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Invaded and settled England and Wales. Diarmuid MacMurrough. Went to Henry II. Henry II Sent Normans. Richard de Clare (Strongbow) Maurice Fitz-Gerald. Robert Fitz-Stephen. Show full summary. Take a look at our interactive learning Mind Map about The Normans, or create your own Mind Map using our free cloud based Mind Map maker.
In 1164 the Anglo-Norman lord, Robert fitz Stephen, founded Strata Florida Abbey on the banks of the River Fflur, on a site known today as yr hen fynachlog, which means ‘the old monastery’. The original site was colonised by a group of monks from Whitland .
Ralph FitzStephen was born in 1174, in Cork, County Cork, Ireland as the son of Robert Fitz Stephen. He married Margaret de Cogan in 1198, in Cork, County Cork, Ireland. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter.
Described as "substantial" [1] Casualties and losses. Said to be light. 3,000 killed. Many captured and wounded. The Battle of Crug Mawr ( Welsh: Brwydr Crug Mawr ), sometimes referred to as the Battle of Cardigan, took place in September or October 1136, as part of a struggle between the Welsh and Normans for control of Ceredigion, West Wales.
The Strata Florida Abbey was founded in 1164 by the Norman knight Robert Fitz Stephen settled at the nearby Cardigan Castle. Cistercian monks were brought from Whitland Abbey and began building a monastery on the banks of the Afon Fflur River. A year later, the Normans were supplanted by the Welsh ruler of Deheubarth, Rhys ap Gruffydd, who ...
Her numerous offspring included Robert Fitz-Stephen and Henry ' filius regis ' - her child by king Henry I. The date of her death is unknown, but she lived until well after 1136. There were others of the same name less famous than the subject of this notice: Nest, daughter of Gruffudd ap Llywelyn , Nest, the wife of Bernard Newmarch, and Nest, daughter of Gruffydd ap Rhys .
The Lord Rhys, ruler of the kingdom of Deheubarth, wasn’t officially the founder of Strata Florida. That was a Norman, Robert fitz Stephen. But ‘Rhys the Great’ took it to his heart and put it on the map. He gave the monks vast tracts of lands on which to farm their sheep and cattle – and they rewarded him with loyalty.
