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Toirdhealbhach macDiarmada Ua Briain
- Preferred Name: Toirdhealbhach macDiarmada Ua Briain
- Alternate Name: Tadg Gláe macDiarmata O'Brien King of Desmond
- Gender: M
- FSID: G49D-7VL
- Death: 7 NOV 1167 in Killaloe, County Clare, Ireland at LATI: N2.8091 LONG: E8.4526
- Temple+Ordinances: with note: Description: All Completed
- Fact: with note: Description: https://www.geni.com/people/Torlough-O-Brien-King-of-Thomond/6000000003827455825?through=6000000023173413930
- Birth: 1100 in Connagh, Galway, Ireland at LATI: N2.9783 LONG: E8.3681
- Burial: in Saint Lua's Churchyard, Killaloe, Clare, Ireland at LATI: N2.8091 LONG: E8.4526 with note: GEDCOM data
- Find A Grave: with note: Description: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/173335414/turlogh-o'brien
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: King of Desmond
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: King of Munster
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toirdhealbhach_mac_Diarmada_Ua_Briain
He was the son of Diarmaid Ua Briain, King of Munster. He began his reign as King of Munster in 1142, he was deposed by his brother Tadhg in 1151 and resumed his reign after Tadhg's death in 1154. Munster was invaded by the Northern High King Muirchertach Mac Lochlainn in 1157 and Toirdhealbhach was banished, with Munster being divided between his cousin Conchobhar Mac Domhnaill Ó Briain and Cormac Mac Carthaigh by Muircheartach. He was restored to power in North Munster later in 1157 by the King of Connacht, Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair who invaded Munster and overturned Muircheartach's arrangement. He was deposed by his son Muircheartach in 1165 and died in 1167, being interred at Killaloe.
He married firstly a daughter of the Mac Carthaigh Mór who died without issue. He married secondly Sadb MacGillapatrick, daughter of Donnchad mac Gilla Pátraic, King of Ossory (died 1039) and had six sons:
Domhnaill Mór
Muircheartach (succeeded his father)
Brian
Diarmaid
Consaidin, Bishop of Killaloe (died 1194) (ancestor of the MacConsaidín family)
===
Acceded: 1142
Died: 1167
Notes:
depose ===
Acceded: 1142
Died: 1167
Notes:
deposed 1152-1153.
=== He acceded as King of Thomond in 1142 an ===
He acceded as King of Thomond in 1142 and was deposed in 1152-1153.
=== Correction to wives & children of Turlogh/Tordelbach ===
The text of the wikipedia entry, which has been sourced,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toirdhealbhach_mac_Diarmada_Ua_Briain
has been transcribed incorrectly from their reference:
It should read:
"109: Turlogh: son of Dermod; became King of North Munster in 1142; he m. twice -
first, to a dau of MacCarthy Mor, they did not have any issue; and,
secondly, to Narait or Ragnait, the dau of O'Fogarty, lord of Ely-Deisceart (or Eliogarty) in Tipperary, by whom he had five sons:
1: Donal Mor; 2: Murtogh, who did not have any issue; 3: Brian of the Mountain, lord of Ormond; 4: Dermod; 5: Consaidin or Constantine, Bishop of Killaloe (d: 1194), ancestor of the MacConsidine of the co. Clare."
SOURCE: "Irish Pedigrees or the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation" John O'Hart, 1892, page 158
I have amended the profile as above, 31 May 2021
=== Acceded: 1122
Died: 1154
Notes:
deposed ===
Acceded: 1122
Died: 1154
Notes:
deposed 1123-1152,1152-1153. Some sources show him going to the Aran Islands
and ruling from 1170.
=== *son of Dermot O'Brien & Sabh McCarthy [ ===
*son of Dermot O'Brien & Sabh McCarthy [Turlough]
=== Acceded: 1118
Died: 1142 ===
Acceded: 1118
Died: 1142
=== W H Turton: The Plantagenet Ancestry P 9 ===
W H Turton: The Plantagenet Ancestry P 92
Preferred Parents:
Father: Diarmait mac Toirdelbach Ua Briain King of Munster, b. ABT 1059 in Clare, Munster, Ireland d. 1120 in Cork, Cork, Ireland
Mother: Mór Ua Conchobair, b. 1070 in Galway Castle, Connaught, Ireland d. in Munster, Clare, Ireland
Family 1: Sadb MacGillapatrick, b. 1127 in Leopardstown, County Dublin, Ireland d. 1162 in Galway Castle, Connaught, Ireland
- Donal Mór Toirrdelbaig O'Brien King of Thomond, b. 1132 in Clare, County Mayo, Ireland d. 1194 in Limerick, County Limerick, Ireland
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