Loingsech mac Óengusso High King of Ireland

• Preferred Name: Loingsech mac Óengusso High King of Ireland^{[1] [2]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• Birth: BEF 650
  
• Death: 12 JUL 704 in Battle of Corann, County Sligo, Ireland at LATI: N4.2726 LONG: E8.4738
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: High King of IrelandBET 695 AND 703
  
• Occupation: King of Tara (Ireland) and of the Cenel Conaill694
  
• FSID: GFZL-5JC
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Wikipedia
  
  Loingsech mac Óengusso (died 703) was an Irish king who was High King of Ireland. Loingsech was a member of the northern Cenél Conaill branch of the Uí Néill. Although his father Óengus (died 650) had not been High King, his grandfather Domnall mac Áedo (died 642) had been.[1]
  
  Early events
  Loingsech is first mentioned in the annals of Ireland under the year 672 when he defeated Dúngal mac Máele Tuil of the Cenél mBógaine who was slain. The Cenél mBógaine were a branch of the Cenél Conaill located in southwest County Donegal. The Annals of Ulster do not mention Loingsech as victor, whereas the Annals of Tigernach do.[2] The Annals of the Four Masters refer to Loingsech as chief of the Cenél Conaill with regards to this event.[3] His accession to lordship of the Cenél Conaill is not mentioned, but the death of his uncle Ailill Flann Esa (died 666) is recorded during the plague years.[4]
  
  High Kingship
  The Chronicle of Ireland records the beginning of Loingsech's reign in 696, having recorded the killing of his predecessor Fínsnechta Fledach the year previously.[5] The record in the Annals of Ulster may show that Congalach mac Conaing Cuirre (died 696) of the Síl nÁedo Sláine branch of the southern Uí Néill was a candidate for the high kingship after the killing of Fínsnechta, in competition with Loingsech. It is not until after Congalach's death that the annal, probably based on a contemporaneous chronicle kept on Iona, announces the beginning of Loingsech's reign.[6] The Annals of Tigernach on the other hand place the beginning of Loingsech's reign in 695 before the death of Congalach.[7] He ruled as high king from 695–703.[8]
  
  It was in his reign that Adomnán – a member of the Cenél Conaill – came to preach in Ireland. Loingsech appears as the first non-ecclesiastical signatory of Adomnán's "law of the innocents"—the Cáin Adomnáin—agreed at the Synod of Birr in 697. Loingsech gave his full support to this law and it is likely through his aid that the Law found widespread support.[9]
  
  The annals record plagues afflicting people and cattle, and famine following, during his reign.[10] According to Keating this famine went on for three years.
  
  Death and descendants
  The Cenél Conaill expansion in the north had been blocked by the expansion of the rival Cenél nEógain into Daire. As a result, their outlet for expansion was to the south versus Connacht. This, along with a desire to make his high kingship a reality, prompted an attack on Connacht in 703.[11] Loingsech was killed in 703, in the Battle of Corann (in Southern Co.Sligo) against the men of Connacht led by their old king Cellach mac Rogallaig (died 705).[12] The Chronicle of Ireland again calls him High King when reporting his death. The annals say that three of Loingsech's sons (Artgal, Connachtach, and Flann Gerg) were killed with him, and many others besides.
  
  A quatrain attributed to the old king Cellach states:[13]
  
  "For his deeds of ambition, on the morning he was slain at Glais Chuilg; I slew Loingseach there with a sword, the monarch of all Ireland round."
  He married Muirenn ingen Cellaig (died 748), daughter of Cellach Cualann (died 715), King of Leinster.[14] Their son, Flaithbertach (died 765), was later High King. Another son, Fergal, led a force of northern Ui Neill in victory over Connacht to avenge his father's death in 707.[15]
  
  Loingsech was followed as High King of Ireland by Congal Cennmagair (died 710).
  
