Hugh de Lacy, First Earl of Ulster: Rising and Falling in Angevin Ireland Contributor(s): Brown, Daniel (Author) |
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ISBN: 1783271345 ISBN-13: 9781783271344 Publisher: Boydell Press
Binding Type: Hardcover Published: November 2016 Click for more in this series: Irish Historical Monographs |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Medieval - Biography & Autobiography - History | Europe - Ireland |
Dewey: 941.603 |
LCCN: 2017287115 |
Series: Irish Historical Monographs |
Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" L (1.40 lbs) 327 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) - Cultural Region - Ireland |
Features: Bibliography, Index, Maps |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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 almost two 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. 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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