Hugh Lacy (bishop)

Hugh Lacy (also known as Hugh de Lacey or Lees) was an Anglican bishop in Ireland during the second half of the sixteenth century.[1]

Formerly a Canon of Limerick[2] he was appointed Bishop of Limerick on 24 November 1556. In a letter of 12 October 1561, the papal legate Fr David Wolfe SJ described all the bishops in Munster as 'adherents of the Queen'.[3] In 1562 the Lord Lieutenant the Earl of Sussex, appointed to an ecclesiastical commission for enforcing the royal supremacy,[4] was said to have 'by the laws of the realm, forfeited his bishopric'[5]

Lacy was put forward by the crown to take over the administration of the Earldom of Desmond with Eleanor Butler, Countess of Desmond, as she was in 1568 the de facto leader there. However she took a different line and she released her prisoner James FitzMaurice FitzGerald to lead while her husband was imprisoned in the Tower in England.[6]

Lacy was deprived of his bishopric on 8 May 1571; and died in 1580.[7]

Notes
  1. Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X.; Byrne, F. J., eds. (1984). Maps, Genealogies, Lists: A Companion to Irish History, Part II. New History of Ireland. Volume 9. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-821745-5.
  2. Cotton, Henry (1851). The Province of Munster. Fasti Ecclesiae Hiberniae: The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Volume 1 (2nd ed.). Dublin: Hodges and Smith
  3. "Calendar of state papers relating to English affairs : preserved principally at Rome in the Vatican archives and library" Rigg, J.M. p. 49: London, HMSO, 1916
  4. Fiants Ire Eliz, No 666
  5. Cal. Carew MSS, 1515-74, no. 237, quoted in Henry A Jeffries, 'The Irish Parliament of 1560', Irish Historical Studies 26 (1989) P. 137.
  6. "Fitzgerald (Butler), Eleanor | Dictionary of Irish Biography". www.dib.ie. Retrieved 16 September 2022.
  7. Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S. et al., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.


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