  === GIVEN NAMES: Also shown as Loingsech, Hi ===
  GIVEN NAMES: Also shown as Loingsech, High King of
  
  === 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 Loingseach Mac Aongusa, grandson of Domnald the Second by his son Aengus, king 9 years, abt 695-704
  
  === Loingseach, son of Aonghus, son of Domhn ===
  Loingseach, son of Aonghus, son of Domhnall, son of Aodh, son of Ainmire, of the race of Eireamhon, held the sovereignty of Ireland eight years. It was in his reign that Adhamnan came from Alba to Ireland to preach, and Moling, of Luachair, died, and Magh Muirtheimhne was plundered by the Welsh. It was in the reign of this king that a great cow-plague existed in Sacasa and in Ireland, and there was a famine for three years in Ireland, so that the people devoured one another there at this time. It was about this time that St Egberthus went to preach to Alba, and Muireadhach Muillethan, king of Connaught, died, and the Ulstermen won the Battle of Magh Cuilinn over the Britons, where many Britons fell. It was about this time that Adhamnan, abbot of I, died, aged seventy-seven years, and the Saracens, with a numerous host, laid siege to Constaninople and built a three years encampment around it. After this they raised the siege. After this Coibhdhean, bishop of Ard Srath, died. Soon after this the Battle of Corann was fought by Ceallach, son of Raghallach, who was king of Connaught for seven years, wherein he slew Loingseach, son of Aonghus, king of Ireland. [The History of Ireland Book II:143]
  
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  After Loingseach, son Aenghus, son of Domhnal, had been eight years in the sovereignty of Ireland, he was slain in the battle of Corann, by Ceallach of Loch Cime, the son of Raghallach, as Ceallach himself testifies in this quatrain:
  For his deeds of ambition,
  on the morning hs was slain at Glais Chuiulg'
  I slew Loingseach there with a sword,
  the monarch of all Ireland round.
  There were slain also his three sons along with him, Artghal, Connachtach, and Flann Gearg. There were also slain there the two sons of Colcen, and Dubhdibhearg, son of Dunghal, and Bearghus Forcraith, and Conall Gabhra, and other noblemen besides them. Conall Meann, son of Cairbre, composed these quatrains, and that was the cause of the battle:
  If Loingseach should come to bhe Banna,
  with his thirty hundred about him,
  To him would submit, though large his measure,
  Ceallach the Grey, of Loch Cime.
  Ceallach of the round stones was well trained;
  a paling of spears was leaped over
  By the Redhanded
  King of Loch Cime.
  [Annals of the Four Masters I:301]
  
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  U703.2
  
  The battle of Corann in which fell the king of Ireland, Loingsech son of Aengus son of Domnall son of Aed son of Ainmire, i.e. by Cellach of Loch Cime son of Ragallach, together with his three sons, and two sons of Colgu, and Dub Diberg son of Dungal and Fergus Forcraid and Congal of Gabar, and many other leaders. On Saturday, the fourth of the Ides of July, at the sixth hour, this battle was fought. The battle of Corann, in which feel Loingseach son of Aengus, king of Ireland, with his three sons, and also the king of Cirpre Droma Cliab, the king of Ui Chonaill Gabra, and ten other Irish kings. The battle was fought at Claenfhinn in Oenach Loga situate between Cenel Conaill and Connachta. [Annals of Ulster p163]
  
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  These early annals are extremely sparing in their references to the high-kingship, and Domnall (mac Aedh) is the first to be so honoured by them. The second is Loinsech mac Oengusso at his death in 704, and the title is not awarded again until the middle of the ninth century when Maelsechlainn mac Maele Ruanaid began to make the ideal a reality. [Irish Kings and High Kings p114]
  
  In 704 the high-king of Tara, Loingsech mac Oengusso, ked an army against Connacht and was defeated and slain at the battle of Corann in south Sligo: 'on the fourth of the Ides of July (12 July), at the sixth hour, on a Saturday' state the annals with unusual precision. Loingsech was of the Cenel Conaill, who had been outflanked in the North by Cenel nEogain expansion into county Londonderry. In order to maintain the fortunes of his dynasty his only outlet was southwards into Connacht. No doubt he also wished to assert the reality of his high-kingship - he was one of the few kings of Tara awarded the title rex Hiberniae by the Annals of Ulster. He failed, and his son Flaithbertach, forced into abdication by Aed Allan in 734, was the last Cenel Conaill king of Tara. Three of Loingsech's sons and many other Ui Neill princes were slain in this battle, which was won by Cellach mac Ragallaig, who died one or two years later post clericatum. [Irish Kings and High Kings p247]
  
