Above : Picture Of Normans Knight It is necessary to understand who and what were those Normans to whose King the deposed Diarmuid had gone for support against his fellow-countrymen. Early in the tenth century a body of the Norsemen who were at the time devastating Ireland and other countries, had made a settlement on the banks of the River Seine. The King of Paris granted to them a large tract of country on the shores of the English Channel called Neustria—one of ... Read More

Above : Another Picture Of Diarmuid Macmurrough Upon the death of Diarmuid, Strongbow at once assumed the title of King of Leinster, and created the great officials generally appointed by a feudal King. The whole character of the invasion was now changed. Up to this, it had been the effort of an Irish provincial king to regain his throne with the help of foreign adventurers. It was a claim with which many of the Irish chiefs must have nourished a more or less ... Read More