Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Countess of Ireland
• Appointments / Titles: Countess of Siregoil
• FSID: 9H6D-FWP

Notes:

Aoife MacMurrough (c. 1145 – 1188, Irish: Aoife Ní Diarmait), also known by later historians as Eva of Leinster, was an Irish noble, princess of Leinster and countess of Pembroke. She was the daughter of Dermot MacMurrough (c. 1110 – 1171) (Irish: Diarmait Mac Murchada), King of Leinster and his second wife, Mór Ní Tuathail or Mor O'Toole (c. 1114 – 1191), and a niece of Archbishop of Dublin St Lawrence O'Toole.

Life
As the daughter of a Gaelic king, the young Aoife would have been raised in much higher dignity than most other girls in Ireland who were of poorer stock than she; her privileged status ensured that she was educated in the law of the land and would have ensured that she was literate in Church-Latin. Since her mother (who also produced one son and another daughter) was the second wife of Diarmait, her station was automatically lower than that of her husband's first wife, Sadb Ní Faeláin, and her issue of two sons and one daughter. It has been asserted by some historians that the children of the second wife were illegitimate as per the European laws which specified that marriage was a contract between one man and one woman and until the death of either party – this was not the case in Ireland, where the Brehon law allowed two wives, trial marriages and divorce was quite normal. Aoife's brother Domhnall succeeded their father to the kingship of Leinster after his election by the family "derbfine".

On 25 August 1170, following the Norman invasion of Ireland that her father had requested, she was married to Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, better known as Strongbow, the leader of the Norman invasion force, in Christchurch cathedral in Waterford. Her father, Dermot MacMurrough, who was seeking a military alliance with Strongbow in his feud with the King of Breffni, Tiernan O'Rourke, had promised Aoife to Pembroke. However, according to Brehon law, both the man and the woman had to consent to the marriage, so it is fair to conclude that Aoife accepted her father's arrangements.

Under Anglo-Norman law, this gave Strongbow succession rights to the Kingdom of Leinster. Under Irish Brehon law, the marriage gave her a life interest only, after which any land would normally revert to male cousins; but Brehon law also recognised a transfer of "swordland" following a conquest. Aoife led troops in battle and is sometimes known as Red Eva (Irish: Aoife Rua).

She had two sons and a daughter with her husband Richard de Clare and through their daughter, Isabel de Clare, within a few generations their descendants included much of the nobility of Europe including all the monarchs of Scotland since Robert I (1274–1329) and all those of England, Great Britain and the United Kingdom since Henry IV (1367–1413); and, apart from Anne of Cleves, all the queen consorts of, as well as, Henry VIII.

Death
While the exact date of the death of Aoife of Leinster is unknown (one suggested year is 1188), there is in existence one tale of her demise. As a young woman, she lived many years following the death of Strongbow in 1176, and devoted herself to raising their children and defending their territory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aoife_MacMurrough

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“Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“RICHARD FITZ GILBERT (nicknamed Strongbow), 2nd Earl of Pembroke, Earl of Striguil, of Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Hinxworth, Hertfordshire, etc., seigneur of Bienfaite and Orbec (both in Normandy), Justiciar of Ireland, son and heir, born about 1130. On the accession of King Henry II in 1154, he refused to acknowledged Richard as earl and took the lordship of Pembroke into his own hands. In Autumn 1167 he came to an agreement with Dermot MacMurrough, King of Leinster; for the earl's assistance with an army, he could have Eve, Dermot's eldest daughter in marriage and the succession to Leinster. An army was assembled led by Raymond Fitz Gerald (also known as Raymond le Gros) that included Welsh archers; it captured the towns of Wexford, Waterford, and Dublin in 1169-70. Richard married at Waterford, Ireland about 26 August 1170 EVE OF LEINSTER daughter of Dermot MacMurrough (also called Diarmait MacMurchada), King of Leinster, by Mor, daughter of Muirchertach Ua Tuathail From 1172 onwards, he was styled Earl of Striguil.
They had one son,
1. Gilbert [Earl of Pembroke],
and one daughter,
2. Isabel.
In 1173 he played a critical role in Normandy in defending the castle of Gisors and recapturing Verneuil for the king. RICHARD FITZ GILBERT, 2nd Earl of Pembroke died about 20 April 1176, and was buried in the Church of the Holy Trinity [Christ Church], Dublin. His widow, Eve, was living in 1187. Sometime in the period, 1185-94, his widow, Eve, as "heres Regis Deremicii,"confirmed to John Comyn, Archbishop of Dublin, and his successors all of her earlier gifts. At her death, she was buried in Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire.

