The siege of Wexford took place in early May 1169 and was the first major clash of the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland. The town was besieged by a combined...
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the resulting 1169 Norman invasion of Ireland. He assisted his younger half-brother Robert Fitz-Stephen in the Siege of Wexford (1169). His nephew Raymond...
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Italy cities Siege of Harim (1164) Siege of Banias (1164) Siege of Alexandria (1167) – Crusader invasions of Egypt Siege of Wexford (1169) – the first...
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Ireland. In May 1169, Anglo-Norman mercenaries landed in Ireland at the request of Diarmait mac Murchada (Dermot MacMurragh), the deposed King of Leinster,...
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force 1169/05 – Siege of Wexford – Norman victory over a combined Irish-Norse force 1169/05 – Battle of Gowran – Norman defeat 1170/05 – Battle of Dundonnell...
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Maurice de Prendergast (category Norman participants of the invasion of Ireland)
in the Siege of Wexford. F.X. Martin in the "Expugnatio" states that "the first edition of the Expugnatio has no reference to the arrival of Maurice...
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Duncormick (redirect from Duncormick, County Wexford)
walls during the Siege of Wexford (1169).[citation needed] By the mid-19th century, the 1850s, the village of Duncormick had a population of about 250. The...
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Raymond FitzGerald (category Norman participants of the invasion of Ireland)
and relieved Strongbow who was under siege in Waterford. His marriage to Basilia finally took place in Wexford directly following this encounter. Reinstated...
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Robert FitzStephen (category Norman participants of the invasion of Ireland)
the town of Wexford. The cantreds were to be held jointly with Maurice FitzGerald, Lord of Lanstephan, his half-brother. The Siege of Wexford lasted only...
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County Wexford (Irish: Contae Loch Garman) is a county located in the south-east of Ireland, in the province of Leinster. It takes its name from the principal...
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Robert de Barry (category Norman participants of the invasion of Ireland)
Wales. He accompanied his half-uncle Robert to Ireland in 1169 and took part in the Siege of Wexford, where he was wounded. He is mentioned as still engaged...
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Diarmait Mac Murchada (redirect from Diarmait Mac Murchada, King of Leinster)
mercenary army of English and Welsh soldiers. Landing at Bannow Bay, they laid siege to Wexford which fell in May 1169. After a period of inactivity, they...
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Gaelic Ireland (category Medieval history of Ireland)
invasion of 1169–71, large swathes of Ireland came under the control of Norman lords, leading to centuries of conflict with the native Irish. The King of England...
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Irish round tower (redirect from List of Irish round towers)
significant stone building in Ireland before the advent of the Normans in 1169–1171 CE. UCD Professor of Archaeology Tadhg O'Keeffe has suggested that the towers...
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Murchadha and the coming of the Anglo-Normans". In Art Cosgrove (ed.). A New History of Ireland, Volume II: Medieval Ireland 1169–1534. Oxford University...
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Gaelic warfare (category Warfare of the Middle Ages)
O'Brian's Siege of Galway 1149 CE : O'Brian's second Siege of Galway 1151 CE : Battle of Móin Mhór 1164 CE : Battle of Renfrew 1169 CE : Siege of Wexford 1171...
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"Hanged I Shall Be", "The Oxford Tragedy", "The Oxford/Wexford Girl", "Ekefield/Ickfield/Wexford Town". "The Butcher Boy" and "The Prentice Boy" Reinhard...
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Lists of battles Before 301 301–1300 1301–1600 1601–1800 1801–1900 1901–2000 2001–current Naval Sieges See also This is a List of battles from 301 A.D...
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Normans in Ireland (category Irish people of Norman descent)
is ahistorical to trace a single Old English community back to 1169, for the concept of Ireland's "Old English" community only emerged in the sixteenth...
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Brian Boru (redirect from Brian Bóruma mac Cennétig, King of Munster)
Rise of Brian Boru). Annals of Tigernach Annals of Ulster History of Ireland (800–1169) History of Ireland Lists of Irish kings List of High Kings of Ireland...
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Normans (redirect from King of Normandy)
Viking leader, agreed to swear fealty to King Charles III of West Francia following the siege of Chartres in 911. The intermingling in Normandy produced...
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Ó Fearghail (category People of Conmaicne Angaile)
Cromwell, namely via siege warfare experience gained battling in the Low Countries in Spanish and French armies. 1649: In Wexford, Captain Daniel O'Farrell...
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Rhys ap Gruffydd (redirect from Rhys of Deheubarth)
and in 1169 Fitz-Stephen led the vanguard of a Norman army which landed in Wexford. The leader of the Norman forces, Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke...
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County Meath (redirect from Countess of Meath)
landed at Bannow in Wexford in 1169, after which they conquered northward throughout 1169–70, initiating the Norman Invasion of Ireland. In response...
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Easter Rising (redirect from Easter Rising of 1916)
detachment was sent to occupy the nearby village of Ferns. In Wexford, the British assembled a column of 1,000 soldiers (including the Connaught Rangers)...
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antagonistic, with English settled areas such as the Pale around Dublin, south Wexford, and other walled towns being fortified against the rural Gaelic clans...
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Oldcourt Castle, Bray. Built by the Earl of Ormond in 1433. In ruins. Ormonde Castle, Arklow. Castle ruins, built in 1169 on an old Viking site and destroyed...
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merchant ships as part of his invasion. He claims the ports of Dublin, Waterford, and Wexford, and promises the Irish chieftains protection if they will...
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Patrick (1962). Irish Songs of Resistance (1169-1923). Oak Publications. p. 97. "Jackets Green". National Library of Ireland. Retrieved 11 September 2023....
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Dublin (redirect from Capital of the Republic of Ireland)
number of attacks by the native Irish, it remained largely under Viking control until the Norman invasion of Ireland was launched from Wales in 1169. The...
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