Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: King of the Tributes
• FSID: LD9P-Q15
• Appointments / Titles: Between 976 and 1014, Munster, Ireland; 53rd King
• Appointments / Titles: Between 1002 and 1014, Ireland; 175th King

Notes:

The Terrible King of Ireland
Brian Bóruma mac Cennetig, High King of Ireland was born between 926 and 940 at Kincord, Killaloe, County Clare, Ireland. He was the son of Cennetig mac Lorcain, King of Thomond and Be Binn ingen Aurchada. He married, firstly, Mor. He married, secondly, Echrad. He married, thirdly, Gormflaith, daughter of Murchad MacFinn, King of Leinster. He married Dub Choblaig.
He died on 23 April 1014, killed in action.

He gained the title of King Brian Bóruma of Munster in 976. He succeeded as the High King Brian Bóruma of Ireland in 1002. He fought in the Battle of Cluantarbh on 23 April 1014, against the Danes. He has an extensive biographical entry in the Dictionary of National Biography.

Children of Brian Bóruma mac Cennetig, High King of Ireland
Teige (Terence) d. 1023
Dearbforgail d. 1080

Child of Brian Bóruma mac Cennetig, High King of Ireland and Mor
Murchad 2 d. 23 Apr 1014

Child of Brian Bóruma mac Cennetig, High King of Ireland and Echrad
Tadc

Child of Brian Bóruma mac Cennetig, High King of Ireland and Gormflaith
Donnclad, King of Munster
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Brian Boru (c. 941 – 23 April 1014, Old Irish: Brian Bóruma mac Cennétig; Middle Irish: Brian Bóruma; modern Irish: Brian Bóroimhe) was an Irish king who ended the domination of the High Kingship of Ireland by the Uí Néill. Building on the achievements of his father, Cennétig mac Lorcain, and especially his elder brother, Mathgamain, Brian first made himself King of Munster, then subjugated Leinster, eventually becoming King of Ireland. He is the founder of the O'Brien dynasty. In 1014, Brian's armies confronted the armies of Leinster and Dublin at Clontarf near Dublin on Good Friday. The resulting Battle of Clontarf was a bloody affair, with Brian, his son Murchad, and Máel Mórda among those killed.

The Norse-Gaels and Scandinavians also produced works mentioning Brian, among these Njal's Saga, the Orkneyinga Saga, and the now-lost Brian's Saga. Brian's war against Máel Mórda and Sihtric was to be inextricably connected with his complicated marital relations, in particular his marriage to Gormlaith, Máel Mórda's sister and Sihtric's mother, who had been in turn the wife of Amlaíb Cuarán, king of Dublin and York, then of Máel Sechnaill, and finally of Brian.

Wives and children

Brian's first wife was Mór, daughter of the king of Uí Fiachrach Aidne of Connacht. She is said to have been the mother of his sons Murchad, Conchobar and Flann. Later genealogies claimed that these sons left no descendants, although in fact Murchad's son Tadc is recorded as being killed at Clontarf along with his father and grandfather.

Echrad daughter of the king of Uí Áeda Odba, an obscure branch of the southern Uí Néill, was the mother of Tadc, whose son Toirdelbach and grandson Muirchertach rivalled Brian in power and fame.

Brian's most famous marriage was with Gormflaith, sister of Máel Mórda of Leinster. Donnchad, who had his half-brother Tadc killed in 1023 and ruled Munster for forty years thereafter, was the result of this union.

Brian had a sixth son, Domnall. Although he predeceased his father, Domnall apparently had at least one surviving child, a son whose name is not recorded. Domnall may perhaps have been the son of Brian's fourth known wife, Dub Choblaig, who died in 1009. She was a daughter of King Cathal mac Conchobar mac Taidg of Connacht.

Brian had at least three daughters but their mothers are not recorded. Sadb, whose death in 1048 is recorded by the Annals of Innisfallen, was married to Cian, son of Máel Muad mac Brain. Bé Binn was married to the northern Uí Néill king Flaithbertach Ua Néill. A third daughter, Sláni, was married to Brian's stepson Sitric of Dublin.
According to Njal's Saga, he had a foster-son named Kerthialfad

Consort

Mór
Echrad
Gormflaith
Dub Choblaig

Issue

Murchad
Conchobar
Flann
Tadc
Donnchad
Domnall
Kerthialfad ?
Sadb
Bé Binn
Sláni

Family/Spouse: ingen Carlus Ui Naill, Eachraid. Eachraid (daughter of mac Ailella, Carlus and O'Morda, Cinead) was born in 950 in Meath, Ireland; died in 987 in Caithness, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Munster, Ireland; King
• Appointments / Titles: King of Thomond
• FSID: GQ61-KWP
• Title: Prince

Notes:

