Aed Oirdnide MacNiall King Of Ireland

• Preferred Name: Aed Oirdnide MacNiall King Of Ireland^{[1] [2]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• Burial: in Armagh, County Armagh, Ireland
  
• Nickname:
  
• Clan Name: with note: Description: 11th Chief of Clan MacNeill
  
• MilitaryService: Battle of Fearta
  
• Clan Name: with note: Description: House of Cenél nEógain
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: High King of Ireland
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: King of AileachBET 788 AND 819 in Aileach, County Donegal, Ireland at LATI: N5.0167 LONG: E7.5167
  
• Birth: 750 in Ulster, Ireland at LATI: N4.6112 LONG: E6.9317
  
• Death: 819 in Battle of Fearta, Magh Conaille, County Meath, Ireland at LATI: N3.6162 LONG: E6.6911
  
• FSID: GNXX-R17
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Dictionary of Irish Biography
  
  Áed Oirdnide (d. 819), son of Niall and king of Tara, belonged to the Cenél nÉogain dynasty. His father, Niall Frossach (qv), was king of Tara until his abdication c.770. His mother Dunlaith was a daughter of Flaithbertach (qv) son of Loingsech (qv), a Cenél Conaill dynast who had held the kingship of Tara till 734. Áed had at least three brothers, including Colmán, Ferchar, and Muirchertach. While Áed's marriages are not recorded, he had at least five sons – Niall Caille (qv), Máel-dúin (d. 867), Fogartach, Blathmac, and Máel-Calainn – and a daughter, Lann, married to Cathal, king of Airgialla.
  
  Nicknamed Ingor (the undutiful), Áed first came to prominence in 789, when he defeated a rival, Domnall son of Áed, at the battle of Clady. While holding the less prestigious kingship of Ailech, he was defeated in 791 by the then king of Tara, Donnchad Midi (qv) son of Domnall (qv) of the Clann Cholmáin. On Donnchad's death (797), however, Áed attained the paramount Uí Néill kingship, and proved to be a strong expansionist ruler in his stand against the kings of Leinster. He began his reign as king of Tara by devastating Mide, which he again invaded in 802 to restore law and order, dividing the territory between Conchobar (qv) and Ailill, sons of the late king Donnchad. Described as ‘a vigorous and adroit man of war’, Áed then invaded Leinster, twice in 804 and again in 805, when he deposed Fínshnechtae Cetharderc (qv) son of Cellach (qv), king of Leinster, who belonged to the Uí Dúnchada lineage. Áed then divided Leinster between Muiredach son of Ruaidrí and Muiredach son of Bran (qv), who respectively represented the rival Uí Fháeláin and Uí Muiredaig lineages. Áed appears to have violated the sanctuary of the monastery of Tallaght, for which his Óenach Tailten (fair of Tailtiu; Teltown, Co. Meath) was boycotted by the monastic community so that ‘neither horse nor chariot arrived there’. In recompense Áed made ample reparation to the monastery, which accepted the compensation, although the Céli Dé reformers at Tallaght had reservations about accepting gifts from sinful laity.
  
  Áed liked to pose as a champion of the church, especially when it may have been politically advantageous to do so. In this context, in 804 he presided over a convention of the Uí Néill (congressio senatorum nepotum Néill), held at Dún Cuair (probably Rathcore, Co. Meath), where Uí Néill forces gathered to raid Leinster. It is claimed that at this convention, presided over by Condmach, abbot of Armagh, Áed was formally ‘ordained’, hence his posthumous sobriquet Oirdnide. The evidence for clerical ordination in this period is, however, scant, and the episode may be anachronistic. There are stronger grounds for accepting that in 806 Áed endorsed a renewal of the Law of Patrick (qv). Around the same time, it is thought, he also supported efforts to exempt ecclesiastics from the obligation to serve on hostings.
  
