Aoife MacMurrough[1, 2, 3]
Abt 1145 - 1188 (~ 43 years)-
Name Aoife MacMurrough 
The Marriage of Aoife and Strongbow
Daniel Maclise (1854)Nickname Aoife Ní Diarmait; Eva of Leinster Born Abt 1145 Ireland 
Gender Female Died 1188 Wales Buried Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire, Wales [4, 5] 
Aoife MacMurrough
Tintern Abbey, Tintern, Monmouthshire, Wales
Tintern Abbey
"[F]ounded...in 1131...Tintern was the first house established in Wales by the great monastic superpower of the twelfth century, the Cistercian Order. Such was the austere asceticism of these holy brethren that they were not event permitted to dye the wall of their habits, and so were known to contemporaries as the White Monks." Asbridge, The Greatest Knight (New York, HarperCollins, 2014) 217.Person ID I11105 Dickinson Last Modified 28 Oct 2017
Father Diarmait MacMurchada, King of Leinster, b. 26 Jun 1110, Ireland , d. 1 May 1171, Ferns, County Wexford, Ireland (Age 60 years) Relationship Birth Mother Mór Ní Tuathail, Queen-consort of Leinster, b. Abt 1114, Castledermot, Kildare, Ireland , d. 1191, Ferns, County Wexford, Ireland (Age ~ 77 years) Relationship Birth Married Abt 1140 Loch Garman, County Wexford, Ireland Family ID F3127 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Richard FitzGilbert de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, b. 1130, Tonbridge, Kent , d. 20 Apr 1176, Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland (Age 46 years) Married 26 Aug 1171 Reginald's Tower, Waterford [6] Children + 1. Isabel de Clare, 4th Countess of Pembroke, b. 1172, Pembrokeshire, Wales , d. 1220, Pembrokeshire, Wales (Age 48 years) [Birth]2. Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Pembroke, b. 1173, d. Abt 1185 (Age 12 years) [Birth] Last Modified 6 Jul 2014 Family ID F3126 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Event Map 
Married - 26 Aug 1171 - Reginald's Tower, Waterford 
Buried - - Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire, Wales = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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