Aoife MacMurrough
Aoife MacMurrough Aoife Nic Murchada | |
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| Countess of Pembroke | |
Excerpt from The Marriage of Strongbow and Aoife (1854) | |
| Born | c. 1153 Presumably Leinster, Ireland |
| Died | c. 1188 (aged about 35) Monmouthshire, Wales |
| Buried | Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire, Wales |
| Noble family | Uí Chennselaig (MacMurrough-Kavanagh family) |
| Spouse | Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke |
| Issue | Isabel Gilbert |
| Father | Dermot MacMurrough |
| Mother | Mor O'Toole |
Aoife MacMurrough (Irish: Aoife Nic Murchada; c. 1153 – c. 1188), also known as Eva of Leinster or Red Eva, was an Irish noblewoman. The daughter of King of Leinster Dermot MacMurrough, her marriage to Anglo-Norman nobleman Richard "Strongbow" de Clare on 25 August 1170 is considered a pivotal moment in the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland.