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Birth:          ABT 1141 Ireland
Death:          1188 

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aoife_MacMurrough
Aoife MacMurrough (c. 1145 – 1188, Irish: Aoife Ní Diarmait), also known by later 
historians as Eva of Leinster, was an Irish noble, lady of Leinster and countess of 
Pembroke. She was the daughter of Dermot MacMurrough (c. 1110 – 1171) (Irish: 
Diarmait Mac Murchada), King of Leinster, and his wife Mor O'Toole (c. 1114 – 1191).
Life[edit]

On the 29 August 1170, following the Norman invasion of Ireland that her father had 
requested, she married Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, better known as 
Strongbow, the leader of the Norman invasion force, in Christchurch cathedral in 
Waterford. Her father, Dermot MacMurrough, who was seeking a military alliance with 
Strongbow in his feud with King of Breffney, Tiernan O'Ruark, had promised Aoife to 
Pembroke. However, according to Brehon law, both the man and the woman had to 
consent to the marriage, so it is fair to conclude that Aoife accepted her father's 
arrangements.[1]

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 recognised a 
transfer of "swordland" following a conquest. Aoife led troops in battle and is 
sometimes known as Red Eva (Irish: Aoife Rua).[2]

She had two sons and a daughter with her husband Richard de Clare, and via their 
daughter, Isabel de Clare, within a few generations their descendants included much 
of the nobility of Europe including all the monarchs of Scotland since Robert I (1274–
1329) and all those of England, Great Britain and the United Kingdom since Henry IV 
(1367–1413); and, apart from Anne of Cleves, all the queen consorts of Henry VIII.[3]

Issue[edit]


Name

Birth

Death

Notes

Isabel de Clare, 4th Countess of Pembroke 1172 1220 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. 
Isabel's husband, William Marshal, was given the title Earl of Pembroke in his own 
right by King John of England. Until that time, Marshal did not call himself the Earl 
until he had achieved the privilege in his own right, rather than through his marriage to 
Isabel. 

Parents
MCMURROUGH Dermot (ABT 1100 - 1 May 1171)
O'TOOLE More (ABT 1114 - 1191)

Siblings
MCMURROUGH Eva (Aoife) (ABT 1141 - 1188)

Marriage To FITZGILBERT DE CLARE Richard "Strongbow" (ABT 1125 - 20 Apr 1176)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
DE CLARE Gilbert (21 Sep 1100 - 6 Jan 1148)
DE BEAUMONT Isabel (Elizabeth) (ABT 1101 - ABT 1147)

Children by FITZGILBERT DE CLARE Richard "Strongbow" ABT 1125 - 20 Apr 1176
FITZGILBERT DE CLARE Isabel (1172 - 1220)

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