Mac GABRAN, King Of Dal Riata, Aedan

Birth Name Mac GABRAN, King Of Dal Riata, Aedan 1a 1b
Gramps ID I22160
Gender male
Age at Death about 74 years

Events

Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Birth [E21659] about 532    
1c 1d
Death [E21660] 606    
1e 1f

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father Mac DOMANGART, King Of Dal Riata, Gabran The [I22161]558
Mother , Luan [I22869]
         Mac GABRAN, King Of Dal Riata, Aedan [I22160] about 532 606

Families

    Family of Mac GABRAN, King Of Dal Riata, Aedan [F9588]
  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
Mac AEDAN, King Of Dal Riata, Eochaid Buid [I22159]629

Narrative

[MARSHALL.FTW]

SOURCE NOTES:
Davidson, Michael R, The Genealogy of the Early Medieval Scottish Kings,
Edinburgh: author, 1995. Author address 9407990@@iona.sms.ed.ac.uk, or Holland
House A214, 18 Holyrood Park Road, Edinburgh EH16 5BD, Scotland.

Moncreiffe, Sir Ian of that Ilk, Royal Highness: Ancestors of the Royal Child.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1982. NYPL ARF 83-3293.

Moriarty, George Andrews, Plantagenet Ancestry of King Edward III And Queen
Philippa. Salt Lake: Mormon Pioneer Genealogical Society, 1985. LDS
Film#0441438. nypl#ARF-86-2555.

Tapsell, R. F., Monarchs, Rulers, Dynasties and Kingdoms of the World. New
York: Facts on File Publications, 1983.

Weis, Frederick Lewis, Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists, 6th Edition,
Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1988.
RESEARCH NOTES:
574-608: King of Dal Riata [Ref: Tapsell p180]
ruled Dalriada in Scotland for about 37 years 571-608 [Ref: Weis AR #170]

ordained King by his cousin St. Columbia [Ref: Moncreiffe p20]

details of his life and those of his children and grandchildren are well
attested in the near-contemporary life of St. Columa, by Adamnan [Ref: Weis AR
#170]

succeeded to the kingship upon his cousin Conall's death in 574. [Ref:
Davidson 1995]

575: attended the Convention of the Druim Cett in Ireland, which
apparently convened to decide the political relationship between Dal
Riata and the kings of the Northern Ui Neill in Ireland, whose power was
growing. [Ref: Davidson 1995]

581: led an expedition to the Orkney Islands, and he won a victory at the
Isle of Man in the following year. [Ref: Davidson 1995]

590: won a battle against the Maetae, his British neighbours, but lost
two of his sons in the battle. [Ref: Davidson 1995]

596: in first battle between Scots and English, two more of his sons were
slain. [Ref: Davidson 1995]

600: he led an army against the English of Northumbria, but was decisively
defeated at Degsastan [Ref: Davidson 1995]
SOURCE NOTES:
date: About 532 [Ref: Moriarty p29] died 606 age 74 [Ref: Davidson 1995],
parents: [Ref: Moriarty p29], father: [Ref: Davidson 1995, Moncreiffe p20,
Tapsell p180, Weis AR #170]
SOURCE NOTES:
date: [Ref: Davidson 1995, Moriarty p29] 608 [Ref: Tapsell p180] About 608
[Ref: Moncreiffe p20, Weis AR #170]

Attributes

Type Value Notes Sources
AFN AR:170-5
 

Pedigree

  1. Mac DOMANGART, King Of Dal Riata, Gabran The [I22161]
    1. , Luan [I22869]
      1. Mac GABRAN, King Of Dal Riata, Aedan
          1. Mac AEDAN, King Of Dal Riata, Eochaid Buid [I22159]

Ancestors

Source References

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