Donnchad Midi mac Domnaill (733 - 797)

Born 0733 in Brega, Ireland

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Died 6 Feb 0797 at about age 64 in Clonnard, County Meath, Ireland

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Biography

Donnchad Midi mac Domnaill was born in Ireland.

{Collective Clann: Eochu Mugmedóh; Clann: Uí Néill; Sept: Conaill Cremthainn; Sub-Sept: Cholmáin}

Donnchad mac Domnaill (Donnchad Midi), was a High King of Ireland. His father, Domnall Midi, had been the first Uí Néill High King of Clann Cholmáin, the people of what is now county Westmeath and the western portion of county Meath, in Ireland's midlands..

See Wikipedia article on Domnall here, part of which is included below:

"Donnchad was a son of Domnall Midi and Domnall's only known wife, Ailbíne ingen Ailello of Ard Ciannacht, a minor kingdom of the coast north of the River Boyne. Domnall was reckoned High King of Ireland from 743, when he defeated and killed Áed Allán of the northern Cenél nEógain branch of the Uí Néill.

"Donnchad was certainly married to Bé Fáil ingen Cathail, daughter of Cathal mac Muiredaig, eponym of the Leth Cathail in Ulster. Her death is recorded by the Annals of Ulster in 801: "Be Fáil daughter of Cathal, Donnchad's queen, died." Their children included Óengus and Máel Ruanaid. Donnchad is less certainly believed to have been married to one Fuirseach, daughter of a Dál nAraidi king named Congal, said to have borne him Conchobar. The mother of his sons Ailill, Conn, Domnall and Falloman and his daughters Gormlaith and Euginis is not recorded. Eithne, who married Bran Ardchenn, King of Leinster, is sometimes called Donnchad's daughter but was more probably his sister."

He died in 797

Research Notes

This profile is based on Jaski's table 21

Clann Name: Clann Cholmáin

Annals

The Annals of Ulster^[1]

AU797.1 Death of Donnchad son of Domhall, king of Temair, and of his brother, Innrechtach son of Domnall.

T763.1
Domnall mac Murchada rí Temrach .i. cét-rí Erenn do Claind Colmáin in .xii. kl. Decimbris moritur.^[2]

Sources

• Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnchad_Midi

1. ↑ The Annals of Ulster - CELT
2. ↑ Annals of Tigernach. Author: [unknown]

• Jaski, Bart Genealogical tables of medieval Irish royal dynasties Table-21 Early Irish Kingship Succession by Jaski Bart, Published by Four Courts Press, 2013, ISBN 1846824265 ISBN 9781846824265

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