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Lanigan.* Some of the royal marriages of these ages are particularly 

 noticed in history. That of Donough to the sister of Harold, King of 

 England, has been noticed.-f- In 1100, according to Caradoc, "Ar- 

 nulph, Earl of Pembroke, sent Gerald his steward to Murkart, King 

 of Ireland, desiring his daughter in marriage, which was easily granted 

 with the promise too of great succours and large supplies." In the 

 same year another daughter of the said Murkart (Murtough) was mar- 

 ried to the King of Man, J both which alliances are also related in 

 Enderbie's Cambria Triumphans, (p. 254.) The nuptials of Strong- 

 bow with Eva, the daughter of Dermot, King of Leinster, are also 

 prominently mentioned in the chronicles of this period. 



Some notices which occur regarding death-bed and funeral rites 

 are worth recording. It has been mentioned§ that a confessor was by 

 synod appointed to witness a death-bed will, and on the same occa- 

 sion it was enacted, " ut cum bon&, confessione decedentibus et missa- 

 rum et vigiliarum exhibitione et more sepeliendi obsequium debitum 

 persolvatur."|| In 1022, Malachy the Second, King of Ireland, received 

 the last Christian rites from the hands of Amalgaid, and was buried 

 with splendid honours at Armagh,** while the clergy, as before men- 

 tioned, celebrated his obsequies with masses, hymns, canticles, and 

 psalms. -f-f Extreme Unction is also mentioned by Saint Bernard as 



• See Index to Lanigan's Eccl. Hist. tit. "Marriage." f ^"'«. P- 3^^. 



X " Magnus Manniam rediens, quam armis redegerat, et tribus ibi conditis arcibus, nun- 

 cios misit in Hiberniam, ad aliam Murcertachi filiam, pro filio suo in uxorem petendam, qua 

 obtentd filium istum Manniae regem constituit." — Caradoc, ad ann. 



§ Ante, p. 326. || Hib. Expugn. lib. 1. c. 34. 



• -' ** " Migravit ad Dominum viatico corporis et sanguinis Cbristi pie sumpto, et sacra unc- 

 tione prsemunitus." 



ff "Sacrificiis, hymnis, canticis et psalmodia ejusexequias solemniter celebrdrunt." — Trias' 

 Thaum. p. 298. 



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