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Birth:          ABT 1114 Leinster, Ireland
Death:          1191 

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B3r_N%C3%AD_Tuathail
Mór Ní Thuathail (anglicised as Mor O'Toole) (c. 1114–1191) was a Queen-consort of 
Leinster as the principal first wife of King Diarmait Mac Murchada. Under Brehon Law, 
Irish men were allowed more than one wife. King Dermot's second wife was Sadhbh Ní 
Fhaolain.

Mór was the mother of Aoife of Leinster, the wife of Richard de Clare, Earl of 
Pembroke, known to history as Strongbow.
Family[edit]

Mór was born in Castledermot, Kildare, Ireland in about 1114, the daughter of 
Muirchertach Ua Tuathail, King of the Uí Muirdeaigh, and Cacht Ní Morda.

Her paternal grandparents were Gilla Comgaill Ua Toole and Sadbh Ní Domnail and 
her maternal grandparents were Loigsig Ua Morda, King of Laois and Gormlaith Ní 
Caellaide.

One of Mor's four half-brothers was St. Lorcán Ua Tuathail, Archbishop of Dublin, who 
was canonised in 1225 by Pope Honorius III.
 
Marriage and issue[edit]

Sometime about 1140 in Loch Garman, County Wexford, Mór was married to King 
Diarmait Mac Murchada of Leinster as his principal first wife, making her Queen-
consort of Leinster. His second wife was Sadhbh Ní Fhaolain. Under Brehon Law, 
Irish men were permitted more than one wife. In 1152, he abducted Derbforgaill Ní 
Mhaol Seachlainn, the wife of the King of Breifne, Tighearnán Ua Ruairc (Irish: 
Tighearnán Ua Ruairc).[1]

Together Dermot and Mór had about three children:
Conchobhar Mac Murchada (died 1167)
Aoife MacMurrough (1145–1188), married 29 August 1170, Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl 
of Pembroke, known to history as Strongbow, by whom she had two children, including 
Isabel de Clare, 4th Countess of Pembroke, who became the heiress to her father's 
titles and estates.
Órlaith of Leinster,[1] married Domnall Mór Ua Briain, King of Thomond, by whom she 
had issue.

In 1167, Mór's son Conchobhar was killed by Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair, High King of 
Ireland, after having been taken hostage while Diarmait waged war against Ruaidrí 
with the aim of overthrowing him in order to take his place as the High King.

Queen Mór died in 1191, three years after her eldest daughter, Aoife. Her husband 
predeceased her on 1 May 1171 in Ferns, shortly after the Cambro-Norman invasion of 
Ireland led by their son-in-law, Strongbow

Parents
O'TOOLE [UA TUATHAIL] Muirchertach (ABT 1089 - )
O'BYRNE Inghin (ABT 1094 - )

Siblings
O'TOOLE More (ABT 1114 - 1191)

Marriage To MCMURROUGH Dermot (ABT 1100 - 1 May 1171)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
MAC MURCHADA Donnchadh (ABT 1055 - 8 Dec 1115)
MAC BRANAIN Orlaith (1080 - )

Children by MCMURROUGH Dermot ABT 1100 - 1 May 1171
MCMURROUGH Eva (Aoife) (ABT 1141 - 1188)

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