Máel Sechnaill macDomnall, King of Meath II

• Preferred Name: Máel Sechnaill macDomnall, King of Meath II^[1]
  
• Alternate Name: Malachy " The Great"
  
• Alternate Name: Mael- Sechnaill Uí Néill Or O' Néill
  
• Alternate Name: Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill
  
• Gender: M
  
• FSID: GF4K-BNV
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: High King of Ireland - 2nd reign (restored)BET 1014 AND 1022
  
• Birth: 949 in County Dublin, Ireland at LATI: N3.3522 LONG: E6.26
  
• Clan Name: with note: Description: Clann Cholmáin branch of the Uí Néill dynasty
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: 174th High King Of IrelandBET 980 AND 1002
  
• MilitaryService: His great victory at the Battle of Tara against Olaf Cuaran resulted in Gaelic Irish control of the Kingdom of Dublin.980
  
• Death: 1022 in Cró Inis of Lough Ennell, County Meath, Ireland at LATI: N3.6162 LONG: E6.6911
  
• MilitaryService: Battle of Glenmama - victorious with Brian Boru, King of Munster, against the Kings of Leinster and Dublin armies30 DEC 999 in Glenmama, near Lyons Hill in Ardclough, County Kildare, between Windmill Hill and Blackchurch at LATI: N3.2965 LONG: E6.5366
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: King of Meath ... King of MideBET 976 AND 1022
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Máel Sechnaill II, High King of Ireland was the son of Domnall (?)1 He died in 1022.1
  He was a member of the House of Clann Cholmáin.1 He succeeded as the High King Máel Sechnaill II of Ireland in 980.1 He was deposed as High King of Ireland in 1002.1 He succeeded as the High King Máel Sechnaill II of Ireland in 1014.
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  Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill (Irish: Maolsheachlann mac Domhnaill), also called Máel Sechnaill Mór or Máel Sechnaill II (949 – 2 September 1022), was King of Mide and High King of Ireland. His great victory at the Battle of Tara against Olaf Cuaran in 980 resulted in Gaelic Irish control of the Kingdom of Dublin.
  
  Máel Sechnaill had two known wives:
  . Gormflaith ingen Murchada
  . Máel Muire ingen Amlaíb
  
  He also had six known children:
  . Conchobar (d 1030)
  . Flann (d 1013)
  . Congalach (d 1017)
  . Domnall (d 1019)
  . Murchad Rua (d 1049)
  . Muirchertach (d 1049)
  
  First reign as High King
  Máel Sechnaill belonged to the Clann Cholmáin branch of the Uí Néill dynasty. He was the grandson of Donnchad Donn, great-grandson of Flann Sinna and great-great-grandson of the first Máel Sechnaill, Máel Sechnaill mac Máele Ruanaid. The Kings of Tara or High Kings of Ireland had for centuries alternated between the various Uí Néill branches. By Máel Sechnaill's time this alternating succession passed between Clann Cholmáin in the south and the Cenél nEógain in the north, so that he succeeded Domnall ua Néill in 980. This system had survived previous challenges by outsiders including the kings of Ulster, Munster and Leinster, and the Viking invasions.
  
  Defeat of Olaf Cuaran at the Battle of Tara
  In 980, Olav Cuarán, King of Dublin, summoned auxiliaries from Norse-ruled Scottish Isles and from Mann and attacked Meath, but was defeated by Máel Sechnaill at the Battle of Tara. Reginald, Olaf's heir, was killed. Máel Sechnaill followed up his victory with a siege of Dublin which surrendered after three days and nights. When Maél Sechnaill took Dublin in 980, according to the Annals of Tigernach, he freed all the slaves then residing in the city:
  
  This then that Maelseachnaill proclaimed the famous rising when he said: "Let every one of the Gaels who is in the Foreigner's province come forth to his own country for peace and comfort." That captivity was the Babylonian captivity of Ireland; twas next to the capitivity of Hell.
  
  Battle of Glenmama
  In 997, at a royal meeting near Clonfert, Máel Sechnaill met with his long-time rival Brian Boru, King of Munster. The two kings made a truce, by which Brian was granted rule over the southern half of Ireland, while Máel Sechnaill retained the northern half and high kingship. In honour of this arrangement, Máel Sechnaill handed over to Brian the hostages he had taken from Dublin and Leinster; and in 998, Brian handed over to Máel Sechnaill the hostages of Connacht. In the same year, Brian and Máel Sechnaill began co-operating against the Norse of Dublin for the first time.
  
  Late in 999, however, the Leinstermen, historically hostile to domination by either the Uí Néill overkings or the King of Munster, allied themselves with the Norse of Dublin and revolted against Brian. The Annals of the Four Masters records that Brian and Máel Sechnaill united their forces, and according to the Annals of Ulster, they met the Leinster-Dublin army at Glenmama on Thursday, 30 December 999. Glenmama, near Lyons Hill in Ardclough, County Kildare, between Windmill Hill and Blackchurch, was the ancient stronghold of the Kings of Leinster. The Munster-Meath army defeated the Leinster-Dublin army. Ó Corráin refers to it as a "crushing defeat" of Leinster and Dublin, while The dictionary of English history says the battle effectively "quelled" the "desperate revolt" of Leinster and Dublin. Most importantly, the defeat left the road to Dublin "free and unimpeded for the victorious legions of Brian and Mael Sechlainn".
  
  The system of alternating succession between the various Uí Néill branches was ended by Brian Boru's so-called overthrow of Máel Sechnaill in 1002. In fact this was a bloodless shift resulting from the failure of the Northern Uí Néill, his kinsmen, to support Máel Sechnaill against the aspirations of the extremely militarized overlord of Munster. Brian would have little more success with them himself.
  
  Because of the death of Brian Boru in 1014, as well as the death of his son, grandson and many other Munster nobles at the Battle of Clontarf, Máel Sechnaill succeeded in regaining the titular High Kingship, with the aid of his northern kinsman Flaithbertach Ua Néill, but the High Kingship, albeit with opposition, did not reappear until Diarmait mac Maíl na mBó of Leinster rose to power. Clann Cholmáin provided no further High Kings, but the northern Uí Néill of the Cenél nEógain provided two: Domnall Ua Lochlainn and Muirchertach Mac Lochlainn.
  
  === acceded ===
  acceded
  
  === Book of McKee, pg 404 "Kings of Ireland" ===
  Book of McKee, pg 404 "Kings of Ireland" from O'Flaherty'e Ogygia which was written in 1684 during the reign of Charles II states Malachy II (Maoilfeachluin Mac Domhnaill), grandson of Donnchad II by his son Domnald, king 23 years. At the end of that time the kingdom was cfeded to Brian of Munster. He reigned a second time, for 8 years, from 1014-1022. He was known also as Malachy the Great, and was Ireland's last king without opposition.
  
  === !AKA: Mael-Sechnaill, King of Ireland - ===
  !AKA: Mael-Sechnaill, King of Ireland - Doc. Line 175-1 !MARRIAGE: Mael-Sechnaill, King and Gormflaith of Naas - Doc. Line 175-1
  
  === !Weis. 175-1. ===
  !Weis. 175-1.
  
  === !Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists 974. ===
  !Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists 974.D2w
  
  === King of Ireland, ===
  King of Ireland,

1. Title: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
   Publication: Name: https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/IRELAND.htm#Maelsechnailldied1018A;
   Note: MAELSECHNAILL, son of DOMNALL & his wife --- ([949/50]-Cró Inis of Lough Ennell 2 Sep 1022). His date of birth is estimated from the Annals of the Four Masters which record the birth in 925 of “Brian son of Ceinnedigh” (extremely unlikely date) adding that this was “24 years before Maelseachlainn son of Domnhall”[87]. The Annals of Tigernach record “the first expedition of MaelSechnaill the Great (“Moir”) from Dublin, when he broke and cut down the wood” in [973/74][88]. The Annals of Tigernach record the death of “Domnall mac Muirchertaigh King of Tara” in [978/79] and the accession of “Mael Sechnaill Mor”[89]. King of Tara. High King of Ireland. The Annals of the Four Masters record 979 as “the first year of Maelseachlainn Mor son of Domhnall son of Donnchadh son of Flann in sovereignty of Ireland”[90]. The Annals of Inisfallen record that "Brian son of Cennétig…and Mael Sechnaill son of Domnall king of Temuir” divided Ireland between them in 997 “Leth Cuinn to Mael Sechnaill and Leth Moga to Brian”[91]. The Annals of Tigernach record that “Ragnall, son of Olaf, crownprince of the Foreigners” was killed in battle by “Mael Sechnaill the Great, son of Domnall, son of Donnchad, son of Fland…King of Ireland” at “Tara” in [978/79][92]. The Annals of Tigernach record that “Tomar´s ring and Carlus´s sword were forcibly taken by MaelSechnaill son of Domnall from the Foreigners of Dublin” in [993/94], presumably referring to powerful symbols of power[93]. The Annals of Tigernach record the death in [1018/22] of “Mael-Sechlainn the Great son of Donnchad overking of all Ireland” at “Cró Inis of Lough Ennell in the 43rd year of his reign”[94]. The Annals of Ulster record that "Mael Sechnaill son of Domnall son of Donnchad overking of Ireland" died in 1022 “in the 43rd year of his reign and the 73rd of his age…2 Sep”[95]. m firstly MOR, daughter of DONNCHAD mac Cellach King of Ossory & his wife --- (-[984/85]). The Annals of Tigernach record the death in [984/85] of “Mor, daughter of Dondchad son of Cellach, and queen of Ireland”[96]. This passage does not name Mor´s husband. However, Maelsechnaill is the only person described in other passages in the Annals as king of Ireland at that time. m secondly MOR, daughter of TAIDG maic Cathail maic Concobair & his wife --- (-[990/91]). The Annals of Tigernach record the death in [990/91] of “Mor, daughter of Tadg, son of Cathal, son of Conchobar, queen of Ireland”[97]. This passage does not name Mor´s husband. However, Maelsechnaill is the only person described in other passages in the Annals of Tigernach as king of Ireland at that time. m [thirdly] as her third husband, GORMLAITH, widow of OLAF Sihtricsson King of Dublin and separated wife, secondly, of BRIAN Boroma King of Ireland, daughter of (-1030). Her third marriage is confirmed by the Annals of the Four Masters which record the death in 1030 of “Gormlaith daughter of Murchadh son of Finn, mother of the king of the foreigners Sitric, Donnchadh son of Brian king of Munster, and Conchobhar son of Maeleachlainn king of Teamhair”[98]. It is assumed that Maelsechnaill separated from Gormlaith as he is recorded with another wife before Gormlaith died. m [fourthly] MAELMAIRE, daughter of OLAF Sihtricson King of Dublin & his wife --- (-1021). The Annals of the Four Masters record the death in 1021 of “Maelmaire daughter of Amhlaeibh, wife of Maelseachlainn son of Domhnall”[99]. Mailschnaill & his [first/second] wife, Mor had four children: 1. DONNCHAD (-killed in battle 1012). 2. CONGALACH (-killed in battle [1017]). 3. DOMNALL (-[1017/18]). 4. FLANN (-1042). Mailsechnaill & his [third] wife, Gormlaith, had [two] children: 5. CONCHOBAR Húa MaelSechlainn (-killed 1073) 6. son . It is not certain that this son was also born from Mailsechnaill´s [third] marriage. m ---. One child: a) MUIRCHERTACH .