Top 5 richest families in Medieval Ireland

This week am covering Ireland's top richest families in Medieval Ireland.
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  • @jardon8636
    @jardon86362 жыл бұрын

    slainte, great as always.. not the fecking unwashed ,buttlers, strutting around like : uncrowned kings of ireland*, the o briens, o neills, fitzgeralds of kildare and desmond were worthy medieval celebs...well outside of ireland... did you know : Sláine ingen Briain , the daugther of high king of ireland * BRIAN BORU* EMPEROR OF THE GAEL.. .married Sigtrygg II Silkbeard Olafsson: the norse king of dublin... their son olaf had a daughter : ragnhild.. Ragnailt ingen Amlaíb her son was: Gruffudd ap Cynan (c. 1055 -1137) KING OF GWYNEDD ) (north wales) HIGH KING OF WALES * rex brittonium** also a colosal figure in the restistance against the english and normans, Gruffudd maternal cousin was, Muircheartach Ua Briain . Murtaugh O'Brien) (c. 1050- 1119), he was recognised as king of munster in the * Brut y Tywysogion* medieval Chronicle of the Princes), also mentioned in the writings of welsh bishop of bangor as * high king of ireland.. its very strange that the annal of ireland does not mention murtaugh name, the other factor is king gruffudd as a go between his relatives: Gofraid Crobán, Gofraid Meránach: ruler of the isles.. Historia Gruffud vab Kenan reveals that, king Gruffudd born and raised in Dublin. descendant of Amlaíb Cúarán, that on several occasions Gruffudd availed himself of Norse-Gaelic military assistance , there was a remarkable increase in Norse-Gaelic predatory raids upon Wales throughout the 1070s and 1080s. big shock or suprise, not at all,.... grufudd just like murtagh o brien his maternal cousin, had many strugles to be high king, also at least 5 rival princes and other kingdoms... his alley was prince rhys ap tewdar: ancestor to the fitzgeralds of kildare, gruffudd was later captured by norman earl hugh of chester in 1081, during this period from 1071 * the norman invasion of ireland was underway... gruffudd escaped to dublin, later king magnus III barefoot was instrumental in the naval battle of anglesy to smash the norman advance futher into north wales, isle of man and grufudd returned.. it was the competion of the 8 to 10 rival kings,princes and their dynasties.. that led to norman advance into wales,,,, that by 1071 the south east of wales was 58 % controlled by the normans..., Battle of Ewloe (also known as the Battle of Coleshill.. July 1157 between a large army led by Henry II of England * also Prince of powys ( mid wales) and an army led by the Welsh prince . Owain ap Gruffudd ( 1100 - 1170) the victory of owain a descendant of brian boru, against his rivals and the king of england, owain was declared KING OF ALL OF WALES, prince of the welsh, rex brittonum... the true king of the britons... owain death led to total complete chaos in wales..., no other rex brittonum, or king of the british was ever declared.... the many princes fought each other as much as anglo-normans...

  • @IrishMedievalHistory

    @IrishMedievalHistory

    2 жыл бұрын

    Epic! Information lad. Watch my Viking age Ireland playlist and tell me what you think.

  • @DonalLeader

    @DonalLeader

    11 ай бұрын

    Great overview on a period about which we knew so little. Who even heard of the Battle of Athenry? From the Fury of the Burkes Lord deliver us? Anything to do with Enoch?

  • @seanbrowne6141

    @seanbrowne6141

    9 ай бұрын

    What about Browne ? , love your work by the way , top notch

  • @mmhthree

    @mmhthree

    9 ай бұрын

    Did Prince Rhys ap Tewdar lead to the Tudor dynasty in England? Thank you for your post!!

  • @jardon8636

    @jardon8636

    9 ай бұрын

    @@mmhthree : the chronicle of the princes or in welsh, brut tywysogion, says in the maternal line.. king rhys ap tewdar, & argwlydd or Lord rhys his grandson... during norman occupation of the marchers of wales.. lord rhys, known as prince of south wales... daughter was the ancestor of the royal tudor dynasty.. also that the high king, or chief of the gaels... brian boru...is the ancestor to king of gwynedd Cynan ap owain, owain ap gwyynedd, llewellyn the great etc... Llewellyn the great, daughter married , the ear or moremaer of mar... eventually on second marriage to bruce dynasty.... so that king edward bruce , who ruled in ireland... had a welsh grandmother... lord high steward of alba,..the ancestor of the stuart dynasty... marriage to majorie bruce, then isabella of mar... then king robert III stuart.. even more complicated is, that Prince LLewellyn the great, married many wives, just one was siwan or joan plantagenet , the natural or illegitmate daughter of king jon.. and great grandaughter of henry II .... also the marcher dynasty de clares, orginally norman, with a branch in ireland, county clare, were prominent in *marcher lordship of glamorgan*, somewhere in the ancestry , marshal etc brian boru turns up on 3 different lines..., aoife of leinster, macmorugh..., and the viking kings of dublin...

  • @swatson1190
    @swatson11908 ай бұрын

    I am related to the De Burgh and the O' Brians. Sadly, no wealth trickled down through the centuries. I live in the backwoods of Arkansas.

  • @darraghwilliamson3689

    @darraghwilliamson3689

    6 ай бұрын

    theres a well known Irish singer called Chris DeBurgh

  • @brendamyers8880

    @brendamyers8880

    5 ай бұрын

    Brian Burgh mother was a Shanahan, that is the name of my material side of the family. Don't really know if it's the same DNA though.

