1172 AD - 2
"Henry 11's Confiscations."
Henry 11, the "first" Plantagenet Norman English King, just like all of those in authority in England who had the "Military Power" and control after him, was not interested in his so - called "Peace," but really only wanted the fruits of Ireland, to add to his "coffers," and to this end he was now to send English "overseers" to Ireland, and he was also to "change" them regularly, to ensure that he continued to have total "English" control over Ireland, while endeavouring to "eliminate" the influence of the Celtic Irish Catholic Church and the Celtic Culture of the Irish Septs under the "Irish Brehon Law." He was not to know that overtime the Families of those hand chosen Anglo - Norman Barons that he was to leave behind were to become integrated with the Gaelic Irish Families and their Celtic culture, the climate, their committed Celtic Catholic religion and the attitude of the native population of Ireland in general. Over time many were to become the Anglo - Irish who then became "More Irish than the Irish," which was to then cause the territories that the original English Galls / foreigners were to confiscate for themselves personally in Ireland, to be taken back off of them by those in overall authority in England, many times, and their previous secure positions gained removed under the auspices of the English Crown. These English authorities also tried hard early on to get the "original" Teutonic Norsemen, the Danish, the Norwegian and theSwedish Vikings to separate themselves out from the Celtic Irish Septs by bringing in English "penalties" against them if they refused to do so.
The "ferocious"
O Toole
/ Ui Dunlainge Ui Muireadhaigh Ui Tuathail Sept
and
the
O Byrne / Ui
Dunlainge Ui Faelan Ui Brain Sept were
to be
the main Irish Septs
still in control of the "south" and
the "eas"t of
Ireland
along the coast. (As a sign of things to come at Bannow in
Co. Wexford in the
south - east of Southern Leinster no Irishmen were to be
"allowed" in to the town) while the
whole of the
Connacht Province situated to the west of the River Shannon,
now had to be "shared" by the Heremonian
Dal Cuinn
Ui Briuin Ai
Siol Muireadhaigh / Sil Murray
O Connors and the other
Irish Septs there, and
the
Heberian Dal gCais
Ui Bloid Ui Turlough Ui mBriain
O Brians and the various other
Gaelic Irish
Septs there.
April: Henry 11 had to leave Ireland in a hurry due to his troubles elsewhere in England and Europe, as he had been summoned by the "Papal Legate" to explain the outright blatant "murder" of Thomas A' Beckett, the Archbishop of Canterbury who had previously been personally appointed by Henry 11 himself to that most important Roman Catholic Church position to do only Henry 11's bidding, but much to the shock of Henry 11 he had stood up for the rights of the Catholic Church instead, which was similar to what Archbishop Lanfranc did to William 1st, and St. Anselm did to William 11 and Henry 1st. Thomas A Beckett had recently been slain by 4 of Henry 11's Norman Knights after Henry 11 had made an outburst of, "Will anyone rid me of that troublesome priest." (Also Henry 11's oldest son, Henry, was also planning a "rebellion" against him). Before Henry 11 left Ireland he was to "appoint" 6 of his hand picked Anglo - Norman Barons to the overall control of Military Power in Ireland, including William Fitz Adhelm de Burgh as the English Justicar in Ireland. who is the direct ancestor of the Burkes, who was originally from Tonburg in Normandy (His descendents were to become the English Earls of Clan Rickarde, situated originally at Pallas Castle near Duniry / Dun Doighre in Co. Galway in Southern Connacht, and also eventually the English Earls of Mayo in Co. Mayo, and also the English Earls of Clan William in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of the Munster Province and the English Earls of Ulster. ) (Phillip Walnyus - the Welsh Man was to be the father of Haylen Brenach who was to actually become the direct ancestor of the Walshes from Co. Dublin, Co. Kilkenny, Co. Wicklow and Co. Laois in Southern Leinster and Co. Waterford in the south - east of Munster.) The Geraldine stronghold of the Geradini / Fitz Geralds was to be at Maynooth in Co. Kildare in Central Southern Leinster, who also had their Black Castle in Co. Wicklow / Wykynlo / Viking Loch in the south - east of Southern Leinster. The main purpose to which Henry 11 had entrusted these Anglo - Norman Barons was to confiscate their own particular area or region by "Military Force," and only for the benefit of the English Crown, with "no trading" of any type or "mixing" to occur with the Celtic Gaelic Irish Septs. They were also to form an English Parliament to implement "only" English Law, and an English Lieutenant Governor was to be eventually appointed in the future to be set up in the Dublin Castle, which became known over time as "The Devil's 1/2 acre."
