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Diarmait Mac Donnchada King of Leinster

Male 1110 - 1171  (61 years)


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  • Name Diarmait Mac Donnchada King of Leinster  [1, 2, 3, 4
    Born 1110  Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Occupation 1141 
    Asserted his authority by killing or blinding 17 rebel chieftains 
    Occupation 1153 
    Abducted another Irish king's wife (beginning a bitter feud) 
    Occupation 1166 
    Driven from Ireland 
    Occupation 1168 
    Returned with the backing of Anglo-Norman lords (including Richard FitzGilbert de Clare, Earl of Pembroke) 
    Occupation 1170 
    Captured Dublin 
    Occupation 1126-1171 
    Irish King of Leinster (succeeded his brother Énna) 
    Died 1 May 1171  Ferns, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I3780  Godbout
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 

    Father Donnchad Mac Murchada King of Leinster,   b. Bef 1070, Dublin, Leinster, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1115, Lough Carmen, Wexford, Leinster, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 45 years) 
    Mother Orlaith Igen O'Braenain,   b. Abt 1085, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married Bef 1110  Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F1902  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mor Ingen Muirchertaig O'Toole,   b. Abt 1120, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1164  (Age ~ 44 years) 
    Married Abt 1140  Lough Carmen, Wexford, Leinster, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Eva Mac Murrough of Leinster,   b. Abt 1141, Lancaster, Lancashire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1186  (Age ~ 46 years)
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F1901  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S7] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, George Edward Cokayne; Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand & Howard de Walden, editors, (Reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), Volume X, p. 356.

    2. [S728] A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland and Scotland, John Burke, Esq., (Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, London, 1831), 124.

    3. [S721] The Visitation of Yorkshire in the years 1563 and 1564, William Flower, Esq., Norroy King of Arms, edited by Charles Best Norcliffe, M.A., of Langton, (The Harleian Society, Mitchell and Hughes, Printers, 140 Wardour Street, W., London, 1881), 282.

    4. [S633] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, Frederick Lewis Weis. Edited with additions and corrections by Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr.; assisted by David Faris, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 7th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland, 1992), 69:66-26 & 150:175.