  • @Thomand_OBrien

    @Thomand_OBrien

    4 ай бұрын

    Yeah same for me brother

  • @dylanmcgrath2784

    @dylanmcgrath2784

    2 ай бұрын

    I’m McGrath and O’brien wonder wtf happened to the wealth hahaha

  • @ConordoDoyle

    @ConordoDoyle

    2 ай бұрын

    Burke is a very common name in ireland.no way of looking up ancestors cause the records went up in flames during the civil war

  • @mariecarton8611
    @mariecarton86118 ай бұрын

    Very welcome info on those Irish families. My grandmother was an O'Connor.

  • @joe_allen7742

    @joe_allen7742

    4 ай бұрын

    My great grandfather was an O’Connor! I have my family tree starting with him, born in 1908

  • @kathleenvance8792
    @kathleenvance87925 ай бұрын

    My grandmother was from the O’Neils. Thanks for the history!💜

  • @user-nu6gl8io8f

    @user-nu6gl8io8f

    Ай бұрын

    Collins on my Ancestry DNA

  • @user-nu6gl8io8f

    @user-nu6gl8io8f

    Ай бұрын

    Yes our O'BRIEN settlement in Louisiana New Orleans, then South Ms, served in many wars here.My grand father draked until his death

  • @1952jodianne
    @1952jodianne Жыл бұрын

    I've noticed, that much like the senior Butler & Fitzgerald lines, many of the O'Neills & O'Briens converted to the Church of Ireland, presumably to hang on to their wealth, titles, & land.

  • @Kirsten_Harwood

    @Kirsten_Harwood

    11 ай бұрын

    8:32 8:33 😅

  • @themaskedman221

    @themaskedman221

    9 ай бұрын

    A lot more families converted than that. Louis Cullen demonstrated that, once you control for conversions, "Catholic" landownership didn't decline as significantly as assumed in the post-plantation period.

  • @laoch5658

    @laoch5658

    8 ай бұрын

    o'neills are the biggest traitors to Ireland

  • @TheJpf79

    @TheJpf79

    8 ай бұрын

    FitzGerald and FitzMaurice, are descended from Maurice FitzGerald a Norman chap, companion of Strongbow, there is still a guy living today called Maurice FitzGerald thinks he is the Duke of Leinster, a place that is a republic, Butuiller the same. By Henry VIII's time everything had to be anglicised, he ran a surrender and regrant policy, the first Baron of upper Ossory, Barnaby Fitzpatrick, was born Brían Mac Giolla Phádraig that mans family goes quite far back, the second Baron of Osraige Barnaby Fitzpatrick, was taken away as a child and educated at the court of Henry VIII grew up with Edward VI. There wasn't much choice in a lot of matters.

  • @themaskedman221

    @themaskedman221

    8 ай бұрын

    @@TheJpf79 You should check out the genealogical research on Barnaby's lineage -while it was previously assumed that the family wasn't "Norman" in origin, Y-DNA analysis has disrupted this narrative -the earliest Irish ancestor for this line dates no earlier than the 13th Century and then points to an English or Frankish origin. Claims of descent from the "Mac Giolla Padraig" clan are most likely bogus.

  • @Kysushanz
    @Kysushanz8 ай бұрын

    Fascinating! I'm very interested in the O'Neill clan as my family "spoken history" has a direct relationship to the O'Neill's - in fact to Lady O'Neill after they accepted English rule. Skeletons in the closet my father called it as he related the story to me some years back. We left County Antrim in the mid 1950 for the antipodes; you can take the boy out of Ireland but Ireland remains in the Man.

  • @fangslaughter1198

    @fangslaughter1198

    6 ай бұрын

    O’Connell our name. = Son of Neill.

  • @michelles2299

    @michelles2299

    6 ай бұрын

    My nan was winifrede O'neill

  • @briankean7153

    @briankean7153

    5 ай бұрын

    We were a very powerful Sept pf the o neills the o Neil's were nothing but a bunch of greedy scum who took a pat on the head off the brits ,the o Neills turned down helping other family's septs and clans fight the brits . The o Neills cost Ireland it's sovereignty for 800 years

  • @KursRage
    @KursRage14 күн бұрын

    Thank you for the presentation! 🙏

  • @GallowglassAxe
    @GallowglassAxe2 жыл бұрын

    Great video as always.

  • @IrishMedievalHistory

    @IrishMedievalHistory

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much man. I hope your doing well.

  • @Scotia6261
    @Scotia626111 ай бұрын

    The Desmond Fitzgeralds were beaten by the Butlers of Ormonde at Affane in 1565 and by the Fitzmaurices at Lixnaw in 1568.

  • @GHOSTBUSTER10186
    @GHOSTBUSTER101869 ай бұрын

    First time viewer, very much enjoyed this production. Looking forward to more content.

  • @DonalLeader
    @DonalLeader11 ай бұрын

    I love this! Keep it up.

  • @ErinGoDeo82
    @ErinGoDeo823 ай бұрын

    Good man, Interesting stuff, keep it up 👌

  • @primalireland-histcult
    @primalireland-histcult2 жыл бұрын

    Nice work!

  • @IrishMedievalHistory

    @IrishMedievalHistory

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much man. Looking forward to your next video man.

  • @tylersims6937
    @tylersims69375 ай бұрын

    Sooooooo much in-fighting, wars, suffering, love, seething hate, beauty and heart...in such a geographically small island. I dont see how anyone can find this shit any less than mindblowing.

  • @paddyo3841
    @paddyo38418 ай бұрын

    Almost all my ancestry is from Ireland with a smidge of Scottish and English…Patrick OConnor on my dads side came from County Cavan, mother side Conroy came form Galway area, the other sir names going back to 5 generations OConnor/Conroy Calan/Malone/Hart/McClusky/Murtha/Haney/Campbell/Baker/Kane/Roberts/Marren/Feely/Milton/Gallagher/Morris/ Armstrong/Austen/ Milton

  • @josephwoulfe2233
    @josephwoulfe22336 ай бұрын

    o brian man in the video passed away this year.. INCHIQUIN Conor Myles John O'Brien (The Right Honourable The Lord Inchiquin, 18th Baron), Thomond House, Dromoland Estate, Newmarket-on-Fergus, Co. Clare, 3rd June 2023 (peacefully) at home, surrounded by his loving family. Predeceased by his father The Hon.

