In 1575, the Cambro-Norman castle that they built, then called the castle of Ballymartyr, was attacked by the Sir Henry Sidney, the Lord Deputy, who captured the castle.

* Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke ( 1130 – 1176 ), Cambro-Norman lord known as " Strongbow "

This process of evolving conquest that had been underway since the Norman invasion of Ireland, particularly as advanced by the Cambro-Norman magnates Hugh de Lacy and John de Courcy.

By the 1390s the Lordship had effectively shrunk to the Pale with the rest of the island under the control of independent Gaelic-Irish or rebel Cambro-Norman noble families.

The progenitor of the Irish Geraldines was a Cambro-Norman Marcher Lord, Maurice FitzGerald, Lord of Lanstephan, a female line descendant of the Welsh royal House of Dinefwr, and a participant in the 1169 Norman invasion of Ireland.

Cambro-Norman control was initially limited to the south-eastern parts of Ireland so a further four centuries were to elapse before the entire island was shired.

The powers exercised by the Cambro-Norman barons and the Old English nobility waned over time.

With the arrival of Cambro-Norman knights in 1169, the Norman invasion of Ireland commenced.

Large parts in the south east of the island had been shired by the Cambro-Norman overlords by the end of the 13th century.

Rhys benefited from the Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169 and 1170, which was largely led by the Cambro-Norman lords of south Wales.

* Giraldus Cambrensis Cambro-Norman clergyman and chronicler ( b. 1146 )

In 1188, Cambro-Norman chronicler Gerald of Wales wrote, " Ireland uses and delights in two instruments only, the harp namely, and the tympanum.

As various Cambro-Norman noble families died out in the male line, the Gaelic nobility began to reclaim lost territory.

For the duration of the 15th century, royal power in Ireland was weak, the country being dominated by the various clans and dynasties of Gaelic ( O ' Neill, O ' Brien, MacCarthy ) or Cambro-Norman ( Burke, FitzGerald, Butler ) origin.

Maurice was the founder of the Cambro-Norman FitzGerald dynasty in Ireland.

The Cambro-Norman barons and knights quickly took over both Waterford and Wexford.

He was a Cambro-Norman lord notable for his leading role in the Norman invasion of Ireland.

These celebrated Hiberno-Norman, or Cambro-Norman, families have been Peers of Ireland since at least the 14th century.

The town remained as an island until the 18th century, when small rivers were diverted to form dry land north and west of the town. The earliest known records of a settlement are dated to 1247, when a charter of 3 fairs per year was awarded to Matthew Fitzgriffin, Lord of the manor of Carrick who was a member of the Cambro-Norman nobility.

Among the most celebrated families of Ireland, the FitzGeralds are a Hiberno-Norman or Cambro-Norman dynasty, and have been Peers of Ireland since at least the 14th century.

All four parishes were combined into the barony of Moycullen ( distinct from the parish ) soon after the Cambro-Norman invasion.

It may also refer to the Cambro-Norman De Barry family.

Another O ' Neachtain Sept of the Ui Maine who were chiefs of Máenmaige, the plain lying around Loughrea in Galway, until the Cambro-Norman invasion.

Robert Fitz-Stephen ( c. 1120 – 1183 ) was a Cambro-Norman soldier, one of the leaders of the Norman invasion of Ireland, for which he was granted extensive lands in Ireland.

When Hugh became a Knight Templar himself in 1124, the Order comprised few more than a dozen knights, and the first Grand Master of the Templars was a vassal of his, Hugues de Payens, who had been with him at Jerusalem in 1104.

He was strongly influenced by Jacob Viner, Frank Knight, and Henry Simons.

* Sir Henry Knight Storks ( 1811 – 1874 ) 1859 – 1863

He became Sir Henry Morton Stanley when he was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in 1899, in recognition of his service to the British Empire in Africa.

