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DERMOT MAC MURROUGH (d. 1171)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 74 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DERMOT MAC MURROUGH (d. 1171)  , Irish See also:

king of See also:Leinster, succeeded his See also:father in the principality of the Hui Cinsellaigh (1115) and eventually in the kingship of Leinster . The See also:early events of his See also:life are obscure; but about 1152 we find him engaged in a See also:feud with 0 Ruairc, the See also:lord of Breifne (See also:Leitrim and See also:Cavan) . Dermot abducted the wife of 0 Ruairc more with the See also:object of injuring his See also:rival than from any love of the See also:lady . The injured See also:husband called to his aid Roderic, the high king (airdrigh) of See also:Connaught; and in 1166 Dermot fled before this powerful See also:coalition to invoke the aid of See also:England . Obtaining from See also:Henry II. a See also:licence to enlist See also:allies among the Welsh marchers, Dermot secured the aid of the See also:Clares and Geraldines . To See also:Richard Strongbow, See also:earl of See also:Pembroke and See also:head of the See also:house of See also:Clare, Dermot gave his daughter Eva in See also:marriage; and on his See also:death was succeeded by the earl in Leinster . The See also:historical importance of Dermot lies in the fact that he was the means of introducing the See also:English into See also:Ireland . Through his aid the towns of See also:Water-See also:ford, See also:Wexford and See also:Dublin had already become English colonies before the arrival of Henry II. in the See also:island . See The See also:Song of Dermot and the Earl, an old See also:French Poem (by M . Regan?), ed. with trans. by G . H . Orpen, 1892; Kate Norgate, England under the Angevin See also:Kings, vol. ii .

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