Maud de Lacy

• Preferred Name: Maud de Lacy^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}
  
• Alternate Name: De Geneville
  
• Gender: F
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Dame de Meath
  
• FSID: KNSZ-X9V
  
• Fact: with note: Description: https://www.geni.com/people/Maud-de-Lacy-Baroness-Geneville/6000000011590912774
  
• Birth: 1230 in Dublin, Ireland at LATI: N3.3443 LONG: E6.2665
  
• Death: 11 APR 1304 in Trim Castle, Trim, Meath, Ireland at LATI: N3.555 LONG: E6.7917
  
• Burial: in Trim, Meath, Ireland
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Maud de Lacy, Baroness Geneville (1230-11 April 1304) was a Norman-Irish noblewoman and wealthy heiress who inherited half the estates of her grandfather Walter de Lacy, Lord of Meath, upon his death in 1241. The lordships of Trim and Ludlow passed to her second husband Sir Geoffrey de Geneville, 1st Baron Geneville by right of his marriage to her; although she helped to rule and administer the estates in an equal partnership. She is sometimes referred to as Matilda de Lacy.
  
  «b»Family«/b»
  Maud was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1230, the youngest child of Gilbert de Lacy of Ewyas Lacy and Isabel Bigod. Her paternal grandparents were Walter de Lacy and Margaret de Braose, daughter of Maud de Braose, who was walled up alive by King John of England. Her maternal grandparents were Hugh Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk and Maud Marshal. She had an elder brother, Walter and sister Margery. On 25 December 1230, the year of her birth, Maud's father died, leaving her mother a widow at the age of eighteen. Less than four years later on 12 April 1234, her mother married again; he was John FitzGeoffrey, Lord of Shere in Surrey, England, and Justiciar of Ireland. Maud had six younger half-siblings from her mother's second marriage to John.
  
  In early 1241, Maud's brother Walter died. He was in his early teens. When their grandfather Walter de Lacy died shortly afterwards on 24 February, Maud and her sister, Margery inherited his vast estates and lordships in Ireland, Herefordshire, and the Welsh Marches. Maud and Margery both received a moiety of Ewyas Lacy in Herefordshire, and a share of the lordship with the taxes and revenues that attached to it.
  
  «b»Marriages and issue«/b»
  On an unknown date, Maud married her first husband Pierre de Genève, son of Humbert, Count of Genève, and a relative of Eleanor of Provence. He was one of the "Savoyards" who had arrived in England in the retinue of Queen Eleanor when she married King Henry III. The marriage produced a son and a daughter whose names were not recorded. Pierre died in 1249, and sometime before 8 August 1252, Maud married her second husband, another "Savoyard", Sir Geoffrey de Geneville, Seigneur of Vaucouleurs( c.1226-21 October 1314), son of Simon de Joinville and Beatrix d'Auxonne. Both Maud's marriages and the marriage of her sister, Margery were personally arranged by King Henry III to ensure that the estates they inherited from their grandfather were retained in the hands of those known to be trusted servants of the Crown.
  
  The king granted Geoffrey and Maud, and their heirs rights in the land of Meath held by her grandfather, Walter de Lacy by charter dated 8 August 1252.[5] On 18 September 1254, the king granted them all the liberties and free customs in Meath which her grandfather had held; and they might issue their own writs in Meath according to the law and custom of Ireland. On 21 September 1252, they had livery of Trim Castle and a moiety of forty marcates of lands as the inheritance of Maud.[6] They made Trim Castle their chief residence. Maud and Geoffrey jointly ruled and administered their estates together in an equal partnership. They later donated property to Dore Abbey.
  
  In 1254, Maud accompanied Queen Eleanor to Gascony.
  
  Maud's husband was a loyal supporter and favourite of Prince Edward who would in 1272 reign as King Edward I of England. Geoffrey fought with the Prince against Simon de Monfort at the Battle of Evesham, and it was at Ludlow Castle that Prince Edward was sheltered following his escape in May 1265 from Montfortian captivity. Geoffrey was appointed Justiciar of Ireland by his friend and patron, the new king, Edward I in September 1273, a post he held until June 1276; however, he had little success against the Irish of Leinster. He was summoned to Parliament by writ as 1st Baron Geneville on 6 February 1299.
  
  «b»Together Geoffrey and Maud had at least three children:«/b»
  1.) Geoffrey de Geneville (died 1283)
  
  2.) Sir Piers de Geneville, of Trim and Ludlow (1256- shortly before June 1292), who in his turn married in 1283 Jeanne of Lusignan, by whom he had three daughters, including Joan de Geneville, 2nd Baroness Geneville.
  
  2.) Joan de Geneville, married Gerald FitzMaurice FitzGerald (died 1287).
  
  «b»Later years«/b»
  In 1283, Maud gave all her lands in England and Wales to Piers, her second eldest son by Geoffrey. These included Ludlow Castle in Shropshire, and Walterstone Manor as well as all the knights' fees which she had held in England. That same year, her son Geoffrey died.
  
  Maud was described as independent-minded, and she usually accompanied her husband on his numerous travels abroad, which included Rome where he was sent on a mission to Pope Nicholas IV in 1290. She was aged sixty at the time. Maud was highly protective of her properties, and always ready to enter into litigation at the slightest threat to her lands or privileges whether posed by family members, the Church or the Dublin administration.
  
  Maud died at Trim Castle on 11 April 1304 at the age of seventy-four. Her husband Geoffrey died ten years later. Their son Piers had died in 1292, leaving Joan as heiress-apparent to the estates and lordships. She succeeded as the suo jure 2nd Baroness Geneville on 21 October 1314. She was the wife of Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, by whom she had twelve children.
  