  • @KingEdwardtheTurbulentNeill26
    @KingEdwardtheTurbulentNeill269 ай бұрын

    The MacNeils of Barra clan committed pirate raids on Clan Burke in the late 16th century

  • @raymondfitzgerald-kuhl5976
    @raymondfitzgerald-kuhl59769 ай бұрын

    My grandmother was from Tralee co Kerry, a Fitzgerald.

  • @plats6741

    @plats6741

    8 ай бұрын

    Tralee had several castles including the Great castle ( long demolished) which was a stronghold of the Earl of Desmond

  • @robertneill5511
    @robertneill55112 сағат бұрын

    Well done, very interesting.

  • @IrishMedievalHistory

    @IrishMedievalHistory

    Сағат бұрын

    Thank you! Glad you enjoyed.

  • @charlesodonnell2993
    @charlesodonnell299310 ай бұрын

    The O'Donnell had an international presence - the Fisher Kings.

  • @lightningspirit2166
    @lightningspirit216611 ай бұрын

    Nothing ever changes,people want to always exploit and control for their own benefit!

  • @williamwallace4924

    @williamwallace4924

    7 ай бұрын

    So true.

  • @lightningspirit2166

    @lightningspirit2166

    7 ай бұрын

    @@williamwallace4924 slainte!

  • @traqueliacooper5132
    @traqueliacooper5132 Жыл бұрын

    Interesting believe it or not I was once married to an Ireland native by the name of DAVE O'CONNOR ALTHOUGH HE HAS PASSED AWAY NIW HE DIED AROUND4 YEARS AGO AT AGE 85 I SURE DO MISS HIM. HE SPIKE WITH ME ABOUT HIS FAMILY Migrating TO THE Chicago United STATES AREA BACK IN 1945 HE WAS BORN IN IRELAND IN1938. AMD NO MY HUSBANDIS NOT THE MORE POPULAR DAVE O'CONNOR SINGER FRIM IRELAND ALTHOUGH HE DID GET ACCUSTOMED TO THE AMERICAN LIFEY AND SETTLED IN TEXAS BEFORE MAKING IT TO ALABAMA WHICH IS WHERE UM FROM AND THE AREAE OF HIS DEATH AND BURIAL TENN VALLEY AREA HE SUNG COUNTRY MUSIC LICAL IN THE SHOALS AND I DID CHECK AND HE DEFINITELY HAVE A CD OR 2 ON YOU TUBE MEAN OLD FASHION BLUES. Great MUSIC . I LAYER RECENTLY JUST LEARNED OF MY URISH ANCESTRY LIKE MY GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER WAS FULL IRISH WHOM SETTLEX IN THE APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN AREA IN TUSCUMBIA CHEROKEE ARE where he meet my great great grandmother whom was a full blood Chickasaw and I've been self educating myself on my ancestry with the Moore's Chickasaw and Irish bloodlines. Thanks for taking time out of your day. P.s. all my family sur names are Irish native look at my name Cooper, my mom dad WELLS MY DAD SIDE WE HAPVE OATES MCCOLLUM, AND MY MOM SIDE AGAIN WALLACE AND COPPER ALL NAMES ARE IRISH I CHECKED. WHICH WOULD EXPLAIN MY MIM AND AUNT HAVING REALLY BRIGHT SKIN ALTHOUGH THEY CONSIDER THEMSELVES BLACK WOMEN AND BOTH HAS NATURALLY RED HAIR COLOR MY MOM EVEN HAVE FRECKLES COVERING HER ENTIRE FACE AS WELL AS HER SHOULDERS AND BACK SHE ALSO BIS EASILY BURNT MY GRANDPA HER FATHER HAS GREY EYES AND RED HAIR AND I ALWAYS KNEW HE COULDN'T HAD BEEN COMPLETELY BLACK. HE IS IN A FEW OF MY PHOTOS ON FACE BOOK AS WELL AD MY GREAT GRANDMA SHE HAVE A INDIAN APPEARANCE MORE SO THAN IRISH . WEIRD THING ABOUT IT ALL IS SHE WAS CHICKASAW INDIAN Right 1/2 BLOOD ANYWAY BUT YER MOM WAS FULL THEY LIVED AND Grew UP IN Cherokee ALABAMA LIKE 5 MINS AWAY FROM THE Natchez CHAZE Trail OF TEARS . I KEEP LEARNING MORE AND MORE AGAIN THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME FRIM YOUR DAY TO MAKE SUCH EDUCATING VIDEOS AND I WISH TOU AND YOUR A BLESSED LIFE

  • @davidpryle3935

    @davidpryle3935

    9 ай бұрын

    There might be a bit of Welsh in there too.

  • @noelfleming3567

    @noelfleming3567

    9 ай бұрын

    Hope you get loads of information 😊😊

  • @Diogeneez
    @Diogeneez9 ай бұрын

    My understanding is that McMurrough went to get Norman help after Tiernan O’Rourke attacked him to get his wife Dearbhla back…. Who had been kidnapped by McMurrough….

  • @joyb5525
    @joyb55258 ай бұрын

    How wonderful. My great grandmother Elizabeth Fitzgerald married Maurice Byrne from Wicklow. Farmers via Milltown and builders via Ranelagh. Good lineage.

