1171 AD
" Henry 11 / Forged Papal Bull"l.
1171 AD 110.Donnell Mor O Brian, who was now the Heberian Dal gCais Ui mBriain King of Northern Munster / Thomond, founded a nunnery in Limerick in Co. Limerick in the mid - north west of the Munster Province of which there are now no remains left at all.
May: 113.Diarmait Mac Murrough na Gall - of the Foreigners the previous Heremonian Cu Corb Ui Cheinnselaig 59th King of Leinster "died," at 65 years of age at Ferns in Co. Wexford in Southern Leinster, and Strongbow 11 / Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare the Cambro - Norman Marcher Baron from Pembroke in Wales, who had married his "daughter," took over control in Southern Leinster, against the precepts of the "Irish Brehon Law," as the self - appointed English Earl of Leinster, and a "revolt" broke out there "against" him assuming the position.
The remains of 113.Diarmait Mac Murrough na Gall - of the Foreigners, the previous 65th Ui Cheinnselaig King and Heremonian Ui Laoghaire Ui Lughaidh Cu Corb 59th King of Leinster, who was to become known as the "greatest traitor" in Irish History, was interred at the Augustinian Friary at Ferns in Co. Wexford in the south - east of Southern Leinster, where the ruins are still in existence today, along with the Ferns Cathedral and the Holy Well of St. Moling. 113.Enda / Enna Mac Murrough, 113.Diarmait Mac Murrough na Gall's brother, had been the previous 64th Ui Cheinnselaig King and 58th King of Leinster who had "died" in 1126 AD, and their father had been 112.Donough mac Murrough / Mheic Murchada the previous 63rd Ui Cheinnselaig King and 56th King of Leinster who had "died" in 1115 AD. 113.Diarmait Mac Murrough na Gall had been descended initially from 94.Enda / Enna Cennsalach / Cinsella who had been the Heremonian Cu Corb 2nd King of Leinster, mainly through *110.Diarmait mac Mail na mBo - of the Many Cattle who had been the one to "revive" the fortunes of the Ui Cheinnselaig Sept's male line in the first place, after becoming the 61st Ui Cheinnselaig King and 51st King of Leinster and the "unofficial" 177th King of Ireland - with opposition who had died in 1072 AD. 94.Enda Cennsalach the direct male line ancestor of the Ui Cheinnselaig Sept had been the grandson of 92.Bressal Belach the Heremonian Ui Laoghaire Ui Lughaidh Cu Corb 1st King of Leinster, who was also the direct male line ancestor of the previous Cu Corb Ui Dunlainge Kings of Leinster who had produced most of the early Kings of Leinster through his other son, 93.Enda / Enna Nia the direct male line ancestor also of the Cu Corb Ui Briuin Chualann Sept / Fine in Southern Leinster. 113.Diarmait Mac Murrough na Gall due to his particular "temperament" and agenda was also to be the "last" outright King of Leinster under the auspices of the "Irish Brehon Law" in his own right.
Strongbow 11 / Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare, the Cambro - Norman Marcher Baron, tried to claim 113.Diarmait Mac Murrough na Gall's original title of King of Leinster, which went against the tenets of the "Irish Brehon Law," and he also took over the importantly situated fortress on the Rock of Dunamase in Co. Laois in the mid - west of Southern Leinster previously allocated to him by 113.Diamait Mac Murrough na Gall for his support. Later on this particular well situated "fort" was to be also still under the control of the Anglo - Norman Galls for a time, and then later still it would be "taken back" by the Gaelic Milesian Irian Ui Laigis O Mores there, as it was in their territory in Co. Laois. It would also be "retaken" once again again later on by the Anglo Norman English and was then to be "destroyed" during the Oliver Cromwell Invasion in the 15th Century AD, which was to be an "all out" English "ethnic and religious" destruction of all things Irish and Catholic. Then it would be "recaptured" again in the early 17th Century AD by 127.Owen / Eogan Roe - of Red Complexion O Niall, one of the 2 most important commanders of the "Irish Confederacy" against the English Royalist and English Puritan Parliamentarian armies, at that time, during the ongoing "Civil War" in England. It was then to be "retaken" again by Sir Charles Coote for the English Royalists in 1641 AD who was a real "survivor" who then switched his Royalist allegiance over to the English Puritan Parliamentarians.
It was to be now or never for the Irish Septs, and
*115.Rory
O Connor
the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Ai
Siol Muireadhaigh 183rd King
of
Ireland
raised a great Irish force to try and drive
Strongbow 11 the
Cambro - Norman Baron and his Cambro
- Normans followers out of Ireland,
but before he could do this he
would have to besiege his Irish "opposition" in the
form of the incessant 110.Donnell
Mor O Brian the
Heberian Dal gCais
Ui mBriain 47th King of Cashel / Munster
who had also sided with
Strongbow
11 who was now also his "brother - in - law," in his own personal interest going against the
overall interest of the
"Irish Brehon Law" and due to the present extenuating circumstances
Ireland
as a whole.
*115.Rory O
Connor came up against
110.Donnell Mor
O Brian
and his Anglo - Norman cohorts
near Thurles / Thor - less
in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of
the
Munster Province,
and during the battle,
4 Cambro - Norman
Knights were slain and
1,700 of 110.Donnell Mor O
Brian's followers were slain, and Strongbow
11,
in a state of "shock" at such a great defeat,
immediately recalled back
to Ireland
Raymond Le Gros
Fitz
Gerald, (ancestor of the Graces)
who had since returned to Wales with his
followers. On
his return from Wales,
Raymond Le Gros and his
men at first were sent by Strongbow 11 to
Northern Munster to further "support"
110.Donnell
Mor O Brian
in
Limerick
in Co. Limerick in the mid - north - west of
Munster, where he was able to cross over the River Shannon in the
"shallows"
that then existed there in that vicinity near what is now
King John's Castle. *115.Rory O Connor
decided to "divide" his Irish
forces into
3 divisions, with one
sent to attack Strongbow 11 head on who was now set up in Dublin, while another was sent to destroy the
"crops" above
Dublin to remove any chance of continuing "sustenance" for the
Cambro - Normans billeted there, while another besieged
110.Donnell
Mor
O Brian
himself and
his allies in his Ui mBriain territory in
Co. Clare. These
Irish forces sent by
*115.Rory O Connor to besiege
110.Donnell
Mor
O Brian
were able to chase him all the way down to
Limerick, then up and over to the
Rock of Cashel
in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of
Munster Province were
Raymond Le Gros the Anglo - Norman Baron who was on his way to Limerick with some
subugated Ossory / Co. Kilkenny Septs
personally met up with him.
In the meantime
With
the belligerent
110.Donnell Mor
O Brian and his
Cambro - Norman allies now out of the way, the
other Heberian Dal gCais
Ui mBriain
Septs
from Thomond
/ Northern Munster realising what was occurring and the Heremonian Dal Cuinn
Ui Briuin Ai
Ui Conchobair
O Connor
Septs from the
Connacht Province then agreed to
"combine" their efforts under the leadership of
*115.Rory O
Connor to try and stop any further Cambro
- Norman insurgence, and
they finally stood side by side "united" against a common "foreign foe," and
Gottfried
the
Viking King of Man, who was an Irish ally
also agreed
to support them by besieging
Strongbow 11's forces
out
at sea.
The Heberian Dal gCais
/ Dalcassian
warriors who were involved in the battle wore only linen tunics, and no helmets of any
sought, no mail or armour,
as they fought according to their Celtic culture "hand to hand" in the clearings, with their steel axes, short spears and
2 javelins, while the
Cambro - Normans had mail
armour, large pikes, long swords and the worst of all long distance
Welsh and
Flemish archers.
Meanwhie Henry 11 the
"first" Norman Plantagenet King of England
was by now well and truly
fearing Strongbow 11's
real
intentions and those of his
Cambro
- Norman Marcher Barons from
Wales
who were now in
Ireland, and he ordered
all of the
Cambro
- Normans to return to
Briton
or lose their Estates there,
and he also refused to
allow any ship to sail to
Ireland
from
Briton,
Strongbow 11 the Cambro - Norman Baron, who was now free to roam were ever he liked in
Southern Leinster again, now went off to
Wexford on the coast of Co. Wexford to relieve his uncle,
Robert Fitz
Stephen surrounded and trapped there by the Vikings, but he was to arrive too late as
Robert Fitz Stephen
had previously considered that Dublin had
been "taken" by the Irish Septs
and had agreed
with the VIkings there that he would
go back to Briton, and his men had given up their
arms, and the Vikings in Wexford had
"imprisoned" him in the dungeon
in Wexford, and
they now threatened to kill him if Strongbow 11 attacked Wexford, and
it seemed Strongbow 11's position there was now
"tenuous." Henry 11 the
Angevin Norman English King now decided to order
Strongbow 11 to physically return to Briton,
and on returning to the south of
Wales he was to re - affirm his "loyalty" to
Henry 11, and also agreed to "hand over" all of the territories to
Henry 11 that he now had
control over in
Ireland. and
Henry 11
then granted him Southern Leinster
as a fief of the English Monarchy and from this time on up to
Henry V111
there
would be 78 more attempts by the English
authorities to "confiscate"
further
Irish
territory and transplant more Galls / foreigners into
Ireland.
