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De Courcy married Affreca, daughter of the King of Man and the Isles. Soon after the accession of King John , he incurred his displeasure by speaking of him as a usurper, and Hugh de Lacy the younger was appointed Lord-Justice and sent against him, with directions to carry him prisoner to London.
During the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland in the late 12th century, one of the baronial adventurers, John de Courci, captured eastern Ulster and ruled that small kingdom until dispossessed in 1205 by King John, who created Hugh de Lacy (died 1242) earl of Ulster. From 1263 to 1333 the earldom was held by the Anglo-Norman family of de Burgh ...
11 de jun. de 2022 · Inch Abbey was established as a Cistercian house by John de Courcy and Affreca as an act of repentance for the destruction of the Abbey at Erinagh by de Courcy in 1177 Dundrum Castle He created a cell for Benedictines at St. Andrews in the Ards (Black Abbey) for the houses of Stoke Courcy in Somerset and Lonlay in France, which was near Inishargy, Kircubbin, in present-day County Down.
1 de ene. de 1970 · Affreca de Courcy or Affrica Guðrøðardóttir was a late 12th-/early 13th century noblewoman. She was the daughter of Godred Olafsson, King of the Isles, a member of the Crovan dynasty. In the late 12th century she married
3 de feb. de 2023 · In 1180 Affreca wed John de Courcy, an ambitious Anglo-Norman invader knight, who had successfully established a power-base in the north of Ireland. This marriage alliance with his wife’s Crovan dynasty would have added considerably to de Courcy’s military power and his prestige. The couple had two sons Miles and Fergus. Conflict
Along with Inch Abbey, Greyabbey is the best example of Anglo-Norman Cistercian architecture in Ulster and was the daughter house of Holm Cultram (Cumbria). It was founded in 1193 by Affreca, wife of John de Courcy, the Anglo-Norman invader of East Ulster. Poor and decayed in the late Middle Ages, the abbey was dissolved in 1541 but in the ...
Grey Abbey is a ruined Cistercian priory that is the only Abbey in Ireland founded by a woman – John de Courcy’s wife Affreca. Affreca de Courcy or Affrica Guðrøðardóttir was a late 12th-/early 13th-century noblewoman. She was the daughter of Godred Olafsson, King of the Isles, and a member of the Crovan dynasty. In the late 12th ...
