Eva MacMurrough

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The Marriage of Aoife and Strongbow (1854) by Daniel Maclise, a romanticised depiction of the union between the Aoife and the Richard de Clare in the ruins of Waterford.

Aoife MacMurrough (b. 1145, d. 1188, Irish: Aoife Ní Diarmait), also known as Aoife of Leinster, was the daughter of Dermot MacMurrough (Irish: Diarmait MacMurchada), King of Leinster, and his wife More O'Toole. On 29 August 1170, following the Norman invasion of Ireland that her father had requested, she married Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, better known as Strongbow, the leader of the Norman invasion force, in Christchurch Cathedral, Waterford. Under Anglo-Norman law, this gave Strongbow succession rights to the Kingdom of Leinster. Under Irish Brehon law, the marriage gave him no such rights. Aoife conducted battles on behalf of her husband and is sometimes known as Red Eva (Irish: Aoife Rua).

Name	Birth	Death	Notes
Children of Aoife of Leinster (Eva MacMurrough) and Richard Strongbow
Isabel de Clare	1172	1240	m. Aug 1189, Sir William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, Lord Marshal, son of John Fitz Gilbert, Marshal (Marechal) of England, and Sibylla of Salisbury.
Gilbert de Striguil (Chepstow), 3rd Earl of Pembroke	1173	1185	Inherited title from father but died as a minor. The title then went to his sister's husband on marriage.
Joan de Clare	1175	?	m. Godfrey Gamage, son of William De Gamages and Elizabeth De Miners.

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O Croinin, Daibhi., Early Medieval Ireland 400-1200, (1995) Longman Press: London and New York, p281.
Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis, Lines: 66-26, 175-7, 261-30.