![]() ![]() An expeditionary force led by Richard De Clare (Strongbow) with a retinue of about six hundred were dispatched with the consent of Angevin King Henry II of England. ![]() ![]() The Papal Bull Laudabiliter of Adrian IV, and encouragement by his successor, Pope Alexander III urged a Norman invasion of Ireland. The 12th century saw the Cambro-Normans expand west from Pembroke in South Wales into Leinster. The place name Ballyfermot-rendered in Irish Baile Formaid and sometimes Baile Thormaid-is derived from the Middle Irish baile ("farmstead"), and the Old Norse personal name Þormundr.
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