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Family of Walter of LACY

Partner: Walter of LACY (1046-1084)
Partner: (unknown)
Children: Ilbert (c. 1070- )
Walter (c. 1072- )

Partner: Walter of LACY

Name: Walter of LACY
Sex: Male
Father: Hugh of LACY (1020-1050)
Mother: Emma + (1028- )
Birth 1046 Lassy, Calvados, Basse-Normandy, France
Occupation Lord of Normandy
Title Lord of Normandy
Death 17 Mar 1084 (age 37-38) Hereford, Herefordshire, England

Child 1: Ilbert

Name: Ilbert
Sex: Male
Birth 1070 (est)

Child 2: Walter

Name: Walter
Sex: Male
Birth 1072 (est)

Note on Husband: Walter of LACY

de Lacy (Laci, Lacie, Lascy, Lacey) is the surname of an old Norman noble family originating from Lassy (Calvados). The first records are about Hugh de Lacy (1020–1049). Descendent of Hugh de Lacy left Normandy and travelled 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. Up until 1399, the De Lacys held the great northern Lordship of Bowland before it passed through marriage to the Earldom, later Duchy of Lancaster as well as being Lords of Pontefract and later Earls of Lincoln.

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Walter de Lacy (before 1040, lord of Lassy (Normandy) – 27 March 1085, Hereford). He had two sons, Ilbert and Walter, who probably fought at William's side at Hastings (see the Adalae Comitissae (To Countess Adela), by Baudri, abbot of Bourgeuil, who suggest Ilbert led the feint that led to the death of King Harold). There is no record of Walter Jnr fighting at Hastings. Ilbert was a major participant in the Harrying Of The North (1069–70, receiving vast land in West Yorkshire, where he built Pontefract Castle.

 

His grandson Gilbert de Lacy, lord of Longtown, Weobley and Ludlow became a Templar in the 1150s, and acted as a witness to a charter between the English and French kings in May 1160. He was in the Holy Land in the same year; his name appears as a witness on a letter from Walter of Hereford to Henry II. He granted the Templars Guiting in Gloucestershire.

 

Gilbert's son Hugh de Lacy (1118-86) also granted the Templars lands, this time in Ludlow and accompanied Henry II on his conquest of Ireland, being made the first constable of Dublin Castle. The family later married into that of the O'Neills, high kings of Ireland, receiving Carrickfergus Castle and building Trim Castle.

 

Hugh de Lacy had a son Walter de Lacy (before 1170 to 24 February 1240/41). He married secondly Margaret de Braose the daughter of William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber, another important Norman dynasty of Marcher Lords. She founded the Convent of Augustinian nuns at Aconbury, which she placed under control of the Hospitallers. Her subsequent attempts to free her foundation from their control involved her in a long dispute involving the Pope.