April 17th: After Henry 11
discourses any chance of "Peace" was mostly to be
only within The
English Pale surrounding
Dublin,
as under "The Irish
Brehon Law" the
Heremonian Dal Cuinn "southern"
Ui Niaill Clann Cholmain King of
Meath could not sign away something that did not
belong to him "personally," as they could not
legally
convey their Irish territory, to
"foreigners." Strongbow 11 and Hugh de Lacy
who were now the
2 most important Anglo - Norman Barons, had been basically left in control of
Ireland
by Henry 11, and
their Latimers
(interpreters) were
now to be made use of,
as any personal agreements made between them and the
Irish Septs would have to be transcribed into both
French and Gaelic
Irish, with all of the Irish Kings
now "forced" to pay "tribute" rent for their own Sept's Family territories to
Henry
11 the Norman English King.
Hugh de Lacy was also about to begin the
"confiscations"
and setting up the Gall / foreign Estates in Ireland,
and because of it's proximity the
Clann Cholmain kingdom of
Meath
in
Northern Leinster
was to come under extreme pressure in this regard. Also the
legitimate
O Hart
"Irish
Tanaistes" and Septs of
Tara in order to try and
survive, was to eventually receive territory from the
Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern"
Ui Niaill Cenel
Conaill in
Tir Conaill
/ Tyrconnell in the north - west of the
Ulster Province, which by
that time also took in the north -
east of
Co. Sligo in the
Connacht Province at
Ard Tarmon / Artarmon
and Ballinfull
/ Dun Fuil near
Lissadell where they were
to become Heremonian Dal Cuinn
Colla Da Crioch Chiefs
there up untill the coming of "Black Tom" Wentworth who
would become the English Earl of Strafford while then acting for the greedy
Charles 1st
the second
Stuart King of England and
both of these greedy individuals would then lose their heads prematurely in
England.
September:
Henry
11 the Norman Plantagenet English King was given
"absolution" by the Pope
Callistus 111 for
his secondary involvement in the "murder" of
Thomas
A' Becket, who also without justification gave him "Lordship" over Ireland,
as
it seemed to him by the evidence presented by Henry 11 that he had triumphed over the
"disordered" and
"undisciplined" Irish Septs, as he personally wanted him to
bring all religious services in Ireland
under the accepted practises of the
Roman Catholic Church that were now being carried out in
England,
while a
Hugh de Lacy the Anglo - Norman Baron who now controlled the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "southern" Ui Niall Clann Cholmain kingdom of Meath / Midhe in the south of Northern Leinster decided also to do away with the "aged" 113.Tiernan O Rourke / Ua Ruairc the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Breifne King of West Breifne, whose extended territory was now also situated above Co. Longford in Northern Leinster, on the western side of the River Shannon and in Co. Leitrim in Northern Connacht, by cold bloody "murder during a meeting, and he was to be the "last "of his male line also to the Kingship of West Breifne. His father had been 112.Donough / Donnchad O Rourke, a son of 111.Donnell / Domhnall O Rourke, one of the 2 sons of 110.Ualgarg O Rourke, who was the son of 109.Niall O Rourke who had died in 1047 AD. He in turn was a son of 108.Art Uallach O Rourke who had been the 48th King of Connacht who had died in 1046 AD, a son of 107.Fergal O Rourke the 43rd King of Connacht, a son 106.Art O Rourke, the son of the original 105.Rourke / Ruarc who had been the initial King of West Breifne who had died in 898 AD. He was in turn descended from 99.Donough / Dunchad one of the 2 sons of 98.Baethine, descended from 93.Fergus who is also the "direct male line" ancestor of the O Reillys / Ui Raghailligh who were the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Breifne Kings of East Breifne / Co. Cavan and he in turn had been one of the 2 sons of 92.Eogan Srem, one of the 2 sons of 91.Daui Tenga Uma - of the Sweet Tongue who had been the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin 3rd King of Connacht, the ancestor of all of the Connacht Province Ui Briuin Septs, the Ui Briuin Ai, the Ui Briuin Sinna, Ui Briuin Breifne and the Ui Briuin Seola Septs, who was a son of 90.Brion the original "direct male line" ancestor of all of the Ui Briuin Septs who had been the "first" Heremonian Dal Cuinn King of Connacht.
