Part of the European wars of religion and the English Reformation
Date
1536–1603
Location
Ireland
Result
English victory
Gaelic Ireland annexed by Tudors
Hegemony of the New English
Catholic Church in Ireland outlawed
Treaty of Mellifont
Belligerents
Kingdom of England
Lordship of Ireland (until 1542)
Kingdom of Ireland (from 1542)
Gaelic Ireland Supported by: Kingdom of Spain
Commanders and leaders
Henry Sidney
Thomas Radclyffe
Leonard Grey
Richard Bingham
William Drury
Arthur Grey
William Pelham
William FitzWilliam
John Perrot
John Norreys
Walter Raleigh
Humphrey Gilbert
George Carew
Arthur Chichester
Henry Docwra
Charles Blount
Walter Deveraux
Henry Bagenal
Gaels:
Aodh Mór Ó Néill
Aodh Ruadh Ó Domhnaill
Aodh Mag Uidhir
Rory O'Moore, Lord of Laois
Fiach Mac Aodha Ó Broin
Fínghin Mac Cárthaigh
Domhnall Cam Ó Súileabháin Bhéara
Domhnall Ó Briain
Somhairle Buidhe Mac Domhnaill
Brian Óg na Samhthach Ó Ruairc
Grace O'Malley
FitzGeralds:
James FitzMaurice FitzGerald
Silken Thomas FitzGerald
Gerald FitzGerald
Spanish generals:
Juan del Águila
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War of the League of Cambrai
Four Years' War
War of 1542–46
Habsburg–Valois War
Anglo-Scottish Wars
Flodden
Hornshole
Haddon Rig
Solway Moss
Rough Wooing
Leith
Redeswire Fray
Reformation
Prayer Book Rebellion
Nine Years' War
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The Tudor conquest (or reconquest) of Ireland took place during the 16th century under the Tudor dynasty, which ruled the Kingdom of England. The Anglo-Normans had conquered swathes of Ireland in the late 12th century, bringing it under English rule. In the 14th century, the effective area of English rule shrank markedly, and from then most of Ireland was held by native Gaelic chiefdoms. Following a failed rebellion by the Earl of Kildare in the 1530s, the English Crown set about restoring its authority. Henry VIII of England was made "King of Ireland" by the Crown of Ireland Act 1542. The conquest involved assimilating the Gaelic nobility by way of "surrender and regrant"; the confiscation and colonization ('plantation') of lands with settlers from Britain; imposing English law and language; banning Catholicism, dissolving the monasteries and making Anglican Protestantism the state religion.
The Tudor policies in Ireland sparked the Desmond Rebellions (1569–1573, 1579–1583) and the Nine Years' War (1594–1603). Despite Spanish support for Irish Catholics during the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604), by 1603 the entire country was under English rule. The Flight of the Earls in 1607 largely completed the destruction of the Gaelic aristocracy and left the way open for the Plantation of Ulster, which established a large British Protestant population in the north. Several people who helped establish the plantations of Ireland also played a part later in the early colonisation of North America, particularly a group known as the West Country Men.[1]
^Taylor, Alan (2001). American Colonies, The Settling of North America. Penguin. pp. 119, 123. ISBN 0-14-200210-0.
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