October 16th - 18th:
Henry 11
the "first" Norman Plantagenet King of England
now seeking his best opportunity, landed on the east coast at Crook near
Waterford also in Co. Waterford
in the south - east of the Munster Province with
400 ships with 4,000
men on board, including 500 Norman Knights and
1,000
archers and also light horsemen, and with a force such as this he
quickly secured
the two Viking coastal townships of
Waterford in Co. Waterford in the south -
east of Munster Province, and nearby
Wexford in
Co. Wexford in the south - east
of Southern Leinster for himself, and also the "coastal region" in
"between" and received immediate "submission" and obedience from
Strongbow 11 to whom
he then granted the territory he did not require in Southern Leinster,
keeping back the overall control of the Viking coastal towns
there on the east coast for himself.
Reginald’s Tower in the City of
Waterford in Co. Waterford
was then also taken over by Strongbow 11, while the
Ostmen / Norse Vikings in Wexford
then sent off word to
Henry
11 that they had previously captured
Robert Fitz Stephen
and they would hand him over so he could punish him for originally disobeying his orders
and he was kept in chains until Henry 11 decided that it was the right time to
"pardon" him to keep up appearances. Henry
11 later on
added Dublin and the Ostmen kingdom there to his
own personal "confiscated" territory, which was then mostly Co. Dublin and
Wicklow
in Co. Wicklow
with
both also on the "east coast" in the south - east of
Southern
Leinster, and then did
a round of
Southern Leinster personally,
as far
south as
Arklow.
and with such a strong "military force"
behind him
he soon received "submission" also from
Donnell Mac Carthy
the Heberian Eoghanacht Chaisil
King
of Southern Ireland /
Desmond
and other Irish Chiefs there who gave over hostages
and agreed to pay an annual "tribute" to him.
110.Donnell
Mor
O Brian
the Heberian Dal gCais
Ui
mBriain 47th
King
of Cashel / Munster
also "submitted"
on the banks of the River Suir where he also handed over the
Viking settlement
in Limerick in Co. Limerick, in the mid - north -
west of Munster to
him while his entourage was on their way to Cashel
in Co. Tipperary in the north - east
of
Munster Province.
Henry 11 then decided to return to
Dublin, in the north - east of
Southern
Leinster,
where he also received further "submissions" from the "aged"
113.Tiernan O
Rourke the Heremonian Dal Cuinn
Ui
Briuin Breifne King of West Breifne,
O Carroll the Heremonian
Dal Cuinn Colla
Da Crioch King
of Orghialla
/
Uriel / Oriel
in Southern Ulster Province and the north - east of
Northern Leinster,
and even *115.Rory O
Connor
himself the Heremonian
Dal Cuinn
Ui Briuin Ai 183rd
King of Ireland
at the River Shannon. (Despite this the 2 Heremonian
Dal Cuinn
"northern"
Ui Niaill Septs,
the Cenel nEogain
Fine in the far north of
the Ulster Province, and their kinsmen the
Cenel Conaill Fine in the far north - west of Ulster
Province "did not" submit.
November 6th: Henry 11 called a Catholic Synod at the
Rock of Cashel in Co.
Tipperary in the north - east of the Munster
Province where on being shown the "forged" Papal Bull, that he had previously secured,
which was based on a previous spurious document, the
Cambro - Normans and some
of the Catholic churchmen together with 6
of the Irish Chiefs took an
"Oath of Allegiance" to serve him after he also
claimed to have come to Ireland to bring
"Peace" and Laurence / Lorcan O
Toole who had become the "first" Irish
Catholic
Archbishop of Dublin in 1162 AD, (and would remain so until 1180 AD), on seeing the
fake "Papal Bull" gave him his allegiance also.
Henry
11 then
"abolished" the
Gaelic rituals of the Celtic Catholic
Church and
installed those carried out in the Roman Catholic Church, and
to add
to the pressure on the Irish
Septs the
English Archdeacon of Llanduff went out of his way to "enlarge" on what he considered were
"abuses"
being carried out in the
Celtic Catholic Church in Ireland, which were solely made
out in
Henry
11's interest, and took his report off to
Pope
Callistus 111 in Rome to further
strengthen his case there to gain overall control
in
Ireland with his support.