Waterford: patronage and position

John Bradley charts Waterford city’s development into one of the most prosperous towns of medieval Ireland.


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Diarmait Mac Murchada, King of Leinster, captured Waterford in 1170. He was assisted by an Anglo-Norman force under Richard fitz Gilbert de Clare, better known to us as Strongbow. Shortly afterwards, Richard married Mac Murchada’s daughter, Aoife, thereby becoming a member of the royal family of Leinster, with the likelihood that he would succeed as king because Diarmait had no direct male heirs.

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