Strongbow, the surname of Richard de Clare, Earl of Pembroke, who went to Ireland to push his fortune in 1170 by permission of Henry II. (q.v.). He married the daughter of Dermot, king of Leinster, became governor of Ireland in 1173, and died at Dublin in 1176.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 769
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