Donal Mór Toirrdelbaig O'Brien King of Thomond

• Preferred Name: Donal Mór Toirrdelbaig O'Brien King of Thomond^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20]}
  
• Alternate Name: Donnell Mór Mactoirrdelbaig O' Brien
  
• Gender: M
  
• FSID: LZS9-B75
  
• Death: 1194 in Limerick, County Limerick, Ireland at LATI: N2.6632 LONG: E8.6249
  
• Fact: with note: Description: https://www.geni.com/people/Domnall-M%C3%B3r-%C3%93-Briain-R%C3%AD-Tuadhmhumhain-1168-1194/6000000023173413930?through=6000000014419548846
  
• Find A Grave: with note: Description: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/173326512/domnall-o_brien
  
• Affiliation: with note: Description: Knight of the Thistle
  
• Birth: 1132 in Clare, County Mayo, Ireland at LATI: N3.7238 LONG: E8.9935
  
• Burial: in Saint Mary's Cathedral, Limerick, Limerick, Ireland at LATI: N2.6632 LONG: E8.6249 with note: Find A Grave
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domnall_M%C3%B3r_Ua_Briain
  Domnall Mór Ua Briain, or Domnall Mór mac Toirrdelbaig Uí Briain, was King of Thomond in Ireland from 1168 to 1194 and a claimant to the title King of Munster. He was also styled King of Limerick, a title belonging to the O'Brien dynasty since Brian Boru's annexation of the Norse city in the 10th century.
  
  History
  Domnall Mór ("Donall the Great") was the third son of Toirdhealbhach mac Diarmada Ua Briain, King of Munster, who reigned from 1142 to 1167. He ascended to the throne in 1168 after the death of his eldest brother, Muirchertach, who had succeeded their father as king. Muirchertach was killed at the instigation of his cousin Conchobar mac Muirchertach Ua Briain. His other brother Brian of Slieve Bloom was blinded in 1169. The same year, Domnall entered into conflict with the High King of Ireland, Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair and was forced to pay him a tribute of 300 cows.
  
  In 1171, he submitted to King Henry II of England at Cashel, but he continued to fight successfully against the Norman incursion into south-west Ireland for many years. In 1175, having demolished the Cambro-Normans at the Battle of Thurles, he consolidated his power by blinding two of his cousins, Dermot mac Taig Ua Briain and Mathgamain mac Toirdhelbeach Ua Briain, in Limerick. He was, however, driven from Thomond by Ua Conchobair, the High King, the same year. In 1176, he drove the Normans from Limerick and in 1178 finally drove out the Uí Fidgenti (AI), the ancient rulers of the modern County Limerick region.
  
  In 1184, part of his lands were enfeoffed to Philip de Braose, Lord Deputy of Ireland. Supported by Robert Fitz-Stephen and Miles de Cogan, the Lord Deputy set out to take possession of Limerick, but on approaching the city, turned back in a panic. In 1185 when Prince John of England intervened in Ireland, Domnall Mór demolished the Normans again when John was plundering along the valley of the River Suir. The same year he also blinded the last Dermot brother. In 1188, he helped the men of Connacht under Conchobar Maenmaige Ua Conchobhair to overcome Jean de Courcy in the Curlew Mountains. In 1193, the Normans devastated Clare in reprisal and plundered Domnall's possessions in Ossory.
  
  He established Holy Cross Abbey in 1180 and Kilcooly Abbey in 1184, both under the Cistercian order.
  
  According to the Annals of Ulster, he was the last king of Munster, dying in 1194. It is believed that he is buried within Saint Mary's Cathedral, Limerick, a church he first organised. An ancient stone coffin lid, purportedly that of King Domnall, lies in the Chancel near the high altar.
  
  Family
  Domnall Mór married Orlacan, daughter of Diarmait Mac Murchada and Sadb Ní Faeláin.
  He left three sons and one daughter. His sons fought amongst themselves and with their cousin Muichertach, son of Brian of Slieve Bloom, for the succession in Thomond.
  1. Muirchertach Dall (King of Thomond, 1194-1198, restored 1202 or 1203-1208 or 1210, blinded 1208 or 1210, died 1239)
  2. Conchobar Ruadh (King of Thomond, 1198-1202 or 1203, killed 1202 or 1203)
  3. Donnchadh Cairbreach (King of Thomond, 1208 or 1210–1242)
  4. Mór O'Brien (Princess of Thomond, 1172-1216, who married William de Burgh)
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domnall_M%C3%B3r_Ua_Briain
  
  Domnall Mór Ua Briain, or Domnall Mór mac Toirrdelbaig Uí Briain, was King of Thomond in Ireland from 1168 to 1194; he was the third son of Toirrelbach Turlough Macdiarmata O'Brien King of Munster, succeeding following the death of his eldest brother, Muirchertach.
  
