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Hugh Lacy (bishop)

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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] said that he had 'by the laws of the realm, forfeited his bishopric'[5] He in turn was deprived on 8 May 1571; and died in 1580 [6]

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. p49: 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. ^ 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.
Church of Ireland titles
Preceded by Bishop of Limerick
1556–1571
Succeeded by