Aífe, daughter of Diarmait Mac Murchada

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 1189 or soon afterwards.

This date is given by the Complete Peerage (10:359).

Relationships

Father: Diarmait Mac Murchada (about 1110 - 1171), king of Leinster.

This relationship is given by Flanagan (ODNB) and by Mhaonaigh.

Mother: Mór, daughter of Muirchertach Ua Tuathail, king of Uí Muiredaig.

This relationship is given by Flanagan (ODNB) and by Mhaonaigh. The Complete Peerage (10:356) expresses skepticism about this relationship.

Spouse: Richard fitz Gilbert de Clare (about 1130 - 1176), lord of Striguil and of Leinster.

This relationship is given by Flanagan (ODNB), by Mhaonaigh, by Keats-Rohan (p. 235), and the Complete Peerage (10:356).

Children:

Gilbert (1173 - soon after 1185), earl of Pembroke.

Isabel de Clare (died 1220), countess of Pembroke, married William (I) Marshal.

References

A New History of Ireland. Moody, T.W., F.X.Martin, and F.J. Byrne (eds.). Volume 9 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984).

Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59).

Flanagan, M.T. “Clare, Isabel de, suo jure countess of Pembroke (1171x6-1220)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn. Sept. 2010).

Flanagan, M.T. “Clare, Richard fitz Gilbert de, second earl of Pembroke (c. 1130-1176)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn. Sept. 2010).

Flanagan, M.T. “Mac Murchada, Diarmait (c. 1110-1171)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).

Mhaonaigh, Máire Ni. “Mac Muchada, Diarmait” in the Dictionary of Irish Biography (Cambridge University Press, 2009).