  In 808 Áed faced a challenge when Muirgius (qv) son of Tommaltach, overking of Connacht, supported Conchobar, king of Mide, in a rebellion against him. Áed harried the borders of Mide, however, and put his enemies to flight. The following year, he turned his attentions again to Leinster and invaded that province; the Annals of Inisfallen record that he was defeated. In any event, Áed was shortly afterwards able to defeat the Ulaid and raid Ulster from the River Bann to Strangford Lough ‘in revenge for the violation of the shrine of Patrick’ – this had occurred when an Ulster nobleman, Dúnchú princeps of Tulach, was murdered in the abbot's house. In 815 the Cenél Conaill slew Áed's brother Colmán. Áed died in 819, but not before he had plundered Leinster again as far as Glendalough (817).
  
  A marginal note in a contemporary Irish manuscript refers to Áed as rex Hiberniae (king of Ireland), although this title is unknown to Einhard, who refers vaguely to a rex Scotorum (king of the Irish) in his life of Charlemagne. Áed spent his reign in an attempt to create a greater paramountcy for the Northern Uí Néill, being one of the most powerful overkings to come from the Cenél nÉogain. He was perhaps powerful enough to discourage viking raids on Ireland for a time: a pause has been noted in the record of attacks between 814 and 820. Áed was slain at Áth dá Fherta in Mag Conaille (north Co. Louth), although the Annals of Inisfallen mistakenly place his death in Scotland; according to some accounts, his killer was one Máel-Cainnich. He was buried at Armagh. Áed was succeeded as king of Ailech by his first cousin once removed, Murchad (deposed 823) son of Máel-dúin, while the more prestigious kingship of Tara passed to Conchobar son of Donnchad Midi of Clann Cholmáin. Both dignities later reverted to Niall Caille son of Áed. Of Áed's other sons, Máel-dúin and Blathmac became the ancestors of lesser royal lines.
  
  === THE PLANTAGENET ANCESTRY (GS NUMBER Q940 ===
  THE PLANTAGENET ANCESTRY (GS NUMBER Q940 D2T) P.86, 87, 115;
  
  === Book of McKee pg 405 states he was king ===
  Book of McKee pg 405 states he was king 22 years and died 819 http://www.geocities.com/craigs_kahunas/report_duncan.htm Niall Mor Noighiallach 126th Monarch of Ireland states he was 164th Monarch of Ireland, after 25 years' reign, was slain in the battle of Fearta, A.D. 817; was married to Meadhbh, dau of Ionrachtach, King of Durlus. In his reign prodigious thunder and lightning occurred, which killed many men, women, and children all over the Kingdom, particularly in a nook of the country between Corcavaskin and the sea in Munster, by which one thousand and ten persons were destroyed. In his reign occurred many prodigies -- the forerunner of the Danish Invasion, which soon after followed. He had four sons.
  
  === Slain at the Battle of Fearta. ===
  Slain at the Battle of Fearta.
  
  === Aedh Ordnigh: son of Niall Frassach: was ===
  Aedh Ordnigh: son of Niall Frassach: was the 164th Monarch; and, after 25 years reign was slain in the battle of Fearta, A.D. 817. Was married to Meadhbh, dau of Ionrachtach, King of Durius. In his reign, prodigious thunder and lightning occurred, which killed many men, women, and children all over the Kingdom, particularly in a nook of the country between Corcavskin and the sea in Munster, by which one thousand and ten persons were destroyed. In his regin occurred many prodigies - the forerunner of the Danish Invasion, which soon after followed. This Monarch had four sons: 1. Niall Caille; 2. Maoldoon, a quo "Siol Muldoon;" 3. Fogartach, ancestor of Muintir Cionaodh or Kenny; and 4. Blathmac. [Irish Pedigrees IV:iii:714-715]
  
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  After Aedh Oirdnidhe, the son of Niall Frasach, had been twenty five years in the sovereignty of Ireland, he died at Aith De Fhearta, in Magh Conaille, after the victory of penance. [Annals of the Four Masters I:429]
  
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  Death of Aed son of Niall-Aed the eminent son of Niall of the showers - near Ath da Ferta in the plain of Conaille. [Annals of Ulster p275]
  
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  Aodh Oirndighe, son of Niall Frasach, son of Fearghal, son of Maolduin, son of Maoilfithrigh, son of Aodh Uairiodhnach, son of Domhnall, son of Muireadhach, son of Eoghan, son of Niall Naoighiallach, of the race of Eireamhon, held the soverignty of Ireland twenty-four years. Dunlaith, daughter of Flaithbheartach, son of Loingseach king of Cineal gConaill, was the mother of Aodh Oirndghe, And he is called Aodh Oirndighe, for when he was weaned from his nurse's breasts he set to suck his fists as if he were sucking his nurse's breasts; hence he was called Aodh Oirndghe or Aodh Doirndighe. [The History of Ireland Book II:153]
  
  === King of Ailech. 164th Monarch of Ireland ===
  King of Ailech. 164th Monarch of Ireland. Ruled 788 - .
  
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• m. 784 in Ireland

1. Máel Dúin III mac Áeda Ó Néill King Of Ailech, b. 780 in Ireland     d. 867

1. Title: Dictionary of Irish Biography
   Author: Sources AU; Ann. Inisf.; AFM; Bk Leinster, i, 97; vi, 1485; O'Brien, Corpus geneal. Hib., 134, 175, 177; M. C. Dobbs, ‘The Ban-Shenchus’, Rev. Celt., xlviii (1931), 186, 224; Anderson, Sources Scot. hist., i, 261–2; Byrne, Ir. kings, 159–62; Mac Niocaill, Ire. before vikings, 143–5; D. Ó Corráin, Ire. before Normans, 34, 101; NHI, ix, 128; T. Charles-Edwards, ‘Irish warfare before 1100’, Bartlett & Jeffery, Military history, 32–3, 44; Etchingham, Church org. in Ire., 201, 204, 209; Jaski, Early Ir. kingship, 61, 99, 221; Charles-Edwards, Early Christ. Ire., 198, 278, 557, 588–9; ODNB
   Publication: Name: https://www.dib.ie/biography/aed-oirdnide-a0035;
   Note: Áed Oirdnide (d. 819), son of Niall and king of Tara, belonged to the Cenél nÉogain dynasty. His father, Niall Frossach (qv), was king of Tara until his abdication c.770. His mother Dunlaith was a daughter of Flaithbertach (qv) son of Loingsech (qv), a Cenél Conaill dynast who had held the kingship of Tara till 734. Áed had at least three brothers, including Colmán, Ferchar, and Muirchertach. While Áed's marriages are not recorded, he had at least five sons – Niall Caille (qv), Máel-dúin (d. 867), Fogartach, Blathmac, and Máel-Calainn – and a daughter, Lann, married to Cathal, king of Airgialla. Nicknamed Ingor (the undutiful), Áed first came to prominence in 789, when he defeated a rival, Domnall son of Áed, at the battle of Clady. While holding the less prestigious kingship of Ailech, he was defeated in 791 by the then king of Tara, Donnchad Midi (qv) son of Domnall (qv) of the Clann Cholmáin. On Donnchad's death (797), however, Áed attained the paramount Uí Néill kingship, and proved to be a strong expansionist ruler in his stand against the kings of Leinster. He began his reign as king of Tara by devastating Mide, which he again invaded in 802 to restore law and order, dividing the territory between Conchobar (qv) and Ailill, sons of the late king Donnchad. Described as ‘a vigorous and adroit man of war’, Áed then invaded Leinster, twice in 804 and again in 805, when he deposed Fínshnechtae Cetharderc (qv) son of Cellach (qv), king of Leinster, who belonged to the Uí Dúnchada lineage. Áed then divided Leinster between Muiredach son of Ruaidrí and Muiredach son of Bran (qv), who respectively represented the rival Uí Fháeláin and Uí Muiredaig lineages. Áed appears to have violated the sanctuary of the monastery of Tallaght, for which his Óenach Tailten (fair of Tailtiu; Teltown, Co. Meath) was boycotted by the monastic community so that ‘neither horse nor chariot arrived there’. In recompense Áed made ample reparation to the monastery, which accepted the compensation, although the Céli Dé reformers at Tallaght had reservations about accepting gifts from sinful laity. Áed liked to pose as a champion of the church, especially when it may have been politically advantageous to do so. In this context, in 804 he presided over a convention of the Uí Néill (congressio senatorum nepotum Néill), held at Dún Cuair (probably Rathcore, Co. Meath), where Uí Néill forces gathered to raid Leinster. It is claimed that at this convention, presided over by Condmach, abbot of Armagh, Áed was formally ‘ordained’, hence his posthumous sobriquet Oirdnide. The evidence for clerical ordination in this period is, however, scant, and the episode may be anachronistic. There are stronger grounds for accepting that in 806 Áed endorsed a renewal of the Law of Patrick (qv). Around the same time, it is thought, he also supported efforts to exempt ecclesiastics from the obligation to serve on hostings. In 808 Áed faced a challenge when Muirgius (qv) son of Tommaltach, overking of Connacht, supported Conchobar, king of Mide, in a rebellion against him. Áed harried the borders of Mide, however, and put his enemies to flight. The following year, he turned his attentions again to Leinster and invaded that province; the Annals of Inisfallen record that he was defeated. In any event, Áed was shortly afterwards able to defeat the Ulaid and raid Ulster from the River Bann to Strangford Lough ‘in revenge for the violation of the shrine of Patrick’ – this had occurred when an Ulster nobleman, Dúnchú princeps of Tulach, was murdered in the abbot's house. In 815 the Cenél Conaill slew Áed's brother Colmán. Áed died in 819, but not before he had plundered Leinster again as far as Glendalough (817). A marginal note in a contemporary Irish manuscript refers to Áed as rex Hiberniae (king of Ireland), although this title is unknown to Einhard, who refers vaguely to a rex Scotorum (king of the Irish) in his life of Charlemagne. Áed spent his reign in an attempt to create a greater paramountcy for the Northern Uí Néill, being one of the most powerful overkings to come from the Cenél nÉogain. He was perhaps powerful enough to discourage viking raids on Ireland for a time: a pause has been noted in the record of attacks between 814 and 820. Áed was slain at Áth dá Fherta in Mag Conaille (north Co. Louth), although the Annals of Inisfallen mistakenly place his death in Scotland; according to some accounts, his killer was one Máel-Cainnich. He was buried at Armagh. Áed was succeeded as king of Ailech by his first cousin once removed, Murchad (deposed 823) son of Máel-dúin, while the more prestigious kingship of Tara passed to Conchobar son of Donnchad Midi of Clann Cholmáin. Both dignities later reverted to Niall Caille son of Áed. Of Áed's other sons, Máel-dúin and Blathmac became the ancestors of lesser royal lines. Contributed by McGettigan, Darren; Mac Shamhráin, Ailbhe
   
