Hello, and welcome to True Crime Medieval, years of people behaving badly. I should have asked you this before we started recording, but what birds am I hearing in the background? Parakeets are not obnoxious. Today on True Crime Medieval, where, you know, people are behaving badly, we are talking about the time that Hugh de Lacy was assassinated at Durrow Abbey in Ireland in July of Now I want to tell you quite frankly that the crime today is the assassination of Hugh de Lacy but the reason that the assassination of Hugh de Lacy is on our list is that it allows Michelle to talk about Trim Castle.
Well, it kind of makes up for…you put saffron on the list, you know, the time that that guy got burned at the stake for adulterating saffron.
You put that on the list and then it turned out to be one that made you sad because the research was not fun. So you put this on the list and it did not make you sad. Oh my god, I was so happy to talk about saffron. I just loved it. Hugh de Lacy—we now go into our our subject—Hugh de Lacy was from an Anglo-Norman family that had been established in the midlands of England after the conquest and then in the Welsh marches.
Hugh had become the head of the de Lacys after his older brother died. He was ruthless in acquiring power. He was really focused on taking everything that he possibly could. He denied services and rights to religious houses and the bishop.
He was constantly fighting the Welsh. Henry the second took him to Ireland in , when Henry went there to try and settle things down. We refer you to our earlier podcast on the crime of Diarmuit MacMurrough inviting the Normans into Ireland.