Hugh de Lacy then combined his Anglo - Norman Forces with that of Strongbow 11 and his English Gall / foreign followers, and they took their army over to Normandy to support Henry 11 there against the "rebellion" being carried out by his own sons.
Every
town in Ireland
from
now on was either to be founded by the Danes
or
the Anglo - Normans, while the
English Galls
were to create the rest, as the
Celtic Gaelic Irish were always an "inland pastoral" people.
The
Irish Sport of "Hurling," which had been utilised by the
Irish Septs for
4,000 years,
where there were sometimes up to
200 men on each side was to be
"banned" in the future, at least 12
times, by the English authorities operating out of the
Dublin Castle, because of the simple reason that it was
an Irish sport, together with
"Camogie," which was the females' version of the sport.
The
territory in Downpatrick in Co. Down
in the south - east in the kingdom of Ulaid in the
east of the Ulster Province was
finally captured by
Hugh de Courcy
the Anglo - Norman Baron, who constructed a castle
there, and Newry and nearby Dundalk / Dun of Delga
/ Deagan's Fort in
Co. Louth
in
the north - east of
nearby
Northern Leinster was
also "taken" and granted to
Bertram
de Bheardun
/ de Verdon,
who was another Anglo - Norman Baron, who was to found an
Augustinian Priory there
Strongbow
11
/ Richard de Clare
the Cambro - Norman Marcher Baron, in
consultation with
Laurence
/ Lorcan
O Toole
who was the "first Irish
Archbishop of Dublin
constructed a new Catholic Church on what is now the
Christchurch Cathedral site, which was also previously a Catholic church built there
originally by Sitric Silkbeard the half
- Viking King of Dublin and
Donatus the Bishop
of Dublin in
1038
AD and it was to be later taken over by
the non - Catholic Ascendancy ruling classes after the
"confiscation" of all of the Catholic Church
"lands and Institutions" by
Henry
V111 the Welsh Tudor Norman King of
England in 1534 AD.
Strongbow 11 also built a castle at
Kilkenny in
Co. Kilkenny / Ossory
in the south - west of
Southern
Leinster
where
St. Patrick's "Walking Stick"
/
Bachall was to be stored as a religious relic until it was to be
"destroyed" by Brown who was the Church of England bishop acting on behalf of
Henry V111.
The
English
Norman Barons
from now on continued to "besiege" the Irish
Septs and their
kingdoms and territories at every opportunity to try and gain more and more of their
Irish land with
Raymond Le Gros Fitz Gerald now raiding the Heremonian
Ui Cobhthaigh Ui Felim Decies
Septs who
had their territory in
Co. Waterford in the south - east of the Munster
Province, and he also plundered the
Lismore Monastery
there,
where he run off a large herd of their cattle to
Waterford,
which the
Irish Septs there subsequently also reacted to. (So
far so good for the promised "Peace".)