King of Leinster Diarmait MacMurchada

1100 - 1171  (71 years)

• Name	Diarmait MacMurchada
  Title	King of Leinster
  Birth	1100	Leinster, Ireland
  Gender	Male
  Death	1 Jan 1170/71	Ferns, Leinster, Ireland   [1]
  Person ID	I36741	Bob Juch's Tree
  Last Modified	31 Dec 2022

  
  

  Father	King of Dublin Donnchadh MacMurchadh,   b. Abt 1050, Leinster, Ireland d. 8 Dec 1115, Killed in battle with Domnall Ua Briain (Age 65 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Orlaith MacBranain,   b. 1080, Ireland
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F13628	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	More O'Toole,   b. 1114, Leinster, Ireland d. 1191 (Age 77 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1140	LoCar, Wexf, Leinster, Ireland
  Children	1. Eve (Aoife) MacMurrough,   b. Abt 1141, Ireland d. Aft 1186, Waterford, Ireland (Age > 46 years)  [natural]
  Family ID	F13533	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Dec 2022

  
  

  Family 2	Cacht O'Moore,   b. Abt 1135, Leinster, Ireland
  Children	1. Urlachen MacMurrough,   b. Abt 1154, Leinster, Ireland  [natural]
  Family ID	F13534	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Dec 2022

  
  

• Notes

  He asked Richard Strongbow de Clare (and others including William Gerard, etc) to help him in Ireland. That was the beginning of the Norman Conquest of Ireland.

  
  

• Sources

  [S222] Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, 175-6.