Henry II lands in Ireland
October 17, 1171
With an army and a papal bull in his baggage, Henry II brought Strongbow and the independent Gaelic kings to heel as Lord of Ireland. He gave the Normans licenses to hold the lands they had already seized and took tribute from the Irish kings. The beginning of eight centuries of English rule.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.