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  Loingsech (d 704), king of Ireland, succeeded Finachta Fleadhach as ardrigh in 695. His father was Oengus, grandson of Aedh mac Ainmire, king of Ireland from 568 to 596. The first mention of him in the annals is in 672, when he won a battle at Tulachard over the king of Banagh, co. Donegal. In 699 there was a severe murrain, while in three subsequent years plague and famine were epidemic. The establishment of the Cain Adhamhnain, which exempted women from military service, took place in his reign, and may have been a result of these misfortunes. In 704 Loingsech led a plundering expedition into Connaught. Ceallach mac Raghallaigh, king of Connaught, an aged man whose infirmities had been satirised by the poets of Loingsech, assembled his tribes and led them to battle in his chariot with such spirit that Loinsech and his three sons were slain. The battle was fought at Corann in the north of Connaught, and was celebrated in a satirical poem beginning 'Basa adhaigh i, ccorann, basa nacht, basa omum,' of which the best version, obviously an ancient one, is in a fragment of the annals preserved by Mac Firbisigh. [Dictionary of National Biography XII:91]
  
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  === 154th Monarch of Ireland. ===
  154th Monarch of Ireland.

1. Flaithbertech mac Loingsech High King of Ireland, b. ABT 700 in Tyr Conail, Mag Ithe, County Donegal, Ireland     d. 765

1. Title: Dictionary of Irish Biography
   Author: Sources AU; Ann. Inisf.; Ann. Tig.; AFM; Frag. Ann.; Bk Leinster, i, 96; ii, 1485; DNB; O'Brien, Corpus geneal. Hib., 125, 163–4, 435; M. C. Dobbs, ‘The Ban-Shenchus’, Rev. Celt., xlviii (1931), 186, 224; M. Ní Dhonnchadha, ‘The guarantor list of Cáin Adomnáin’, Peritia, i (1982), 180; Mac Niocaill, Ire. before vikings, 110, 118, 119; Byrne, Ir. kings, 114, 247–8, 256–8; Jaski, Early Ir. kings, 140, 222, 228; Charles-Edwards, Early Christ. Ire., 524, 584; ODNB
   Publication: Name: https://www.dib.ie/index.php/biography/loingsech-a4876;
   Note: Loingsech (d. 704), son of Óengus and king of Tara, belonged to the Uí Néill dynasty of Cenél Conaill. He is stated to have been the only son of Óengus son of Domnall (qv) son of Áed (qv), but his mother's name is not recorded. According to at least one tradition, Loingsech was married to Muirenn, a daughter of the powerful Leinster king Cellach Cualann (qv); she was the mother of his son, Flaithbertach (qv). It appears that they eventually divorced and that she subsequently married Írgalach (qv) son or grandson of Conaing of Síl nÁedo Sláine. It also emerges that Loingsech had four other sons: Artgal, Connachtach, Flann Gerg, and Fergal. Loingsech is one of only seven kings before the time of Brian Bórama (qv) to be styled rí Érenn (king of Ireland) by the original hand of the Annals of Ulster, which seems to imply that he exceeded what was normally expected of a king of Tara, achieving, perhaps, more than overlordship of the Uí Néill dynasties. Loingsech's career, however, appears rather more prosaic in so far as it may be discerned from the record. A suspicion arises, therefore, that his acclaim as rí Érenn might have owed more to his relationship with Adomnán (qv) – he was a distant cousin and exact contemporary of the abbot – at a time when the chronicle of Iona was being compiled. Loingsech is first noticed in the record in 672 when, as a young man, he defeated and slew Dúngal son of Máel-tuile, the local ruler of Cenél Bogaine (south Co. Donegal), in an encounter at Tulach Ard. Whether or not he attained the status of king at this early stage is not clear. Certainly, Loingsech gained advantage from the internecine strife that overtook rival Uí Néill dynasties; protracted infighting within Cenél nÉogain followed the slaying of Máel-dúin son of Máel-fithrich in 681, and the killing of Fínshnechtae Fledach (qv) in 695 likewise fuelled dissension within Síl nÁedo Sláine. It was at this point that Loingsech emerged as king of Tara, or overking of the Uí Néill. In the spring of 697, Loingsech presided at the synod of Birr and lent his full support to the Law of Adomnán. His name heads the list of kings who subscribed to the law; here too he is styled rí Érenn, although the styling may not be contemporary. For three years from 700 onwards, Ireland was afflicted by a severe famine and plague, a situation which perhaps prompted Loingsech to seek expansion into Connacht. In any event, his south-westward thrust in 704 led to his undoing. He was heavily defeated at Corann (Co. Sligo) by Cellach (qv) son of Rogallach, king of Connacht. It seems that the battle became a rout; the casualties included Loingsech himself and three of his sons: Artgal, Connachtach, and Flann Gerg. Although the kingship of Tara passed to a cousin, Congal Cennmagair (qv) son of Fergus Fánat, one of Loingsech's surviving sons, Fergal, was prominent within Cenél Conaill. In 707 he was fighting in support of his Cenél nÉogain namesake, Fergal (qv) son of Máel-dúin. Subsequently, the kingship of Tara fell to Loingsech's son Flaithbertach, from whom the later rulers of the dynasty descended. Contributed by Mac Shamhráin, Ailbhe
   
