General Notes

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Walter De Lacy obtained, 9 King John [1208], a confirmation of his
dominion of Meath, to be held by him and his heirs for the service of
fift y knights' fees; as also of all his fees in Fingall, in the valley of
Dublin, to be held by the service of seven knights' fees. In three years
afterwards, King John passing into Ireland with his army, Laci was forced
to deliver him self up and all his possessions in that kingdom and to
abjure the realm. He w as subsequently banished from England, but in the
16th of the same reign [121 5], he seems to have made his peace, for he
was then allowed to repossess Lud low, with his castle; and the next year
he recovered all his lands in Ireland , except the castle and lands of
Drogheda, by paying a fine of 4,000 marks to the crown. After this we
find him sheriff of Herefordshire in the 18th of Jo hn [1217], and 2nd of
Henry III [1218], and in the 14th of the latter king [1 230], joined with
Geffrey De Marisco, then justice of Ireland, and Richard De Burgh, in
subduing the King of Connaught, who had taken up arms to expel the
English from his territories. So much for the secular acts of this
powerfu l feudal baron. In Ireland he founded the abbey of Beaubec, which
was first a cell to the great abbey of Bec, in Normandy, and afterwards
to Furneise, in Lancashire. Walter Laci m. Margaret, dau. of William de
Braose, of Brecknock, and in the year 1241, being then infirm and blind,
departed this life, "Vir, inter omnes nobiles Hiberniae, eminentissimus,"
leaving his great inheritanc e to be divided amongst females, viz.., the
daus. of Gilbert De Lacy, his son (who d. in his life time), and Isabel,
his wife, sister of John Bigod, which daughters were Maud, wife of Peter
De Geneva, and Margery, m. to John De Ver don. [Sir Bernard Burke,
Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, B urke's Peerage, Ltd.,
London, 1883, p. 310, Lacy, Earls of Lincoln]