Róis Ní Chonchobair

Róis Ní Chonchobair, (also Rose O'Connor) Princess of Connacht and Ireland, Lady of Meath, fl. 1180.^[1][2]

Róis was one of some thirteen children of King of Ireland, Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair. About 1180 she married Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath (before 1179 to 1186).^[3][4] This marriage angered King Henry II of England, as it had been undertaken without his permission.^[4] Henry II may have feared that De Lacy was gaining too much power, and might, with this marriage, be planning to succeed Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair as king of Ireland.^[1] To curtail this possibility, Henry II recalled De Lacy to England, twice, in 1179 and 1181.^[2]

De Lacy had five daughters and two sons by his first wife Rose de Monmouth. Róis Ní Chonchobair was the mother of two more children, William Gorm de Lacy and Ysota de Lacy.^[3][5][6][7]

References

1. Duffy, Seán (15 January 2005). Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-94824-5.
2. Kostick, Conor (21 October 2013). Strongbow: The Norman Invasion of Ireland. The O'Brien Press. ISBN 978-1-84717-607-3.
3. Duffy, Sean (5 July 2017). Routledge Revivals: Medieval Ireland (2005): An Encyclopedia. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-66616-9.
4. Flanagan, Marie Therese (1989). Irish Society, Anglo-Norman Settlers, Angevin Kingship: Interactions in Ireland in the Late Twelfth Century. Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-822154-8.
5. O'Donovan, John (1847). The Book of Rights, Now for the First Time Edited, with Translation and Notes. (Celtice Et Anglice). Celtic Society.
6. Curtis, Edmund (7 May 2013). A History of Medieval Ireland (Routledge Revivals): From 1086 to 1513. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-29870-7.
7. Jackman, Neil (1 April 2016). Ireland's Ancient East. Gill & Macmillan Ltd. ISBN 978-1-84889-561-4.

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