Máel Muire (MacAlpin) ingen Cinèda (abt. 838 - 912)

Born about 0838 in Scotland

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Died 0912 at about age 74 in Ireland

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Biography

Moire (MacAlpin) ingen Cinèda is a member of House of Alpin.

Máel Muire ingen Cináeda was a daughter of Kenneth MacAlpin, King of Dal Riáta. ^{[1] [2]}

Mael Muire' dynastic connection with four Uí Néill kings, married to Áed Findliath and later to Flan Sinna; as mother of Niall Glúndub; and as grandmother of Muirchertach, guaranteed Irish help for Scotland in dealing with the persistent harassment of Viking raiders.

She first married Aed Finliath (Aodh Fionnliath) of the Cenél nEógain, King of Ailech and High King of Ireland. Their son was Niall Glúndub

She next married Flann Sinna (Flann Sionnach) of Clan Cholmáin, King of Mide and High King of Ireland. ^[3]

Their son was Domnall (King of Mide 919–921; killed by his half-brother Donnchad Donn in 921)

Their daughter was Lígach (died 923), wife of the Síl nÁedo Sláine king of Brega, Máel Mithig mac Flannacáin (died 919)

Máel Muire died in 913 ^{[4] [5]}

Research Note

• It seems that in Gaeldom, Mael or Maol comes from being born on the Saint's day, a servant or devotee of Mary.

Sources

1. ↑ "Mael Muire was daughter of Cinaed son of Alpin, a Scotch noble, and mother of Domnall son of daring Fland, and of white-toothed active Niall Glundub" The Ban-Shenchus Part I page:335 by Margaret E. Dobbs]
2. ↑ Wikipedia : Máel Muire ingen Cináeda
3. ↑ Wikipedia Flnn Sinna
4. ↑ Mael Muire, daughter of Cinaed, son of Ailpín died, Celt : The Annals of Ulster U913.1
5. ↑ Wikipedia : Máel Muire ingen Cináeda

• Senchus : Máel Muire: a Pictish queen of Tara by Tim Clarkson
• Alex Woolf in Pictland to Alba (page 257) states that the name of the daughter who married AED FINNLIATH OF IRELAND was MAEL MUIRE. She also married his successor FLANN SINNA. Woolfe gives the date of her death as 913. PICTLAND TO ALBA
• https://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/aa/alpin1.php