October 1171, and rema ined 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.  Th e archbishop was carried away by the occasion and expressed himself rather too strongly, onl y to be rebuked firmly by Hugh II.  In the summer of 1173 he was in Normandy helping to quel l the rising, and with Hugh de Beauchamp held the  castle of Verneuil while it was being besi eged by Louis VII in July.  He spent some time during the year in Ireland, where he had acqui red the old kingsom of Meath, so that from now onwards he spent a good deal of time on the we st side of St. George's Channel.  In the same year he had been given the city of Dublin and i ts castle, a grant followed five years later by his promotion to Viceroy.  That post he hel d until 1184, although he had been deprived of Dublin castle for a short period in 1181-2 a s a penalty for marrying the daughter of Rory O'Connor, the last king of Connaught.  At Durro w in July 1186 he had his head cut off by an Irishman while he was showing him how to use a p ick, according to the graphic desctiprion in the chronicle of St. Mary, Dublin -- a commentar y 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 Pre ss) 1966, p 190-191

Details of Hugh De's family with Rohesia de CLARE

Details of Hugh De's family with Rohese de Monmouth

Details of Hugh De's family with Rose ingen (of Connacht) Ruaidri