Richard de Clare, the second Earl of Pembroke, also Lord of Leinster and Justiciar of Ireland, was an Anglo-Norman nobleman notable for his leading role in the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland. Like h
Strongbow
Detail of Strongbow from Daniel Maclise's painting below
The Marriage of Strongbow and Aoife (1854) by Daniel Maclise, a romanticised depiction of the union in the ruins of Waterford
Strongbow's tomb, Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin
Isabel de Clare, suo jure 4th Countess of Pembroke and Striguil, was an Anglo-Norman and Irish noblewoman who was the daughter of Aoife MacMurrough and Richard de Clare and one of the wealthiest heire
Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke
…nickname, Strongbow (Anglo-Norman: Arc-Fort). After his son and heir, Gilbert, died childless before 1189, the earldom passed through Richard's daughter Isabel de Clare and to her husband, William Marshal. During the Middle Ages, official documents, with few exceptions, were written in Latin; in the Domesday Exchequer…
Wooden statue of Isabel in the grounds of Tintern Abbey, County Wexford
Daniel Maclise's painting of the marriage of Isabel's parents, Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, and his wife Aoife of Leinster in August 1170, the day after the capture of Waterford.
Tintern Abbey, the burial place of Isabel de Clare