1170–1182) was an Anglo-Norman knight from Glamorgan who played a significant role in the Norman conquest of Ireland under Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke; a man better known to Irish history as Strongbow.
[1] The Liber Niger Scutarii of 1166 recorded Milo as holding Cogan as two knights' fees, under the overlordship of William Fitz Robert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester (d.1183).
Another siege was laid in 1172, led by Tigernán Ua Ruairc, which Milo ably defeated, once again sallying out to surprise and rout the attackers.
[3] His children included: According to his cousin, Gerald of Wales, Milo de Cogan and Robert FitzStephen, along with one of FitzStephen's sons, Ralph, who was also Milo's son in law, were en route from Desmond to Lismore in 1182, to negotiate with the people of Waterford, when a certain Mac Tyre, who had invited them to lodge with him, crept up behind them with a few men and murdered them with long axes.
[4][5][6] Gerald's text warns his readers of an alleged habit of the Irish in spreading plainly false rumours concerning the deaths of their enemies.