Hugh de Lacy, First Earl of Ulster: Rising and Falling in Angevin Ireland

Daniel Brown

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Hugh de Lacy, First Earl of Ulster

Rising and Falling in Angevin Ireland

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Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: May 2021
Print publication year:: 2016
Online ISBN:: 9781782049029
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781782049029

Subjects:: History, British History Before 1066
Series:: Irish Historical Monographs

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This book charts the striking rise, fall and restoration of the first earl of Ulster, Hugh II de Lacy, described by one contemporary chronicler as 'the most powerful of the English in Ireland'. A younger son of the lord of Meath, de Lacy ascended from relatively humble beginnings to join the top stratum of Angevin society, being granted in 1205 the first earldom in Ireland by King John. Subsequently, in 1210, having been implicated in rebellion, Hugh was expelled from Ulster by a royal army and joined the Albigensian crusade against Cathar heretics in southern France. Unusually, after almosttwo decades in exile and a second revolt against the English crown, de Lacy was restored to the earldom of Ulster by King Henry III in 1227, retaining it to his death, c. 1242.
Situated in the north-east of Ireland, Ulster's remoteness from centres of colonial administration allowed Hugh de Lacy to operate beyond the normal mechanisms of royal control, forging his own connections with otherpowerful lords of the Irish Sea province. The fluidity of noble identity in frontier zones is also underlined by the career of someone who, according to his political needs, presented himself to different audiences as a courtly sophisticate, freebooting colonist, crusading warrior, or maurauding 'Irish' ruler.
The foundation for this study is provided by Hugh de Lacy's acta, providedas an appendix, and representing the first collection of comital charters in an Irish context. These cast fresh light on the wider themes of power and identity, the intersection of crown and nobility,and the risks and rewards for ambitious frontiersmen in the Angevin world.

Daniel Brown obtained his PhD from Queen's University Belfast, and completed his research on Hugh de Lacy as a postdoctoral fellow at Trinity College Dublin.

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Hugh de Lacy, First Earl of Ulster

Rising and Falling in Angevin Ireland

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-vii

List of Illustrations
pp viii-viii

Acknowledgements
pp ix-ix

List of Abbreviations
pp x-xiv

Miscellaneous Frontmatter
pp xv-xvi

Map
pp xvii-xviii

Introduction
pp 1-8

1 - Beginnings: Birth, Brotherhood and the Burden of Lineage
pp 9-21

2 - Rise: the Making of an Earl, 1201–05
pp 22-49

3 - Ascendancy: Lordship in Ulster, 1205–10
pp 50-86

4 - Fall: the Road to Rebellion, 1205–10
pp 87-114

5 - Exile: between Two kingdoms, 1210–27
pp 115-164

6 - Restoration: Comes and Colony, 1227–42
pp 165-202

Conclusion
pp 203-212

Appendices: the Acta of Hugh de Lacy, 1189–1242
pp 213-213

I - Extant Charter-Texts
pp 214-250

II - Lost Acta of Hugh de Lacy
pp 251-256

III - Index of Persons in Charter-Texts
pp 257-264

IV - Index of Place Names in Charter-Texts
pp 265-268

Bibliography
pp 269-294

General Index
pp 295-309

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