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  TITL University of Hull Royal Database (England)      AUTH Brian Tompsett, Dept of Computer S cience
  PUBL copyright 1994, 1995, 1996
  usually reliable but sometimes includes hypothetical lines, mythological figures, etc
  WWW, University of Hull, Hull, UK HU6 7RX  bct@@tardis.ed.ac.uk      MEDI Electronic
  TITL Royal Genealogies DB                AUTH Denis R. Reid
  PUBL 149 Kimrose Lane, Broadview Heights, OH 44147-1258    216/237-5364
  http://ftp.cac.psu.edu/~saw/royal/royalgen.html ah189@@cleveland.freenet.edu
  MEDI Electronic
  TEXT Brian Boru K of Ireland
  TEXT Reign 1002-1014
  TITL Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America bef 1760
  AUTH Frederick Lewis Weis       PUBL 7th ed Genealogical Publishing, Baltimore 1992
  Same ref source as earlier ed, "Ancestral Roots of 60 Colonists who Came to New England 1623- 1650" ed 1-6
  good to very good         MEDI Book       PAGE line 239 pp 202-203
  ALIA Brian Bruma macCenntig /King of Ireland/
  TEXT usurped High Kingship
  TEXT killed 1014
  CAUS Killed at Battle of Clontarf.
  PAGE line 175 p 149Pictured in the History of the O'Briens p24.
  R.C.NEWMAN discusses Brian Boroimhe's wives, their dates, and sequences and their children a t length in `Brian Boru: King Of Ireland' Dublin, 1983, pp.63-4, 99-100, 116-9 and 154.
  _FA1  PLAC Usurped the high kingship of Ireland in 1002.  Interred:  Armagh.
  _FA2  PLAC Defeated the Scandinavians in Ireland at Battle of Clontarf (1014).
  _FA3  PLAC Early Irish hero-king.  "Imperator Scottorum".
  _FA4  PLAC His victory at Clontarf finally expelled Vikings from Ireland & Dublin.
  _FA5  PLAC King of the Dalcassians, then King of Munster 978.
  _FA6  PLAC Killed fighting a mixed force of Norse & Leinstermen at Battle of Clontarf.
  _FA7  PLAC AKA Brian of the Tributes, or Borama, Boroimhe, and/or Boru.

Details of Brian Bruma's family with Gormflaeth ingen Murchada MacFinn