2. Title: Wikipedia - Loingsech mac Óengusso
   Author: "The Annals of Ulster AD 431–1201". CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts. Retrieved 24 October 2007. Annals of Tigernach 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 Byrne, Francis John (2001), Irish Kings and High-Kings, Dublin: Four Courts Press, ISBN 978-1-85182-196-9 Charles-Edwards, T.M., Early Christian Ireland. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000. ISBN 0-521-36395-0 Geoffrey Keating, History of Ireland at CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork Meyer, Kuno (1905). "Cain Adamnain: An Old-Irish Treatise on the Law of Adamnan". Oxford: Clarendon Press. Retrieved 23 March 2008.
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loingsech_mac_Óengusso;
   Note: Loingsech mac Óengusso (died 703) was an Irish king who was High King of Ireland. Loingsech was a member of the northern Cenél Conaill branch of the Uí Néill. Although his father Óengus (died 650) had not been High King, his grandfather Domnall mac Áedo (died 642) had been.[1] Early events Loingsech is first mentioned in the annals of Ireland under the year 672 when he defeated Dúngal mac Máele Tuil of the Cenél mBógaine who was slain. The Cenél mBógaine were a branch of the Cenél Conaill located in southwest County Donegal. The Annals of Ulster do not mention Loingsech as victor, whereas the Annals of Tigernach do.[2] The Annals of the Four Masters refer to Loingsech as chief of the Cenél Conaill with regards to this event.[3] His accession to lordship of the Cenél Conaill is not mentioned, but the death of his uncle Ailill Flann Esa (died 666) is recorded during the plague years.[4] High Kingship The Chronicle of Ireland records the beginning of Loingsech's reign in 696, having recorded the killing of his predecessor Fínsnechta Fledach the year previously.[5] The record in the Annals of Ulster may show that Congalach mac Conaing Cuirre (died 696) of the Síl nÁedo Sláine branch of the southern Uí Néill was a candidate for the high kingship after the killing of Fínsnechta, in competition with Loingsech. It is not until after Congalach's death that the annal, probably based on a contemporaneous chronicle kept on Iona, announces the beginning of Loingsech's reign.[6] The Annals of Tigernach on the other hand place the beginning of Loingsech's reign in 695 before the death of Congalach.[7] He ruled as high king from 695–703.[8] It was in his reign that Adomnán – a member of the Cenél Conaill – came to preach in Ireland. Loingsech appears as the first non-ecclesiastical signatory of Adomnán's "law of the innocents"—the Cáin Adomnáin—agreed at the Synod of Birr in 697. Loingsech gave his full support to this law and it is likely through his aid that the Law found widespread support.[9] The annals record plagues afflicting people and cattle, and famine following, during his reign.[10] According to Keating this famine went on for three years. Death and descendants The Cenél Conaill expansion in the north had been blocked by the expansion of the rival Cenél nEógain into Daire. As a result, their outlet for expansion was to the south versus Connacht. This, along with a desire to make his high kingship a reality, prompted an attack on Connacht in 703.[11] Loingsech was killed in 703, in the Battle of Corann (in Southern Co.Sligo) against the men of Connacht led by their old king Cellach mac Rogallaig (died 705).[12] The Chronicle of Ireland again calls him High King when reporting his death. The annals say that three of Loingsech's sons (Artgal, Connachtach, and Flann Gerg) were killed with him, and many others besides. A quatrain attributed to the old king Cellach states:[13] "For his deeds of ambition, on the morning he was slain at Glais Chuilg; I slew Loingseach there with a sword, the monarch of all Ireland round." He married Muirenn ingen Cellaig (died 748), daughter of Cellach Cualann (died 715), King of Leinster.[14] Their son, Flaithbertach (died 765), was later High King. Another son, Fergal, led a force of northern Ui Neill in victory over Connacht to avenge his father's death in 707.[15] Loingsech was followed as High King of Ireland by Congal Cennmagair (died 710).