Stars featured in the film included Charlotte Henry as Alice, W. C. Fields as Humpty Dumpty, Edna May Oliver as the Red Queen, Cary Grant as the Mock Turtle ( Grant's star was still on the ascent at the time ), Gary Cooper as the White Knight, Edward Everett Horton as The Hatter, Charles Ruggles as The March Hare, and Baby LeRoy as The Joker.

After the accession of his half-brother Henry IV, Beaufort was made a Knight of the Garter.

He was created a Knight of the Bath at Henry VIII's coronation in 1509.

When the novel was serialised in Tinsley's Magazine between September 1872 and July 1873, Hardy chose to leave one of the main protagonists, Henry Knight, literally hanging off a cliff staring into the stony eyes of a trilobite embedded in the rock.

Academics such as Bruce Jackson, critics such as Jay Cocks and Arthur Knight and directors such as King Vidor, Henry King, William Wyler and Howard Hawks were invited to the screening.

The estate then passed to Henry Archibald Tufnell ( d 1898 ) who died with no children, and then to Lt Col Edward Tufnell ( d 1909 ) HM Inspector of Schools, Factory Commissioner, Director Greenwich Hospital m. 1846 Honoria Mary Macadam ( daughter of Col. Macadam Knight of Hanover, d. 1877 )

After having received a grant of Ulster from King Henry II of England, Norman Knight, John de Courcy set out from Dublin in early 1177 to take possession of it.

He was succeeded by his eldest son Henry, who was a Knight of the Shire for Derbyshire for over 20 years.

On Henry's subsequent accession to the throne as Henry VII, Jasper was restored to all his former titles, including Knight of the Garter, and made Duke of Bedford.

Ironically, many years later, in order that he could command Henry VI's forces at Mortimer's Cross, Owen was made a Knight Banneret.

The position of Earl Marshal had a Deputy called the Knight Marshal from the reign of Henry VIII until the office was abolished in 1846.

Edward died young, Robert became a Knight Bachelor and married Theophile, daughter of Thomas Berkeley, Arthur married Elizabeth, heir of Sir George Walgrave, John married Meriel, daughter of Anthony Wheately, through which Holkham Hall came into the Coke family, Henry married Margaret, daughter of Richard Lovelace, and inherited the manor at Holkham from his brother John ( who had seven daughters but no son ), Clement married Sarah, heiress of Alesxander Redich, and Thomas died as an infant.

* Henry Lord Brougham, " Lord Castlereagh ," Historical Sketches of Statesmen in the Time of George III, London: Charles Knight & Co. ( 1845 ), Second Series, Vol I, pp. 149 – 61

John Henry Knight with his car

John Henry Knight ( 1847 – 1917 ), who built the first British motor car and designed a number of innovative digging machines for use in hop fields, was born and brought up at Weybourne on the outskirts of the town.

Image: Chevalier-legion-dhonneur-LouisXVIII-1814. jpg | Louis XVIII era ( 1814 ) Knight insignia: the front features Henry IV's profile and the rear, the arms of the French Kingdom ( three fleurs de lis ).

Her eldest daughter, Isabel de Verdun married Henry de Ferrers, 2nd Lord Ferrers of Groby, and her younger daughter, Elizabeth d ' Amory, married John Bardolf, 3rd Lord Bardolf of Wormegay, Knight Banneret ( 1314 – 1363 ).

The first was the father of Maréchal de Camp Monsieur Raymond Dessalines, created 1st Baron de Louis Dessalines on 8 April 1811, aide-de-camp to King Henry I, Privy Councilor, Secretary-General of the Ministry of War between 1811 and 1820 and Member of the Royal Chamber of Public Instruction between 1818 and 1820, who received the degree of Knight of the Order of St. Henry on 1 May 1811 and was killed by the revolutionaries at Cap-Henri on 10 October 1820.

The second was the father of Maréchal de Camp Monsieur Dessalines, created 1st Baron de Joseph Dessalines in 1816, Chamberlain to Prince Jacques-Victor Henry, the Prince Royal of Haiti, and Major of the Grenadiers de la Garde, who received the degree of Knight of the Order of St. Henry on 28 October 1815.