De Lacy

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De Lacy (Lascy, Lacie, Lacey, Lacy) is an old Norman noble family originating from Lassy (Calvados). The first records are about Hugh de Lacy (1020 – 1049). Descedents of Hugh de Lacy left Normandy and came to England along with William the Conqueror. Walter and Ilbert de Lacy fought in the battle of Hastings. The family took a major role in the Norman conquest of England and Ireland. The family is linked to the Scottish royal family. Elizabeth de Burgh, whose great grand father was Walter de Lacy, married Robert the Bruce. Another link exists to the royal Windsor family by Sarah Ferguson via Wingfield, Meade, O´Brien, Fitzgerald, De Burgh and therefore back to Walter de Lacy and Hugh de Lacy.

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[edit] Walter de Lacy (Lascy, Lasci)

Walter de Lacy (1046, Lassy (Normandy) – 1089, Hereford) was a companion of William I of England and came to England in the year 1066 to fight in the battle of Hastings. Walter de Lacy was buried at Gloucester Cathedral.

[edit] Ilbert de Lacy

Trim Castle Co. Meath EIRE (De Lacey)
Trim Castle Co. Meath EIRE (De Lacey)
Pontefract Castle, founded by Ilbert de Lacy
Pontefract Castle, founded by Ilbert de Lacy

Ilbert de Lacy (1045, Lassy (Normandy) – 1093, Pontefract) built Pontefract Castle on land granted by William I of England.

[edit] Henry de Lacy, Baron of Pontefract

Henry de Lacy (1070, Halton, – 1123) was the grandson of Ilbert de Lacy. Henry de Lacy, Baron of Pontefract and Lord of Blackburnshire, built Kirkstall Abbey.

[edit] Robert de Lacy

The legend says, Robert de Lacy (? – 1193) has built Clitheroe Castle. The purple lions in the arm of Clitheroe support the legend.

[edit] Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath

Hugh de Lacy (? – July 25, 1186, Durrow, Leinster) was the great grandson of Walter de Lacy. In 1172 County Meath was granted by Henry II of England to Hugh de Lacy. He was the 1st Lord of Meath. You can follow the pedegree up to the Earls of Meath. Hugh de Lacy and his son Walter de Lacy (1180 – 1240) built Trim Castle and Kilkea Castle. Hugh de Lacy was killed while supervising the construction of a Motte castle at Durrow, Co. Offaly in 1186 at the instigation of Sinnagh (the Fox) and O'Breen (see Annals of the Four Masters, 1186.5). De Lacy was initially buried at Durrow Abbey. In 1195 the archbishops of Cashel and Dublin disinterred him and buried his body in Bective Abbey in Meath and his head in St. Thomas’s Abbey in Dublin. In 1205 his body was also interred in St. Thomas's Abbey.

[edit] Hugh de Lacy, 1st Earl of Ulster

Hugh de Lacy, Earl of Ulster (~1176 – after December 26, 1242), was the younger son of Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath.
image:buckler_Hugh_de_Lacy.gif arm of Hugh de Lacy [1]

[edit] John de Lacy

John de Lacy (1150, Lincoln, – 1190, Palestine) was the father of Baron Roger de Lacy. He was Lord of Flamborough and Constable of Chester.

[edit] Baron Roger de Lacy

Roger de Lacy (1171, Lincoln, – 1212, Pontefract) was commander at Château-Gaillard. Roger de Lacy served John of England the younger brother of Richard I of England and defended the Château against Philip II of France. Amongst his other titles, he was the 7th Baron of Halton. Roger de Lacy is buried in Stanlow Abbey.
image:buckler_Roger_de_Lacy.gif arms of Roger de Lacy [2]

[edit] Walter de Lacy

Walter de Lacy (1180 – 1240) was Lord of Meath and Ludlow. His daughter Gille de Lacy married Richard de Burgh Lord of Connaught and Strathearn. The pedigree spawns from Walter de Burgh (? - 1271), Richard Og de Burgh (2nd Earl of Ulster) (1259 - July 26, 1326) to Lady Elizabeth de Burgh the wife of Robert the Bruce.

[edit] Jean (John) de Lacy (Lacie)

John de Lacy (1192 – July 22, 1240), son of Roger, became Earl of Lincoln and 8th Baron of Halton. He and his cousin Robert de Vere, Earl of Oxford, signed Magna Carta. John de Lacy was buried in Stanlow Abbey.
image:Arm_Jean_de_Lacy.gif arms of Jean de Lacy [3]

[edit] Maud de Lacy, Countess of Lincoln

Maud de Lacy, Countess of Lincoln (1223 – 1287) was the daughter of John de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln (1192-1240) and Margaret de Quincy (1208-1266). She married Richard de Clare, 8th Earl of Clare. Their known children are: 1) Gilbert de Clare, 9th Earl of Clare/3rd Earl of Gloucester; 2) Adeliza de Tunbridge, who married William Percy, Lord of Topcliffe; 3) Roger de Clare, who married Maud de St. Hilary.

[edit] Edmund de Lacy

Edmund de Lacy (1230 – 1258) was Lord of the Honour of the Pontefract and the 9th Baron of Halton.

[edit] Henry de Lacy, 3rd Earl of Lincoln

Henry de Lacy (1251 – 1311) was a confidante of Edward I of England. In 1278 he became Earl of Lincoln. He was also Lord of Pontefract and the 10th Baron of Halton. Henry de Lacy was buried in Saint Paul's Cathedral. He is the addressee, or joint composer, of a poem (a tenson) by Walter of Bibbesworth about crusading, La pleinte par entre missire Henry de Lacy et sire Wauter de Bybelesworthe pur la croiserie en la terre seinte.

[edit] Alice de Lacy

Alice de Lacy (December 25, 1281, Denbigh Castle – October 2, 1348, Barlings Abbey) married Thomas Plantagenet, 2nd Earl of Lancaster on October 28, 1294. She and Thomas where divorced about 1318, because she was convicted of adultery with Earl of Surrey's squire, Sir Ebulo Lestrange, Lord Strange, a Shropshire Baron. Her husband continued to hold the title of Earl of Lincoln, having been left the right to bear it in the Will of the previous Earl of Lincoln; Alice he kept in custody in Lancaster.

However, upon the execution of the Earl of Lancaster, the Earl of Suffolk seized the Countess from Lancaster - much to her delight - to prevent her title being claimed by her brother-in-law, Henry of Lancaster. She then married Sir Ebulo Lestrange before November 10, 1324, although she was considered too old to bear children. She married Hugh de Freyne, Baron Freyne, before March 23, 1336, and died childless in 1348, her title becoming extinct upon her death.

[edit] Peter Count de Lacy

Peter Count de Lacy (September 26, 1678 – May 11, 1751), was born in Killedy, Ireland, and became one of the most successful Russian field marshals. He died at Riga.

[edit] Franz Moritz Count de Lacy

arms of Count Lacy, photo taken in his crypt in Vienna
arms of Count Lacy, photo taken in his crypt in Vienna

Francois Maurice Count de Lacy (October 21, 1725, St. Petersburg – November 24, 1801, Vienna) served Maria Theresia and was a famous field marshal. Francois Maurice was a close friend to Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, and became one of his advisers.

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[edit] Further reading

These sources relate to the de Lacys who were also Barons of Halton.

  • Starkey, H. F. Old Runcorn, Halton Borough Council, 1990.
  • Whimperley, Arthur. Halton Castle: An Introduction & Visitors' Handbook, 1981.
  • Whimperley, Arthur. The Barons of Halton, MailBook Publishing, Widnes, 1986.

Coordinates: 48°14′53″N, 16°16′55″E

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