  • @homerwiggins3965
    @homerwiggins39659 ай бұрын

    I just found your channel and subscribed. My 12th great grandfather was Gerald Fitzgerald ( the wizard earl). Look forward to binge watching the channel. So much interesting videos to see!

  • @paulinefarrell8652
    @paulinefarrell865215 күн бұрын

    Could you tell us about The O'Farrells of the midlands, County Longford?

  • @MrSinclairn
    @MrSinclairn Жыл бұрын

    Should have explicitly pointed out,that 'DE BURGH' eventually was anglicised down to the more common version of 'B(O)URKE' ! 👌👍 P.S. Chris de Burgh was born Christopher John Davison,he took the 'De Burgh' surname from his mother's family,as through her,he became the eventual heir of one of most senior landed branches of the family.

  • @1952jodianne

    @1952jodianne

    9 ай бұрын

    One of the English (Norman) barons at Runnymede, who pressured King John into signing the Magna Carta was named Baron de Burgh. Interestingly (to me at least), John's son, Henry III, had to later sign a revised Magna Carta that gave the nobility more rights. Other than that, about all I know about the Magna Carta is where it was signed - at the bottom. ;{D

  • @irenejohnston6802

    @irenejohnston6802

    3 ай бұрын

    Read a magazine years ago entitled "Ireland's Own" gave an estimated figure of the millions of people whose surname is Burke (Bourke etc) around the world. Burgh, a fortified place. Burgh Castle in Norfolk. Part of the same Norman family. My maiden N. is Burke. Ancestors probably tenant farmers or workers at best on the land. Just because our surname is King. Lord, Abbot or Duke means probably they worked the land of the landowner. Lord is Anglo-Saxon, a corruption of Hlafward, keeper of the loaves; ie Head of Household responsible for family and his retainers. Lady is similarly derived from Hlafgivu, giver of the loaves. Mistress of the Household.

  • @datshishtho4792
    @datshishtho47922 жыл бұрын

    I'm not even surprised to see the Fitzgeralds at the top, but I am surprised to know the O'Neill's began to spread over to own parts of Scotland, truly learn so much, great video!

  • @IrishMedievalHistory

    @IrishMedievalHistory

    2 жыл бұрын

    I'll have to cover McDonald's war.

  • @datshishtho4792

    @datshishtho4792

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@IrishMedievalHistory Please do! I look forward to what you put out next!

  • @MrSinclairn

    @MrSinclairn

    Жыл бұрын

    Probably the MacNeills of Barra and Taynish

  • @Scotia6261

    @Scotia6261

    11 ай бұрын

    @@IrishMedievalHistory Alaiistair MacColla McDonald chief of Dunnyveg is buried near Banteer ,Co.Cork having been killed in battle 1647 fighting the english.

  • @CallemJay_McNeill

    @CallemJay_McNeill

    8 ай бұрын

    ​@@MrSinclairnThat's it 😊

  • @thomaslehman6676
    @thomaslehman6676 Жыл бұрын

    I'm a descendant of the Maguires- soldiers to Brian Boru. Thanks for this!

  • @Scotia6261

    @Scotia6261

    11 ай бұрын

    Maguire was from Fermangh.

  • @ThelittledirtyMcNasty1683

    @ThelittledirtyMcNasty1683

    10 ай бұрын

    As am I a Maguire and a Nugent!

  • @patrickmacauley9195

    @patrickmacauley9195

    8 ай бұрын

    MagUidhir go brach!

  • @terrell112
    @terrell1125 ай бұрын

    When are you going to do the Cramer history from Cork?

  • @plats6741
    @plats67418 ай бұрын

    The O'Rourkes opened their doors to the O'Sullivans followings the latters brutal and deadly winter march in 1602.

  • @maureensullivan7448

    @maureensullivan7448

    8 ай бұрын

    Bless you & yours!

  • @magicalmofo
    @magicalmofo4 ай бұрын

    Could you do something on the o'finaghtys and donamon castle 💕

  • @johnlennon8653
    @johnlennon86539 ай бұрын

    Curious about the Lennon name. My research tells that many ancestors were scribes for the church, but that research was long before internet, and was hard to find.

  • @1952jodianne

    @1952jodianne

    9 ай бұрын

    Have you discovered a connection between you & John Winston (later Ono) Lennon, the Liverpudlian pop musician & songwriter of Beatles' fame?

  • @johnlennon8653

    @johnlennon8653

    9 ай бұрын

    @@1952jodianne none at all.

  • @declanmulligan8251

    @declanmulligan8251

    Ай бұрын

    Lennon was the local Chieftain in the area south of Dun Laoghaire. Killiney/ Cill Inion Lenin (The Church of the Daughters of Lennon) is 5 century AD ruined Abbey and graveyard on Marino Avenue East close to Killiney DART Station.

  • @johnlennon8653

    @johnlennon8653

    Ай бұрын

    @@declanmulligan8251 Thank you for the information.

  • @louisburke8927
    @louisburke89276 ай бұрын

    "Without further to do" - heehee

  • @ttp436
    @ttp43610 ай бұрын

    Interesting thanks

  • @TheFightingFenian
    @TheFightingFenian Жыл бұрын

    Can you talk about the Ó Fáolain family I've done a little bit of research but can't find much, I know they where Kings at some point, and then the family split into different factions.

  • @1952jodianne

    @1952jodianne

    9 ай бұрын

    Supposedly, the Whalen family from my native Mason County, KY (my high school principal was Elza Whalen Jr.) are descended from the O'Faolains.

  • @annettelee296
    @annettelee2966 ай бұрын

    My great grandmother came to England during the potato famine 1884 and they were Burkes from Dublin, would love to trace that side of my family.

