The English Isles

De Courcy

Anglo-Normans in Ireland, England and France in the eleventh and twelfth centuries

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John de Courcy, the first Anglo-Norman conqueror of Ulster, is perhaps the most famous member of a family which originated in western Normandy at the end of...
Author/Editor: Steve Flanders

Native lordship in medieval Scotland

The earldoms of Strathearn and Lennox, c.1140–1365

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In the century or so after 1125 significant numbers of Anglo-Norman and European noblemen settled in Scotland at the invitation of the crown, chiefly in the lowlands....
Author/Editor: Cynthia J. Neville

The Earldom of Desmond, 1463–1583

The decline and crisis of a feudal lordship

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Descended from one of the first Anglo-Norman invaders in the late 1160s, the Fitzgerald earls of Desmond came to dominate the political, economic and social life of...
Author/Editor: Anthony M. McCormack

Colonial Ireland, 1169–1369

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Between 1169 and around 1240, large parts of Ireland were occupied by members of an Anglo-Norman upper class, which had already advanced into Wales and which was...
Author/Editor: Robin Frame

The Geraldines and medieval Ireland

The making of a myth

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Geraldines (or FitzGeralds) are the most celebrated of the dynasties established in Ireland at the time of the Anglo-Norman invasion; and the dynasty’s most celebrated member during the...
Author/Editor: Peter Crooks & Seán Duffy, editors