Baron Gilbert de Lacy

 79958992. Baron Gilbert de Lacy

[––Ancestors––]

1085, Walter de lacy [Gilbert’s grandfather] died, falling from scaffolding at Saint Guthlac’s priory. His son Roger succeeded.

1095, Roger de Lacy [Gilbert’s father] rebelled against King William Rufus and was exiled. His English lands were assigned to Roger’s brother Hugh.

[––Gilbert––]

~1110, Gilbert born in Normandy, France, s/o §§Baron Roger de Lacy, s/o §§Baron Walter de Lacy.

By 1133, Gilbert inherited his lands in Normandy.

12/22/1135, Stephen of Blois succeeded Henry I as King of England. [Ursuping King Henry’s heir Matilda and starting a civil war.]

1136, Gilbert in England, a supporter of King Stephen.

1137, Both Gilbert and Roger fitz Miles laid claim to Ludlow castle, Shropshire. [Founded by Walter de Lacy (d.1085).]

By 1138, Gilbert had switched sides, supporting the Empress. [Likely because King Stephen was not supporting his attempts to reclaim his father’s English lands.]

1138, Geoffrey Talbot and and his 1^st cousin Gilbert attacked Bath. [This attack considered by some historians as the first battle of the civil war. Geoffrey s/o Gilbert’s aunt Agnes.]

By 6/1139, Gilbert along with his cousin Geoffrey Talbot, supporting Empress Matilda [who was still oversees] in the civil war, was besieged by the king at Weobley, both escaping before the castle fell in June.

9/1139, King Henry I’s daughter Empress Matilda invaded England, and took control of western England.

1141, Gilbert witnessed a charter of Empress Matilda.

1148, The 2^nd crusade arrived in Syria, led by King Louis VII of France, and left the next year with little success.

1150, Gilbert being attacked in Worcestershire by Earl Roger of Hereford.

6/1153, Gilbert with Empress Matilda’s son Henry [II].

10/25/1154, Henry II succeeded Stephen as King of England.

1154, Nur ad-Din captured Damascas [from another Moslem ruler], unifying Syria under his authority.

1157, Nur ad-Din besieged the Knights Hospitaller in the crusader fortress of Banias, routed a relief army from Jerusalem led by [future King of Jerusalem] Baldwin III, and captured Grand Master Bertrand de Blanquefort.

~1158, Gilbert joined the Templars in the Holy Land. Gilbert a commander against Nur ad-Din.

1160, Nur ad-Din captured the Prince of Antioch, Raynald of Châtillon.

By 1163, Nur ad-Din ceased attacks on the crusaders after the death of Baldwin III of Jerusalem (d.1162) [s/o 189110272. Fulk V of Anjou.] William of Tyre recorded Nur ad-Din as saying ‘We should sympathize with their grief and in pity spare them, because they have lost a prince such as the rest of the world does not possess today.’

Aft. 1163, Gilbert died in the Holy Land.

(S) Reign of King Stephen, Crouch, 2014.

Family notes:

·         1096, Gilbert’s father forfeited his English lands.

Child of Gilbert and ?:

i. Hugh de Lacy (39979496), born ~1140 in Wales.