Events

• Anthony St Leger
  Anthony St Leger (Lord Deputy of Ireland)
  Sir Anthony St Leger was Lord Deputy of Ireland during the Tudor period.The eldest son of Ralph St Leger, a gentleman of Kent and Elizabeth Haut. He was educated abroad and at the University of Cambridge. He quickly gained the favour of King Henry VIII, and in 1537 was appointed president of a...
  
   is appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland
  Lord Deputy of Ireland
  The Lord Deputy was the King's representative and head of the Irish executive under English rule, during the Lordship of Ireland and later the Kingdom of Ireland...
  
   and tasked with the repression of disorder.
• St Leger's pacification: start of policy of surrender and regrant
  Surrender and regrant
  During the Tudor conquest of Ireland , "surrender and regrant" was the legal mechanism by which Irish clans were to be converted from a power structure rooted in clan and kin loyalties, to a late-feudal system under the English legal system...
  
   (lasted until 1543).
• Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Thomond
  Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Thomond
  Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Thomond was the last King of Thomond.A member of the Irish nobility, he was the son of Turlough O'Brien, King of Thomond and Raghnailt McNamara and also brother of Connor O'Brien, King of Thomond, who was inaugurated King of Thomond in 1528...
  
  , usurped the title of King of Thomond from his nephew, Donough O'Brien.