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

by Daniel Brown

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

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783271345
• ISBN13: 9781783271344
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 327 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"