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Ragnall Mac Gilla Muire
Ragnall Mac Gilla Muire was a twelfth-century leading figure of Waterford. He was one of several men taken prisoner by the English in 1170, when Waterford was captured by Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, Richard de Clare. Ragnall is noted by a fourteenth-century legal enquiry which sought to determine whether a slain man was an Ostman—and thus entitled to English law—or an Irishman. Ragnall may the eponym of Reginald's Tower. English conquest of Waterford Waterford was captured by the English in 1170.#K1, Kostick (2013) ch. 5; #M1, Martin (2008) pp. 75–76. Probably in May of that year, an English advance party under Raymond le Gros and Hervey de Montemercy overcame the Waterfordians and their allies outside the town at Baginbun. The following August, Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, Richard de Clare arrived on the scene, linked up with the English at Baginbun, stormed Waterford, and seized it. According to the twelfth-century ''Expugnatio Hibernica'', a large ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ragnall Mac Gilla Muire (Oxford Bodleian Library Rawlinson B 488, Folio 25r)
Ragnall Mac Gilla Muire was a twelfth-century leading figure of Waterford. He was one of several men taken prisoner by the English in 1170, when Waterford was captured by Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, Richard de Clare. Ragnall is noted by a fourteenth-century legal enquiry which sought to determine whether a slain man was an Ostman—and thus entitled to English law—or an Irishman. Ragnall may the eponym of Reginald's Tower. English conquest of Waterford Waterford was captured by the English in 1170.#K1, Kostick (2013) ch. 5; #M1, Martin (2008) pp. 75–76. Probably in May of that year, an English advance party under Raymond le Gros and Hervey de Montemercy overcame the Waterfordians and their allies outside the town at Baginbun. The following August, Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, Richard de Clare arrived on the scene, linked up with the English at Baginbun, stormed Waterford, and seized it. According to the twelfth-century ''Expugnatio Hibernica'', a large ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
