Christ
Church Cathedral was the original cathedral of
Hiberno-Norse Dublin, founded c.1030 by King Sitriuc.
It's bishops were for a time subject to Canterbury,
but were incorporated into the Irish church at the
synod of Kells in 1152, when Dublin became an
archbishopric. The nave, in the Pointed style, dates
from about 1230 and is very striking. Strongbow, the
Anglo-Norman adventurer who conquered Dublin and
married Aoife, daughter of the King of Leinster, is
buried here.