Tadc mac Briain (died 1023) was the son of Brian Boru and Echrad, daughter of Carlus mac Ailella of Uí Áeda Odba.[1] Tadc had one son, Toirdelbach Ua Briain (Turlough O'Brien), with his wife Mór, daughter of Gilla Brigte Ua Maíl Muaid of Cenél Fiachach.[2]

After Brian Boru's death at the battle of Clontarf in 1014, Tadc was a serious contender to the kingship of Munster, rivalling his half brother Donnchad mac Briain.[3] Tadc was assassinated at the instigation of Donnchad in 1023.[

Family/Spouse: O'Mulloy, Mor ingen Gilla-Brighid. Mor (daughter of O'Mulloy, Gilla-Brighid and O'Mulloy, Bridget) was born in UNKNOWN in Munster, Ireland; died in 1018 in Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: King of Ireland
• FSID: LZJ2-6ND
• Appointments / Titles: Between 1064 and 1086; King of Munster
• Appointments / Titles: Between 1072 and 1086; 178th High King of Ireland

Notes:

Toirdhealbhach Ua Briain (old spelling: Toirdelbach Ua Briain), anglicised Turlough O'Brien (1009 – 14 July 1086), was King of Munster and effectively High King of Ireland. A grandson of Brian Bóruma, Toirdelbach was the son of Tadc mac Briain who was killed in 1023 by his half-brother Donnchad mac Briain.

For the first forty years of his life nothing is known of Toirdelbach. It was not until the 1050s that he found allies in Connacht and in Leinster, particularly the powerful King of Leinster Diarmait mac Maíl na mBó, who would aid his claims to be ruler of Munster. It took perhaps ten years of sustained attack to remove his uncle Donnchad from power, and send him into exile, and to place Toirdelbach in power in Munster as Diarmait's faithful ally.

On Diarmait's death Toirdelbach took over the reins of power, establishing himself as ruler of more than half of Ireland. While not a great military leader, he was a capable politician whose influence extended as far north as Ulaid and who made and unmade Kings of Connacht. He died after more than two decades in power, following a lengthy illness, still in control of events. Both his son, Muirchertach Ua Briain, and grandson, Toirdelbach Ua Conchobair, would go on to be influential Irish kings.

Family/Spouse: mac Lorcáin, Dub Choblaig. Dub was born in 1030 in Cionn tSáile, Cork, Ireland; died in 1076 in Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: L7GV-JX4

Derbail married mac Dunlaing O'Caellaide, Finn in 1069 in Ireland. Finn (son of Ua O'Caellaide, Dunlaing and ingen Taidg O'Caellaide, Derborgaill) was born in 1035 in Wexford, Wexford, Ireland; was christened in Leinster, Ireland; died in 1098 in Louth, Louth, 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

Family/Spouse: O'Byme, Donal O'Mordha of Leix. Donal was born in 1050 in Laois, Ireland; died in 1149 in Italy. [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

Family/Spouse: ua Tuathail, King Muirchertach. Muirchertach was born in 1089 in Leinster, Ireland; died in 1164 in Dublin, Dublin, 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

Family/Spouse: mac Murchada, Diarmait. Diarmait was born on 3 Feb 1110 in Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; died on 1 May 1171 in Ferns, Wexford, Ireland; was buried after 1 May 1171 in Cathedral Church of St Edan, Ferns, Wexford, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Baroness Gamage
• Appointments / Titles: Countess Stregoil
• FSID: L8WB-QVC
• Name: Joan De Clare
• Birth: 1200

Joan married de Gamage, Lord Godfrey in 1219 in Glamorgan, Wales. Godfrey (son of de Gamage, William and de Miners, Elizabeth) was born in 1200 in Rogiet, Monmouthshire, Wales; died on 27 Oct 1253 in Mansell Gamage, Weobley, Hertfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: LHKH-SHB

Elizabeth married de Pembridge, Sir Henry on 27 Apr 1272 in Evesham, Worcestershire, England. Henry (son of de Pembridge, Henry and de Pembridge, Lady N.N.) was born in 1226 in Weston sub Edge, Gloucestershire, England; died in DECEASED in England; was buried in Evesham, Worcestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: LZN5-2NT

William married Lingen, Lady Euphemia in 1274 in Evesham, Worcestershire, England. Euphemia (daughter of de Lingen, Sir John and de Lingen, Lady N.N.) was born in 1258 in Evesham, Worcestershire, England; died on 1 Feb 1279 in Evesham, Worcestershire, England; was buried after 1 Feb 1279 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: KZC7-PHS

William married Burley, Lady Margery in 1299 in Pembridge, Herefordshire, England. Margery (daughter of Burley, Sir John and de Pembrugge, Alice) was born in 1280 in Broncroft Castle, Broncroft, Shropshire, England; died in 1300 in Evesham, Worcestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]