Gaelic and Norse Lords

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MacMahon (Mac Mathghamhna), Réamonn

MacMahon (Mac Mathghamhna), Réamonn (d. 1484), king of Oriel, was probably third son of Ruaidhrí MacMahon (d. 1446), king of Oriel; nothing is known of his mother. When his brother Eóghan fell ill and died (1467), Réamonn was chosen to succeed. He proved an aggressive and able…

MacMahon (Mac Mathghamna), Brian

MacMahon (Mac Mathghamna), Brian (d. 1311) ‘of the mass chalices’, king of Airgialla, was son of Eochaid MacMahon, king of Airgialla; nothing is known of his mother. After the death of his father (1273) at the hands of O'Hanlon (Ó hAnluain) and the O'Neills (Uí Néill), Brian…

MacMahon, Maghnus mac Eochadha

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MacMahon Mac Mathghamhna, Aodh Óg

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MacMahon, Pilib Ruadh

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MacMahon, Réamonn

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MacMahon, Seoán mac Maoilsheachlainn

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Mac Murchada, Diarmait (MacMurrough, Dermot)

Mac Murchada, Diarmait (MacMurrough, Dermot) (d. 1171), Gaelic lord, was the son of Donnchad who was himself the son of Murchad (qv) (a son of Diarmait (qv) son of…

Mac Murchada, Domnall Cáemánach

Mac Murchada, Domnall Cáemánach (d. 1175), king of the Irish of Leinster, was a member of the ruling family of Mac Murchada (MacMurrough), which belonged to the Síl Cormaic lineage of the Uí Chennselaig dynasty. Domnall himself was ancestor of the Cáemánach (Kavanagh) line, one of…

Mac Murchada (MacMurrough), Murchad

Mac Murchada (MacMurrough), Murchad (d. 1172), king of Uí Cheinnselaig, the fourth son of Donnchad Mac Murchada (d. 1115), king of Leinster, would have been very young when his father marched out of Ferns in 1115 to challenge the might of the armies of…

Mac Murchada, Muirchertach

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MacMurrough, Art Buidhe

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MacMurrough, Cathaoir (Mac na hInghine Crosda)

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MacMurrough, Crimthann

MacMurrough, Crimthann (c.1550–82), was the probable second son of Murchadh MacMurrough (qv), the MacMurrough leader and baron of Coolnaleen. The most significant event of Crimthann's early life was undoubtedly the arrest…

MacMurrough, Diarmaid Láimhdhearg

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MacMurrough, Domhnall

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MacMurrough, Donnchadh

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MacMurrough, Gearalt

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MacMurrough Kavanagh, Brian

MacMurrough Kavanagh, Brian (c.1530–1578), third son of Cathaoir MacMurrough Kavanagh (qv) (d. 1554) became after 1560 the principal leader of the Sliocht Diarmada Laimhdeirg and the most powerful of…

MacMurrough Kavanagh, Domhnall

MacMurrough Kavanagh, Domhnall (d. 1632), king of Leinster, was the elder of the two sons of Donnchadh Kavanagh, lord of the Art Boy Kavanaghs; he became the last king of Leinster. In the traditional order, among the leading MacMurrough Kavanaghs, the Art Boy Kavanaghs were…

MacMurrough Kavanagh, Domhnall

MacMurrough Kavanagh, Domhnall (c.1520–1542?), Gaelic warlord, was eldest son among five sons and a daughter of Cathaoir Kavanagh (d. 1526), leader of the MacMurrough Kavanagh branch of Sliocht Muircheartaigh Óig, based at Garryhill, Co. Carlow. His particular family had…

MacMurrough Kavanagh (Mac Murchadha Caomhánach), Art Mór

MacMurrough Kavanagh (Mac Murchadha Caomhánach), Art Mór (1357–1416/17), king of Leinster, second son of Art MacMurrough (qv), king of Leinster, and a daughter of Philip O'Byrne. Little is known of his early life. At first…

MacMurrough Kavanagh (MacMurchadha), Cathaoir

MacMurrough Kavanagh (MacMurchadha), Cathaoir (d. 1554), a son of Art MacMurrough, a principal captain of the Sliocht Diarmada Laimhdeirg, was the most politically astute Irish lord of east Leinster from the late 1530s to his death. Cathaoir first appears in the written record in…

MacMurrough (Mac Murchada), Muirchertach

MacMurrough (Mac Murchada), Muirchertach (d. 1282), king of Leinster, had for much of his career good relations with the English, but the changed political conditions of the 1270s led him to reassert his dynasty's traditional power. Due to genealogical confusion his parentage is…

MacMurrough (Mac Murchadha), Art

MacMurrough (Mac Murchadha), Art (d. 1362), king of Leinster, was eldest son of Muircheartach mac Muiris MacMurrough, king of Leinster. He may be the man captured with Henry Trahene, seneschal of Carlow, by the Butlers in 1326. Very little else is known of his early career…