Blathmac mac Áed Sláine High King of Ireland

• Preferred Name: Blathmac mac Áed Sláine High King of Ireland^{[1] [2] [3]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• FSID: GQFQ-ZR6
  
• Clan Name: with note: Description: Síl nÁedo Sláine, Southern Ui Niall
  
• Death: 665 in Tara, County Meath, Ireland at LATI: N3.5823 LONG: E6.6249
  
• Birth: ABT 578 in Uisnech, County Meath, Ireland at LATI: N3.6162 LONG: E6.6911
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: High King of IrelandBET 657 AND 664 in Tara, County Meath, Ireland at LATI: N3.5823 LONG: E6.6249
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Blathmac, High King of Ireland was the son of Áed Sláine, High King of Ireland.1 He died in 665.1
  He was a member of the House of Síl nÁedo Sláine.1 He succeeded as the High King of Ireland in 658.1
  Children of Blathmac, High King of Ireland
  Sechnussach, High King of Ireland1 d. 671
  Cennfáelad, High King of Ireland1 d. 675
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  Blathmac (died 665) was a son of Áed Sláine. According to the Irish annals, he was High King of Ireland.
  
  Sons of Áed Sláine
  
  Blathmac's father Áed Sláine was a son of Diarmait mac Cerbaill, the apical ancestor of the southern branches of the Uí Néill kindred which dominated Ireland from the late 6th century until the rise of Brian Bóruma in the late 10th century.
  
  The descendants of Áed Sláine were known as the Síl nÁedo Sláine. With the possible exception of Óengus mac Colmáin, all Uí Néill kings descended from Diarmait mac Cerbaill belonged to the Síl nÁedo Sláine until the death of Cináed mac Írgalaig in 728.
  
  The Síl nÁedo Sláine were Kings of Brega, and the Hill of Tara, where High Kings were inaugurated, lay within their lands. Other groups descended from the sons of Diarmait included Clann Cholmáin, or more precisely Clann Cholmáin Máir, descended from Colmán Mór, which replaced the Síl nÁedo Sláine as the dominant group of the southern Uí Néill from the middle of the 8th century, and the less important Caílle Follamain or Clann Cholmáin Bicc, descended from Colmán Bec.
  
  Áed Sláine himself is said to have been High King jointly with Colmán Rímid of the northern Cenél nEógain branch of the Uí Néill, following the death of Áed mac Ainmuirech.
  
  Áed Sláine died circa 604, a death said to have been prophesied by Saint Columba. Áed's sons are said to have included Blathmac, Diarmait (died 665), Congal (died 634), Ailill (died 634), and Dúnchad (died 659).
  
  Domnall mac Áedo and Congal Cáech
  Blathmac was one of the younger sons of Áed Sláine. According to king lists, the kingship of Brega was held by Congal and then by Ailill, both killed by Congal mac Suibni of Clann Cholmáin in 634, who had also killed Áed Sláine in 604.
  
  After this Blathmac and Diarmait were jointly kings of Brega. Diarmait killed Congal mac Suibni "in the house of Nad-Fraích's son" according to the Annals of Ulster, in 635. That same year Diarmait defeated Clann Cholmáin Bicc in battle at Cúil Caeláin where Óengus mac Colmáin's son Máel Umai was killed. Blathmac is not mentioned in these reports.
  
  At this time the High Kingship of Ireland may have been disputed between Domnall mac Áedo of the northern Cenél Conaill branch of the Uí Néill and the cruithne king Congal Cáech. In this complicated contest Blathmac and Diarmait were allied with Domnall. They fought alongside him at the Battle of Mag Rath where Congal was killed. Some branches of the Uí Néill fought against Domnall, among them Conall mac Suibni's son Airmedach who died there.
  
  High King
  The compilers of the various Irish annals were apparently uncertain as to the succession following the death of Domnall mac Áedo in 642. The Annals of Ulster state:
  
  Here it is uncertain who reigned after Domnall. Some historiographers state that four kings, i.e. Cellach, Conall Cóel, and two sons of Aed Sláine son of Diarmait son of Fergus Cerrbél son of Conall of Cremthann son of Niall Noígiallach, namely Diarmait and Blathmac, reigned in mingled rule.
  
  According to the late 7th century Baile Chuind Chétchathaig, a list of High Kings composed in the reign of Blathmac's nephew Fínsnechta Fledach, son of Dúnchad, Domnall mac Áedo was succeeded by Blathmac and Diarmait. The Baile Chuind omits several kings, including Áed Sláine, some of which may be copying errors, but others are apparently deliberate. It is a work of dynastic propaganda, its purpose to demonstrate that the Síl nÁedo Sláine should by right be High Kings of Ireland. For these reasons, although it is the most nearly contemporary witness, it is not necessarily to be trusted.
  