Buried:
Tintern Abbey

Aoife married de Clare, Richard on 26 Aug 1170 in Dublin, Ireland. Richard was born in 1125 in Tunbridge Hill, Kent, England; died on 20 Apr 1176 in Dublin, Ireland; was buried in Jun 1176 in Dublin, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. de Clare, Joan was born in 1175 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales; died in DECEASED.

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: LZDB-KL1
• Appointments / Titles: Between 1126 and 1166; King of Leinster

Notes:

Diarmait Mac Murchada (Modern Irish: Diarmaid Mac Murchadha), anglicised as Dermot MacMurrough, Dermod MacMurrough, or Dermot MacMorrogh (c. 1110 – c. 1 May 1171), was a King of Leinster in Ireland. In 1167, he was deposed by the high king of Ireland – Ruaidri Ua Conchobair (Rory O'Connor). The grounds for the deposition were that Mac Murchada had, in 1152, abducted Derbforgaill, the wife of the king of Breifne, Tiernan O'Rourke (Irish: Tighearnán Ua Ruairc). To recover his kingdom, Mac Murchada solicited help from King Henry II of England. His issue unresolved, he gained the military support of the Earl of Pembroke (nicknamed "Strongbow"). At that time, Strongbow was in opposition to Henry II due to his support for Stephen, King of England against Henry's mother in The Anarchy. In exchange for his aid, Strongbow was promised in marriage to Mac Murchada's daughter Aoife with the right to succeed to the Kingship of Leinster. Henry II then mounted a larger second invasion in 1171 to ensure his control over Strongbow, resulting in the Norman Lordship of Ireland. Mac Murchada was later known as Diarmait na nGall (Irish for "Diarmait of the Foreigners"). He was seen in Irish history as the king that invited the first ever wave of English settlers, who were planted by the Norman conquest. Another outcome of the invasion was for the very first time the indigenous Celtic Christian Church in Ireland would come under the jurisdiction of the Holy See through a bull issued to the Normans by the then Pope Adrian IV.

Early life and family
Diarmait was born around 1110, a son of Donnchad mac Murchada, King of Leinster and Dublin. His father's paternal grandmother, Derbforgaill, was a daughter of Donnchad, King of Munster and thus a granddaughter of Brian Boru. In 1115 his father attacked Domnall Gerrlámhach, King of Dublin, but died in the ensuing battle. The citizens of Dublin buried him with the carcass of a dog, considered to be a huge insult.

He had two wives (as allowed under the Brehon Laws), the first of whom, Sadhbh Ní Faeláin, was mother of
1. a daughter named Órlaith who married Domnall Mór, King of Munster.
His second wife, Mór ingen Muirchertaig, was mother of
1. Aoife / Eva of Leinster and
2. his youngest son Conchobar Mac Murchada.
He also had two other sons,
3. Domhnall Caomhánach mac Murchada and
4. Énna Cennselach mac Murchada (blinded 1169).

King of Leinster
After the death of his older brother, Énna Mac Murchada, Diarmait unexpectedly became King of Leinster. This was opposed by the then High King of Ireland, Toirdelbach Ua Conchobair (Turlough O'Conor) who feared (rightly) that Mac Murchada would become a rival. Toirdelbach sent one of his allied Kings, Tigernán Ua Ruairc (Tiernan O'Rourke) to conquer Leinster and oust the young Mac Murchada. Ua Ruairc went on a brutal campaign slaughtering the livestock of Leinster and thereby trying to starve the province's residents. Mac Murchada was ousted from his throne, but was able to regain it with the help of Leinster clans in 1132. Afterwards followed two decades of an uneasy peace between Ua Conchobair and Diarmait. In 1152 he even assisted the High King to raid the land of Ua Ruairc who had by then become a renegade.

