[502] Gerv. Cant. (Stubbs), vol. i. pp. 234, 235. [503] The close kindred of these Norman-Welsh settlers in Ireland is a very remarkable feature of their settlement. Robert Fitz-Stephen and Maurice Fitz-Gerald were half-brothers (Gir. Cambr. as above, c. 2, p. 229); the two Fitz-Henrys, Raymond the Fat, Miles Fitz-David and Robert de Barri were their nephews (_ib._ cc. 4, 13, and l. ii. c. 10, pp. 234, 248, 335); Richard of Striguil was nephew to Hervey of Mountmorris (_ib._ l. i. c. 3, p. 230), who afterwards married a daughter of Maurice Fitz-Gerald, while Maurice’s eldest son married Richard’s daughter Alina (_ib._ l. ii. c. 4, p. 314); another daughter of Richard married his constable Robert de Quincy (Anglo-Norm. Poem, Michel, p. 130); and his sister Basilea became the wife of Raymond the Fat (_ib._ p. 145, and Gir. Cambr. as above, l. ii. c. 3, pp. 312, 313). [504] Gir. Cambr. _Expugn. Hibern._, l. i. c. 19 (Dimock, vol. v. p. 259). [505] _Ibid._ Cf. Gerv. Cant. (Stubbs), vol. i. p. 235. Raymond was back again in time to share in the defence of Dublin against Roderic O’Conor--_i.e._ by the end of May or beginning of June. Gerald says he had to seek the king in “Aquitanic Gaul,” but this time the phrase cannot be taken literally. Eyton’s _Itinerary_ shews plainly that throughout 1171 Henry never was further south than the Norman, or, at the utmost, the Breton border. [506] This seems to be the key-note of a speech which Gerald puts into Maurice’s mouth; _Expugn. Hibern._, l. i. c. 23 (as above, pp. 266, 267).