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He was the grandson of Bressal Bélach (died 436), a previous king. [1] The chronology of Leinster kings in the 5th century is contradictory. He is counted as a King of Laigin in the Book of Leinster but is not mentioned in the annals. [2] Keating records wars of the High King Eochaid Mugmedón with Énnae Cennselach.
The kings of Leinster (Irish: Rí Laighín) ruled from the establishment of Leinster during the Irish Iron Age until the 17th century Early Modern Ireland.According to Gaelic traditional history found in works such as the Book of Invasions, Leinster was created during the division of Ireland among the Irish Gaels, descendants of Milesius: Leinster was one of the territories held by the ...
Fergus was a grandson of Enna Nia mac Bressal Bélach. One of Bressal's other grandsons was Énnae Cennsalach, from whom many Kings of Leinster descended, so the Uí Fergusa were like the Uí Ceinnselaig of the Laigin nation.
The Uí Ceinselaig (also Uí Ceinselaig, Anglicized as Kinsella), from the Old Irish "grandsons of Cennsalach", are an Irish dynasty of Leinster who trace their descent from Énnae Cennsalach, a supposed contemporary of Niall of the Nine Hostages. Énda was said to be a grandson of Bressal Bélach and a first cousin of Dúnlaing mac Énda Niada, eponymous ancestor of the rival Uí Dúnlainge.
Death of Bressal Belach, King of Leinster; 440s. 440. Death of Amalgaid mac Fiachrae, king of Connacht whose death led to a long-running dispute over the succession; 444.
Énna Mac Murchada, [2] or Enna Mac Murchada, [3] also known as Énna mac Donnchada, [4] and Énna mac Donnchada mic Murchada, [5] was a twelfth-century ruler of Uí Chennselaig, Leinster, and Dublin. Énna was a member of the Meic Murchada, a branch of the Uí Chennselaig dynasty that came to power in Leinster in the person of his paternal great-grandfather. Énna himself gained power ...
The seven provinces of Ireland as defined in the 10th-century Lebor na Cert (Book of Rights). The King of Ulster (Old Irish: Rí Ulad, Modern Irish: Rí Uladh) also known as the King of Ulaid and King of the Ulaid, was any of the kings of the Irish provincial over-kingdom of Ulaid.
Mac Cairthinn mac Coelboth, who was killed at the battle of Fremen in 446, was King of Leinster and one of the earliest historically attested Irish kings. The poet Dubhthach moccu Lughair was a native of Gorey, though he lived some sixty years prior to the dynasty's removal to the area.