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- Walter de Lacie, elder son, paid in the 10th of Richard I, 1199, 2000 marks for the king's favour and to have livery of his lands, but this being the last year of that monarch's reign, his brother and successor, King John, exacted no less than 1000 pounds for similar favour of livery. In the 9th of the latter king's reign, Walter de Lacie obtained a confirmation of his lands and dominion of Meath in Ireland, to be held by him and his heirs for the service of 50 knights' fees; as also his fees in Fingall, in the valley of Dublin, to be held by the service of seven knights' fees. But in three years afterwards, King John passing into Ireland with his army, Lacie was forced to deliver himself up and all his possessions on that kingdom, and to abjure the realm. He was subsequently banished from England, but in the 16th of the same reign, he seems to have made his peace, for he was allowed to repossess his Castle of Ludlow; and the next year he recovered all of his lands, except the castle and lands of Drogheda, by paying a fine of 4000 marks to the crown. After this we find him Sheriff of Herefordshire, in the 18th of King John, and 2nd of Henry III, and in the 14th of the latter king, joined with Geoffrey de Marisco, then Justice of Ireland, and Richard de Burgh, in subduing the King of Connaught, who had taken up arms to expel the English from his territories. So much for the secular acts of this baron. Of his works of Piety, it is recorded that he confirmed to the canons of Lathony all those lands and churches in Ireland, granted to them by his father, Hugh de Lacie; and of his own bounty, gave them the church of Our Lady of Drogheda, with other valuable gifts. To the monks at Creswil, in Hereford, he was a special benefactor, having conferred on them 200 acres of land and wood called Ham; also 600 acres, with the woods thereto belonging, and common pasture for their cattle in New Forest, and in divers pasturages. Moreover, the ninth sheaf of wheat and other corn, except oats, throughout all his lordships in England and Wales. Likewise the tithe of all the hides of those cattle which were yearly sold at the larder of his Castle at Ewyas. In Ireland he founded the Abbey of Beaubee, in Normandy, which was a first cell to the great Abbey of Bec in Normandy, and afterwards at Furness, in Lancaster. He married Margaret, daughter of William de Braose, of Brecknock, and in 1241, being then infirm and blind, departed this life, leaving his great inheritance to be divided among females, viz., the daughters of his son, who died in the lifetime of his father. (Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith, page 426-427)
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1160 - 1240 (80 years)