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Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill (Irish: Maolsheachlann mac Domhnaill), also called Máel Sechnaill Mór or Máel Sechnaill II (949 [3] – 2 September 1022), was a King of Mide and High King of Ireland. His great victory at the Battle of Tara against Olaf Cuaran in 980 resulted in Gaelic Irish control of the Kingdom of Dublin .
[1] [2] He is the son of Donn, son of Duibhne of the Fianna, and Cochrann, daughter of Cathaír Mór. [3] Diarmuid becomes the foster son and protégé of Aengus Óg, one of the Tuatha Dé Danann and the god of love, to the extent that a god of love can be said to exist in the corpus. [4]
In Irish mythology, Donn ("the dark one", from Proto-Celtic: *Dhuosnos) [1] [2] is an ancestor of the Gaels and is believed to have been a god of the dead. [2] [3] [4] Donn is said to dwell in Tech Duinn (the "house of Donn" or "house of the dark one"), [5] where the souls of the dead gather. [6] He may have originally been an aspect of the ...
The ancestry of King Duncan is not certain. In modern texts, he is the son of Crínán, hereditary lay abbot of Dunkeld, and Bethóc, daughter of King Malcolm II.However, in the late 17th century the historian Frederic Van Bossen, after collecting historical accounts throughout Europe, identified King Duncan as the first son of Abonarhl ap crinan (the grandson of Crinan) and princess Beatrice ...
Odo I of Furneaux (or Eudes), French nobleman (d. 1086) Roger I of Sicily, Norman nobleman (approximate date) Sikelgaita, Lombard duchess of Apulia (d. 1090) Wulfnoth Godwinson, English nobleman (d. 1094) Xiao Guanyin, Chinese empress consort of the Liao dynasty (d. 1075) Zayn al-Din Gorgani, Persian physician (d. 1136) (approximate date)
Donnchad was the son of Brian (king of Munster) and his wife Gormflaith (daughter of Murchad, king of Leinster). His year of birth is unknown, but a date in the 980s is likely, as it would accord with the political policy of his father at the time and mean that Donnchad was old enough to be militarily active in the 1010s, when he first appears in historical records. [3]
The Red Lion of Heremon. [1]Érimón [2] (Modern Irish: Éireamhón), commonly Anglicised as Heremon, son of Míl Espáine (and great-grandson of Breoghan, king of Celtic Galicia), according to medieval Irish legends and historical traditions, was one of the chieftains who took part in the Milesian invasion of Ireland, which conquered the island from the Tuatha Dé Danann, and one of the first ...
The date used as the end of the ancient era is arbitrary. The transition period from Classical Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages is known as Late Antiquity.Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world: generally from the end of the Roman Empire's ...