  • @ScotchIrishHoundsman
    @ScotchIrishHoundsman3 ай бұрын

    I’m an O’Connell, and the story from our family is that they used to be dukes. Idk how true that is. Would be cool to hear the history, seeing as Daniel O’Connell is so highly regarded in Ireland today.

  • @Garwfechan-ry5lk
    @Garwfechan-ry5lk8 ай бұрын

    There are De Burgh's buried in Newcastle Church in Pen y bont ( Bridgend) South Wales, along with the De Breos Family, De Breos by the way is the Bruce family who were not Normans they come from the Brythonic Family Brewys and were earlier Kings of Caereddynt and Rheged before leaving their home after the Scot and Saxon Viking invasion of what is now Scotland, they arrived back in Britain from Brittany with the Normans in 1066 in Brittany their name was Breoc, it is also a fact that Robert the Bruce was of the same Family as the Tydyr ( Tudor) and the yst Arth ( Stuart) later Kings of England the Tudors and Stuarts, these were Cymric Families, who were Anglicised, Fitzgeralds by the way are Norman and the Fitz are Burgundians. Much of my Family History has been involved with Celtic History of both Ireland and Britain, my father was a big War Time friend and of Blair " Paddy "Mayne, having served with him in North Africa before being sent to the Balkans as an SOE operative till 1944, he met up again with him for a while after the War. Great man. Personally, it is difficult to work the real truth about History of Britain and Ireland, because English Norman and later Tudor History in Ireland as in Britain was written by them in their " Own Words and ways" being a fluent speaker of Cymric in modern and its ancient form, which has had no influence by other languages apart from certain Latin words after the Romans, I can say that the History of Ireland is cruel, but it was also the same in what is now Wales, we had Wars with Saxons that kept them out of the West of Britain, for Four Hundred Years , later the Normans came with Bretons, the English always say they landed at Hastings, but they also landed a Breton Army at Penfro ( Pembroke) with the De Breos, De Clare , De Bohun and other Breton Knights to build a Army of Cymric forces that they did and they came from the West to secure the lands of Mercia and Dorset . This was a false hope for the Kings of the British, they got rid of one problem and secured a much worse problem in many ways. For William the Conqueror was also of Breton heritage being a Plant a Genet ( Children of the Gent) they forgot their Celtic Heritage , with them being much more violent in their ways and suppressed all the peoples of Britain and the same they would do in Ireland with all its later Terrible consequences, the English Establishment are now in retreat in Britain, the useless Tories are hopefully going to be Decimated. I am hoping to live long enough that the Cymru like our Scottish friends will have independence again from this Establishment of Monarchy, I am no Monarchist, be rid of them, I say, also Ireland must be re united it is Ireland and you like us have a long and proud Celtic History,. It is not easy for me with an Irish wife and Children who live in the North and South to talk about this from Britain, but I for one, would love to see a re united Ireland with Peace. Diolch yn fawr i ti Prynhawn da pob hwyl !

  • @1952jodianne

    @1952jodianne

    7 ай бұрын

    William the Conqueror was not a Plantagenet. His granddaughter Mathilda's 2nd husband, Geoffrey, Count of Anjou, started the Plantagenet dynasty, followed by Geoffrey & Mathilda's son, King Henry II of England. The Plantagenet dynasty is also referred to as the Angevin dynasty (from Anjou). Richard III was the last Plantagenet to sit on the throne. King Henry VII started the Tudor dynasty, he being descended from the Lancastrian Plantagenets through a bastard line.

  • @1952jodianne

    @1952jodianne

    7 ай бұрын

    I'm descended from the Plantagenets through Henry II's son King John, grandson Henry III, & great-grandson Edmund, Earl of Lancaster & Leicester.

  • @1952jodianne

    @1952jodianne

    7 ай бұрын

    My male Irish emigrant ancestors were Peter Butler, Michael Lacey, ? Redmond, John Isaac Nicholl (Nickell), Daniel Perry, Joseph Perry, ? Charlton, ? Storey, & James McKay McKissick. So mostly Hiberno-Norman, Anglo-Irish, & Galloglass.

  • @shelleygibbons1065
    @shelleygibbons10652 ай бұрын

    I have Fitzgerald and tobins and Murphy in my tree. And trimble. All via my dad's side

  • @antoinettefitzgibbon1858
    @antoinettefitzgibbon18588 ай бұрын

    Any info about the Skellys. Sceallaigh was an old Irish name I believe?

  • @kjmav10135
    @kjmav10135Ай бұрын

    We are MacNamaras, builders of Bunratty Castle. When we visited it a few years ago, we entered the Throne Room and I had my brother take the throne-ceremonially taking it back from the O’Briens. I have photographic evidence! Ceremonial sword in the background! 😂

  • @CallemJay_McNeill
    @CallemJay_McNeill8 ай бұрын

    My grandfather was from the Scottish branch of the O'Neil's, the McNeills of Barra, Outer Hebrides.

  • @BustinRootz
    @BustinRootz9 ай бұрын

    The McCarthys weren’t one of the richest families of Irish history. Crazy since they ran most of Munster

  • @brianmccarthy5557

    @brianmccarthy5557

    7 ай бұрын

    Hush. We keep this stuff under the table. Don't involve outsiders unless necessary in family business.

  • @KirstyMcCarthy-pe2qr

    @KirstyMcCarthy-pe2qr

    7 ай бұрын

    😂

  • @gemsaint1485

    @gemsaint1485

    7 ай бұрын

    ​@@brianmccarthy5557 Did u know, about 84% of all McCarthys are related? Wanna have guilt free inc3st? Guilt free coz we'll never do a dna test to check 😂😂

  • @TruekingoftheLeinstermen

    @TruekingoftheLeinstermen

    5 ай бұрын

    ​@@gemsaint1485lord have mercy

  • @gemsaint1485

    @gemsaint1485

    5 ай бұрын

    @@TruekingoftheLeinstermen 😭 my humour is dark 😂

  • @amandadonegan2137
    @amandadonegan21378 ай бұрын

    Can you do one on all the Middlemen working for the Landlords who got into politics please..

