Crimthann mac Énnai

• Preferred Name: Crimthann mac Énnai^{[1] [2] [3]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• Death: 483 in Leinster, Ireland at LATI: N3.0833 LONG: E7
  
• FSID: 2Z98-KJV
  
• Clan Name: with note: Description: Ui Chienneslaig
  
• Birth: in Laigin, Ireland at LATI: N3 LONG: E8 with note: The Laigin, modern spelling Laighin (Irish pronunciation: [ˈl̪ˠəinʲ]), were a Gaelic population group of early Ireland. They gave their name to the Kingdom of Leinster, which in the medieval era was known in Irish as Cóiced Laigen, meaning "Fifth/province of the Leinstermen" (Modern Irish Cúige Laighean), where their descendants ruled till the 17th century. Their territory, located in south-east Ireland, is thought to have once extended from the River Shannon to the River Boyne.[1] The surnames of those descended from the Laigin are still counted amongst the most numerous in Ireland.
  
• Crimthann+assisted+Dathi+in+the+murder+of+Brión: with note: Description: After this, however, Dathi, the son of Fiachra, a very warlike youth, waged war on his uncle Brian, and challenged him to a pitched battle, at a place called Damh-chluain, situated not far from Knockmaa hill, near Tuam, in the now county of Galway. In this battle, in which Dathi was assisted by Crimthann, son of Enna Cennselach, King of Leinster, Brian and his forces were routed, and pursued from the field of battle to Tulcha Domhnaill, where he was overtaken and slain by Crimthann, son of Enna Cennselach. The body of Brian was buried at the place where he fell, but after a long lapse of years St Beo Aedli, or Aidus vivax, of Roscam, near Galway, removed his bones from that place, and buried them at Roscam; and the writer of the tract on the battle of Damh-cluain, preserved in the Book of Ballymote, adds, ‘the burial-place of Brian is to be seen there at this day.’
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: King of Leinster
  
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  === Life Sketch ===
  Wikipedia
  Crimthann mac Énnai (died 483) was a King of Leinster from the Uí Cheinnselaig sept of the Laigin. He was the son of Énnae Cennsalach, the ancestor of this dynasty.[1]
  
  Biography
  It is not known when he acquired the throne but, in the annals record of the Battle of Áth Dara, on the River Barrow in Mag Ailbe (South County Kildare), in 458, both the Annals of Ulster and the Chronicum Scotorum name Crimthann as the leader of the Laigin forces.[2] The Laigin defeated the high king Lóegaire mac Néill (died 462) and captured him. They released him after he promised not to levy the cattle-tribute from Leinster again.
  
  Crimthann was baptized by Saint Patrick at Ráith Bilech (Rathvilly Moat, Co.Carlow)[3]
  
  The Annals of the Four Masters claim he was present at the Battle of Ocha of 482 when the high king Ailill Molt was slain but this is not confirmed by the other annals.[4]
  
  The annals record that he was slain (mortally wounded) in 483 and the Chronicum Scotorum specifies that Eochaid Guinech of the Uí Bairrche and the men of Arad Cliach were responsible.[5] The Annals of the Four Masters state that Eochaid Guinech was the son of his daughter.[6] The Uí Bairrche probably held an earlier predominant position in the south part of Leinster prior to the rise of the Uí Cheinnselaig.[7]
  
  According to Keating, his wife's name was Congain. They had a daughter named Eithne Uatahach (d.490), who was fostered by the Deisi and was married to Óengus mac Nad Froích (d.490), the first Christian king of Munster.[8] She was killed along with her husband at the Battle of Cenn Losnada in Mag Fea (near Leighlin, County Carlow) in 490 by the Uí Dúnlainge sept and the same Eochaid Guinech of the Uí Bairrche who had slain her father.[9]
  
