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unusual facts about de Lacy


1184 in Ireland

It was built on an earlier Irish fortification in the territory of the O'Byrne's by the Norman Hugh de Lacy, then governor of Ireland under Henry II .


Edward Codrington

Afterwards, he intervened on a political level to stop Captain General de Lacy disarming the local Catalan Somaténs (militias).

Pontefract Castle

Robert de Lacy failed to support King Henry I during his power struggle with his brother and the king confiscated the castle from the family during the 12th century.


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Easington, Lancashire

In 1220 or thereabouts, John de Lacy, 5th Lord of Bowland, granted an area west of the Hodder and north of Rushton known as "Gamellesarges".

Egidia de Lacy, Lady of Connacht

Another link exists into the Royal Windsor family through Sarah Ferguson via Wingfield, Meade, O'Brien, Fitzgerald, and then to Richard Og de Burgh, a grandson of the said Egidia de Lacy, and a greatx5-grandson of Walter de Lacey the Norman soldier.

Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath

De Lacy only escaped with difficulty; he seems to have left Dublin in charge of Earl Richard de Clare by the king's orders, and to have commenced securing Meath by the erection of castles.

Ludlow Castle

At the same time, Geoffrey Talbot, de Lacy's ally and Sybil's half brother, took the castle of Hereford and Weobley.

Pain fitzJohn married Hugh de Lacy's niece, Sybil, and through her acquired a good deal of the family's lands.

Maredudd ap Rhobert

He married Juliana de Lacy; her ancestry is uncertain, but she may have been a daughter of Walter de Lacy.

Roger de Lacy

Weobley passed to his brother Hugh de Lacy who died before 1115 when the de Lacy lands passed to Pain fitzJohn.

The Young Punx

Some of their most well known mixes include "Hideaway" by De'lacy, "Stoned in Love" by Chicane and Tom Jones, "Come on get it on" by Studio B, "I like girls" by Hound Dogs and "Rocket (a natural gambler)" by Braund Reynolds along with tracks by the Scissor Sisters, Don Diablo, Ike & Tina Turner, The Similou, Krafty Kuts, Space Cowboy and Norman Cook's "Mighty Dub Katz".

Theobald le Botiller, 2nd Chief Butler of Ireland

Henry III of England requested the marriage of Theobald to Rohese de Verdon, daughter of Nicholas de Verdon of Alton, Staffordshire and Joan de Lacy, and the widow of William Perceval de Somery.