Eva (Aoife) Of Leinster MCMURROUGH

1145 - 1188  (43 years)

• Name	Eva (Aoife) Of Leinster MCMURROUGH
  Birth	26 Apr 1145	, Leinster, Ireland   [1]
  Gender	Female
  FamilySearch ID	9H6D-FWP
  Title	[1]
  	Princess of Leinster
  TitleOfNobility	[1]
  	Countess of Ireland
  Name	Aoife MacDiarmait  [1]
  Name	Aoife MacMurrough  [1]
  _UID	36B3E87BE997461C829E53D8F2B81CADEC4E
  Death	26 Aug 1188	Waterford, County Waterford, Ireland   [1]
  Burial	Aft 26 Aug 1188	Tintern, Monmouthshire, Wales   [1]
  Person ID	I25660	Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
  Last Modified	22 Dec 2024

  
  

  Father	Dermait MACMURCHADA, King Of Leinster,   b. 1110, Leinster, Wesford, Ireland d. 8 May 1171, Wexford, Ireland (Age 61 years)
  Mother	Mor' Muirchertaing O'TOOLE,   b. Abt 1114, Leinster, Eireann (Ireland) d. 1191, Loch Garman, Leinster, Wexford, Ireland (Age ~ 77 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1140	Of Lough Carmen, Wexford, Leinster, Ireland
  	NOTE MARRIED
  Family ID	F11611	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Earl Richard Fitzgilbert "Strongbow" DE CLARE,   b. Abt 1125, Of Tunbridge, Kent, England d. 20 Apr 1176, Dublin, Leinster Prov., Ireland (Age ~ 51 years)
  Marriage	26 Aug 1171	Waterford, Waterford, Munster, Ireland
  	NOTE MARRIED
  Children	1. Isobel Fitzgilbert CLARE,   b. Feb 1172, Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d. 7 Mar 1220, Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales (Age ~ 48 years)   2. Gilbert DE CLARE,   b. Abt 1173, Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales d. 1185, Pembroke Castle, Pembrokeshire, Wales (Age ~ 12 years)
  Family ID	F11610	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Dec 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Biography Aoife MacMurrough (1145-1188, Irish: Aoife Ní Diarmait), also known by later historians as Eva of Leinster, was the daughter of Dermot MacMurrough (Irish: Diarmait MacMurchada), King of Leinster, and his wife Mor O'Toole (c.1114-1191). Marriage m. Richard "Strongbow" de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke 29 Aug 1170 Christchurch Cathedral, Waterford. She had been promised to Strongbow by her father who had visited England to ask for an invasion army. He was not allowed to give his daughter away, as under Early Irish Law Aoife had the choice of whom she married, but she had to agree to an arranged marriage. Under Anglo-Norman law, this gave Strongbow succession rights to the Kingdom of Leinster. Under Irish Brehon law, the marriage gave her a life interest only, after which any land would normally revert to male cousins; but Brehon law also recognized a transfer of "swordland" following a conquest. Aoife conducted battles on behalf of her husband and is sometimes known as Red Eva (Irish: Aoife Rua). She had two sons with her husband Richard de Clare, and within several generations her descendants included much of the nobility of northwestern Europe, including Robert the Bruce. Extract from Heart of Exile - The marriage of Strongbow (Richard de Clare) and Eva lived for centuries after in the Irish mind as a horrible alliance. Name Birth Death Notes Isabel de Clare, 4th Countess of Pembroke 1172 1240 m. Aug 1189, Sir William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, Lord Marshal, son of John Fitz Gilbert, Marshal (Marechal) of England, and Sibylla of Salisbury. Gilbert de Striguil (Chepstow), 3rd Earl of Pembroke 1173 1185 Inherited title from father but died as a minor. The title then went to his sister's husband on marriage. Joan de Clare 1175 ? m. Godfrey Gamage, son of William De Gamages and Elizabeth De Miners. Children of Aoife MacMurrough and Richard de Clare (Strongbow) Alias Eva MacMurrough Eva (Aoife) MCMURROUGH Eva (Aoife) de CLARE Aoife "Red Eva" ni Diarmait Eva MacMURROUGH

  
  

• Sources

  [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 22 Dec 2024), entry for Eva (Aoife) Of Leinster McMURROUGH, person ID 9H6D-FWP. (Reliability: 3).