Mac Murchada also is said to have abducted Ua Ruairc's wife Derbforgaill (English: Dervorgilla) along with all her furniture and goods, with the aid of Derbforgaill's brother, a future pretender to the kingship of Meath. Other sources say that Derbforgaill was not an unwilling prisoner and that she remained in Ferns with Mac Murchada in comfort for a number of years. Her advanced age indicates that she may have been a refugee or a hostage; in any case she was under his protection. Whatever the reality, the "abduction" was given as a further reason or excuse for enmity between the two kings.

Church builder
As king of Leinster, in 1140–70 Diarmait commissioned Irish Romanesque churches and abbeys at:
- Baltinglass – a Cistercian abbey (1148)
- Glendalough
- Ferns (his capital – St Mary's Abbey Augustinian Order)
- Killeshin
He sponsored convents (nunneries) at Dublin (St Mary's, 1146), and in c.1151 two more at Aghade, County Carlow and at Kilculliheen near Waterford city. The abbey of St. Mary Del Hogge in Dublin was named after the Hoggen Green or Haugr meaning gravesite in old Norse. This site later became 'College Green' after the Reformation and the establishment of Trinity College. It's said that in the late 1600s that Viking graves were still to be seen at Hoggen Green.
He also sponsored the successful career of churchman St Lawrence O'Toole (Lorcan Ua Tuathail). He married O'Toole's half-sister Mor in 1153 and presided at the synod of Clane in 1161 when O'Toole was installed as archbishop of Dublin.
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Mac Murchada was devastated after the death of his youngest son, Conchobar, retreated to Ferns and died a few months later.
...
Gerald of Wales, a Cambro-English cleric who visited Ireland in 1185 and whose uncles and cousins were prominent soldiers in the army of Strongbow, repeated their opinions of Mac Murchada:
"Dermot was a man tall of stature and stout of frame; a soldier whose heart was in the fray, and held valiant among his own nation. From often shouting his battle-cry his voice had become hoarse. A man who liked better to be feared by all than loved by any. One who would oppress his greater vassals, while he raised to high station men of lowly birth. A tyrant to his own subjects, he was hated by strangers; his hand was against every man, and every man's hand against him."

Death and descendants
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Diarmait died about 1 May 1171 and was buried in Ferns Cathedral, where his grave can be seen in the outside graveyard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diarmaid_mac_Murchadha

Diarmait married Ní Tuathail, Mór. Mór (daughter of ua Tuathail, King Muirchertach and ua Morda, Cacht Inion Loigsig) was born in 1114 in Castledermot, Kildare, Ireland; died on 10 May 1191 in Wexford, Ireland; was buried after 10 May 1191 in Wexford, Wexford, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Queen Consort of Leinster
• FSID: 996Y-6VJ

Notes:

Mór Ní Thuathail (anglicised as Mor O'Toole) (c. 1114–1191) was a Queen-consort of Leinster as the principal first wife of King Diarmait Mac Murchada. Under Brehon Law, Irish men were allowed more than one wife. King Dermot's second wife was Sadhbh Ní Fhaolain.

Mór was the mother of Aoife of Leinster, the wife of Richard de Clare, Earl of Pembroke, known to history as Strongbow.

Mór was born in Castledermot, Kildare, Ireland in about 1114, the daughter of Muirchertach Ua Tuathail, King of the Uí Muirdeaigh, and Cacht Ní Morda.

Her paternal grandparents were Gilla Comgaill Ua Toole and Sadbh Ní Domnail and her maternal grandparents were Loigsig Ua Morda, King of Laois and Gormlaith Ní Caellaide.

One of Mor's four half-brothers was St. Lorcán Ua Tuathail, Archbishop of Dublin, who was canonised in 1225 by Pope Honorius III.

