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August 30th, 2025

30/8/2025

The Viking warrior leader Rollo, now Count Robert of Normandy

28/8/2025

The Viking warrior leader Rollo, now Count Robert of Normandy, granted Karl Lassy and his clansmen 200 sq miles of land (128,000 acres) to be held by the Norman law of Parage; they were the Lacicu Latius estates in the county of Calvados, including Vire, as Lassy is only 20kms away, well within the land grant. On receiving their lands, Karl's descendants and extended family (now underlord), Lasse also followed the pattern of taking Frankish brides, adapting to the rules of the Catholic church to become prosperous Norman landowners. Lassy would have followed the example of his overlord and decided which part of the 128,000 acres he wanted his immediate family to farm. He then divided the remaining acres among the rest of his kinsmen and clan according to merit, anything from several thousand acres down to others receiving less than a hundred acres. On the land Lassy had chosen for himself, he would have ordered the building of the first family homestead. In the tenth century, Lassy would have modelled it on a Norse longhouse, giving way in time to a timber and daube Manor House. In 1210, King John lost Normandy to the French. The de Lacy family lost all their Lassy estates and became an English-only family from this time. Learn more about a Norse Longhouse

On the 21st of August, 1193, Robert de Lacy,

22/8/2025

On the 21st of August, 1193, Robert de Lacy, the fifth Baron of Pontefract, Lord of Clitheroe, died. He left a widow, Isabella, the second daughter of Hamelin, Earl of Warenne. Robert had no heir to the de Lacy estates. Robert made a will that bequeathed all his titles to his cousin Albreda, the widow of Robert de Lisours, Lord of Sprotborough. Albreda, a fiercely loyal de Lacy family member, was born at and grew up at Pontefract Castle. Her father was the first Baron Robert de Lacy, and her brother was Baron Ilbert (II). Albreda was proud that she could trace her ancestry back to Lassy and Normandy.
Albreda was the widow of Robert de Lisours, Lord of Sprotborough. Her daughter (also called Albreda) had married Richard FitzEustace, 5th Baron of Halton. Richard and Albreda FitzEustace had two sons. The eldest John, had died in 1190 at Tyre while on a crusade. Albreda de Lisours willed her maternally inherited titles of the de Lacy estates to her surviving younger grandson, Roger. It was on the understanding that, first, he changed his name to Roger de Lacy and secured the continuation of the de Lacy family name before she died. She was preventing the estates from passing to the Crown. A condition to which Roger readily agreed. The Halton family became the de Lacys.

Selby Abbey test

20/8/2025

In 1069, Baron Ilbert de Lacy, Lord of Pontefract, granted the building of Selby Abbey. Founded by Benedict of Auxerre, it was the first Norman Abbey to be built in the North of England; Ilbert had granted the manor of Hambleton to Selby Abbey. Only the degree of mutual trust that Ilbert had established with the local population allowed the building to commence so soon after the “Harrowing of the North”. His youngest son Hugh entered the abbey clergy as a novice, and he eventually became the second abbot of Selby Abbey in 1097 and held the office until he died in 1123.
For my American de Lacy family and friends, you will find the Abbey connection with George Washington interesting. You will see the Washington Window above the chancel in the south clerestory. Following an endowment in the 14th century to the Abbey by the Washington family, the 14th-century Washington coat of arms contains three stars above red and white stripes. It is one of the first known representations of the patterns of stars and stripes later used for the US flag. Today, only its grandeur speaks of the glorious past of the Anglican parish church in the centre of Selby, England. Here is a link to the Washington window

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