Máel Mórda mac Murchada O'Fáeláin

• Preferred Name: Máel Mórda mac Murchada O'Fáeláin
  
• Gender: M
  
• Death: 23 APR 1014 in Clontarf, near Dublin, on the east coast of Ireland at LATI: N3.3653 LONG: E6.1964
  
• Fact: with note: Description: https://www.geni.com/people/M%C3%A1el-M%C3%B3rda-O-F%C3%A1el%C3%A1in/6000000002188035655?through=6000000007150950911
  
• FSID: LBWD-HLB
  
• Birth: ABT 960 in Ireland
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/IRELAND.htm#_Toc389126197:
  MAELMORDA (-killed in battle Clontarf 23 Apr 1014). King of Leinster.
  The Annals of Ulster record that "Brian son of Ceinnéitig son of Lorcán king of Ireland and Mael Sechnaill son of Domnall king of Temair" led an army to “Áth Cliath” in 1014, adding that “Mael Mórda son of Murchad king of Laigin” was killed in the battle.
  The Annals of the Four Masters record that “Murchadh son of Finn king of Leinster” was killed in 1013 in the battle [of Clontarf].
  m ---. The name of Mail-mordha´s wife is not known. Mail-mordha & his wife had two children:
  
  i) CEARBALL (-killed 1017). The Annals of Tigernach record that “Cearball mac Mail-mordha crownprince of Leinster” was killed in 1017.
  
  ii) BRAEN (-Köln 1052). King of Leinster. The Annals of Ulster record that "Braen son of Mael Mórda king of Laigin” was blinded in 1018 “in Áth Cliath by Sitriuc son of Amlaib”.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1el_M%C3%B3rda_mac_Murchada:
  Perhaps as a result of the heavy losses at Clontarf, Braen was the last of the Uí Fáeláin Kings of Leinster, though his descendants achieved fame as the medieval O'Byrne sept of Leinster (O'Byrne or ó Broin in Irish translates as "grandson/descendant of Braen").
  
  === Source: ===
  Byrne, Francis John, Irish Kings and High-Kings. Batsford, London, 1973. ISBN 0-7134-5882-8
  
  === THE PLANTAGENET ANCESTRY (GS NUMBER Q940 ===
  THE PLANTAGENET ANCESTRY (GS NUMBER Q940 D2T) P.115, 128;

1. Bran King Of Leinster, b. 994 in Naas, Kildare, Ireland     d. 1052 in Leinster, Dublin, Ireland