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Ilbert de Lacy was a Norman landowner of obscure origins. [n 1] After the Norman conquest of England which commenced in 1066, William the Conqueror gave Lacy a large fief in the English county of Yorkshire, which formed the basis of the honour. [2]
Ilbert II de Lacy (died 1141), Baron of Pontefract and Lord of Bowland, was an English noble. He was the eldest son of Robert de Lacy and Maud de Perche. Ilbert with his father, supported Robert Curthose against the claims of Henry I to the English crown. Upon Henry’s succession, he dispossessed the Lacy’s of all their estates and banished ...
*Ilbert (died c1090) Hawise *Robert died in exile c1131) Matilda: Hugh (2nd Abbot of Selby Abbey) *Ilbert (died c1141) *Henry (died 1187) Albreda: Robert de Lissours *Robert (died 1192) Albreda: Richard Fitz-Eustace (constable of Chester) John Fitz-Eustace (died at Tyre, 1190) *John (assumed the surname de Lacy, died 1240) Margaret, d. of ...
Arms of John de Lacy, 2nd Earl of Lincoln . Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Lassy (Normandy) (c. 1020 – 27 March 1085, Hereford) . Ilbert de Lacy (1045, Lassy – 1093, Pontefract), 1st Baron of Pontefract, son of Hugh de Lacy, [8] who received a large fief in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire and built Pontefract Castle.
Model reconstructing Pontefract Castle. The castle, on a rock to the east of the town above All Saints' Church, [1] was constructed in approximately 1070 by Ilbert de Lacy [2] on land which had been granted to him by William the Conqueror as a reward for his support during the Norman Conquest.
Geoffrey de la Guerche (c. 1040 - c. 1094), son of Silvestre who was lord of La Guerche and Pouence, near Rennes on the border of Brittany and Anjou. [15] Ilbert de Lacy, son of Hugh de Lacy from Lassy, Calvados. He and his brother Walter left Normandy with William the Conqueror, who awarded them both lands. Ilbert's main lands were in west ...
Christ Church, Liversedge. Liversedge is recorded in the Domesday Book as Livresec, a manor belonging to Radulf, a vassal of Ilbert de Lacy.There are two possible etymologies for the name: from the Old English Lēofheres-ecg meaning 'a ridge or edge belonging to Lēofhere'; [3] [4] [5] or, alternatively, the first element could have originally been *Lēfer-, related to the Old English word ...
That Leeds was owned by one of the chief favourites of William was fortunate; the probability is that the lands of the de Lacy ownership were spared when the harrying of the North took place. While the greater part of the county was absolutely destitute of human life, and all the land northward lay blackened, Leeds in 1086 had a population of ...