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Mór ingen Muirchertaig Ó Tuathail
- Preferred Name: Mór ingen Muirchertaig Ó Tuathail[1] [2]
- Alternate Name: More
- Gender: F
- Birth: 1114 in Diocese of Dublin, Leinster, Ireland at LATI: N3.3333 LONG: E6.25
- Fact: with note: Description: https://www.geni.com/people/Mor-O-Toole/6000000002043192158?through=6000000002043192166
- Death: 10 MAY 1191 in Loch Garman, Leinster, Wexford, Ireland at LATI: N3.0833 LONG: E7 with note: Alt. Date: 11 May 1191
- Burial: 1191 in Tintern, Monmouthshire, Wales at LATI: N1.699 LONG: E2.6818
- Find A Grave: with note: Description: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/136402024/m_r-n_tuathail
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Queen Consort of Leinster
- Temple+Ordinances: with note: Description: Completed
- stm: with note: copied from merge
- Fact: with note: Description: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B3r_N%C3%AD_Tuathail
- FSID: 996Y-6VJ
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
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.
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.
Dermot MacMurrough, King of Leinster, husband of Mor O'Toole
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.
=== ! From Helen Wilson Mossman Dunwell's Re ===
! From Helen Wilson Mossman Dunwell's Research. Royal Ancestors of Some L.D.S. Families by Michel L. Call. 1975, p.140.
=== Alt Name: Mor Ingen Muirchertaig O'toole ===
Alt Name: Mor Ingen Muirchertaig O'toole !GENERAL:Pedigree Resource File CD 4, Pedigree Resource File CD 4, (Salt Lake City, UT: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 1999) !GENERAL:Ancestral File (TM), Ancestral File (TM), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998 Repository: Family History Library 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA !GENERAL:Ancestral File (TM), Ancestral File (TM), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998 Repository: Family History Library 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA
=== There is some disagreement to the mother ===
There is some disagreement to the mother of Mor O'Toole. Several databases list her as Inghen O'Byrne (making her a descendent of the O'Byrne or Ui Brain). The royal genealogical database at Hull University lists her mother as Cacht O'Morda citing the Ban Shenchus (The History of Women) as the source. Confusion has arrisen, no doubt, because of the biography of Mor's brother St Laurence which states that his mother was of a "kindred tribe of the Ui Brain" not that she was an Ui Brain. It is likely that an assumption was made from this statement and "Inghen (closely resembling the word 'ingen" or daughter of) O'Byrne was created. Therefore, keeping in mind the Ban Shenchus citation, Cacht O'Morda is likely the correct mother of Mor O'Toole.
=== THE PLANTAGENET ANCESTRY (GS NUMBER Q940 ===
THE PLANTAGENET ANCESTRY (GS NUMBER Q940 D2T) P.114; SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO68) P.14, 22; IRISH PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER 941.5 D2OH) VOL P.556; DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY (GS NUMBER REF920.042 D561N) VOL 35 P.233, 234, 235, 236; ROYAL ANCESTORS OF MAGNA CHARTA BARONS BY CARR P. COLLINS P.68, 144, 145; WURT'S MAGNA CHARTA (GS NUMBER 942 D22W) VOL 3 P.428; ANCESTRAL FILE, LDS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY;
=== GIVEN NAMES: Also shown as Mora ===
GIVEN NAMES: Also shown as Mora
ID: Merged with a record that used the ID LYMT-QFJ
BIRTH: Also shown as Born of, , Leinster, Ireland.
DEATH: Also shown as Died 1119
=== B-57 (175-6): She was one of several wiv ===
B-57 (175-6): She was one of several wives of Diarmait (or Dairmait). Her last name means O'Toole. B-57 (175-6): She was one of several wives of Diarmait (or Dairmait). Her last name means O'Toole.
=== Weis' "Ancestral Roots. . ." (175:6). Ke ===
Weis' "Ancestral Roots. . ." (175:6). Kelley's "The Ancestry of Eve of Leinster" (The Genealogist, 1980) III:28.
=== "Ancestral Roots..." (Balt., 1992) 175-6 ===
"Ancestral Roots..." (Balt., 1992) 175-6 identifies her as "Mor, dau. of Muirchertach Ua Tuathail (O'Toole) and sis. of St. Laurence O'Toole."