  === Co-heir of her grandfather, Walter de La ===
  Co-heir of her grandfather, Walter de Lacy. Held Ludlow castle in her own right.
  
  === REF: Weis, Ancestral Roots 71-30. ===
  REF: Weis, Ancestral Roots 71-30.
  
  === r. MAUD DE LACY, d, 1299; m. Sir Geoffre ===
  r. MAUD DE LACY, d, 1299; m. Sir Geoffrey de Geneville, d. 1314, son of Simon de Joinville, Senechal of Champagne, Seigneur de Vaucouleurs in France. [Weis "60 Colonists" liine 71-30, p. 76.]
  
  === !Ancestral Roots by Weis, Seventh Editio ===
  !Ancestral Roots by Weis, Seventh Edition L 71-30
  
  === Mary is in the "classic" pedigree for Hu ===
  Mary is in the "classic" pedigree for Hugh & Walter de Burgh. Howeverthe existence of Mary as a 2nd wife of Walter de Burgh is questioned bysome genealogists(incluing note (f) in CP XII/2:172), who say it is anuntrue statement in a "Charter of St. Mary's". Even if she did exist,they state with certainty thatMaryhad nothing to do with Walter's beinggiven the title of Earl of Ulster, and that his heir was not born by her.
  
  Sourced from Hollister-Bartsch Tree worldconnect.rootsweb.com
  Contact hollister_family@dodo.com.au for information or corrections
  
  === !Royal Ancestors of Some American Famili ===
  !Royal Ancestors of Some American Families by Michel Call SLC 1989 #328; !Stearns Mss F 3
  
  === Margaret de Lacy, d. 1256, Lady of Dulek ===
  Margaret de Lacy, d. 1256, Lady of Dulek; m. as 1st wife, 14 May 1244 John de Verdun, b. c 1226, d. 21 Oct 1274, son of Theobald le Boteler and Rohese de Verdun. [Magna Charta Sureties]
  
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  He [John de Verdun] married, 1stly, before 14 May 1244, Margery, 1st daughter of Gilbert DE LACY, of Ewyas Lacy, co. Hereford, by Isabel, daughter of Hugh (LE BIGOD), EARL OF NORFOLK, which Gilbert (who died v.p. between 12 August and 25 December 1230) was son and heir ap. of Walter de Lacy, Lord of Meath (who died s.p.m.s. shortly before 24 February 1240/1), to whom Margery was coheir. [Complete Peerage XII/2:246-8, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
  
  === !Royal Ancestors of Some American Famili ===
  !Royal Ancestors of Some American Families by Michel Call SLC 1989 #328;
  
  === Her date of death is known because Walte ===
  Her date of death is known because Walter de Burgh became Earl of Ulster in his own right that year. Her father's year of death is known because Walter de Burgh became Earl in her right that year.
  
  === THE PLANTAGENET ANCESTRY (GS NUMBER Q940 ===
  THE PLANTAGENET ANCESTRY (GS NUMBER Q940 D2T) P.72, 74, 79; SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO68) P.27, 43; PUBLICATION B884 P.182; PUBLICATION A1G20, P.275; ANCESTRAL FILE, LDS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY;
  
  === Ancestral Roots, Weis, 7th edition, 1992 ===
  Ancestral Roots, Weis, 7th edition, 1992, Line 71-30.
  
  === http://knight-france.com/geneal/names/3815.htm ===
  http://knight-france.com/geneal/names/3815.htm
  
  === Sources: 1. The Ancestry and descendants ===
  Sources: 1. The Ancestry and descendants of Kenelm Winslow from England to New England. Compiled by Joanna (Thiboutot) Merrell. Escondido, CA : 1987;
  
  === !#21> Complete Peerage-v5-p629,630fn(b), ===
  !#21> Complete Peerage-v5-p629,630fn(b),634,-v12pt2-p248fn(e), (FHL 942 D22cok); !AF: BAPT-END-SS 2nd> AFN:8HV6N8; !KIN> yr dau; KIN> g dau & eventual coh of Walter, Lord of Meath; `TITLE> Baroness Geneville;
  
  === Sources: Antiquities of Shropshire, Vol. ===
  Sources: Antiquities of Shropshire, Vol. 5; Norr; Kraentzler 1099; A.Roots. K: Maud (Mathilda) de Lacy. Died 11 April 1304. Norr: Married (1) before 1244 Piers Gevevre (Peter of Geneva) and (2) about 1253 Sir Geoffrey de Geneville (Joinville). Antiquities: Matilda de Lacy. Living 1285. Married (1) Peter deGeneva, before 1244. He died 1249 without issue.
  
  === !Colonial Dames of Royal Descent page 11 ===
  !Colonial Dames of Royal Descent page 117
  
  === Source: Weis, Sheppard, Beal, The Magna ===
  Source: Weis, Sheppard, Beal, The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, 5th Ed., Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, [1999], 12-4 p. 14.

• m. 1253 in Meath, Ireland
• m. 1253 in , Meath, , Ireland

1. Piers de Joinville - First Lord of Geneville, b. 1256 in Trim, Meath, Ireland     d. 8 JUN 1292 in Lusignan, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France

• m. BEF 8 AUG 1252 in Trim, County Meath, Ireland

1. Simon de Joinville, b. 1260 in Trim, County Meath, Ireland     d. 24 APR 1309 in Culmullin, County Meath, Ireland
2. Joan de Geneville, b. 1262 in Ireland    
3. Piers de Joinville - First Lord of Geneville, b. 1256 in Trim, Meath, Ireland     d. 8 JUN 1292 in Lusignan, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France

1. Title: Maud de Lacy, "Find A Grave Index"
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2. Title: Cokayne, G. E. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, Volume 5 by G. E. Cokayne
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