Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Walter de Lacy
Abt 1042 - 1084 (~ 42 years)-
Name Walter de Lacy [1] Birth Abt 1042 Lassy, Calvados, France 
[2] Gender Male Death 2 Apr 1084 Hereford, Herefordshire, England [2] Alternate death 1085 [3] Alternate death 27 Mar 1085 Hereford, Herefordshire, England [2] Burial Gloucester Abbey, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England [2] 
Siblings1 sibling Person ID I4000 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of EK, Ancestor of GFS, Ancestor of JMF, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of LMW, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK, Ancestor of UKL Last Modified 6 Jan 2018
Father (Unknown father of Walter and Ilbert de Lacy) Mother Emma Family ID F5587 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Emma Children + 1. Agnes de Lacy Family ID F3685 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 24 Dec 2015
Family 2 Ermeline Marriage 1066 [2] Children + 1. Roger de Lacy d. 1106 Family ID F2745 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 1 Aug 2015
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Notes - From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:
"[A] Norman who made a great fortune for himself in the conquest of England. He and his brother Ilbert, from whom the Lacys of Pontefract were descended, shared a Norman estate centred on Lassy, from which they were named and which they held as men of the bishop of Bayeux. In England, however, they were independent operators, and Walter, who clearly already had a military reputation, was set up by King William in the southern Welsh marches alongside Earl William fitz Osbern in 1067. [...]
"On the rebellion of Roger de Breteuil in 1075, Walter de Lacy remained loyal to the king and helped ensure that the revolt failed, no doubt being additionally rewarded in the aftermath. From 1075 he was the leading baron in the region [...] A benefactor of Gloucester Abbey, he also founded and endowed the collegiate church of St Peter in Hereford. Walter died on 27 March 1085, perhaps (as later family legend had it) falling off the scaffolding while inspecting the building works at another favoured church in Hereford, St Guthlac's. He was buried in the chapter house at Gloucester Abbey."
- From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:
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Sources - [S128] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant ed. Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea. 2nd edition. 14 volumes (1-13, but volume 12 spanned two books), London, The St. Catherine Press, 1910-1959. Volume 14, "Addenda & Corrigenda," ed. Peter W. Hammond, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing, 1998.
- [S446] The History of Ewyas Lacy, An Ancient Hundred of South-West Herefordshire. Ewyas Lacy Study Group, 2007.
- [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing.
- [S128] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant ed. Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea. 2nd edition. 14 volumes (1-13, but volume 12 spanned two books), London, The St. Catherine Press, 1910-1959. Volume 14, "Addenda & Corrigenda," ed. Peter W. Hammond, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing, 1998.