Alt Name: Mor Ingen Muirchertaig O'toole !GENERAL:Pedigree Resource File CD 4, Pedigree Resource File CD 4, (Salt Lake City, UT: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 1999) !GENERAL:Ancestral File (TM), Ancestral File (TM), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998 Repository: Family History Library 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA !GENERAL:Ancestral File (TM), Ancestral File (TM), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998 Repository: Family History Library 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA
THE PLANTAGENET ANCESTRY (GS NUMBER Q940 D2T) P.114; SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO68) P.14, 22; IRISH PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER 941.5 D2OH) VOL P.556; DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY (GS NUMBER REF920.042 D561N) VOL 35 P.233, 234, 235, 236; ROYAL ANCESTORS OF MAGNA CHARTA BARONS BY CARR P. COLLINS P.68, 144, 145; WURT'S MAGNA CHARTA (GS NUMBER 942 D22W) VOL 3 P.428; ANCESTRAL FILE, LDS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY;
his individual has the following other parents in the Ancestral File: Murcertac /O'TOOLE/ (AFN:FLHD-73) and Inghin /O'BYRNE/ (AFN:FLHD-88) Murcertac /O'TOOLE/ (AFN:GS61-0V) and Inghin /O'BYRNE/ (AFN:GS61-12)
SOURCE: LDS Ancestor file Aka: More O'Toole Birth: About 1114; ,Of,Leinster,Ireland Marriage: Dermon McMurrough (MacMurrough), King of Leinster; About 1140; Of Lough Carmen,Wesford,Leinster,Ireland Death: 1191
B-57 (175-6): She was one of several wives of Diarmait (or Dairmait). Her last name means O'Toole. B-57 (175-6): She was one of several wives of Diarmait (or Dairmait). Her last name means O'Toole.
GIVEN NAMES: Also shown as More Of Leinster
ID: Merged with a record that used the ID M38K-8XY
=== !More O'Toole's ancestry goes back to Oi ===
!More O'Toole's ancestry goes back to Oilliol, King of Leinster who died in 526 A.D..
=== == Biography == ===
== Biography ==
http://www.thepeerage.com/p41237.htm#i412368Mor O'Toole, in Irish Mor Ui Thuathail (c.1114- 1191), was a Queen-consort of Leinster as the principal first wife of King Dermot MacMurchada. Under Brehon Law, Irish kings were allowed more than one wife. King Dermot's second wife was Sadhbh Ni Fhaolain.
Mor was born in Castledermot, Kildare, Ireland in about 1114, the daughter of Muitchertach O'Toole (Ua Tuathail), King of the Ui Muirdeaigh,and Cacht Inion Loigsig O'Morda. Her paternal grandparents were GillaComgaill O'Toole and Sadb Mael Morda O'Domnail, and her maternal grandparents were Loigsig O'Morda, King of Loigsig and Gormlaith Inion Finn O'Caellaide (O'Kelly).
One of Mor's four half-brothers was St. Laurence O'Toole, Archbishop of Dublin who was canonised in 1225 by Pope Honorius III.
Sometime about 1140 in Loch Garman, County Wexford, Mor married, as his first wife, King Diarmait Mac Murchada (anglicised as Dermot MacMurrough) of Leinster, making her Queen-consort of Leinster. In 1152, he abducted Derbforgaill Ni Mhaol Seachlainn, the wife of the King of Breifne, Tiernan O'Rourke (Irish: Tighearnán Ua Ruairc).[1]
Dermot and Mor had at least three children:
: Conchobhar MacMurrough (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.: Orlachan of Leinster, married Domnall Mór Ua Briain, King of Thomond, by whom she had issue.
In 1167, Mor'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 Mor 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.
== Sources ==
*Wikipedia article on Mor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B3r_N%C3%AD_Tuathail
* Medieval Lands, Kings of Leinster, by Charles Cawley
* Dr. Ted Vandevis http://familysearch.org/
== Acknowledgements ==This page has been edited according to [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Acknowledgements Style Standards] adopted by January 2014. Descriptionsof imported gedcoms for this profile are under the Changes tab.
=== !Ancestral Roots by Weis, Seventh Editio ===
!Ancestral Roots by Weis, Seventh Edition Line 175-6 Sister of St Lawrence O'Toole
=== !#21-v10-p356; Mor said to have been eit ===
!#21-v10-p356; Mor said to have been either a da. of Murtough O'Toole Lord of Omurethy, brother of St. Laurence O'Toole, Archbishop of Dublin or their sister;
Preferred Parents:
Father: Muirchertach Ua Tuathill King of the Ui Muirdeaigh, b. ABT 1060 in Ireland
Mother: Inghin O’Byrne, b. ABT 1090 in Diocese of Dublin, Leinster, Ireland d. ABT 1149 in Kildare, County Kildare, Ireland
Family 1: Dermot MacMurrough King of Leinster, b. 11 NOV 1110 in Leinster, Wexford, Ireland d. 1 MAY 1171 in Ferns, County Wexford, Ireland
- m. 1140 in Lough Carmen, Wexford, Leinster, England
- Aoife MacMurrough of Leinster, b. 26 APR 1145 in Leinster, Ireland d. 26 AUG 1188 in Waterford, County Waterford, Ireland
- Urlachan Mac Murrough of Leinster, b. 1134 in Leinster, Ireland d. 1200 in Leinster, Ireland
Sources:
- Title: History of Mór ingen Muirchertaig Ó Tuathail 1114–1191
Author: Genealogieonline.nl
Publication: Name: https://www.genealogieonline.nl/en/stamboom-homs/I6000000002043192158.php;
Note: History
Page: Information
- Title: Mór ingen Muirchertaig Ó Tuathail 1114–1191
Author: Geni.com
Publication: Name: https://www.geni.com/people/Mor-O-Toole/6000000002043192158#/tab/overview;
Note: History
Page: Information
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