Hiberno Normans

Territory of Ireland conquered by Normans in 1300

The Hiberno-Normans ( lat. Hibernia "Ireland") are those Normans who settled in Ireland after they traveled along areas of land from England and Wales in 1167 under Richard Fitz Godbert de Roche and in 1169 under Richard de Clare together with Welsh and Flemings had conquered the west and north-west coasts as well as in the center and south-east of Ireland. The Hiberno-Normans were mainly composed of Welsh Cambro-Normans and to a lesser extent Anglo-Normans from England, who immigrated from Normandy in the course of the Norman conquest of England in 1066 . From the circles of the Hiberno-Normans came those trading families that formed what Oliver Cromwell called the “ tribes of Galway ”.

See also

• Lordship of Ireland
• Pale (Ireland)
• Anglo-Norman conquest of Ireland
• History of Ireland (800–1536) , therein:
  • The arrival of the Normans (1167–1185)
  • Gaelic Resistance, Fall of the Normans (1254–1536)

Web links

• Norman invasion of Ireland (Wikipedia article on the Norman conquest of Ireland)
• History of Ireland 1169–1536 (Wikipedia article on the history of Ireland from 1169 to 1536)