An absorbing study of a knight who rode his luck boldly at a time when Fortune's wheel revolved with dizzying velocity amid the political turmoil of John's reign and its protracted aftermath.
ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW
Brown does a fine job of laying out Hugh's life in greater depth than has hitherto been achieved.
CAMBRIAN MEDIEVAL CELTIC STUDIES ... Read more
Just about the most fascinating and enlightening volume about Ireland in the Middle Ages that [this reviewer] has read for many a year...It is a sweeping panoramic history like few others.
FAMILIA: ULSTER GENEALOGICAL REVIEW 2017
[A]n excellent piece of scholarship that adds a great deal of texture to the Angevin political narrative.
SCOTIA
Irish historians must be especially indebted to Daniel Brown for his unravelling of a forest of aristocratic tenancies, allegiances and familial connections, and an immensely detailed chronology of changes in court factions that underlie the earl's adventurous career.
SEHEPUNKTE
Makes a significant contribution to our understanding of Irish history in the early thirteenth century, and also contains insights that will be of value to historians of the wider Angevin world.
IRISH HISTORICAL STUDIES
Will be of great benefit to anyone interested in Anglo-Norman Ulster.
ULSTER ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER
This evocative study skillfully weaves from the life of an aristocratic chancer not only the story of lordship construction at the turn of the thirteenth century, but also of the fractured but interrelated communities around the Irish Sea and the convoluted royal policies of indirect control that made Hugh's maneuvers possible.
G. E. M. Lippiatt
Speculum
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