  Domnall Mór Ua Briain was also styled King of Limerick, and claimed the title King of Munster.
  
  He spent most of his adult life fighting against the incursions of Norman invaders. In 1171, he submitted to King Henry II of England at Cashel, but he continued to fight successfully against the Norman incursion into south-west Ireland for many years.
  
  In 1175, having demolished the Cambro-Normans at the Battle of Thurles, he consolidated his power by blinding two of his cousins, Dermot mac Taig Ua Briain and Mathgamain mac Toirdhelbeach Ua Briain, in Limerick.
  
  He was, driven from Thomond by Ua Conchobair, the High King, the same year.
  
  In 1176, he drove the Normans from Limerick.
  
  In 1184, some of his territory was enfeoffed to Philip Braose, Lord Deputy of Ireland in exchange for an understanding that his position as ruler of Thomond would be respected by the Normans.
  
  Supported by Robert FitzStephen and Miles de Cogan, Philip de Braose set out to take possession of Limerick, but turned back when faced with Irish resistance.
  
  In 1185 when Prince John of England intervened in Ireland, Domnall Mór demolished the Normans again when John was plundering along the valley of the River Suir.
  
  In 1188, he helped the men of Connacht under Conchobar Maenmaige Ua Conchobhair to overcome Jean de Courcy in the Curlew Mountains.
  
  In Tipperary, he established a Cistercian Monastery in Thurles, now known as Holy Cross Abbey; and the Cistercian abbey of Kilcooly.
  
  He died in 1194 [1]
  
  He is buried in the apse of St. Mary's Cathedral, Limerick; his tomb now covered with a carved sepulchre stone near the church's main altar. According to tradition Donal O'Brien, the King of Thomond, founded the Cathedral of St. Mary on the site of his palace on King's Island, Limerick, the palace itself having been built on the site of an earlier church built at the center of the old Norse settlement in Limerick [2]
  
  He married Urlachan MacMorrough, the daughter of Dermot MacMorrough, King of Leinster.
  children -
  Muirchertach Finn - King of Thomond
  Conchobar Ruadh - King of Thomond
  Domnall O'Brien (Donnchadh Cairprech) King of Thomond
  an Unknown daughter, who married William de Burgh
  Source
  ↑ Domnall Ua Briain (son of Toirrdhealbach, that is, king of Munster) died. Celt : The Annuls of Ulster U1194.1 Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition
  ↑ St Mary's Churches : St Mary's Cathedral
  The Peerage : Donnell More, King of Thomond
  Wikipedia : Domnall Mór Ua Briain
  Wikitree : Norman Invasion of Ireland
  
  === !Weis. 177B-8. Donnell O'Brien, K.T. ===
  !Weis. 177B-8. Donnell O'Brien, K.T.
  
  === Acceded: 1168
  
  Dónal Mór O'Briain (1168 ===
  Acceded: 1168
  
  Dónal Mór O'Briain (1168 - 1194)
  Dónal Mór was absolute king of Thomond when the Normans came and he was able to keep them at bay from his kingdom, which included Clare, Limerick, North Tipperary and part of Offaly, up to the time of his death in 1194. Dónal Mór had strong ties with some of the leading Norman families and he was not opposed to the English except where they threatened his kingdom. Both he and Strongbow married a daughter of Dermot McMurrough, King of Leinster; while Dónal Mór's daughter married Richard de Burgh a powerful Norman baron in Limerick and Galway. Dónal Mór even assisted Strongbow and the Normans in some of the campaigns against the Kings of Ossory, Desmond and Connaught (traditional enemies of the Uí Briain). When Henry II visited Ireland in 1171 Dónal Mór submitted to him at Cashel and paid homage, thus acknowledging Henry's lordship of Ireland. In agreeing to pay tribute to Henry II, Dónal Mór became in effect, a tenant-in-chief of the English king. Shortly after this submission Henry attempted to deprive Dónal Mór of his kingdom by granting all of Thomond to one of his knights, Philip de Braose, in 1173. When Philip and other Normans, including Strongbow, tried to enforce this claim by invading Thomond, they were repulsed by Dónal Mór's army at the battle of Thurles in 1174, in which over 700 were slain. In 1175 Raymond le Gros, another leading Norman adventurer, captured Dónal Mór's capital of Limerick by bringing a fleet up the Shannon. A year later, however, Dónal Mór re-gained the city and burnt it, rather than suffer it to be held by foreigners. From 1176 up to his death in 1194 the Normans made no further inroads into Thomond.
  
