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

The extraordinary life story of an ambitious, thirteenth-century adventurer.

List of contents

Introduction
Beginnings: birth, brotherhood and the burden of lineage
Rise: the making of an earl, 1201-5
Ascendancy: lordship in Ulster, 1205-10
Fall: the road to rebellion, 1205-10
Exile: between two kingdoms, 1210-27
Restoration: comes and colony, 1227-42
Conclusion
Appendices: the acta of Hugh de Lacy, 1189-1242
Appendix I: Extant charter-texts
Appendix II: Lost acta of Hugh de Lacy
Appendix III: Index of persons in charter-texts
Appendix IV: Index of place-names in charter-texts
Bibliography

About the author

Daniel Brown

Summary

The extraordinary life story of an ambitious, thirteenth-century adventurer.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Brown, Daniel (Royalty Account) Brown
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2016
• EAN: 9781783271344
• ISBN: 978-1-78327-134-4
• No. of pages: 327
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 635 g
• Series: Irish Historical Monographs; Irish Historical Monographs
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous