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Individual Record for: Lafracoth O'BRIEN (female)

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The O'Brien and the MacCarthy families had been warring with each oth er in southwestern Ireland for many years prior to the Norman invasi on of Ireland. Iafracoth or Lafeacott was apparently a persuasive woman. W hen her son-in-law, Maurice fitzGerald, invaded Ireland in 1171, he to ok by conquest part of the MacCarthy territory. Initially at least, Mauri ce did not seize any O'Brien territory.
Most people named O'Brien are descended from Brian mac Cenn*idigh, the Ard -Righ (High King) of Ireland usually known as Brian Bru. Since Lafeaco tt O'Brien was born only about 150 years after the army of Brian Bru defe ated the Vikings at Clontarf in A.D. 1014, she was undoubtedly aware of h er famous ancestor and careful about the spelling of her name. In later ge nerations, the families of (O) Byrne, O'Broin, and Bryan sometimes chang ed the spelling of their name to O'Brien.
Notes Source: bulkeley.txt

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