Book Description

A non-fiction Odyssey, chronicling the stirring history of just one family through time. The de Lacy family. Warring Norsemen to Norman Lords. Onward to England, and 1066, Establishing Pontefract Castle as The Key to the North. Later other members of the family including John de Lacy at the signing of the Magna Carta. Henry de Lacy the closest confidant of King Edward I. Walter de Lacy established on the medieval English/Welsh border The de Lacy family, became leading Welsh Marcher Lords. Better described as 'War Lords'. Hugh de Lacy the first 'Viscount of Ireland'. Fighting for the expansion of English rule in Ireland. Later the de Lacy family fought against the Crown. The de Lacy family now 'living beyond the pale'. The de Lacy struggle until 1691 and the fall of Limerick 'The Flight of the Wild Geese." Over the next two centuries, the de Lacy family were at the forefront of most European wars. In America a de Lacy on both sides of the Civil War of 1861. One thousand years, of the de Lacy family, their triumphs, and tragedies.