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The term Hiberno-Norman is used of those Norman
Normans

The Normans were the people who gave their names to Normandy, a region in northern France. They descended from Viking conquerors of the territory and the native population of mostly Frankish and Gallo-Roman stock....
 lords who settled in Ireland
Ireland

Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
, admitting little if any real fealty
Fealty

An oath of fealty, from the Latin fidelitas , is a pledge of allegiance of one person to another. Typically the oath is made upon a religious object such as a Bible or saint relic, thus binding the oath-taker before God.thus had to swear the oath....
 to the Anglo-Norman
Anglo-Norman

The Anglo-Normans were mainly the descendants of the Normans who ruled England following the conquest by William I of England in 1066, although a few Normans were already in England before the conquest....
 settlers in England
England

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. It refers to both the origins of the community and the dialect of Norman-French used by them as they developed in Ireland from 1169 until the eclipse of the Hiberno-Norman community in the early seventeenth century. In the process they became Hiberniores Ipsis Hibernis
More Irish than the Irish themselves

"More Irish than the Irish themselves" was a phrase used in the Middle Ages to describe the phenomenon whereby foreigners who came to Ireland attached to invasion forces tended to be subsumed into Irish social and cultural society, adopted the Irish language, Irish culture, style of dress and a wholesale identification with all things Irish....
. The prefix "Hiberno" means "relating to Ireland or the Irish", from Hibernia
Hibernia

Hibernia is the Classical Latin name for the island of Ireland....
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The term Hiberno-Norman is used of those Norman
Normans

The Normans were the people who gave their names to Normandy, a region in northern France. They descended from Viking conquerors of the territory and the native population of mostly Frankish and Gallo-Roman stock....
 lords who settled in Ireland
Ireland

Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
, admitting little if any real fealty
Fealty

An oath of fealty, from the Latin fidelitas , is a pledge of allegiance of one person to another. Typically the oath is made upon a religious object such as a Bible or saint relic, thus binding the oath-taker before God.thus had to swear the oath....
 to the Anglo-Norman
Anglo-Norman

The Anglo-Normans were mainly the descendants of the Normans who ruled England following the conquest by William I of England in 1066, although a few Normans were already in England before the conquest....
 settlers in England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
. It refers to both the origins of the community and the dialect of Norman-French used by them as they developed in Ireland from 1169 until the eclipse of the Hiberno-Norman community in the early seventeenth century. In the process they became Hiberniores Ipsis Hibernis
More Irish than the Irish themselves

"More Irish than the Irish themselves" was a phrase used in the Middle Ages to describe the phenomenon whereby foreigners who came to Ireland attached to invasion forces tended to be subsumed into Irish social and cultural society, adopted the Irish language, Irish culture, style of dress and a wholesale identification with all things Irish....
. The prefix "Hiberno" means "relating to Ireland or the Irish", from Hibernia
Hibernia

Hibernia is the Classical Latin name for the island of Ireland....
. The Clan Burke
Clan Burke

The Clan Burke, also known as the de Burgh, Bourke or Burke family, are descendants of William de Burgh , a Normans adventurer and knight who settled in Ireland....
, FitzGerald
FitzGerald

The surname FitzGerald is a translation of the Norman language fils de G?rald, or son of Gerald . Variant spellings include Fitz-Gerald and the modern Fitzgerald....
s, Butlers, and de Berminghams
Baron Athenry

The title of Baron Athenry is one of the oldest titles in the Peerage of Ireland, but the date of its creation is thoroughly uncertain; each of the first four Berminghams listed below is claimed by some writers to be Lord Athenry, but the evidence is disputed....
 are the more noted among them. ("Fitz
Fitz

Fitz forms a prefix to patronymic surnames of Anglo-Norman origin. This usage derives from the Norman language fiz / filz , prononciation: /fits/ , meaning "son of", which was coupled with the name of the father , although there are exceptions in which the name of a more noteworthy mother , or parent's title was instead used....
" is a particularly Hiberno-Norman prefix, meaning 'son', cf. modern French "fils" with the same meaning).

By the late 16th century, the Hiberno-Normans began to be referred to as the Old English
Old English (Ireland)

The Old English were the descendants of the settlers who came to Ireland from Wales, Normandy and England after the Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169-71....
. In the Irish language
Irish language

Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic languages of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people....
, they were known as the gaill or "foreigners". Englishmen born in England however were called Sasanaigh or "Saxons", and there was a very strong distinction made between Gaill and Sasanaigh in the Irish annals, with the former being referred to variously as Fionnghaill or Dubhghaill depending upon how much the poet wished to flatter his patron.

See also

  • Norman Ireland
    Norman Ireland

    The later medieval period in Ireland was dominated by the Cambro-Norman Norman invasion of Ireland of the country in 1171. Previously, Ireland had seen intermittent warfare between provincial kingdoms over the position of High King of Ireland....
  • Later Medieval Ireland
    History of Ireland

    The history of Ireland began with the first known settlement in Ireland around 8000 BC, when hunter-gatherers arrived from continental Europe, probably via a land bridge....
     (1185 to 1284)
  • Anglo-Norman
    Anglo-Norman

    The Anglo-Normans were mainly the descendants of the Normans who ruled England following the conquest by William I of England in 1066, although a few Normans were already in England before the conquest....
  • Cambro-Norman
    Cambro-Norman

    Cambro-Norman is a term used for Normans knights who settled in southern Wales after the Norman conquest of England in 1066. Some historians suggest that the term is to be preferred to Anglo-Norman for the Normans who invaded Ireland after 1170 ? many of whom originated in Wales....
  • Insular French
  • Scoto-Norman
    Scoto-Norman

    The term Scoto-Norman is used to described people, families, institutions and archaeological artifacts that are partly Scottish and partly Norman ....
  • Italo-Norman
    Italo-Norman

    The Italo-Normans, or Siculo-Normans when referring to Sicily, were the Italy-born descendants of the first Norman conquest of southern Italy to travel to the Mezzogiorno in the first half of the eleventh century....