Category: Hiberno-Normans, Irish Nobility

Known to history as the Anglo-Irish, the Hiberno-Norman or Old English (Ireland) nobility were the descendants of the settlers who came to Ireland from Wales, Normandy and England following the Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169–71. The English government assigned the conquered lands of the Irish to Anglo-Normans for whom the loss of Normandy following King John's disastrous campaigns intensified their determination to find to compensation in the exploitation of Irish estates.

John de Courcy gained the province of Ulster; Hugh de Lacy, the county of Meath. The kingdom of Cork was granted to Milo de Cogan and Fitzstephen, the kingdom of Limerick to William de Braosa (or to Philip de Breuse/Braose). Thomas de Clare received the grant of Thomond, Otto de Grandison of Tipperary, Robert de la Poer of Waterford, and William Fitzadlem (FitzAldelm) of a large portion of Connaught.

The History Files : Gaelic Kingdoms : Kingdoms of Ireland
Giraldus Cambrensis The Conquest of Ireland trans: Thomas Forester & ed: Thomas Wright
Library Ireland : New Settlers in Meath
The Annals of Ireland by the Four Masters: trans: Owen Connellan ed: Michael O'Cleary footnote page: 8 gives a comprehensive list of Anglo-Norman settlers in Meath
North Munster Antiquarian Journal : Early Anglo Norman Settlement Patterns vol: 53; 2013 by Marie Taylor
New World Encyclopedia : Norman Invasion of Ireland
You can read about Irish nobility here: Wikipedia_Irish_Nobility

Persons who collaborated with Dermot MacMorrogh during the Invasion of 1169 -

New World Encyclopedia : Norman Invasion of Ireland

Maurice de Prendergast / Robert Barr/ Meiler Meilerine / Maurice Fitz-Gerald / Robert FitzHenry / Meiler FitzHenry / Redmond nephew of Fitz-Stephen / William Ferrand / Miles de Cogan / Gualter de Ridensford / Gualter and Alexander sons of Maurice Fitz-Gerald / William Notte / Richard Caddell (Progenitor of the Blake family) / Robert Fitz-Bernard / Hugh Lacie / William Fitz-Aldelm / William Macarell / Hemphrey Bohun / Hugh De Gundevill / Philip de Hasting / Hugh Tirell / Walter de Barât / Henry de Barât / David Walsh / Robert Poer (First Poer le Poer in Ireland) / Osbert de Herloter / William de Bendenges / Adam de Gernez / Philip de Breos / Griffin nephew of Fitz-Stephen / Raulfe Fitz-Stephen / Walter de Barry / Philip Walsh / Adam de Hereford / Tommy De Downes

Also thought to have been there - John Courcy / Hugh Contilon / Redmund Fitz-Hugh / Miles of St. David's Walynus (a Welshman who came to Ireland with Maurice Fitzgerald) / Sir Robert Marmion (with Strongbow)

Those present during the invasion of Henry II in 1172 -

New World Encyclopedia : Norman Invasion of Ireland Richard de Tuite / William de Wall / Randolph FitzRalph (with FitzStephen) / Alice of Abervenny (with Raymond FitzWilliam Le Gros) / Richard de Cogan (with Strongbow) / Phillipe le Hore (with Strongbow) / Theobald Fitzwalter (with Henry II) / Robert de Bermingham (with Strongbow) d'Evreux (with Strongbow) / Eustace Roger de Gernon (with Strongbow) / de la Chapelle (Supple) / Gilbert d'Angulo & sons Jocelyn and Hostilo (Costello) (with Strongbow)

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