1399 - 1400 AD
1399 AD Rory 1st / Ruaidri O Kelly was the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch Ui Maine King who had his territory in the east of Co. Galway and nearby to Athlone in Co. Roscommon in the east of the Connacht Province.
Henry
/ Anraoi Mor
- the Greater Mac Aitin was the
Heremonian
Dal Cuinn
Ui Fiachrach
King of Tyrawley
/
Tir nAmalgaid (The Land of
91.Awley / Amalgaid) in
Co. Mayo
Brian
Catha an Aengagh - of the Battle
of Nenagh O Brian died this year, and his brother,
Conor O Brian, was
now
the new
Prince
/ Tanaiste
of
Northern Munster
/
Thomond,
with his main territory
in Co. Clare
in the north - west of the Munster Province until
1426 AD and
Turlough O Brian,
the son of Murrogh /
Murchad O Brian also died this year.
June 1st :
Richard
11
the
Anglo - Norman Plantagenet English King, had left England, after the death of John of Gaunt
his uncle
who was to personally become the common ancestor of both the Lancasters and the
Yorkists who would be involved in the coming "War
of the Roses" in England and he arrived in
Ireland again at
Waterford in
Co. Waterford in the south - east of the Munster
Province with another large English Military force and
stayed over with
James Butler the
Anglo - Norman
third English Earl of Ormonde
for 2 weeks at his Ormonde Castle in
Co. Kilkenny
/ Ossory in the south -
west of
Southern Leinster
and
confirmed a charter previously granted by William le Marshall on the City of
Kilkenny there.
(While in Co. Kildare in
Central Southern Leinster he invested his cousin, (and future nemesis)
Henry Bolingbroke of
Lancaster, who would later on become Henry 1V, along with several others
as English knights. At this time the
Gaelic
Irish
Septs in
Southern Leinster were rebelling against the continuing Anglo - Norman
English territory confiscations and repression there,
Mac William Burke the Anglo - Norman English Baron raided Carbury in the Connacht Province and killed many of the population there.
Meanwhile Henry Bolingbroke of Lancaster, the cousin of Richard 11 the English King of York, who was now his dedicated enemy, and who was to later become Henry 1V, had arrived back into England, from where Richard 11 had previously exiled him to France and confiscated the Estates of his father John of Gaunt, and Richard 11 now had to return to England to try and also protect his right to the English Crown due to the rebellion of Henry Bolingbroke and he could only leave a small English Military force in Ireland who would be holding only a minor part of Gaelic Irish territory under their control now that encircled The English Pale that were still to remain loyal to him. The Old English / Anglo - Irish and the Gaelic Irish Septs were now left to their own devices, with the English authorities in the Dublin Castle (The Devil's 1/2 acre) now flat out securing the marches / frontiers that surrounded them in The English Pale. The War of the Roses soon began in England, where Richard 11 / White Rose was to be defeated and killed and the Usurper Henry Bolingbroke / Red Rose was to become Henry IV, who was to be the first Lancaster to become a Norman King of England and he would remain so until 1413 AD. On gaining the English monarchy he appointed his half - brother, Jasper Tudor as the English Governor in Ireland and returned Fitz Gerald the Earl of Kildare as his English Deputy and James Butler, who was a Lancaster supporter, was against it. Later Henry 1V was to send over Thomas Bolingbroke, his 13 year old son, to govern Ireland for him and try and placate the Anglo - Irish, but his young son would then not even have enough funds to support the English authorities who were operating out of the Dublin Castle. During the ongoing War of the Roses (Red and White) that was to continue on in England into the future, in the north - east of the Ulster Province including the districts of Clannaboye, the Glens and the Ards were to be against the Usurper, Henry 1V the first Anglo - Norman Lancaster English King, at the Battle of Wakefield. Also Aed Oge - the Younger O Donnell, the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel Conaill King of Tyrconnell / Co. Donegal in the north - west of Ulster, who also had territory in Co. Fermanagh in the south - west of Ulster, and Co. Leitrim and Co. Sligo in Northern Connacht, joined in with Gerald Fitz Gerald the Anglo - Norman fifth English Earl of Kildare to unite England and Scotland against the Usurper, Henry 1V also. This was to put them on the side of the Yorkists / White Rose, and this connection was to still continue until the coming of the Welsh Tudors who were to also eventually only gain the English monarchy through a minor maternal connection to the Lancasters, and a deal with the greedy merchants in the English Parliament. The "War of the Roses" would not effect Ireland as much as in England, other then it decreased the control previously exerted from The English Pale, as Henry 1V the Usurper tried to consolidate his own position there in England.
John Mor - the Greater Mac Donald the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Colla Uais Lord of the Isles in the Scottish Highlands married Margery Bissett the heiress to the confiscated Estates carved out by her Anglo - Norman ancestors in the north - east also of the Ulster Province, and he was to become the direct male line ancestor in the future of the Ulster Mac Donnells.
Westminster Hall was built in England with the Oak Trees from Co. Clare in the north - west of the Munster Province.
The town of Dundalk in Co. Louth in the north - east of Northern Leinster was now also walled by the English Galls who controlled it to keep the Gaelic Irish Septs there out of the town.
1400 AD 120.Niall Og - the Younger O Niall the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain King of Tyrone in the Ulster Province besieged his kinsmen the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel Conaill territory again in Tyrconnell / Co. Donegal in the west of Ulster to once again try and express his own personal overall authority in Ulster.
Sean O Reilly, the son of Phillip / Pilib O Reilly, the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Breifne King of East Breifne who had his territory in Co. Cavan in Southern Ulster, died this year. Gilla Iosa (Descended from a devotee of Christ) O Reilly, the son of Henry / Anraoi O Reilly became the new Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Breifne King of East Breifne, but also died soon after.
James Butler the Anglo - Norman third
English
Earl of Ormonde who was fully committed to the
Lancasters and their English cause, was advised by Henry 1V / Henry Bolingbroke
- the Usurper who was
the first Anglo - Norman Lancaster King of England to treat the
Gaelic Irish
Septs as their
"enemies.
Fahalty Castle, which once stood on the eastern shore of Derry Varragh Loch connected to the ancient story of "The Children of Lir," which is 2 miles north - east of Multyfarnham / Muilte Farannain / Faranann's Mills in Co. Westmeath in the south - west of Northern Leinster, was where Edmund Mortimer the Younger the English Earl of March was to arrive into Ireland as a refugee now from Henry IV Bolingbroke of Lancaster - the Usurper.
Sir Robert Talbot who was now the English Governor in Ireland had nearly all of Kilkenny City in Co. Kilkenny / Ossory in the south - west of Southern Leinster also surrounded by walls to keep the Gaelic Irish Septs out.
Thomas Bolingbroke of Lancaster, the young 13 year old son of the Usurper, Henry 1V of England, came over to Ireland, to become the English Governor for him, who was later to become the English Duke of Clarence.