Diarmait mac Murchada, King of Leinster

Abt 1110 - 1171  (~ 61 years)

• Name	Diarmait mac Murchada  [1, 2]
  Suffix	King of Leinster
  Birth	Abt 1110	Leinster, Ireland   [1, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	1 Jan 1171  [1, 4]
  Alternate death	Abt 1 May 1171  [3]
  Person ID	I2040	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of EK, Ancestor of GFS, Ancestor of JMF, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of LMW, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK, Ancestor of UKL, Ancestor of WPF
  Last Modified	27 Nov 2023

  
  

  Father	Donnchad mac Murchada, King of Leinster and Dublin   d. 1115
  Mother	Orlaith ingen Ua Braenain
  Family ID	F4204	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mor ni Tuathail,   b. Abt 1114, Castledermot, Kildare, Ireland d. 1191, Ireland (Age ~ 77 years)
  Children	+ 1. Eve of Leinster,   b. Abt 1145   d. Aft 1185 (Age ~ 41 years)
  Family ID	F4125	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	18 Apr 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Also called Dermot MacMurrough. "Diarmait Mac Murchada (Modern Irish: Diarmaid Mac Murchadha), anglicised as Dermot MacMurrough or Dermod MacMurrough (c.1110 -- c.1 May 1171), was a King of Leinster in Ireland. In 1167, he was deprived of his kingdom by the High King of Ireland -- Ruaidri Ua Conchobair. The grounds for the dispossession 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. In return, Mac Murchada pledged an oath of allegiance to Henry, who sent troops in support. As a further thanks for his reinstatement, Mac Murchada's daughter Aoife was married to Richard de Clare, the 2nd Earl of Pembroke (nicknamed 'Strongbow'). Henry II then mounted a larger second invasion in 1171 to ensure his control over Strongbow, resulting in the Lordship of Ireland. Mac Murchada was later known as Diarmait na nGall (Irish for 'Diarmait of the Foreigners')." [Wikipedia]

  
  

• Sources

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