Fiacha ba h-Aiccid mac Catháir Mór

• Preferred Name: Fiacha ba h-Aiccid mac Catháir Mór^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}
  
• Alternate Name: Fiachu Mac Cathair Moe
  
• Gender: M
  
• Death: in Leinster, Ireland at LATI: N3.0833 LONG: E7
  
• FSID: L4Q7-G1R
  
• Birth: ABT 120 in Leinster, Ireland at LATI: N3.0833 LONG: E7
  
• Notes:

  === Fiachu Mac Cathair Mar Mor ===
  
  According to Foras Feasa ar Éirinn, Cathaoir Mor was a son of Feidhlimidh Fiorurghlas, son of Cormac Gealta Gaoth, son of Nia Corb, son of Cu Corb, son of Mogh Corb, son of Conchubhar Abhradhruadh, son of Fionn File, son of Rossa Ruadh, son of Fearghus Fairrge, son of Nuadha Neacht, son of Seadna Siothbhac, son of Lughaidh Loithfhionn, son of Breasal Breac, son of Fiachaidh Foibhric, son of Oilill Glas, son of Fearadhach Foghlas, son of Nuadha Fullon, son of Ealloit, son of Art, son of Mogh Airt, son of Criomhthann Coscrach, son of Feidhlimidh Foirthriun, son of Fearghus Fortamhail, son of Breasal Breodhamhan, son of Aonghus Ollamh, son of Oilill Bracain, son of Labhraidh Loingseach of the race of Eireamhon.[2]

1. Bressal Belach mac Fiachaidh Aiceadha of Leinster, b. in Ireland    

1. Title: The Testament of Catháir Mór
   Publication: Name: https://www.maryjones.us/ctexts/cathair.html;
   Note: 10. Fiacha Baiced came to his father, and he was the youngest of his children, and he was asking his father for land. And Cathair said: ‘I have nothing for you, and I will give you my blessing since you have no land. And be in fosterage with your brothers until you have strength.’ But Fiacha wept then in the presence of his father. Cathair said then to Fiacha: ‘Do so, my son,’ said he, ‘and take my blessing. Abide a month with each of your brothers, and abide seven years with Rosa Failge, who first received my blessing. The reason why Cathair gave that instruction to Fiacha was that he might obtain the kingship by virtue of his blessing. Fiacha did everything that Cathair asked of him. And then Cathair said to Fiacha: ‘Honoured is the unique youngest son, Fiacha, a man in many hundreds, lucky offspring of ardent Berba! His brethren will serve him. He will seize pleasant Aillenn. He will hold famous Carman. He will rule venerable Almain. He will strengthen Naas with splendour. Ladru the steersman with plenteous cargo (?) splendid salmon over Airgetros, he will seize Maistiu of the kings. He will settle Feimin under justice. He shall travel around land-rich Echtge. He shall have a share in blood-red Cruachu. He shall make noble Ailech red with blood. Some time he shall march against Emain. He shall overthrow the princes of Tara. He shall augment the Fair of Tailtiu. He shall lead the Lagin on an expedition overseas. He shall seize Inber nEtair. Stout spear-points shall be scattered against the kings of the splendid provinces by thy fair bright children of equal rank till their tombs be as many in mounds over the plains of the province of triumphant Cathair, as the sands of the grey sea. Success in speech and judgement, the kingship of Labraid Loingsech be thine, thou manly Fiacha! May the virtues of the blessing be as many for thy seed for ever, my honoured Fiacha! Thou hast come to thy inheritance prosperously and nobly!’ Fiacha Baiced abode with his brothers as Cathair bade him, and from that he was called Fiacha Baiced. And he was for seven years with Rosa Failge, and it was with Rosa that he first took arms, so that it is from someone of the kindred of Rosa Failge that each man of the descendants of Fiacha Baiced should take arms for the first time.
   
2. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Fiachu Ba Haiccid Maccathaír Már -
   Author: Ball.FTW, Not Given
   Note: Source Media Type: Other
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2737222794
   
3. Title: Wikipedia - Catháir Mór
   Author: Lebor Gabála Érenn, Part V, page 331 & 535; by Robert Macalister.^ Jump up to:a b Foras Feasa ar Éirinn, Section 40, page 259, http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100054/text050.html UCC CELT project. by Geoffrey Keating.Jump up^ R. A. Stewart Macalister (ed. & trans.), Lebor Gabála Érenn: The Book of the Taking of Ireland Part V, Irish Texts Society, 1956, p. 331
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathair_M%C3%B3r;
   
4. Title: Wikipedia - Kings of Leinster
   Author: Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, section 26, page 181, Ríg Lagen; http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/G800011A/text026.html Kings of Leinster Genealogical Tables, pages 288–290,"Irish Kings and High Kings", Francis John Byrne, Dublin, 1973. Kings, Saints and Sagas, Alfred. P. Smyth, in Wicklow:History and Society, 1994. ISBN 978-0-906602-30-0 Kings, the kingship of Leinster and the regnal poems of "laidshencfhas Laigen:a reflection of dynastic politics in Leinster, 650–1150, Edel Bhreathnach, in Seanchas:Studies in Early and Medieval Irish Archaeology, History and Literature in Honour of Francis John Byrne, ed. Alfred P. Smyth, pp. 299–312, Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2000 Kings of Leinster Genealogical Tables, pages 247–249, "War, Politics and the Irish of Leinster 1156–1606", Emmett O'Bryne, Dublin, 2004.
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_kings_of_Leinster;
   Note: The kings of Leinster (Irish: Rí Laighín), ruled from the establishment of Leinster during the Irish Iron Age, until the 17th century Early Modern Ireland. According to Gaelic traditional history, laid out in works such as the Book of Invasions, Leinster originates from the division of Ireland between the Irish Gaels, descendants of Milesius: Leinster was one of the territories held by the offspring of Heremon. In the 7th century BC, the branch of the Heremonians who would establish Leinster, starting with Úgaine Mór were also High Kings of Ireland and Kings of Tara. Their ascent to hegemony in Ireland was associated with the decline in influence of their Ulster-based Heremonian kinsmen from the Érainn. Aside from Úgaine Mór, other prominent Kings of Leinster from this period who were also High Kings of Ireland were Labraid Loingsech and Cathair Mór. A mythology developed that Labraid Loingsech had horses ears: he spent some time exiled in Transalpine Gaul (dated roughly to the period of the Roman-Gallic Wars) where his grandmother was from and returned to Ireland with Gaullish mercenaries. He established a base in the area, which was renamed from "Gailian" to Leinster, in reference to the pointed-spears held by the Gaullish Gaesatae mercenaries who provided the backbone of Labraid Loingsech's powerbase and brought him to the High Kingship. Cathair Mór, who was also a High King of Ireland, is perhaps the most important figure genealogically in Leinster as all of the subsequent kinship groups which ruled Gaelic Leinster claimed descent and legitimacy to rule from one of his ten sons who had offspring. By the time of Early Christian Ireland, the Laighín had lost their grip on Irish hegemony with the rise of the descendants of Conn of the Hundred Battles (the Connachta and the Uí Néill). The latter pushed down into Leinster and created the Kingdom of Meath based at Uisnech, under the Southern Uí Néill from territories belonging to the Kingdom of Leinster and to the west Osraige was taken from the Laighín by the Corcu Loígde of Munster. During the 5th to the early 8th centuries, the Kingship of Leinster was contested by various different branches of the Laighín, including the Uí Cheinnselaig (ancestors of the Mac Murchada and Ó Tuathail), the Uí Bairrche (ancestors of the Mac Gormáin), the Uí Máil (ancestors of the Ó Conchobhair Uí Failghe) and others. Following this period, until the 11th century, Leinster was mostly contested between two branches of the Uí Dúnlainge kinship, represented by what are today the families of Ó Tuathail and Ó Brion. In the 9th century, the Laighín also regained control of Osraige but it remained a largely independent realm under the Mac Giolla Phádrag, from the semi-autonomous Uí Failghe kinship group. The Uí Cheinnselaig took back control of Leinster in the 11th century, with Diarmait mac Máel na mBó, who became the first Leinsterman to be High King of Ireland in over a thousand years and claimed to the most senior line of the Laighín. An enemy of the Vikings of Dublin, he gave refuge to the sons of Harold Godwinson after the Normans conquered England. It is from this line that the Mac Murchada family originate and later Diarmait mac Murchada would be implicated in the 12th century Norman invasion of Ireland after he tried to win back his Leinster throne. The reigning dynasty adopted the surname Caomhánach (Kavanagh) and continued to rule a rump Kingdom of Leinster until the early 17th century, with the last recorded King of Leinster being Domhnall Spáinneach Mac Murchadha Caomhánach. Throughout the centuries after the Norman invasion, several Kings and also leaders from dynasties who had previously held the Kingship of Leinster, continued to resist the invasion and hounded the English Pale periodically from the Wicklow Mountains: including the leaders of the O'Toole and O'Byrne clans (notable examples include Art Óg mac Murchadha Caomhánach and Fiach McHugh O'Byrne). Ui Ceinnselaig Kings: Fiachu Baicheda mac Catháir Mor Bressal Bélach mac Fiachu Baicheda [Labradh mac Bressal Bélach -did not hold the Kingship] Ennae Cennsalach mac Labradh
   
5. Title: Wikipedia - Ui Ceinnselaig
   Author: O'Byrne, E (2005). "MacMurrough". In Duffy, S (ed.). Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia. New York: Routledge. pp. 302–303. ISBN 0-415-94052-4. ^ Zumbuhl, M (2005). "Uí Chennselaig". In Duffy, S (ed.). Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia. New York: Routledge. pp. 406–407. ISBN 0-415-94052-4. ^ Jump up to: a b c Flanagan, MT (1981). "Mac Dalbaig, a Leinster Chieftain". The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. 111: 5–13. JSTOR 25508795 – via JSTOR. ^ MacLysaght, E (1972). Irish Families: Their Names, Arms and Origins (3rd ed.). New York: Crown Publishers. pp. 189–190. OL 23251759M – via Open Library. ^ Byrne, FJ (2001). Irish Kings and High-Kings. Four Courts History Classics. Dublin: Four Courts Press. p. xxxv. ISBN 1-85182-552-5 – via Google Books. ^ Date per The Chronology of the Irish Annals, Daniel P. McCarthy
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U%C3%AD_Ceinnselaig;
   Note: Uí Ceinnselaig Parent house Laigin Country Ireland Founded 5th century Founder Énnae Cennsalach Titles King of Leinster High King of Ireland King of Dublin King of the Isles King of Uí Ceinnselaig The Uí Ceinnselaig (also Uí Cheinnselaig, Anglicized as Kinsella), from the Old Irish "grandsons of Cennsalach", are an Irish dynasty of Leinster who trace their descent from Énnae Cennsalach, a supposed contemporary of Niall of the Nine Hostages. Énda was said to be a grandson of Bressal Bélach and a first cousin of Dúnlaing mac Énda Niada, eponymous ancestor of the rival Uí Dúnlainge. The earliest associations of the Uí Ceinnselaig are with the region around Rathvilly, County Carlow, and the headwaters of the River Slaney, but in time the centre of their power was pushed southwards, later being found around Ferns, County Wexford, site of the monastery of the saint Máedóc of Ferns (d. 626 or 632). In early times the kings of Leinster came from the Uí Ceinnselaig and the Uí Dúnlainge, but the Uí Dúnlainge came to dominate the kingship of the province, and after Áed mac Colggen (d. 738) it was three hundred years until the next Uí Ceinnselaig king of Leinster, Diarmait mac Máel na mBó (see list of Kings of Uí Cheinnselaig). A branch of the family, the descendants of the Uí Ceinnselaig dynast Murchad mac Diarmata meic Máel na mBó, took the surname mac Murchada (from which modern Irish Mac Murchadha, anglicised as MacMurrough, Murphy, Morrow, etc.).[1][2][3] From this branch descended Domhnall Caomhánach, founder of the Caomhánach family.[4] Another segment of the Uí Ceinnselaig family, the descendants of the Uí Ceinnselaig dynast Domnall Remar mac Mael na mBó, took the Irish surname Ua Domnaill.[3][5] Both branches—the Meic Murchada and the Uí Domnaill—were bitter rivals over the kingship of Uí Ceinnselaig.[3] Notable kings of the Uí Ceinnselaig and related kindreds included: Brandub mac Echach (died 603)[6] Áed mac Colggen (died 738) Diarmait mac Máel na mBó (died 1072) Murchad mac Diarmata (died 1070) Diarmait Mac Murchada (died 1171) Aoife MacMurrough (died 1188) Art Mór Mac Murchadha Caomhánach (died 1417)
   
6. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Fiachu Ba Haiccid Maccathaír Már -
   Author: 401017.ftw, Not Given
   Note: Source Media Type: Other
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2737222796