Egidia de Lacy, Lady of Connacht.

About Egidia de Lacy, Lady of Connacht

Egidia de Lacy, Lady of Connacht, was a Cambro-Norman noblewoman, the wife of Richard Mór de Burgh, 1st Baron of Connaught and Strathearn (c.1180–1242), and the mother of his seven children, including Sir William Óg de Burgh, a lord and warrior and Walter de Burgh, the first Earl of Ulster. She was also known as Gille de Lacy. Egidia was the daughter of Walter II de Lacy by his second wife Margaret de Braose.