2. Title: Wikipedia - Aed Oirdnide mac Néill
   Author: Seán Mac Airt; Gearóid Mac Niocaill, eds. (1983). The Annals of Ulster (to AD 1131). Translated by Mac Airt; Mac Niocaill. Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. The Annals of Innisfallen, CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts, 2000, retrieved 5 January 2009 Byrne, Francis John (1973), Irish Kings and High-Kings, London: Batsford, ISBN 0-7134-5882-8, OCLC 714871 Byrne, Francis John (2005), "Church and politics, c.750–c.1100", in Ó Cróinín, Dáibhí (ed.), Prehistoric and Early Ireland, A New History of Ireland, vol. I, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 656–679, ISBN 0-19-922665-2 Ó Corráin, Donnchadh (1972), Ireland before the Normans, The Gill History of Ireland, vol. 2, Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, ISBN 0-7171-0559-8 Ó Corráin, Donnchadh (2005), "Ireland c.800: aspects of society", in Ó Cróinín, Dáibhí (ed.), Prehistoric and Early Ireland, A New History of Ireland, vol. I, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 549–608, ISBN 0-19-922665-2
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Áed_Oirdnide;
   Note: Áed mac Néill (Old Irish pronunciation: [ˈaið mak ˈn͈iːəl]; died 819), commonly called Áed Oirdnide ("the anointed"),[1] was King of Ailech. A member of the Cenél nEógain dynasty of the northern Uí Néill, he was the son of Niall Frossach. Like his father, Áed was reckoned High King of Ireland.[2] He was King of Ailech from 788 onwards and High King of Ireland from 797. King of Ailech The Grianan of Aileach, a stone cashel reconstructed in 1878, may perhaps date from Áed's time. The conflict between Cenél nEógain and Cenél Conaill for the leading role in the north appears to have turned on control over the lands of the minor Cenél nEndai branch of the Uí Néill which lay around Raphoe. Communications between the northern and southern branches of Cenél Conaill, respectively based on the north-west coast of Donergal and in the south around Donegal town, ran through these. While Cenél nEndai were clients or allies of Cenél Conaill, as they had been before Áed Allán defeated Flaithbertach mac Loingsig in the 730s, Cenél Conaill had the upper hand, and provided kings of Tara and kings of the North. By the death of Niall Frossach, if not earlier, Cenél nEndai were again under the sway of Cenél Conaill.[3] The region was still disputed in 787 when Máel Dúin defeated Domnall and appears to have gained some recognition as king of the North as he is so styled at his death the following year. Áed succeeded Máel Dúin as king of Ailech, but was challenged by Domnall whom he defeated at the battle of Clóitech (modern Clady, County Tyrone) in 789. This appears to have been the final attempt by kings of Cenél Conaill to regain control of the lands around Raphoe which had been seized by Cenél nEógain.[4] The annals record a battle in 791 at Tailtiu, site of a major Uí Néill oenach, the oenach Tailten. The summoning of this gathering was one of the prerogatives of the High King at which he would demonstrate his power and standing. Whether Áed brought an army south to disturb the oenach, or whether the conflict was provoked by Donnchad, is unknown. The outcome was that Áed fled from Tailtiu and was pursued perhaps as far as Slane. Several of Áed's allies are said to have been killed, including the kings of two branches of Uí Chremthainn, an Airgíalla dynasty whose lands lay around Clogher and Clones.[5] It is on this occasion that the Chronicle of Ireland calls Áed Áed Ingor, Áed the Unfilial or Áed the Undutiful, the only byname used in early sources. It is generally supposed that this refers to his conflict with his father-in-law Donnchad Midi, although the term mac ingor, a term from early Irish law, usually refers to the undutiful son who does not support his biological father. Whatever the origin of the name may have been, it is plainly not flattering.[6] In 794 Áed is recorded as campaigning against the Mugdorna Maigen at a time when Donnchad was involved in war with Munster. The lands of Mugdorna Maigen lay around the upper reaches of the river Fane, with the chief church at Donaghmoyne, County Monaghan. Although reckoned one of the nine tribes of the Airgíalla, the Mugdorna were clients of the southern Síl nÁedo Sláine branch of the Uí Néill rather than of Áed's Cenél nEógain dynasty like most of the Airgíalla.