Richard de Clare¹ {M} [P60] = Aoife (Eva) Of Leinster, Countess of Ireland MacMurrough {F} [P62]

Married Thursday 26 August 1171, Waterford
Richard de Clare:

Alias Richard STRONGBOW
Born 1130
Died Tuesday 20 April 1176, Dublin, Ireland
Buried Holy Trinity, Dublin
2nd Earl of Pembroke, known as Richard Strongbow, Lord of Leinster 1171.

Richard first earned his reputation as a warrior by taking a force of warriors to Ireland, where he stormed the Norse-Irish city of Dublin; his progress in conquest was so successful that Henry I feared that Richard had grown too powerful and ordered him to return to his lands in Wales. Richard stubbornly refused and fought on. Eventually, his allies submitted to Henry's demand and Richard had to follow suit, however, reaffirming his allegiance to Henry, a large force returned to Ireland and Richard held control over the lands of Leinster.

Chronology

1148 succeeded to the estates
1153 signed the Treaty of Westminster
1167 said to have lost his estates
1167 escorted Princess Matilda to Germany
1168 induced by the dethroned Dermot to intervene in Leinster
1168 stormed Waterford
1170 married Eva, eldest daughter of Dermot, invaded Meath and wintered at Waterford, treid to soothe Henry II's jealousy by offering him his Irish conquests
1171 confronted by an Irish rising on Dermot's death
1171 defeated Roderic O'Conner at Dublin
1171 in July 1171 put to death Murrough O'Brien
1171 forced to surrender his castles and seaports to Henry II, and kept court at Kildare while King Henry marched through Ireland.
1171-72 summoned to Normandy to aid King Henry
1173 granted Wexford, Waterford and Dublin
1174 defeated in Munster
1175 held hostages of all the great Irish princes and according to legend slew his son for cowardice.


Aoife (Eva) Of Leinster, Countess of Ireland MacMurrough:

Alias de Clare

Gilbert de Strigoil, Earl of Pembroke 3 de Clare {M} [P63]

Born 1173

Isabel, Countess Strigoil de Clare {F} [P64] = William, Earl of Pembroke 4 Marshal {M} [P107] > Family [F28]

Married August 1189, London
Isabel, Countess Strigoil de Clare:

Alias Isabel, Countess Strigoil Marshal (August 1189)
Born 1174
Died 1220, Tintern Abbey
Also Known as Countess of Pembroke

Alina de Clare {F} [P65] = William FitzMaurice, Baron of Naas 1 Fitzgerald {M} [P85] > Family [F20]

1 : "The Dictionary of National Biography Volume VI"; Page 390-393; Secondary evidence
1a: "The de Clare Family"; Page 2; Questionable