General Notes

1  BIRT
2  DATE ABT. 1089
1  PROP
2  PLAC Thorney Green, Suffolk, England


Excerpted from Les Seigneurs de Bohon by Jean Le Melletier, Coutances:

II, Richard I together with Humphrey de Behun III invaded Scotland in anattack against King William who supported Prince Henry and thedestruction of the bishop's palace at Durham. They went to Berwick and penetrated deeply into Scotland. But when they learned of the landing of Beaumont (earl of Leicester and friend of Prince Henry) in Suffolk (29 September 11??) , a truce with William the Lion and marched against Beaumont.

Domfront in western Normandy and probably entered royal service under Henry I. He is recorded as a supporter of S about the year 1140, succeeding Geoffrey de Mandeville as Justiciar and sheriff of Essex 1143.

justiciars in 1155. and after Leicester's death in 1168 Lucy held the office alone. As one of the king's councilors he must be given part of the credit for the important legislation of the period, and during which with Becket he was singled out by the king's enemies as a principal author of the Con Clarendon (1164).

of 1173-1174 w 1179 he resigned his office and entered the religious life at Lesnes Abbey, Erith, Kent, himself in 1178 in penance for his part in the events leading to Becket's death. He had been excommunicated by Becket in 1166 and again in 1169, and the archbishop's murder h part provoked by his refusal to life the sentences he had passed upon his enemies. Richard Lucy died at Lesnes on July 14, 1179.(Encyclopedia Brittanica).