  He had at least one son, Nath Í mac Crimthainn, a King of the Uí Cheinnselaig.[10] Nath Í's sons were 1. Éogan Cáech (a king of the Uí Cheinnselaig), who founded the Síl Fáelchán, Sil Máeluidir, Síl nÉladaig, and Síl Mella septs; 2. Cormacc, who founded the Sil Chormaic sept; 3. Ailill, grandfather of the high-king of Ireland Áed mac Ainmuirech.
  In the Kinsella (Chennselaigh) and other genealogies, Crimthann mac Ennai's first wife, and the mother of Nath Í, was Mel - also referred to in The Expulsion of the Déisi (Dessi, Deissi). According to the Expulsion, (which is off by dates), Crimthann married two of Mel's sisters in turn. The second sister was mother to Ingren (sp) who was mother to Crimthann's murdering grandson Eochaid Guinech of the Uí Bairrche. Yet another sister was the mother of Eithne Uatahach, who bore only that one daughter. From the Expulsion: "The three daughters of Ernbrand, Mell and Belc and Cinniu were all three married to Crimthann, one after another. Fromn Mell are the SiT Mella., from Belc the Hui Beilce. Cinniu bore Ethne only to him."[11] The Sil Mella and Ui Meala septs refer to descendants of Mell.

1. Nathach mac Crimthann Leinster, b. ABT 440 in Leinster, Ireland     d. 550

1. Title: Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters
   Author: Annals of the kingdom of Ireland -pages 149-150 by O'Clery, Michael, 1575-1643; O'Clery, Cucogry, d 1664; O'Mulconry, Ferfeasa, fl 1636; O'Duigenan, Cucogry, fl. 1636; O'Clery, Conary, fl 1636; O'Donovan, John, 1809-1861
   Publication: Name: https://archive.org/details/annalsofkingdomo01ocleuoft/page/150/mode/2up?q=Bressal+Fiachra;
   Note: 483. Jugulatio Crimthain, mac Enna Cennselach, Regis Lagenie, mic Bressail Bealaich, mic Cathair Moir. Et hoc anno the battle [called] Cath Ocha, secundum alias, by Lugad and by Murtagh mac Erca, and by Fergus Cervail, mac Connell Crimthain, and by Fiachra Lon, the King of Dal-Araide." The accounts of the death of this monarch are various and conflicting, for which see Colgan's Trias Thaum., p. 565, col. 1, not. 8, 9. The Life of St. Kieran states, that Oilioll Molt was slain in the battle of Ocha, in Meath, by Crimhthann, King of Leinster : " Ex his obiter advertendum eos graviter errare, qui scribunt hunc Crim- thannum occubuisse anno 465, cum multis postea revolutis annis prsedicto prrelio inter- fuit." — Colgan. To this it may be added that, according to the ancient historical tract called Borumha-Laighean, Crimhthann, son of Enna, slew Oilioll Molt in the battle of Ocha.
   
