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Roderic O’Connor
- Roderic O’Connor (died 1198, near Lough Corrib, County Galway, Ire.) was the king of Connaught and the last high king of Ireland; he failed to turn back the Anglo-Norman invasion that led to the conquest of Ireland by England.
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Apr 4, 2024 · Roderic O’Connor was the king of Connaught and the last high king of Ireland; he failed to turn back the Anglo-Norman invasion that led to the conquest of Ireland by England. Roderic succeeded his father, Turloch O’Connor, as king of Connaught in 1156. Since Turloch’s title of high king was claimed.
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The High Kingship was effectively ended in the 1170s after the Anglo-Norman invasion, its last holder being Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair . Legendary kings. Kings in the Baile Chuind.
NamePresumed IdentityNotesNot namedThe list recounts Conn's vision of the ...ArtDál CuinnMac Con moccu Lugde LoígdeDáirineCorbmacDál Cuinn- 1198 AD
- Ard-Rí na hÉireann, Rí Érenn Uile
- 1934 BC (by tradition)
The Last King of Ireland Ruaidhrí Ó Conchobhair (Rory O'Connor), who was the King of Connacht, became High King of Ireland in 1166 after the death of King Muircheartach Mac Lochlainn. Not only was Ruaidhrí inaugurated as King of Ireland in Dublin he was the first and only Gaelic King.
O'Conor, Roderic, last Monarch of Ireland, King of Connaught, was born about 1116. He succeeded to the government of Connaught on the death of his father, Turlough, in 1156, and to the nominal rule of Ireland on the death of Murtough O'Lochlainn in 1166.
Ruaidrí mac Tairrdelbach Ua Conchobair (Modern Irish: Ruairí Ó Conchúir; anglicised as Rory O'Connor) (c. 1116 – 2 December 1198) was King of Connacht from 1156 to 1186, and High King of Ireland from 1166 to 1198. He was the last High King of Ireland before the Anglo-Norman invasion.
Jun 11, 2018 · O'Connor, Rory (Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair) (d. 1198), last high king of Ireland, became king of Connacht in 1156, and high king in 1166, and is widely perceived as a weak ruler. He banished overseas the Leinster king, Dermot MacMurrough, who returned with Anglo-Norman aid in 1167.