Dermot MacMurrough, King of Leinster, husband of Mor O'Toole
Marriage and issue[edit]
Sometime about 1140 in Loch Garman, County Wexford, Mór was married to King Diarmait Mac Murchada of Leinster as his principal first wife, making her Queen-consort of Leinster. His second wife was Sadhbh Ní Fhaolain. Under Brehon Law, Irish men were permitted more than one wife. In 1152, he abducted Derbforgaill Ní Mhaol Seachlainn, the wife of the King of Breifne, Tighearnán Ua Ruairc (Irish: Tighearnán Ua Ruairc).[1]

Together Dermot and Mór had about three children:

Conchobhar Mac Murchada (died 1167)
Aoife MacMurrough (1145–1188), married 29 August 1170, Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, known to history as Strongbow, by whom she had two children, including Isabel de Clare, 4th Countess of Pembroke, who became the heiress to her father's titles and estates.
Órlaith of Leinster,[1] married Domnall Mór Ua Briain, King of Thomond, by whom she had issue.
In 1167, Mór's son Conchobhar was killed by Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair, High King of Ireland, after having been taken hostage while Diarmait waged war against Ruaidrí with the aim of overthrowing him in order to take his place as the High King.

Queen Mór died in 1191, three years after her eldest daughter, Aoife. Her husband predeceased her on 1 May 1171 in Ferns, shortly after the Cambro-Norman invasion of Ireland led by their son-in-law, Strongbow.

https://www.geni.com/people/Mor-O-Toole/6000000002043192158?through=6000000002043192166

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B3r_N%C3%AD_Tuathail

Other Events and Attributes:

• Life Event: Prince of Ossory
• FSID: LB5L-3KM
• Occupation: King Ui Muiredaig, Lord of Omurethy
• Residence: Kildare, Ireland; Maistiu (Mullaghmast)

Notes:

O’Toole

Muirchertach married ua Morda, Cacht Inion Loigsig. Cacht (daughter of O'Byme, Donal O'Mordha of Leix and ingen Finn O'Caellaide, Gormflaith) was born in 1085 in Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; died in 1149 in Kildare, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Princess of Laois
• Appointments / Titles: Queen of the Uí Muirdeaigh
• Life Event: Cacht ingen Loigsig Ó Mórdha Birthdate: 1082 Birthplace: Leinster,Ireland Death: Died 1149 in Ireland Immediate Family: Daughter of Donal O\'Morda of Leix O\'Byme, Of Leix and Gormlaith ingen Finn Ó Caellaide Wife of Duncan O\'Conor; [Gilla-Patriaic] Mac Gillapatrick, King Of Ossory and Muirchertach mac Gilla Comgaill Ó Tuathail Mother of Áed O\'Conor, King of Offaly; Donnchad Mac Gillapatrick, King Of Ossory; Mor O\'Toole and St. Laurence O\'Toole Per Geni.com
• FSID: 9C42-Q4M
• Residence: Kildare, Ireland; Maistiu (Mullaghmast)

Notes:

English version of last name is o’Brien

Cacht ingen Loigsig Ó Mórdha
Birthdate: 1082
Birthplace: Leinster,Ireland
Death: Died 1149 in Ireland
Immediate Family:
Daughter of Donal O'Morda of Leix O'Byme, Of Leix and Gormlaith ingen Finn Ó Caellaide
Wife of Duncan O'Conor; [Gilla-Patriaic] Mac Gillapatrick, King Of Ossory and Muirchertach mac Gilla Comgaill Ó Tuathail
Mother of Áed O'Conor, King of Offaly; Donnchad Mac Gillapatrick, King Of Ossory; Mor O'Toole and St. Laurence O'Toole
Per Geni.com

Died:
O'Toole's Castle

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: GH17-11X

Notes:

Died:
Plaisance

Donal married ingen Finn O'Caellaide, Gormflaith. Gormflaith (daughter of mac Dunlaing O'Caellaide, Finn and ingen Toirrdelbaigh O'Brien, Derbail) was born in 1065 in Leinster, Ireland; was christened in 1084 in Ireland; died in 1152 in Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Queen of Laois
• FSID: LHXS-J8W

Notes:

Per Geni.com
Gormlaith ingen Finn Ó Caellaide
Birthdate: circa 1065
Birthplace: Leinster, Ireland
Death: Died 1152 in Ireland
Immediate Family:
Daughter of Finn mac Dunlaing O'Caellaide and Derbail Ó Caellaide (O Brian)
Wife of Loigsech mac Amargen Ó Mórdha and Donal O'Morda of Leix O'Byme, Of Leix
Mother of Cacht O'More