Irish noblewoman, Princess of Leinster and Countess of Pembroke
Aoife MacMurrough
The Marriage of Strongbow and Eva (1854) by Daniel Maclise, a romanticised depiction of the union between Aoife and Richard de Clare in the ruins of Waterford
Born
1145
Died
1188
Noble family
Uí Chennselaig (MacMurrough-Kavanagh family)
Spouse(s)
Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke
Issue
Isabel
Gilbert
Father
Dermot MacMurrough
Mother
Mor O'Toole
Aoife MacMurrough (c. 1145 – 1188, Irish: Aoife Nic Mhurchada), also known as Eva of Leinster, was an Irish noblewoman, 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.
AoifeMacMurrough (c. 1145 – 1188, Irish: Aoife Nic Mhurchada), also known as Eva of Leinster, was an Irish noblewoman, Princess of Leinster and Countess...
Irish, but due to the similarity in sound, Aoife has often been anglicised as Eva or Eve. AoifeMacMurrough (also known as Eva of Leinster) was a 12th-century...
Diarmait Mac Murchada (Modern Irish: Diarmaid Mac Murchadha; anglicised as Dermot MacMurrough or Dermot MacMurphy) (c. 1110 – c. 1 May 1171), was King...
the Earl, a chanson de geste of 3,458 lines of verse concerning Dermot McMurrough and Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (known as "Strongbow"). Other...
of David I, as well as claiming ancestry ultimately descended from AoifeMacMurrough and Richard (Strongbow) de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, King of Leinster...
who in turn was daughter of Sir Richard "Strongbow" de Clare and AoifeMacMurrough. Isabel Marshal died on 17 January 1240 while giving birth at Berkhamsted...
Normans at the Battle of Downpatrick in 1260.) As a descendant of AoifeMacMurrough (died 1188), Edward could also claim extensive royal Gaelic Irish...
3 °C (91.9 °F), was measured at Kilkenny Castle on 26 June 1887. AoifeMacMurrough Painter, Sidney (1982). William Marshal, Knight-Errant, Baron, and...
Salzburg (d. 1200) Adam of Perseigne, French Cistercian abbot (d. 1221) AoifeMacMurrough (or Eva), Irish princess (d. 1188) Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad, Arab historian...
both Waterford and Dublin, and was married to Diarmuid's daughter, AoifeMacMurrough, claiming the Kingship of Leinster after Diarmuid's death in 1171...
Sixth Seal, 1828 Daniel Maclise (1806–1870) The Marriage of Strongbow and Aoife, 1854 Sarah Purser (1848–1943) Le Petit Dejeuner 1881 Roderic O'Conor (1860–1940)...
known to history as Strongbow. MacMurrough secured the services of Richard, promising him the hand of his daughter Aoife of Leinster and the succession...
were Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, known as "Strongbow", and Aoife of Leinster. Sometime before Lent in 1207, Maud married her first husband...
that has been borne by several women throughout history, including: AoifeMacMurrough (c. 1145 – 1188), Irish noblewoman, Princess of Leinster Isabel de...
people who made Britain their home in the later medieval era included AoifeMacMurrough, Princess of Leinster (1145–88), the poet Muireadhach Albanach (fl...
Carniola December 22 – Richard of Ilchester, bishop of Winchester AoifeMacMurrough (or Eva), princess of Leinster (b. 1145) Guigo II, prior of the Grande...
Salzburg (d. 1200) Adam of Perseigne, French Cistercian abbot (d. 1221) AoifeMacMurrough (or Eva), Irish princess (d. 1188) Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad, Arab historian...
Carniola December 22 – Richard of Ilchester, bishop of Winchester AoifeMacMurrough (or Eva), princess of Leinster (b. 1145) Guigo II, prior of the Grande...
Henry's vassals in Wales and England. Through his daughter AoifeMacMurrough (fl. 1189), Mac Murchada gained a matrimonial-alliance with the powerful Richard...
accompanied MacMurrough, along with many men, to attack and regain MacMurrogh's lands.[citation needed] Later, with the marriage of Strongbow and Aoife's daughter...
the wife of Jenkin Conway, Mary Herbert, descendants of Henry I and AoifeMacMurrough through her ancestor Sir Richard Herbert of Coldbrook. This grant...
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