Collins, David
(2018)
The origins of the lordship of Leinster and the role of William Marshal:
perceptions and reality.
PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.
Abstract
This thesis examines the transformation of the Gaelic provincial kingdom of Leinster
into an Anglo-Norman feudal lordship and explores the role William Marshal, Earl of
Pembroke played its subsequent development. There are several strands to this study. It
begins with an investigation of the way Marshal –whose role in English history was
always relatively well understood by English writers– was perceived by Irish
chroniclers and antiquarian scholars writing from the mid-thirteenth century to the
1800s. After this the thesis returns to the origins of the lordship of Leinster where it
charts the turbulent rise of the Uí Chennselaigh kings and the campaigns through which
they consolidated their hold on the provincial kingdom. While the last of the Uí
Chennselaigh kings of Leinster, Diarmaid Mac Murchada, played a well known part in
involving Anglo-Norman adventurers in Irish affairs but his motivations and aspirations
warrant re-appraisal. The foremost of these adventurers, Strongbow, was not only a
formidable military leader but he also set in motion the process of transforming Leinster
into a feudal lordship with all the administrative innovations and redistribution of land
that this implied. This process was continued by William Marshal who had acquired
Leinster by marrying Strongbow’s daughter and heir, Isabella de Clare. Marshal would
ultimately rise to the top of Angevian politics but this was only after surviving a series
of crises which would engulf the Leinster Lordship. As well as his political and military
legacy this study will also look at the physical remains of his time as lord of Leinster;
his castles and the religious houses that he founded
| Item Type: |
Thesis
(PhD)
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| Keywords: |
origins; lordship of Leinster; role; William Marshal;
perceptions; reality; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Arts & Humanities > History |
| Item ID: |
15371 |
| Depositing User: |
IR eTheses
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| Date Deposited: |
31 Jan 2022 15:59 |
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