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1199 in Ireland

list of events in the year 1199

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ4547698 ↗
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Events during the year 1199 in Ireland.

Incumbent

Lord: John

Events

6 April – on the death of his brother, Richard I of England, Prince John, Lord of Ireland, becomes King of England, thus bringing Ireland under the direct rule of the English Crown.

6 July – Archbishop Malachy (died 1148) is canonized by Pope Clement III.

Limerick is granted a charter as a city.

Risteárd de Tiúit occupies the motte-and-bailey castle in Granard (Granard Motte) as part of an initiative to extend Hiberno-Norman control over the country.

Milo le Bret, having been granted lands in Rathfarnham, adapted an existing ridge to build a motte and bailey

Deaths

Cathalan Ua Maelfhabaill, King of Carraic-Brachaidhe.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1199 in Ireland” as list of events in the year 1199. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1199, 1148—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Ireland, list and events can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as list of events in the year 1199. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 3, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4547698. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1199 and 1148.

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This entry incorporates text from “1199 in Ireland” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.