2. Title: Wikipedia - History of Laigin
   Author: References ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Connolly, p. 308. ^ Byrne, p. 46. ^ Duffy, pp. 7-8. ^ John T. Koch, Celtic culture: a historical encyclopedia. Vols 1-4, p. 1079. ^ Byrne 2001, pp. 130-164 ^ Blasse, Lian. "A reassesment of the dating of Móen Óen". ^ "The Destruction of Dind Ríg". celt.ucc.ie. Retrieved 2021-09-10. ^ Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, "Ireland, 400-800", in Dáibhí Ó Cróinín (ed.), A New History of Ireland Vol 1, 2005, pp. 182-234 Bibliography Byrne, Francis J. (2001). Irish Kings and High Kings. Four Courts Press. ISBN 9781851821969. Connolly, S.J. (2007). Oxford Companion to Irish History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-923483-7. Duffy, Seán (2014). Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf. Gill & Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-7171-6207-9.
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laigin;
   Note: The Laigin, modern spelling Laighin (Irish pronunciation: [ˈl̪ˠəinʲ]), were a Gaelic population group of early Ireland. They gave their name to the Kingdom of Leinster, which in the medieval era was known in Irish as Cóiced Laigen, meaning "Fifth/province of the Leinstermen" (Modern Irish Cúige Laighean), where their descendants ruled till the 17th century. Their territory, located in south-east Ireland, is thought to have once extended from the River Shannon to the River Boyne.[1] The surnames of those descended from the Laigin are still counted amongst the most numerous in Ireland. Etymology Laigin is a plural noun, indicating an ethnonym rather than a geographic term,[2] but the Irish system of naming territories meant that an area tended to be named after an apical ancestor-figure even when the ruling dynasty had no links to that figure.[3] The origin of their name is uncertain; however, it is traditionally assumed to derive from the Irish word láigen, meaning 'a spear'.[1] Early texts use names Laigen and Gaileoin interchangeably.[4] Origins The Laigin claimed descended from King Labraid Loingsech.[1] Modern historians suggest, on the basis of Irish traditions and related place names, that the Laigin were a group of invaders from Gaul or Britain, who arrived no later than the 6th century BC, and were later incorporated into the medieval genealogical scheme which made all the ruling groups of early Ireland descend from Míl Espáine (Milesians of Spain). Place names also suggest they once had a presence in north Munster and in Connacht.[5] One archaic poem, possibly dating from about 600AD, reads as follows:- Móin óin, ó ba nóid, ní bu nós ardríg, oirt ríga, rout án, aue Luirc Labraid. Láithe gaile Galián gabsit inna lámaib laigne Lagin de sin slóg Galián glonnach. Glinnsit coicthe cota lir lerggae íath nÉremóin: is iarna longis Lóchet Longsech fían flaith Góidel gabsus. Gríb indrid íath n-anéoil aue Luirc Lóiguiri arddu dóinaib acht nóibrí nime. Ór ós gréin gelmair gabais for dóine domnaib sceo déib Día óin as Móin macc Áini óinrig. "Móen alone since he was an infant (or "an adult") - a thing which is a custom for a High King -, slew kings (with) a splendid shot, Labraid grandson of Lorc. The warriors of the Galiáin took spears in their hands, from that the deedful host of the Galián are called Laigin. They won wars as far as the sea of the shore of the lands of Éremón; it is after the taking ship, a lightning flash of warrior bands, that he seized the lordship of the Gaedel Loégaire grandson of Lorc was a griffin overrunning unknown lands, exalted above men, except for the holy King of Heaven Gold more shining than the sun he took, on the lands of men and gods, one god, that is Móen son of Áine, the one king."[6] In the saga, Orgain Denna Ríg (The Destruction of Dind Ríg), Labraid Loingsech is exiled when his granduncle Cobhtach Coel usurps the kingship, however, he subsequently returns from abroad with an army of spearmen (Laigin) and takes his kingship by burning the citadel of Dind Ríg to the ground with the usurper and all his retinue inside. The saga ends with:- "So then Cobthach Coel is there destroyed, with seven hundred followers and thirty kings around him, on the eve of great Christmas precisely. Hence is said: Three hundred years — victorious reckoning — before Christ's birth, a holy conception, it was not fraternal, it was evil — (Loegaire) Lorc was slain by Cobthach Coel. Cobthach Coel with thirty kings, Labraid ... slew him (Lugaid). Loegaire's grandson from the main, in Dind Ríg the host was slain. And 'tis of this that Ferchertne the poet said: ‘Dind Ríg, which had been Tuaim Tenbath,’ etc. i.e. Máin Ollam he was at first, Labraid Moen afterwards, but Labraid the Exile, since he went into exile, when he gained a realm as far as the Ictian Sea, and brought the many foreigners with him (to Ireland), to wit, two thousand and two hundred foreigners with broad lances in their hands, from which the Laigin (Leinstermen) are so called". [7] Related peoples and dynasties Archaic poems found in medieval genealogical texts distinguish three groups making up the Laigin: the Laigin proper, the Gaileóin, and the Fir Domnann. The latter are suggested to be related to the British Dumnonii.[1][8] Amongst others, some of the dynasties that claimed to belong to the Laigin include: Uí Failge, Uí Bairrche, Uí Dúnlainge, Uí Ceinnselaig, Uí Garrchon, and the Uí Máil.[1] In medieval literature In the legendary tales of the Ulster Cycle, the king of the Connachta, Ailill mac Máta, is said to belong to the Laigin. This is thought by Byrne (2001) to be related to a possible early domination of the province of Connacht by peoples related to the Laigin, the Fir Domnann and the Gamanrad.
   