  === !GENERAL:Pedigree Resource File CD 4, Pe ===
  !GENERAL:Pedigree Resource File CD 4, Pedigree Resource File CD 4, (Salt Lake City, UT: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 1999)
  
  === Domhnall O'Brien (d 1194), king of munst ===
  Domhnall O'Brien (d 1194), king of munster, son of Turlogh O'Brien, frist appears in the chronicles in 1163, when he slew Maelruanaidh O'Cearbhaill, a chief whose territory was in the present county of Tipperary. He became king of Munster in 1168. He put out the eyes of his kinsman Brian O'Brien of Slieve Bloom in 1169, and made war of Roderic O'Connoer. In 1174 he met the Normans in battle at Thuriess, co Tipperary, and defeated them, and in 1175 strenghtened his power at home by putting out the eyes of Dermot O'Brien and of Mathghamhairn O'Brien at Caislen Ui Chonaing, now Castle Connel, co Limerick, but was nevertheless driven out of Thomond by Roderic O'Connor in the same year. In 1176 he drove the English out of Limerick, and in 1185, when John was in Ireland, again defeated them, when they made an expedition from Ardfinnan on the Suir to plunder Thomond. In 1188 he aided the Connaughtmen under Conchobhar Moenmhoighe O'Conner in the defeat of John de Courcy in the Curlew mountains. In 1193 the English invaded Clare, and he in return ravaged their possessions in Ossory. Though often fighting against the English, he submitted to Henry II at Cashel in 1171, and part of his territory was granted during his life to Philip de Braose. He died in 1194; and the chroniclers, who elsewhere only describe his wars, blindings, and plunderings, commemorate him as 'a beaming lamp in peace and war, and the brilliant star of the hospitality and valour of the Munstermen. [Dictionary of National Biography XIV:756]
  
  Acceded: 1168
  
  Dónal Mór O'Briain (1168 - 1194)
  Dónal Mór was absolute king of Thomond when the Normans came and he was able to keep them at bay from his kingdom, which included Clare, Limerick, North Tipperary and part of Offaly, up to the time of his death in 1194. Dónal Mór had strong ties with some of the leading Norman families and he was not opposed to the English except where they threatened his kingdom. Both he and Strongbow married a daughter of Dermot McMurrough, King of Leinster; while Dónal Mór's daughter married Richard de Burgh a powerful Norman baron in Limerick and Galway. Dónal Mór even assisted Strongbow and the Normans in some of the campaigns against the Kings of Ossory, Desmond and Connaught (traditional enemies of the Uí Briain). When Henry II visited Ireland in 1171 Dónal Mór submitted to him at Cashel and paid homage, thus acknowledging Henry's lordship of Ireland. In agreeing to pay tribute to Henry II, Dónal Mór became in effect, a tenant-in-chief of the English king. Shortly after this submission Henry attempted to deprive Dónal Mór of his kingdom by granting all of Thomond to one of his knights, Philip de Braose, in 1173. When Philip and other Normans, including Strongbow, tried to enforce this claim by invading Thomond, they were repulsed by Dónal Mór's army at the battle of Thurles in 1174, in which over 700 were slain. In 1175 Raymond le Gros, another leading Norman adventurer, captured Dónal Mór's capital of Limerick by bringing a fleet up the Shannon. A year later, however, Dónal Mór re-gained the city and burnt it, rather than suffer it to be held by foreigners. From 1176 up to his death in 1194 the Normans made no further inroads into Thomond.
  
  !Ancestral Roots, Line 177B-8. !K.T. (Scotland).
  
  SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO.68) P.45;
  
  *son of Turloch o"Brien & Raignait O'Fogurty [Donnell More] His ancestry is from W.H.Turton, "The Plantagenet Ancestry" (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co.), 1968, p. 92.
  
  ! Probably did not use a surname.
  
  !GENERAL:Pedigree Resource File CD 4, Pedigree Resource File CD 4, (Salt Lake City, UT: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 1999)
  
  === SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 S ===
  SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO.68) P.45;
  
  === ! Probably did not use a surname. ===
  ! Probably did not use a surname.
  
  === !Ancestral Roots, Line 177B-8. !K.T. (Sc ===
  !Ancestral Roots, Line 177B-8. !K.T. (Scotland).
  
  === *son of Turloch o"Brien & Raignait O'Fog ===
  *son of Turloch o"Brien & Raignait O'Fogurty [Donnell More] His ancestry is from W.H.Turton, "The Plantagenet Ancestry" (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co.), 1968, p. 92.
  
  === Domhnall O'Brien (d 1194), king of munst ===
  Domhnall O'Brien (d 1194), king of munster, son of Turlogh O'Brien, frist appears in the chronicles in 1163, when he slew Maelruanaidh O'Cearbhaill, a chief whose territory was in the present county of Tipperary. He became king of Munster in 1168. He put out the eyes of his kinsman Brian O'Brien of Slieve Bloom in 1169, and made war of Roderic O'Connoer. In 1174 he met the Normans in battle at Thuriess, co Tipperary, and defeated them, and in 1175 strenghtened his power at home by putting out the eyes of Dermot O'Brien and of Mathghamhairn O'Brien at Caislen Ui Chonaing, now Castle Connel, co Limerick, but was nevertheless driven out of Thomond by Roderic O'Connor in the same year. In 1176 he drove the English out of Limerick, and in 1185, when John was in Ireland, again defeated them, when they made an expedition from Ardfinnan on the Suir to plunder Thomond. In 1188 he aided the Connaughtmen under Conchobhar Moenmhoighe O'Conner in the defeat of John de Courcy in the Curlew mountains. In 1193 the English invaded Clare, and he in return ravaged their possessions in Ossory. Though often fighting against the English, he submitted to Henry II at Cashel in 1171, and part of his territory was granted during his life to Philip de Braose. He died in 1194; and the chroniclers, who elsewhere only describe his wars, blindings, and plunderings, commemorate him as 'a beaming lamp in peace and war, and the brilliant star of the hospitality and valour of the Munstermen. [Dictionary of National Biography XIV:756]
  
  === !AKA: Donnell O'Brien, Knight of the Thi ===
  !AKA: Donnell O'Brien, Knight of the Thistle (Scotland) - Doc. Line 177B-8 !CHILDREN: Of Donnell O'Brien, Knight and [ ] [ ] (daughter who married William de Burgh) - Doc. Line 177B-8
  
  === Source: Kings and Queens of Britain, cha ===
  Source: Kings and Queens of Britain, chart, No. 22. Descendants go down about 26 generations to Queen Elizabeth II.
  
  === M L Call: Chts 11360,12099 ===
  M L Call: Chts 11360,12099

1. Eilinora O’Brien Princess of Thomond Daughter of Mór Ní Briain, b. 1173 in Thomond, Connaught, Ireland     d. FEB 1218 in Galway Castle, Ulster, Connaught, Ireland

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3. Title: Donnell (Donal) Mor in the Annuals of the Kingdom of Ireland, Vol. 2, pgs. 1169-1171, 1175-1177 and Vol. 3, pgs. 15-19, 21, 66, 94 [See documents in the Memories section]
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5. Title: Wife and children of Donal Mor
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   Note: “110: Donal Mor (d: 1194): son of Turlogh; the last King of North Munster; was m. to Orlacan dau. Of Dermond na Gall MacMorough Prince of Leix; they had Mor (Mary), who married Cathal Craobh Dearg O’Connor (d: 1224); they had nine sons: 1. Donogh Cairbreach; 2. Murtogh Dall; 3. Connor Ruadh; 4. Murtogh Fionn; 5: Donal Conachtach; 6. Brian of Burran; 7. Conor; 8: Dermond Fiodhnuich; 9. Torlogh Fionn.” Source: “Irish Pedigrees or the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation” John O’Hart, 1892 Source: “Historical Memoir of the O’Briens” John Donoghue, 1860
   
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