Aoife MacMurrough

Aoife MacMurrough (* about 1145 in Ireland; † 1188 ibid ), Irish Aoife Ní Diarmait, also known as Eva of Leinster, was the daughter of Dermot MacMurrough (ca. 1110-1171 ), Irish: Diarmait Mac Murchada, King of Leinster, and his wife Mór Ní Tuathail (ca. 1114-1191 ).

Marriage

On August 29, 1170, after the Norman invasion of Ireland, which her ​​father had demanded, she married Richard de Clare, Earl of Pembroke, better known as Strongbow, the leader of the Norman invaders, in Reginald 's Tower in Waterford. Her father had promised Strongbow as a reward for the invasion that he had asked during a visit to England. Under Irish law, he was not allowed to marry without her consent, but an arranged marriage she could not escape. The marriage secured by Anglo- Norman law Strongbow succession to the throne of Leinster. According to ancient Irish law, a cousin of the legal heir to the throne would have been, but it also knew a transfer of " Sword Land" to a conqueror. Aoife waged wars for the interests of her husband and was therefore known as " Red Eve " means (Irish Aoife Rua ).

She had two sons and a daughter with her husband, and her daughter Isabel de Clare, 4th Countess of Pembroke cupped her offspring within a few generations, a large part of the European nobility, including the rulers of Scotland since Robert I of Scotland ( 1274 - 1329 ) and England since Henry IV ( 1367-1413 ); to almost all the wives of Henry VIII

Swell

  • Ó Cróinín, Daibhí (1995 ) Early Medieval Ireland 400-1200 London: Longman Press; p. 281
  • Salmonson, Jessica Amanda. (1991 ) The Encyclopedia of Amazons. Paragon House. Page 160 ISBN 1-55778-420-5
  • Weis, Frederick Lewis Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, Lines: 66-26, 175-7, 261-30
  • Clare (Family)
  • Irishman
  • Person ( Irish history )
  • Norman
  • English
  • Born in the 12th century
  • Died in 1188
  • Woman
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