Hugh de Lacy

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 26 July 1186.

Place of Death: Durrow.

The date and place are given by Flanagan (ODNB). Hugh was assassinated.

Relationships

Father: Gilbert de Lacy.

This relationship is given by Flanagan (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (p. 537), and by Wightman.

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: Rose, widow of Baderon of Monmouth.

This relationship is given by Flanagan (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (p. 537), and by Wightman.

Spouse: a daughter of Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair, the elder.

This relationship is given by Flanagan (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (p. 537), and by Wightman.

Children (by Rose):

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Cawley.)

Walter de Lacy (about 1172 - before 24 February 1241) married Margery de Briouse.

Hugh de Lacy (about 1176 - before 26 December 1242) married (1) Lesceline de Verdun; married (2) Emmeline de Rydeleford.

Robert de Lacy.

Gilbert de Lacy.

William de Lacy.

Elaine married Richard de Beaufou.

Alice married (1) Roger Pipard; married (2) Geoffrey de Mareys.

a daughter married William FitzAlan.

Children (by the daughter of Ruaidrí):

William Gorm (died 1233) married Gwenllian ferch Llywelyn Fawr.

Thomas de Lacy.

a son.

References

Cawley, Charles. “Hugh de Lacy” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59).

Flanagan, M.T. “Lacy, Hugh de (d. 1186)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Holden, Brock.W. Lords of the Central Marches: English Aristocracy and Frontier Society, 1087-1265. (Oxford University Press, 2008).

Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).

Wightman, W.E. The Lacy Family in England and Normanby 1066-1194 (Oxford at the Clarendon Press: 1966).