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The Battle of Knockdoe was a conflict between the Hiberno-Norman de Burghs (Burkes) and Anglo-Norman Fitzgeralds, along with their respective Irish allies. On 19 August 1504, the Parish of Lackagh (Irish ''Leacach'') was the site of what appears to have been an unusually bloody conflict, arising from a dispute between Maelsechlainn mac Tadhg Ó Cellaigh (Mod. Irish ''Maoilseachlainn mac Thaidhg Uí Cheallaigh''), King of Ui Maine – Mod. Irish ''Uí Mháine'')〔http://celt.ucc.ie/published/G105007/text001.html〕 and Ulick Fionn Burke, the Clanricarde. The major contemporary sources for this battle are the Gaelic Irish annals and a sixteenth-century manuscript written in the Pale known as "the Book of Howth".〔http://rmchapple.blogspot.ie/2014/03/knockdoe-1504-archaeological-historical.html Knockdoe (1504): the archaeological & historical significance of one of Ireland's great but forgotten battles.〕 ==Background== Ulick Finn, as Burke was called, was an aggressive local magnate. He had become The Clanrickarde in the year 1485, and sought to establish his authority over all Connacht, including County Mayo, where the other branch of the great De Burgo (Burke) family held power. He also pursued his family’s interests at the expense of the towns of Galway and Athenry, two urban centres in Connacht which, despite their remoteness from the Pale, were notable for their loyalty to Crown government in Ireland. Although both families were of Norman stock, the western de Burghs (or Burkes) were integrated into the Gaelic world, whereas the Fitzgeralds of the Pale, though Gaelicised, retained cultural, social and political links to England. The King's Deputy, Gerald, Earl of Kildare (Gearóid Mór), became concerned that Ulick Burke's attempt to gain supremacy in Connacht could simultaneously threaten the Crown's interests in that province and his claim to be the paramount magnate in Ireland. He had tried to persuade Ulick to acknowledge his authority by giving him his daughter Estacia in marriage. But Ulick Burke resisted all attempts to have his power subordinated by the Earl of Kildare, forming an alliance with O'Brien of Thomond and the magnates of Munster.〔 The Burkes of Mayo, on the other hand, joined forces with Kildare with a view to suppressing their dangerous neighbour. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Battle of Knockdoe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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