Walter DE LACY, Lord Of Meath

Abt 1160 - 1241  (~ 81 years)

• Name	Walter DE LACY
  Suffix	Lord Of Meath
  Born	Abt 1160	Of Meath, Ireland   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Alt. Death	1241  [1]
  	Alt. Death
  Ancestor	M
  _UID	FC075C642A504A33ADEC322045DE2114FD08
  Died	24 Feb 1240-1241  [2]
  Person ID	I10454	Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
  Last Modified	5 Feb 2012

  
  

  Family	Margaret DE BRAOSE,   b. Abt 1186, Of Bramber, Sussex, England ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	19 Nov 1200  [1]
  Children	1. Petronilla DE LACY,   b. Abt 1201, Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland ,   d. Aft 1288  (Age ~ 88 years)   2. Gilbert DE LACY,   b. Abt 1203, Ewyas Lacy, Herefordshire, England ,   d. 1234, Llanthony, Monmouthshire, Wales  (Age ~ 31 years)   3. Giles DE LACY,   b. Abt 1205,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016
  Family ID	F5203	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  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 fifty 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 himself up and all his possessions in that kingdom and to abjure the realm. He was subsequently banished from England, but in the 16th of the same reign [1215], he seems to have made his peace, for he was then allowed to repossess Ludlow, 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 John [1217], and 2nd of Henry III [1218], and in the 14th of the latter king [1230], 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 powerful 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 inheritance 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 Verdon. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 310, Lacy, Earls of Lincoln] This file is as error-free as my sources. IF you should discover an error, I would appreciate it if you would bring it to my attention and provide me with the correct information and source for that information. Many thanks.

  
  

• Sources

  [S72] Automated Family Pedigrees - #1, United Ancestries, Automated Archives, Inc., (CD-100, Banner Blue Software, 1994), ISBN 1-56787-100-3. [S839] Directory of Royal Genealogical Data, Brian Tompsett, (University of Hull, Hull, UK), royal08753 (Reliability: 3).