Medievalists.net » Kerry http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Tue, 08 Dec 2015 00:47:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 The Earls of Desmond in the Fourteenth Century http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/24/the-earls-of-desmond-in-the-fourteenth-century/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/24/the-earls-of-desmond-in-the-fourteenth-century/#comments Sun, 24 Nov 2013 12:57:39 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=45167 This thesis explores these ambitions and relationships. It looks at the complex, sometimes violent, relationships between the earls of Desmond and local gentry, neighbouring magnates, absentee landholders, the royal government and the English crown as well as with the Irish.

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