Mór Ní Tuathail

Mór Ní Tuathail (* about 1114 in Castledermot, Kildare, Ireland, † in Ireland in 1191 ) was an Irish nobleman and Queen of Leinster, and the first (in the sense of " highest", not the chronologically first ) wife of King Diarmait Mac Murchada. Among the Brehon Laws Irish men were allowed to marry several women. King Dermot's other wife was Sadhbh Ní Fhaolain, (also: sadb ingen Cerbaill of Uí Fáeláin ), daughter of Carroll ( Cerbaill ) Mac Faelain and niece of the 1132 rape Abbess of Kildare.

Mór was the mother of Aoife MacMurrough, the wife of Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, known as Strongbow.

Family

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

Your paternal grandparents were Gilla Comgaill Ua Tuathail and Sadbh Ní Domnail, the grandparents were mütterllicherseite Loigsig Ua Morda, King of Laois and Gormlaith Ní Caellaide.

One of four half- brothers, mors was St. Lorcan Ua Tuathail (St. Laurence O'Toole ), Archbishop of Dublin.

Marriage

In Loch Garman Mór was in 1140 married to King Diarmait Mac Murchada of Leinster as his chief wife, which made ​​her the co-ruler of Leinster. 1152 abducted the King Derbforgaill Ní Mhaol Seachlainn, the king of Breifne woman Tigernán Ua Ruairc.

Dermot and Mór together had at least two children:

• Conchobhar Mac Murchada ( died 1169 )
• Aoife MacMurrough (1145-1188), married on August 29, 1170 Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, known as Strongbow, with whom she had two children, including Isabel de Clare, 4th Countess of Pembroke, the title and estates of their father inherited.

Orlaith of Leinster, Domnall Mór Ua Briain married, King of Thomond, was the daughter of Sabdh.

1167 was Mors son of Conchobhar Ua Ruaidrí Conchobair, High King of Ireland, was killed.

Queen Mór died in 1191, three years after her eldest daughter, Aoife, and 20 years after her husband.