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Cambro-Normans (Latin: Cambria; "Wales", Welsh: Normaniaid Cymreig; Norman: Nouormands Galles) were Normans who settled in southern Wales and the Welsh Marches after the Norman invasion of Wales. Cambro-Norman knights were also the leading force in the Cambro-Norman invasion of Ireland , led by Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke in 1170.
Norman Invasion of Ireland, from An Illustrated History of Ireland (second edition, 1868) by Margaret Anne Cusack; History of England during the early and middle ages: Volume 1 by Charles Henry Pearson (1867), p. 522; The Cambro-Norman Invasion of Ireland, Ireland's History in Maps; The Anglo-French (Norman) Invasion, The Ireland Story
The de Barry family (de Barra/Barri) is a noble Cambro-Norman family whch held extensive land holdings in Wales and Ireland. The founder of the de Barry family was a Norman knight, Odo, who assisted in the Norman Conquest of England and south-east Wales during the 11th century.
The FitzGerald dynasty is a Hiberno-Norman noble and aristocratic dynasty, originally of Cambro-Norman and Anglo-Norman origin. They have been peers of Ireland since at least the 13th century, and are described in the Annals of the Four Masters as having become " more Irish than the Irish themselves " or Gaels , due to assimilation with the ...
The English name "Normans" comes from the French words Normans/Normanz, plural of Normant, [17] modern French normand, which is itself borrowed from Old Low Franconian Nortmann "Northman" [18] or directly from Old Norse Norðmaðr, Latinized variously as Nortmannus, Normannus, or Nordmannus (recorded in Medieval Latin, 9th century) to mean "Norseman, Viking".
The Normans consolidated their presence in Ireland by building hundreds of castles and towers such as this Trim Castle (1169-) is a major construction of this period. The history of Ireland from 1169–1536 covers the period from the arrival of the Cambro-Normans [1] to the reign of Henry VIII of England, who made himself King of Ireland.
Robert FitzStephen (died 1183) [1] was a Cambro-Norman soldier, one of the leaders of the Norman invasion of Ireland, for which he was granted extensive lands in Ireland.He was a son of the famous Nest, daughter of Rhys ap Tewdwr, the last king of Deheubarth (South Wales).
Sometimes called Cambro-Normans. Pages in category "Anglo-Normans in Wales" The following 80 pages are in this category, out of 80 total.