Norman Influence in North Wexford - Maurice de Prendergast

The talk is part of a series organised by the Wexford Normandy Cultural Association to raise awareness of 2027 European Year of the Normans.

Maurice de Prendergast and the MacMurchada campaigns 1169-1171 AD – highlights that initially the Cambro Norman involvement in Leinster was at the behest of MacMurchada, and the fractious relationship even during this period with de Prendergast leading his troops home in an almost fighting retreat before his return with Strongbow. Hispivotal land grants in the initial settlement back up the necessity that his troop contingents represented. Prendergast was a Cambro Norman of very Welsh marcher lord pedigree and his crossbow troops contained a very distinctive Flemish component – this was already a very ethnically diverse force of arms even before it joined with Mac Murchada's personal forces after Baginbun.

Speakers:

Barry Lacey is a licensed archaeologist working in the commercial sector. He has the historian in residence for Wexford county councils decade of centenaries programme from 2021-2024 and is author of the book Beneath the Ground of Kings and Saints, the history and archaeology of Ferns co. Wexford

David McIlreavy is a licence eligible archaeologist who has 20 years experience working on projects both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. He is a graduate of Queens University Belfast holding a BA in Modern History and Social Anthropology and two MA in Irish history and Irish Archaeology respectively. He has a keen interest in the early Norman expansion in Ireland and has published on Hugh de Lacys expansion of Ulster and the Knights Templar in Wicklow.

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