The Starr Family of America

Notes
Weis' "Ancestral Roots. . ." (177A:7), (177B:7).
Cockayne's "Complete Peerage" XI:110, says he was probably father of
the wife of Meiler.

From --- W E Wightman, The Lacy Family in England and Normandy,1066-1194, Oxford (Clarendon Press) 1966, pp. 190-191:
"Much more is known of the actions of Hugh II than of any previous memberof the family. He paid no scutage in 1164-5, so that he was probablypresent in person on the campaign of 1165 from Shrewsbury into NorthWales. He was in Ireland with the king from October 1171, and remainedthere after the king returned in April 1172. He was back in England by 29December 1172, when he distinguished himself at the first public festivalof St. Thomas at Canterbury. The archbishop was carried away by theoccasion and expressed himself rather too strongly, only to
be rebuked firmly by Hugh II. In the summer of 1173 he was in Normandyhelping to quell the rising, and with Hugh de Beauchamp held the castleof Verneuil while it was being besieged by Louis VII in July. He spentsome time during the year in Ireland, where he had acquired the oldkingdom of Meath, so that from now onwards he spent a good deal of timeon the west side of St. George's Channel. In the same year he had been
given the city of Dublin and its castle, a grant followed five yearslater by his promotion to Viceroy. That post he held until 1184, althoughhe had been deprived of Dublin castle for a short period in 1181-2 as apenalty for marrying the daughter of Rory O'Connor, the last king ofConnaught. At Durrow in July 1186 he had his head cut off by an Irishmanwhile he was showing him how to use a pick, according to the graphicdesctiprion in the chronicle of St. Mary, Dublin -- a commentary on hisrestless nature, apparently intolerant of inefficiency to the end."