Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
NameDonnchadh MACMURROUGH 70th King Of Leinster, 25G Grandfather
Web Notes notes for Donnchadh MACMURROUGH 70th King Of Leinster
From "A New History Of Ireland", vol IX, p134:
70th King from 1098-1115
From the book "The Oxford History of Ireland" edited by R. F. Foster, 1992, ISBN 0-19-285271-X, page 47:
The Dubliners themselves, who had killed Dermot's father and buried his corpse along with that of a dead dog under the floor of their assembly-hall, apparently preferred the prestige and comparative independence of association with a distant national ruler [in England] to the domination of a local tyrant [the MacMurrough kings of Leinster].
Weis' "Ancestral Roots. . ." (175:5), he was King of Dublin and was killed in battle against Domnal Ua Briann in 1115. Kelley's "The Ancestry of Eve of Leinster" (The Genealogist, 1980) I:25
70th King from 1098-1115
From the book "The Oxford History of Ireland" edited by R. F. Foster, 1992, ISBN 0-19-285271-X, page 47:
The Dubliners themselves, who had killed Dermot's father and buried his corpse along with that of a dead dog under the floor of their assembly-hall, apparently preferred the prestige and comparative independence of association with a distant national ruler [in England] to the domination of a local tyrant [the MacMurrough kings of Leinster].
Weis' "Ancestral Roots. . ." (175:5), he was King of Dublin and was killed in battle against Domnal Ua Briann in 1115. Kelley's "The Ancestry of Eve of Leinster" (The Genealogist, 1980) I:25