3. Title: Wikipedia - Crimthann mac Ennai
   Author: References[edit] Annals of Ulster at CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork Annals of the Four Masters at CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork Annals of Tigernach at CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork Chronicum Scotorum at CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork Charles-Edwards, T. M. (2000), Early Christian Ireland, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-36395-0 Byrne, Francis John (2001), Irish Kings and High-Kings, Dublin: Four Courts Press, ISBN 978-1-85182-196-9 Mac Niocaill, Gearoid (1972), Ireland before the Vikings, Dublin: Gill and Macmillan Ó Cróinín, Dáibhí (2005), A New History of Ireland, Volume One, Oxford: Oxford University Press Geoffrey Keating, History of Ireland at CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork Revised edition of McCarthy's synchronisms at Trinity College Dublin.
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimthann_mac_Énnai;
   Note: Crimthann mac Énnai (died 483) was a King of Leinster from the Uí Cheinnselaig sept of the Laigin. He was the son of Énnae Cennsalach, the ancestor of this dynasty.[1] Biography It is not known when he acquired the throne but, in the annals record of the Battle of Áth Dara, on the River Barrow in Mag Ailbe (South County Kildare), in 458, both the Annals of Ulster and the Chronicum Scotorum name Crimthann as the leader of the Laigin forces.[2] The Laigin defeated the high king Lóegaire mac Néill (died 462) and captured him. They released him after he promised not to levy the cattle-tribute from Leinster again. Crimthann was baptized by Saint Patrick at Ráith Bilech (Rathvilly Moat, Co.Carlow)[3] The Annals of the Four Masters claim he was present at the Battle of Ocha of 482 when the high king Ailill Molt was slain but this is not confirmed by the other annals.[4] The annals record that he was slain (mortally wounded) in 483 and the Chronicum Scotorum specifies that Eochaid Guinech of the Uí Bairrche and the men of Arad Cliach were responsible.[5] The Annals of the Four Masters state that Eochaid Guinech was the son of his daughter.[6] The Uí Bairrche probably held an earlier predominant position in the south part of Leinster prior to the rise of the Uí Cheinnselaig.[7] According to Keating, his wife's name was Congain. They had a daughter named Eithne Uatahach (d.490), who was fostered by the Deisi and was married to Óengus mac Nad Froích (d.490), the first Christian king of Munster.[8] She was killed along with her husband at the Battle of Cenn Losnada in Mag Fea (near Leighlin, County Carlow) in 490 by the Uí Dúnlainge sept and the same Eochaid Guinech of the Uí Bairrche who had slain her father.[9] He had at least one son, Nath Í mac Crimthainn, a King of the Uí Cheinnselaig.[10] Nath Í's sons were 1. Éogan Cáech (a king of the Uí Cheinnselaig), who founded the Síl Fáelchán, Sil Máeluidir, Síl nÉladaig, and Síl Mella septs; 2. Cormacc, who founded the Sil Chormaic sept; 3. Ailill, grandfather of the high-king of Ireland Áed mac Ainmuirech. In the Kinsella (Chennselaigh) and other genealogies, Crimthann mac Ennai's first wife, and the mother of Nath Í, was Mel - also referred to in The Expulsion of the Déisi (Dessi, Deissi). According to the Expulsion, (which is off by dates), Crimthann married two of Mel's sisters in turn. The second sister was mother to Ingren (sp) who was mother to Crimthann's murdering grandson Eochaid Guinech of the Uí Bairrche. Yet another sister was the mother of Eithne Uatahach, who bore only that one daughter. From the Expulsion: "The three daughters of Ernbrand, Mell and Belc and Cinniu were all three married to Crimthann, one after another. Fromn Mell are the SiT Mella., from Belc the Hui Beilce. Cinniu bore Ethne only to him."[11] The Sil Mella and Ui Meala septs refer to descendants of Mell.