Hugh de Lacy

Also known as: Hugh Lacie · Family: Ireland · Role: nobleman · First appears: King John 6

Life events

1202 · Walter de Lacy attacked John de Courcy, who took refuge in Hugh de Lacy’s castle and was detained.(King John 6)
- With: Walter de Lacy John de Courcy, Lord of Ulster
- “Walter Lacie vnder pretense of a communication that was appointed betwixt him and John de Curcie, lord of Vlnester, meant to haue taken the said Curcie, and for the accomplishment of his purpose set vpon him, slue manie of his men, and for his safegard constreined Curcie in the end to take a castell which belonged vnto Hugh Lacie, vpon faire promises made to him by the same Hugh, to be preserued out of all danger, it came to passe, that when he was once got in, he might no more be suffered to depart.”
1202 · Walter de Lacy and Hugh de Lacy released John de Courcy after retaliatory warfare devastated their lands.(King John 6)
- With: John de Courcy, Lord of Ulster Walter de Lacy
- “the seruants and fréends of the said Curcie made such cruell war, in wasting and destroieng the lands and possessions that belonged vnto the said Walter and Hugh Lacies, that finallie they were constreined to set him againe at libertie whether they would or no.”
1210 · John Gray became Ireland's deputy and chief justice, replacing Hugh de Lacy.(King John 15 · 📍 Ireland)
- With: John de Gray
- “he appointed John Gray the bishop of Norwich, to be his deputie there, remoouing out of that office Hugh Lacie, which bare great rule in that quarter before.”

enemies with John de Courcy, Lord of Ulster “the seruants and fréends of the said Curcie made such cruell war, in wasting and destroieng the lands and possessions that belonged vnto the said Walter and Hugh Lacies”

sworn: King John (Hugh de Lacy had previously held the office of deputy in Ireland.) “remoouing out of that office Hugh Lacie, which bare great rule in that quarter before”

Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.