Hugh Baron de Lacy , Lord of Meath 
Hugh Baron de was born about 1125 in Ewias Lacy, Herefordshire, England. Hugh Baron de's father was Gilbert 4th Lord de Lacy and his mother was Agnes. His paternal grandparents were Hugh Talbot , Sir and Emma de Lacy. He had a sister named Eve de. He was the younger of the two children. He died on July 25th, 1186 in Durrow, Ireland. He was buried in Bective Abbey, Meath, Ireland (body), Dublin, Ireland (head).General Notes
In 1272, Hugh de Lacy was granted the Liberty of Meath by Henry II who sought to limit the expansionist policies of Strongbow [Richard de Clare], whom he feared might set up an independent Anglo-Norman kingdom in Ireland. Soon after his arrival at Trim, de Lacy built a wooden castle, the spike stockade mentioned in the "Song of Dermot and the Earl"--a poem of the period.
De Lacy left one of his barons, Hugh Tyrell, in charge, but when O'Connor, King of Connacht, threatened, Tyrell abandoned and burned the castle. By 1176, this wooden fortification had been replaced with a stone keep or tower. When the site was secure, the castle yard was surrounded by curtain walls and moat with a simple gate and bridge to the north. Analyses of samples of surviving structural timbers show that the keep was extended in at least two more phases and remodelled in the lifetime of Walter de Lacy, Hugh's son. Later, fore-buildings were built to protect the entrance to the keep. [Trim Castle Visitors Guide, Duchas--The Heritage Service of Ireland]
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Hugh was killed in Durrow while overseeing the building of a smaller castle. A man, who had gotten close to Hugh pulled an axe from under his cloak and lopped Hugh's head off. His body was buried at the Bective Abbey about 8 kms. from Trim Castle while his head was buried near his 1st wife in Dublin. The Cistercian Monks of Bective Abbey had hopes that the possession of Hugh's body would give them rights to Trim Castle and the extensive lands associated with it. However the king took the castle and lands until Walter came of age, at which time Richard I gave them to Walter.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 0980 in Battlesden, Bedfordshire, England
- b.~ 1030 in Battlesden, Bedfordshire, England
- b.~ 1050 in Battlesden, Bedfordshire, England
- b.~ 1010 in Evereux, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1030 in Evereux, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1078 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England
- b.0980 in St Sauveur, Normandy, France d.~ 1066
- b.~ 1010 in St. Martin d'Aubigny, Manche, Normandy, France d.~ 1066
- b.0985 in Eu, Dieppe, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1050 in St Martin D'Aubigny, Manche, Normandy, France
- b.~ 0990 in Plessis, France d.1047 in In a Dungeon
- b.~ 1014 in Plessis, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1100 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England d.1163
- b.1020 in Lassy, Calvados, Normandy, France d.1049
- b.~ 1055 in Lassy, Calvados, Normandy, France d.Apr 1084
- b.1028 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 1082 in Herefordshire, England
- b.~ 1060 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 1125 in Ewias Lacy, Herefordshire, England d.25 Jul 1186 in Durrow, Ireland
- b.~ 1100 in England
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Children
Walter de Lacy , Lord of Meath
Walter de was born about 1172 in Ewyas Harold, Herefordshire, England. He died in Trim Castle, Meath, Ireland (dspms).
Hugh de Lacy , 1st Earl of Ulster
Hugh de was born about 1176 in Ulster, Ireland. He died before December 26th, 1242 in Franciscan Friars Convent, Carrickfergus, Ireland.
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