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Brian of the Tributes (Borama, Boroimhe, Boru), King of the Dalc assians, then King of Munster (976-1002), and finally usurped th e high kingship of Ireland (1002-1014). Killed at the battle o f Clontarf, 1014 A.D., fighting a mixed force of Norse and Leins termen. He had at least three wives, the mother of his son, Donn chad, being Gormflaith of Naas, dau. of Murchad, King of Leinste r (d. 972). Gormflaith was the wid. of Anlaf (Olaf), King of Dub lin (d. 981), and had been the wife of Mael-Sechnaill, King of I reland. She d. 1030. (Brian's ancestry table depends solely on t radition).