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== Biography ==Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath (died 25 July 1186, Durrow , L e i n s t er) was an Anglo-Norman magnate granted the lands of the Kingdom o f M e a t h b y Henry II in 1172, during the Norman Invasion of Ireland. He w a s t h e f i rst Norman Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
He was the son of Gilbert de Lacy (fl. 1150), 4th Baron Lacy. Hugh d e L a c y i s s a id to have had a dispute with Joce de Dinan as to certain land s i n H e r e fordshire in 1154. He was in possession of his father' s lands b e f o r e 1 163, and in 1165-6 held fifty-eight and three-quarters knights' f e e s , a n d had nine tenants without knight service.
In October 1171 he went over to Ireland with Henry II, and early in 11 7 2 w a s s e n t to receive the submission of Ruaidrï ¿ ½ Ua Conchobair (Rod er i c ) , k i ng of Connaught. Before Henry's departure about the end of Ma r c h L a c y w as granted Meath by the service of fifty knights and with al m o s t r o y al authority; he was also put in charge of Dublin Castle.
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Abt 1138 - 1186 (48 years)
