Table of Contents

Part I Relations between Britain and Ireland prior to Anglo-Norman intervention in Ireland: the See of Canturbury and the Irish Church; Diarmait MacMurchada's request to Henry II for military aid. Part 2 Anglo-Norman adventures in Ireland: Diarmait MacMurchada's offer of the kingdom of Leinster to Strongbow; Strongbow's succession to the Lordship of Leinster; adventurers from South Wales in Ireland. Part 3 Angevin kingship and Ireland: Henry II's relations with the Irish kings, 1171-1172; the treaty of Windsor, 1175; the lordship of Ireland within the Angevin dominions. Appendices: charter of John, Count of Eu, in favour of Ralph Picot, dated at Winchester in the year in which a conquest of Ireland was discussed; Irish kings who submitted to Henry II, 1171-1172; text of the treaty of Windsor, 1175. Genealogical tables: succession to the kingships of Ui Chenneselaig and of Leinster; Diarmait MacMurchada's immediate family; Strongbow's family.