1st Earl of Pembroke
The Marriage of Princess Aoife of Leinster with the Norman Richard de Clare (Strongbow)
by Daniel Maclise (1854).
From Wikipedia.
Also here.
Gilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Pembroke
(see here
and here),
born c.1100,
mar Isabel de Beaumont
[lover of Henry I,
descendant of Charlemagne
and of
Edward the Elder],
had issue:
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Richard de Clare, "Strongbow", 2nd Earl of Pembroke
(see here),
born 1130,
led Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland 1169,
in reign of Henry II,
mar 1171 to Aoife Mac Murrough, Princess of Leinster
[descendant of Brian Boru],
in 1172 he and his wife's uncle Archbishop Laurence O'Toole
started the re-building in stone of
Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin
(originally founded by
Sitric, Viking King of Dublin 1038),
the crypt of Christ Church counts as Dublin's oldest surviving building,
built the first
Kilkenny Castle
1172,
through his wife inherited Dunamase, Co.Laois,
Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland 1173-6,
died 1176, age 46 yrs,
bur Christ Church,
having had issue:
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Gilbert de Clare, 3rd Earl of Pembroke,
born 1173,
succ 1176,
died c.1185, age c.12 yrs.
- Isabel de Clare, Countess Strigoil,
born c.1174,
mar 1189 [her age c.15, him age 43]
to William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke
and had issue. 
Christ Church traffic camera.
From Dublin City Council.
Strongbow's tomb, Christ Church, Dublin
Strongbow's tomb in Christ Church, Dublin, was wrecked when the S wall and roof collapsed
in 1562.
A monument to Strongbow was restored in the same place
by the Lord Deputy of Ireland
Sir Henry Sidney
in 1570,
but it is believed that he installed
the effigy of a different Norman knight.
The half-size effigy may represent Strongbow's son the 3rd Earl,
who died as a child.
The legend that Strongbow "cut him in half"
after cowardice in battle
is nonsense.
Strongbow died when he was an infant.
The monument known as "Strongbow's tomb"
has the inscription:
"This: ayncyent: monument: of:
Rychard: Strangbowe:
called: comes: Strangvlensis: Lord: of: Chepsto: and: Ogny:
the: fyrst: and: pryncypall: invader: of: Irland: 1169: Qui: Obiit: 1177.:
The: monument: was: brocken: by: the: fall: of: the: roff: and: bodye: of: Christeschurch:
in: Anna: 1562:
and: set: up: agayne: at: the: chargys: of:
the: Right: Honorable:
Sr: Henry: Sydney:
Knyght: of: the: noble: order: L: President: of: Wailes:
L: Deputy: of: Irland: 1570."
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"Strongbow's tomb", Christ Church, Dublin.
From [Ireland in Pictures, The Hon. John F. Finerty, Chicago, 1898].
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"Strongbow's tomb", Christ Church, Dublin.
Photo 2003.
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"Strongbow's tomb", Christ Church, Dublin.
Photo 2005.
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"Strongbow's tomb", Christ Church, Dublin.
Photo 2007. From here.
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