  • @emom2
    @emom27 ай бұрын

    Robert the Bruce is my 21st great grandfather. Elizabeth de Burgh is my 21st great grandmother. My Fitzgerald line starts (when going from present back) with Katherine Fitzgerald my 14th great grandmother, married into the MacCarthy family..her grandmother was Mary de Burgh. My Irish lines always meet…including sometimes with my Scottish lines.

  • @briankean7153

    @briankean7153

    7 ай бұрын

    He's friends with Mel Gibson but I think they fell out 😂

  • @johnmcgrath6192
    @johnmcgrath61929 ай бұрын

    The war Bruce waged was against the vassels of their liege lord the King of England.

  • @Kizzmypixel2023
    @Kizzmypixel20238 ай бұрын

    enjoyable, my mckennas were part of the O'Brien clam.

  • @catherineskis
    @catherineskis10 ай бұрын

    Do you folks sell cotehardies?

  • @grettalemabouchou6779
    @grettalemabouchou67793 ай бұрын

    We are McCanns from Ulster.

  • @marieoleary8438
    @marieoleary84382 жыл бұрын

    What about the Sweeney’s and the O’Donnell’s? Any info on them?

  • @IrishMedievalHistory

    @IrishMedievalHistory

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ya, tons. I'll have to cover more videos on them boys. I have a good few videos already doing a bit on them. But will do more.

  • @joshuafrimpong244

    @joshuafrimpong244

    2 жыл бұрын

    Modern day, the O'Donnells would be the wealthiest. Their successor is a Spanish Duke and successor to that successor could either be an Austrian count or Spanish marquis, or Duke at the time of his death

  • @Scotia6261

    @Scotia6261

    11 ай бұрын

    Hugh O'Donnells mother was a McDonnell and brought a dowry of 1200 fighters with her to Donegal.

  • @placebojesus5652
    @placebojesus5652Ай бұрын

    The Moore/O’More family gets overlooked but only because of their downfall in the late 1500s/1600s at the heads of the British.

  • @gerardodwyer5908
    @gerardodwyer590811 сағат бұрын

    Fact-check. Bunratty Castle was built by the MacNamara clan, not the "MacMurroughs" which is not a Munster clan. The castle was later to come under the ownership of the O'Brien clan. Facts are important.

  • @patrickmacauley9195
    @patrickmacauley91958 ай бұрын

    How could you forget the O'Reilleys? The "Life of Reilley" is a life of extravagant wealth and comfort. (By Irish standards,) Furthermore, it is said that O'Reilley even minted his own money. (Though none of it has been found.)

  • @TadeuszCantwell
    @TadeuszCantwell2 жыл бұрын

    I presume the ranking is based on land, trade networks, castles, displays of wealth etc?

  • @IrishMedievalHistory

    @IrishMedievalHistory

    2 жыл бұрын

    and given how much time I had to make this, feeling where added in haha

  • @brianmccarthy5557

    @brianmccarthy5557

    7 ай бұрын

    In other words this is a SWAG (stupid wild ass guess) by a Leinsterman. Not the first time. Won't be the last.

  • @brianmccarthy5557

    @brianmccarthy5557

    7 ай бұрын

    In other words this is a SWAG (stupid wild ass guess) by a Leinsterman. Not the first time. Won't be the last.

  • @johnomahony5241
    @johnomahony52418 ай бұрын

    Is there aconnection between the Fitzgeralds and the Merovingians in Europe and the 13 Black Nobility families in Northern Italy? I think you might find it worth checking into this.

  • @user-se6vg7mr1z

    @user-se6vg7mr1z

    6 ай бұрын

    Yes, you hit the nail on the head, they're all "connected"

  • @mathewskelton591
    @mathewskelton5915 ай бұрын

    My gran was a Burke from Tuam apparently is was a fairly common name to the area her family where part of the ballyglunin burkes not sure is that a descendent of any of the burke ancestors or not, her mother was a Hogan that is not a common name to county Galway apparently though.

  • @KenG557
    @KenG5579 күн бұрын

    Love your accent. 😁

  • @brianhodgson9547
    @brianhodgson95479 ай бұрын

    The singer 'de Burgh' was from the same line

  • @MichaelBurkePhotography

    @MichaelBurkePhotography

    5 ай бұрын

    Incorrect. The Burke family has over 72 confirmed FTDNA BigY 700 confirmed matching DNA Kits, the singer de Burgh is not from the same family. Any male Burke of any spelling that tests can confirm their place on our ( Block Tree) DNA Family Tree and locate their branch.

  • @Bolanboogie10

    @Bolanboogie10

    Ай бұрын

    His real surname is Davison.

  • @proetcontra
    @proetcontra Жыл бұрын

    The king of England was a vassal of the de Burghs? Did I hear that rightly?

  • @mmhthree

    @mmhthree

    9 ай бұрын

    I think he misspoke

  • @jefferyhitchmough1790

    @jefferyhitchmough1790

    5 ай бұрын

    Yeah, it should be the King of England was the Liege Lord of the De Burghs.

  • @edward6438
    @edward64385 ай бұрын

    One rich family you should have included were the Butlers, Earls of Ormond.

  • @davidfitzgerald4003
    @davidfitzgerald40039 ай бұрын

    Nice.