  Of the two or four kings, Diarmait was the most active according to the record which survives in the Irish annals. Relatively little is reported of Blathmac. The deaths of three of his sons are recorded during his lifetime. The death of Eochaid in 660 is reported without explanation, but the notice of the killing of Dúnchad and Conall in 651 is accompanied by some gnomic verses. These appear to associate the killings with one Máelodrán, a Leinsterman. A variant on these events appears in the Orgguin Trí Mac Díarmata mic Cerbaill (The Slaying of the Three Sons of Díarmait mac Cerbaill), perhaps composed in the Old Irish language period. This makes Dúnchad and Conall, and also Máelodor, sons of Diarmait mac Cerbaill and their killer the Dál Messin Corb hero Máelodrán mac Dímma Chróin. Diarmait's sons flee from Máelodrán and hide in a mill where they are crushed.
  
  A plague arrived in Ireland in 664, called the buide Chonaill. The annals record that Blathmac and Diarmait both died of the disease the following year. The king lists have them followed by Blathmac's son Sechnassach, possibly ruling jointly with another son of Blathmac, Cenn Fáelad.
  
  Descendants and posterity
  Blathmac's five recorded sons have already been mentioned: Sechnassach and Cenn Fáelad who survived him and Dúnchad, Conall and Eochaid, who pre-deceased him. None of Blathmac's later descendants were major figures.
  
  For editors and creators of Middle Irish language literature, the reign of Blathmac and Diarmait was imagined as a Golden Age. Works set in this period include the Cath Cairnd Chonaill and the Scéla Cano meic Gartnáin.

1. Title: Wikipedia - List of High Kings of Ireland
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_King_of_Ireland;
   Note: Kings in the Baile Chuind The earliest surviving list appears in the Baile Chuind (The Ecstasy of Conn), a late seventh century poem in which Conn of the Hundred Battles experiences a vision of the kings who will succeed him. Many of these kings appear to correspond with the kings of later traditions, although the order is different, and some of the kings cannot be identified. The last four kings following Snechta Fína (Fínsnechta Fledach) do not correspond with any of the kings in later lists. The poem is therefore presumed to have been written during his time, and the kings who follow him are presumed to be fictional.[1] With few exceptions, kings belong to Dál Cuinn (the Connachta and Uí Néill). Understood as a list of Kings of Tara, it is not considered to be inclusive. A number of well known kings from the Laigin, Érainn, Ulaid, and Cruthin, are missing. The chief rivals of Dál Cuinn at the time of Conn's supposed floruit were the Dáirine, alias Corcu Loígde, two of whom are listed, but whose overkingdom in the south of Ireland collapsed in the 7th century. They would be replaced by the Eóganachta, who established the Kingship of Cashel, later to rival Tara. Níell Niall Noígíallach Dál Cuinn Loígaire Lóegaire mac Néill Dál Cuinn/Uí Néill Corpri Coirpre mac Néill (d. c. 463) Dál Cuinn/Uí Néill Ailill Ailill Molt (d. 482) Connachta/Uí Fiachrach Lugid Lugaid mac Lóegairi (d. c. 507) Uí Néill Mac Ercéni Muirchertach mac Ercae (d. c. 536) Uí Néill/Cenél nEógain Óengarb Túathal Máelgarb (d. c. 544) Uí Néill Aíd probably Áed mac Ainmuirech (d. 598) Uí Néill/Cenél Conaill; seemingly misplaced chronologically Aíd Olláin probably Áed Uaridnach (d. 612) Uí Néill/Cenél nEógain; seemingly misplaced chronologically Diermait Diarmait mac Cerbaill (d. c. 565) Uí Néill? Origins obscure. Feáchno Fiachnae mac Báetáin (d. 626), or perhaps Fiachnae mac Feradaig, father of Suibne Menn Cruthin/Dál nAraidi, or Uí Néill/Cenél nEógain Suibne Suibne Menn (d. 628) Uí Néill/Cenél nEógain Domnall Domnall mac Áedo (d. c. 642) Uí Néill/Cenél Conaill Blathmac and Diarmaid grandson of the other one Blathmac mac Áedo Sláine & Diarmait mac Áedo Sláine (both d. 665) Southern Uí Néill Snechta Fína Fínsnechta Fledach (d. c. 695) Uí Néill/Síl nÁedo Sláine
   
2. Title: Wikipedia - Semi Historical High Kings of Ireland
   Publication: Name: https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/125076470;
   
