King of Munster, Brian Bóruma macCennétig

Birth Name King of Munster, Brian Bóruma macCennétig 1 2a 3a 4a 5a
Also Known As King of Ireland, Brian Bóruma macCennétig
Gramps ID I28858
Gender male
Age at Death about 88 years, 3 months, 22 days

Events

Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Birth [E37966] about 926    
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Death [E37967] 1014-04-23 Battle of Clontarf, Dublin  

Cause: Killed at Battle of Clontarf.

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_FA1 [E37968]   Usurped the high kingship of Ireland in 1002. Interred: Armagh.  
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_FA2 [E37969]   Defeated the Scandinavians in Ireland at Battle of Clontarf (1014).  
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_FA3 [E37970]   Early Irish hero-king. “Imperator Scottorum”.  
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_FA4 [E37971]   His victory at Clontarf finally expelled Vikings from Ireland & Dublin.  
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_FA5 [E37972]   King of the Dalcassians, then King of Munster 978.  
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_FA6 [E37973]   Killed fighting a mixed force of Norse & Leinstermen at Battle of Clontarf.  
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_FA7 [E37974]   AKA Brian of the Tributes, or Borama, Boroimhe, and/or Boru.  
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Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father King of Thomond, Cennétig of Thomond [I29031]951
         King of Munster, Brian Bóruma macCennétig [I28858] about 926 1014-04-23

Families

    Family of King of Munster, Brian Bóruma macCennétig and MacFinn, Gormflaeth ingen Murchada of Naas [F11296]
Married Wife MacFinn, Gormflaeth ingen Murchada of Naas [I28852] ( * + 1030 )
   
Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Marriage [E58494]      
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  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
King of Munster, Donnchad O'Brien [I29026]1064
    Family of King of Munster, Brian Bóruma macCennétig [F11302]
  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
O'Brien, Teige (Terence) [I29011]1023
O'Brien, Slani ingen Briain [I29030]

Narrative

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Pictured in the History of the O'Briens p24.

R.C.NEWMAN discusses Brian Boroimhe's wives, their dates, and sequences and their children at length in `Brian Boru: King Of Ireland' Dublin, 1983, pp.63-4, 99-100, 116-9 and 154.

Pedigree

  1. King of Thomond, Cennétig of Thomond [I29031]
    1. King of Munster, Brian Bóruma macCennétig
      1. MacFinn, Gormflaeth ingen Murchada of Naas [I28852]
        1. King of Munster, Donnchad O'Brien [I29026]
        1. O'Brien, Teige (Terence) [I29011]
        2. O'Brien, Slani ingen Briain [I29030]

Ancestors

Source References

  1. Brian Tompsett, Dept of Computer Science: University of Hull Royal Database (England) [S283806]
  2. Denis R. Reid: Royal Genealogies DB [S284656]
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        Brian Boru K of Ireland

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        Reign 1002-1014

  3. Frederick Lewis Weis: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America bef 1760 [S286879]
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