  • @jamesoneillobrien914
    @jamesoneillobrien9148 ай бұрын

    I was disappointed by the sight of "O'Brien" in old English font, and two tone lions on the shield. Gold lions a red shield were our symbol long before Richard the Lion hearted. In 1543 Murrough O'Brien, King of Thomond submitted to Henry VIII at Greenwich and returned to Ireland as Earl of Thomond. His grant of Arms required gold and silver lions.

  • @johnvelevbrennan7918
    @johnvelevbrennan79185 ай бұрын

    Interesting that English Invasion started 1534 With conquest final complete under Cromwell 1648 . (Norman's Were mixture of Normans French and other from Belgium and other Mericanarys .

  • @originalnightshade4582
    @originalnightshade458211 ай бұрын

    What about the O'Dalaighs?

  • @johnmcgrath6192
    @johnmcgrath61929 ай бұрын

    Why not do a show on the Irish office of C-Arb? Miler Mcgrath advised QE i to make the Irish switch to the English form of prperty ownershuip. This would make his family, as might co-arb, vbecome wealthy.

  • @deniseconsultant1538
    @deniseconsultant15388 ай бұрын

    Thank You D Colleen O’Connor Irish American

  • @stuart5107
    @stuart51072 ай бұрын

    The O'Neill family has to be at number one. By far the most influential Irish family of them all. Came so close to driving the English from our lands forever in the battle of Kinsale.

  • @OssoryOverSeas
    @OssoryOverSeas2 жыл бұрын

    I think Butler should outrank Burke, all things considered.

  • @IrishMedievalHistory

    @IrishMedievalHistory

    2 жыл бұрын

    It was a very hard one and if it went outside of the medieval era, 100%. Like look at Killkenny castle. But before there fall the Burke's where doing super well going in to the 1300s. That's my view. Love hearing what others think.

  • @ruadhbutler9143

    @ruadhbutler9143

    2 жыл бұрын

    Nah. We're just servants. Sure, the likes of us wouldn't be mixing with this lot! Great list Phil!

  • @IrishMedievalHistory

    @IrishMedievalHistory

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ruadhbutler9143 Thanks man!

  • @ko0974

    @ko0974

    9 ай бұрын

    Well maybe when they were Ormonds before changed to Butler !!

  • @plats6741

    @plats6741

    8 ай бұрын

    The Butlers would be akin to the Campbell's of Argyll .....loyal to London

  • @seanoneil1716
    @seanoneil1716 Жыл бұрын

    The Red hand forever 🙏

  • @craigfitzgerald11
    @craigfitzgerald119 ай бұрын

    Crom Abu!!

  • @raffles7556
    @raffles755610 ай бұрын

    As a proud Fitzgerald I always knew this was the case. We are also the most handsome and definitely have the biggest todgers! 💪🏻

  • @ostrichman

    @ostrichman

    9 ай бұрын

    youve misheard not you have but you ARE the biggest pricks

  • @jimmcgarry3045

    @jimmcgarry3045

    9 ай бұрын

    All todger and no looks!!

  • @raffles7556

    @raffles7556

    9 ай бұрын

    @@jimmcgarry3045 …… don’t be jealous…… we are also fierce handsome bastards altogether 😉

  • @jimmcgarry8914

    @jimmcgarry8914

    9 ай бұрын

    @@raffles7556 I know!!!!!

  • @purplepanther2771

    @purplepanther2771

    5 ай бұрын

    You'll get no argument from me. My grandma was a Fitzgerald.

  • @waynemcauliffe2362
    @waynemcauliffe23622 жыл бұрын

    Well i know my lot weren`t

  • @IrishMedievalHistory

    @IrishMedievalHistory

    2 жыл бұрын

    Your to right man 😂

  • @michelledeaver7375

    @michelledeaver7375

    Жыл бұрын

    Mine either!! Peasants ROCK!!

  • @darraghwilliamson3689
    @darraghwilliamson36896 ай бұрын

    At what point did Chris deBurg start singing tunes

  • @christopherdeportal-monck-5786
    @christopherdeportal-monck-5786 Жыл бұрын

    Proud to be a de Burgh

  • @CountCristianWaters

    @CountCristianWaters

    Жыл бұрын

    I may be your relative? My YDNA line is Italian nobility, family name is Gerardi from Venice/Naples kingdoms. MytrueancestryDNA data has tons of Irish, Scottish and English nobility families I am related to paternally. My mother's Paternal line is Greek nobility. None are related to my mother's line just some European Royal families, Russian monarch, and Bonapartes.

  • @christopherdeportal-monck-5786

    @christopherdeportal-monck-5786

    Жыл бұрын

    @@CountCristianWaters Well it would be very interesting if we were, luckily I am related to practically half of the United Kingdom noble families mainly from Ireland and England as both my parents are nobles, my father is a Cubitt and my mother is a Monck and I am heir presumptive to a Viscountcy in the Peerage of Ireland. A few of the best families I am related to in the Uk are the Butlers, the Seymours, the Howards, the Cavendish-Bentincks, the Stuarts, the FitzClarences, etc, so if you are related to any of those that would be very interesting!

  • @CountCristianWaters

    @CountCristianWaters

    Жыл бұрын

    @@christopherdeportal-monck-5786 Howards and Stuarts are listed as my paternal relatives - Gerardi nobility family of the Kingdoms of Naples and Venice.

  • @jeromelacy3596
    @jeromelacy35963 ай бұрын

    What about the De Lacy clan from Ireland?

  • @waynemcauliffe2362
    @waynemcauliffe23622 жыл бұрын

    My McCarthy lot had their battles with the O`Brien`s

  • @IrishMedievalHistory

    @IrishMedievalHistory

    2 жыл бұрын

    Never ending blood feuds.

