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Ancestors of Paul Bailey MCBRIDE - de Vere and de Lacy


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  • Title Ancestors of Paul Bailey MCBRIDE - de Vere and de Lacy 
    Short Title Ancestors of Paul Bailey MCBRIDE - de Vere and de Lacy 
    Author Paul B. McBride 
    Publisher http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~pmcbride/rfc/l347.htm 
    Source ID S809 
    Text jpeltier@mindspring.com (John Peltier) wrote: My search of Roger de Lacy is in connection with a book I have written about England's loss of its Norman possessions. Roger was castellan of Chateau Galliard, located between Paris and Rouen on the Seine at Les Andelys, in Normandy, when Phillip II of France laid siege to it in 1203-1204. Richard I of England built Chateau Galliard specifically to defend western Normandy from the French, and the signifigance of the siege is that it determined whether England or France would control Normandy. The French were successful, but de Lacy gave such an heroic account of himself that his story just begs to be told. 
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    Roger De Lacy, Baron Of Halton