[7] King of Tara Although Donnchad's authority waned in the last decade of his life, he remained the dominant figure until his death on 6 February 797. Following Donnchad's death, Áed moved to ensure that he would be recognised as king of Tara. He defeated two of Donnchad's brothers, Diarmait and Fínsnechta, along with another Fínsnechta, a son of Fallomon mac Con Congalt of Clann Cholmáin Bicc, at Druim Ríg (modern Drumree) in south Brega. A poem in the Annals of Ulster portrays this as vengeance for the death of Áed's uncle Áed Allán at the hands of Donnchad's father Domnall Midi at the battle of Seredmag in 743. Some time later in 797 Áed devastated Mide and the Annals of Ulster take this to mark the beginning of his reign.[8] In 802 Muiredach, king of Mide, died. He was the last of Donnchad Midi's known brothers. Áed led an army south to Mide where he divided the lands of Clann Cholmáin between two of Donnchad's sons, Ailill and Conchobar. If this was intended to reduce the power of potential rivals, it proved ineffective. Ailill and Conchobar met in battle in 803 at Rath Conaill (near modern Mullingar). Ailill was killed leaving Conchobar as sole king of Mide.[9] In 804 Áed turned his attention towards Leinster and devastated the area twice in one month.[10] That same year Fínsnechta Cethardec (died 808), King of Leinster, submitted to him.[11] However Áed was not satisfied with this and in 805 he made a hosting to Dún Cuair and installed Muiredach mac Ruadrach (died 829) and Muiredach mac Brain (died 818) as joint kings of Leinster.[12] Finsnechta took refuge with Muirgius mac Tommaltaig (died 815), the King of Connacht, who then aided him in recovering his throne in 806.[13] In 808 Conchobar of Meath made a bid for the high kingship and was joined by King Muirgius of Connacht. They advanced as far as the assembly grounds of Tailtiu but on the appearance of Aed's army the allies dispersed. Áed pursued them and burned the borders of Mide.[14] In 808 or 809 Áed again attacked Leinster but was defeated on the banks of the Liffey.[15] In 809 Áed campaigned against the Ulaid and defeated them ravaging from the Bann to Strangford Lough. The motive for this conflict was apparently the killing of Dúnchú, superior of the monastery of Tulach Léis (now Tullylisk near Banbridge, County Down), by the Ulaid.[16] In 815 one of Áed's brothers, Colmán mac Néill, was killed by the Cenél Conaill, and Áed led an expedition against them in revenge.[17] In 818 Áed again assembled his forces at Dún Cuair and attacked Leinster, dividing Leinster between his two candidates, who were nevertheless unable to retain their positions.[18] That same year the vice abbot of Cell Mór Enir (modern Kilmore, County Armagh) was killed by the Laigin.[19] As a result, Áed led another expedition versus Leinster and laid waste the land of Cualu as far as Glenn dá Locha (Glendalough).[20] In 819 Áed died near Áth dá Ferta in the territory of Conaille Muirtheimne in modern County Louth.[21] Church relations In 804 a meeting of the synods of the Uí Néill in Dún Cuair was presided over by Condmach mac Duib dá Leithe (died 807), abbot of Ard Macha (Armagh), at which the clergy were freed from military obligations by Áed.[22] It is possible that this was the assembly at which Áed was ordained as king.[23] In 806 Áed had the law of Saint Patrick promulgated.[24] In 811 the fair of Tailtiu was prevented from being held by Áed due to a boycott by the clergy who were protesting an offence made against the community of Tallaght during Áed's campaign against Leinster in 809. Áed made amends to the community.[25] The campaigns of Áed versus Ulaid in 809 and Leinster in 819 were part of Áed's desire to pose as champion of the church. Áed had some difficulty with the Columban church as well when Mael Dúin son of Cenn Faelad, superior of Ráith Both (Raphoe) was killed in 817. The Columban church went to Tara to excommunicate Áed that year.[26] This event probably had something to do with his campaign versus the Cenél Conaill in 815.[27] Also in 818 Cuanu, abbot of Lugmad Louth, went into exile into the lands of Munster with the shrine of Saint Mochtae, fleeing before Áed.[28] Family Áed had married Euginis ingen Donnchada (died 802), daughter of Donnchad Midi.[29] His son Niall Caille (died 846) was later king of Ailech and High king of Ireland. Another son Máel Dúin mac Áeda was also a King of Ailech.[30]