The Crusades and Ireland
Gone Medieval
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Henry II's Political Context
The Abbey of St. Thomas de Martre in Dublin, which gives its name to a very important thoroughfare in Dublin,. And it was founded in 1177 on the instruction of Henry II during that period. We're seeing as part of these reparations within the excavations we found part of the precinct when we found a part of the cemetery. 120 odd burials were actually straddling that period of invasion, a period of Korean post, the advent of Henry II. It's certainly one of the longest periods that the English monarch had spent in Ireland. He's very much putting himself far from the reaches of Rome whilst he kind of deliberates and figures out what to do.
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