3. Title: Wikipedia - Blathac macÁedo Slaine, High King of Ireland
   Author: Byrne, Francis John (1973), Irish Kings and High-Kings, London: Batsford, ISBN 0-7134-5882-8 Charles-Edwards, T. M. (2004), "Blaímac mac Áeda (Blathmac) (d. 665)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford: Oxford University Press, retrieved 25 October 2007 Charles-Edwards, T. M. (2000), Early Christian Ireland, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-36395-0 Wiley, Dan M. (2004), "Orgguin Trí Mac Díarmata mic Cerbaill", The Cycles of the Kings, archived from the original on 2 September 2006, retrieved 2 March 2007
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blathmac_mac_%C3%81edo_Sl%C3%A1ine#:~:text=Blathmac%20(died%20665)%20was%20a,was%20High%20King%20of%20Ireland.;
   Note: Blathmac (died 665) was a son of Áed Sláine. According to the Irish annals, he was High King of Ireland. Contents 1 Sons of Áed Sláine 2 Domnall mac Áedo and Congal Cáech 3 High King 4 Descendants and posterity 5 References Sons of Áed Sláine Peoples and kingdoms in early Ireland. Main article: Síl nÁedo Sláine Blathmac's father Áed Sláine was a son of Diarmait mac Cerbaill, the apical ancestor of the southern branches of the Uí Néill kindred which dominated Ireland from the late 6th century until the rise of Brian Bóruma in the late 10th century. The descendants of Áed Sláine were known as the Síl nÁedo Sláine. With the possible exception of Óengus mac Colmáin, all Uí Néill kings descended from Diarmait mac Cerbaill belonged to the Síl nÁedo Sláine until the death of Cináed mac Írgalaig in 728. The Síl nÁedo Sláine were Kings of Brega, and the Hill of Tara, where High Kings were inaugurated, lay within their lands. Other groups descended from the sons of Diarmait included Clann Cholmáin, or more precisely Clann Cholmáin Máir, descended from Colmán Már, which replaced the Síl nÁedo Sláine as the dominant group of the southern Uí Néill from the middle of the 8th century, and the less important Caílle Follamain or Clann Cholmáin Bicc, descended from Colmán Beg. Áed Sláine himself is said to have been High King jointly with Colmán Rímid of the northern Cenél nEógain branch of the Uí Néill, following the death of Áed mac Ainmuirech. Áed Sláine died circa 604, a death said to have been prophesied by Saint Columba. Áed's sons are said to have included Blathmac, Diarmait (died 665), Congal (died 634), Ailill (died 634), and Dúnchad (died 659). Domnall mac Áedo and Congal Cáech Blathmac was one of the younger sons of Áed Sláine. According to king lists, the kingship of Brega was held by Congal and then by Ailill, both killed by Congal mac Suibni of Clann Cholmáin in 634, who had also killed Áed Sláine in 604. After this Blathmac and Diarmait were jointly kings of Brega. Diarmait killed Congal mac Suibni "in the house of Nad-Fraích's son" according to the Annals of Ulster, in 635. That same year Diarmait defeated Clann Cholmáin Bicc in battle at Cúil Caeláin where Óengus mac Colmáin's son Máel Umai was killed. Blathmac is not mentioned in these reports. At this time the High Kingship of Ireland may have been disputed between Domnall mac Áedo of the northern Cenél Conaill branch of the Uí Néill and the cruithne king Congal Cáech. In this complicated contest Blathmac and Diarmait were allied with Domnall. They fought alongside him at the Battle of Mag Rath where Congal was killed. Some branches of the Uí Néill fought against Domnall, among them Conall mac Suibni's son Airmedach who died there. High King The compilers of the various Irish annals were apparently uncertain as to the succession following the death of Domnall mac Áedo in 642. The Annals of Ulster state: Here it is uncertain who reigned after Domnall. Some historiographers state that four kings, i.e. Cellach, Conall Cóel, and two sons of Aed Sláine son of Diarmait son of Fergus Cerrbél son of Conall of Cremthann son of Niall Noígiallach, namely Diarmait and Blathmac, reigned in mingled rule. According to the late 7th century Baile Chuind Chétchathaig, a list of High Kings composed in the reign of Blathmac's nephew Fínsnechta Fledach, son of Dúnchad, Domnall mac Áedo was succeeded by Blathmac and Diarmait. The Baile Chuind omits several kings, including Áed Sláine, some of which may be copying errors, but others are apparently deliberate. It is a work of dynastic propaganda, its purpose to demonstrate that the Síl nÁedo Sláine should by right be High Kings of Ireland. For these reasons, although it is the most nearly contemporary witness, it is not necessarily to be trusted. Of the two or four kings, Diarmait was the most active according to the record which survives in the Irish annals. Relatively little is reported of Blathmac. The deaths of three of his sons are recorded during his lifetime. The death of Eochaid in 660 is reported without explanation, but the notice of the killing of Dúnchad and Conall in 651 is accompanied by some gnomic verses. These appear to associate the killings with one Máelodrán, a Leinsterman. A variant on these events appears in the Orgguin Trí Mac Díarmata mic Cerbaill (The Slaying of the Three Sons of Díarmait mac Cerbaill), perhaps composed in the Old Irish language period. This makes Dúnchad and Conall, and also Máelodor, sons of Diarmait mac Cerbaill and their killer the Dál Messin Corb hero Máelodrán mac Dímma Chróin. Diarmait's sons flee from Máelodrán and hide in a mill where they are crushed. A plague arrived in Ireland in 664, called the buide Chonaill. The annals record that Blathmac and Diarmait both died of the disease the following year. The king lists have them followed by Blathmac's son Sechnassach, possibly ruling jointly with another son of Blathmac, Cenn Fáelad. Descendants and posterity Blathmac's five recorded sons have already been mentioned: Sechnassach and Cenn Fáelad who survived him and Dúnchad, Conall and Eochaid, who pre-deceased him. None of Blathmac's later descendants were major figures. For editors and creators of Middle Irish language literature, the reign of Blathmac and Diarmait was imagined as a Golden Age. Works set in this period include the Cath Cairnd Chonaill and the Scéla Cano meic Gartnáin.