  • @waynemcauliffe2362

    @waynemcauliffe2362

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@IrishMedievalHistory The fighting Irish

  • @willylumpnj

    @willylumpnj

    10 ай бұрын

    Yes, but we McCarthys built and run, to this day, the world famous Blarney Castle, the greatest MARKETING invention ever - hundreds of thousands of folks from around the world stop by just to "kiss the stone". Get there early because there will be a long line. I speak as a former Marketing Director for leading US consumer products companies

  • @brianmccarthy5557

    @brianmccarthy5557

    7 ай бұрын

    ​@@willylumpnj Blarney Castle, a ruined minor keep, was taken long ago from us, I believe in the dark Cromwellian times. Our ambassador to Queen Elizabeth 1st's Court supposedly used to beguile her with tales of it to keep her grasping claws off our lands. I don't think it was a long term successful strategy. The last owners I know are an Anglo-Irish family. One of the prominent members was notorious for his cold blooded murder of the vegetarian political crank, Francis Sheey-Skeffington, during the 1916 Easter Rising. Clan MacCarthy certainly has no current business interest or control over it. Put it down as unfinished business that will eventually be dealt with. Like most marketing guys you should really try surgical extraction of your cranium from its current dark posterior location.

  • @brianmccarthy5557

    @brianmccarthy5557

    7 ай бұрын

    Wayne; Thanks for remembering your clan's MacCarthy relationship. Desmond was our Kingdom, not the Fitzgerald's.

  • @johndoran909
    @johndoran9092 ай бұрын

    I found my name, Doran, in Wexford as I expected. I don't know much about the family. I do know there's an area called Doransland around there.

  • @dingleberryridesagain3606
    @dingleberryridesagain36068 ай бұрын

    What about the Stickapopple clan, they were the top clan in Oireland,they settled in zWest Offaly,and even learned to speak a garbled patois called bog irish,lovely hurlers too,Dinny Stickapopple won three all Irelands,he was a son of the great Lord Sir Dickie Duckie Stickapopple Admiral of the Fleet on the Shannon

  • @gordonstewart6757
    @gordonstewart675722 күн бұрын

    What about the Gilliland's ?

  • @margaretnesbeth593
    @margaretnesbeth593Ай бұрын

    The O'Dowd were the most famous, if you look into their history.

  • @NicholleChristineEdwards
    @NicholleChristineEdwards Жыл бұрын

    And….and KZread? Americans are starving. Digest that.

  • @wmr9019
    @wmr9019Ай бұрын

    Brian Boru direct 34th GGF, Robert the Bruce 21st , GGF dermot mc murrough my 28th GGF

  • @michaelmcnamara8047
    @michaelmcnamara80477 ай бұрын

    Wasn’t Bunratty castle not built by the McNamaras ?

  • @briankean7153
    @briankean71535 ай бұрын

    Cahans were the only irish clan to fight everyone. The o neills were yellow

  • @charlessmyth
    @charlessmyth8 ай бұрын

    And for all of it, it never amounted to much at all :-)

  • @luisoneillteixeira
    @luisoneillteixeira9 ай бұрын

    I'm particularly broke 😬

  • @abdulazizclare9545
    @abdulazizclare9545Ай бұрын

    Interesting i don't see de Clare so Strong Bow was not powerful? de Clare family was in Ireland and the name Clare is linked to some of these people from Normandy.

  • @TruekingoftheLeinstermen
    @TruekingoftheLeinstermen5 ай бұрын

    I was hoping to see the o byrnes on this list but nope us byrnes havent heald any kingship since before the normans but we took part in most rebellions one day i hope to see us returned to power as lords or kings if though i doubt it will ever happen one can hope

  • @joefagan2152
    @joefagan21529 ай бұрын

    Where did the Fagan family come in

  • @brianmccarthy5557

    @brianmccarthy5557

    7 ай бұрын

    Jewish thieves from "Oliver Twist"? Just kidding.

  • @cherielanham5117
    @cherielanham51174 ай бұрын

    Paternal grandmother was an O'Brien.

  • @Bolanboogie10
    @Bolanboogie10Ай бұрын

    My dad Quinn, mum O'Neill.

  • @paulflanagan3519
    @paulflanagan35198 ай бұрын

    Man you'd need to sort that voice.

  • @tullinadaly
    @tullinadaly19 күн бұрын

    De Burgh/Burke/Bourke. O'Conor. most powerful maybe

  • @cyankirkpatrick5194
    @cyankirkpatrick51942 жыл бұрын

    As in the singer de Burgh 🤨 how about another subject cursed families of Ireland ?🤨🤨🤷🏼‍♀️🙄😁😳🥺😱

  • @samuelrock5809
    @samuelrock58098 ай бұрын

    Macconcarriagh, O'Rourke. Now we just Rock.😊

  • @gerardferry3958
    @gerardferry39589 ай бұрын

    not mine then

  • @michealferrell1677
    @michealferrell167724 күн бұрын

    What of the O’Farrell clan

  • @simonmc78
    @simonmc78 Жыл бұрын

    De Burgh - Chris De Burgh is a direct descendant. Agreed with the Fitzgeralds. Not forgetting their Maynooth stronghold was once the capital of Ireland

  • @IrishMedievalHistory

    @IrishMedievalHistory

    Жыл бұрын

    Never heard of this. Do you have a source?

  • @SeanOCuinn.

    @SeanOCuinn.

    9 ай бұрын

    The De Burgh male line died out in 1916 but the name lives on through the maternal line, Chris De Burgh was born Davidson, his mother was a De Burgh.

  • @MichaelBurkePhotography

    @MichaelBurkePhotography

    5 ай бұрын

    incorrect.

  • @gayecarroll4882
    @gayecarroll48828 ай бұрын

    I'm a decendant of the O'Neil family.