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Meilage Molbhthach Ireland


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Father: Cobthach Cóel Breg "the meagre of Breg" mac Úghaine Mor 69th High King of Ireland, b. ABT 385 BC in Bregia, Ireland   d. 25 DEC 307 BC in Dinn-Righ in Magh-Ailbhe, on the Brink of the Bearbha, Ireland

Family 1: Melghe Ingen Mac Cobthaig,    b. ABT 540 in ,,, Ireland   
  1. Iaran Jaran Gleofathach MacMeilge (74th High King of Ireland), b. 530 BC in Tara Castle, Leinster, Meath, Ireland     d. 473 BC in Tara Castle, Leinster Meath, Ireland
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  1. Title: Personal knowledge of Karen Eddy
  2. Title: Wikiwand: High King of Ireland
    Author: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    Publication: Name: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/High_King_of_Ireland;
    Note: The High Kings of Ireland (Irish: "Ard-Rí na hÉireann," Irish pronunciation: [ˈa:ɾˠd̪ˠˌɾˠiː n̪ˠə ˈheːrʲən̪ˠ]) were sometimes historical and sometimes legendary figures who had, or who are claimed to have had, lordship over the whole of the island of Ireland. Medieval and early modern Irish literature portrays an almost unbroken sequence of High Kings, ruling from the Hill of Tara over a hierarchy of lesser kings, stretching back thousands of years. Modern historians believe this scheme is artificial, constructed in the 8th century from the various genealogical traditions of politically powerful groups, and intended to justify the current status of those groups by projecting it back into the remote past. The concept of national kingship is first articulated in the 7th century, but only became a political reality in the Viking Age, and even then not a consistent one. While the High Kings' degree of control varied, they never ruled Ireland as a politically unified state, as the High King was conceived of as an overlord exercising suzerainty over, and receiving tribute from, the independent kingdoms beneath him. Sacred High Kings Early Irish kingship was sacred in character. In some early Irish sources, High Kings can gain their power through a marriage to, or sexual relationship with, a sovereignty goddess. The High King is free from blemish, enforces symbolic "buada" (prerogatives) and avoids symbolic "geasa" (taboos). According to 7th- and 8th-century law tracts, a hierarchy of kingship and clientship progressed from the "rí tuaithe" (king of a single petty kingdom) through the "ruiri" (a "rí" who was overking of several petty kingdoms) to a "rí ruirech" (a "rí" who was a provincial overking). (See Rí.) Each king ruled directly only within the bounds of his own petty kingdom and was responsible for ensuring good government by exercising "fír flaithemon" (rulers' truth). His responsibilities included convening its "óenach" (popular assembly), collecting taxes, building public works, external relations, defence, emergency legislation, law enforcement, and promulgating legal judgment. The lands in a petty kingdom were held allodially by various "fine" (agnatic kingroups) of freemen. The king occupied the apex of a pyramid of clientship within the petty kingdom. This pyramid progressed from the unfree population at its base up to the heads of noble "fine" held in immediate clientship by the king. Thus the king was drawn from the dominant "fine" within the "cenél" (a wider kingroup encompassing the noble "fine" of the petty kingdom). The kings of the Ulster Cycle are kings in this sacred sense, but it is clear that the old concept of kingship coexisted alongside Christianity for several generations. Diarmait mac Cerbaill, king of Tara in the middle of the 6th century, may have been the last king to have "married" the land. Diarmait died at the hands of Áed Dub mac Suibni; some accounts from the following century state that he died by the mythic Threefold death appropriate to a sacral king. Adomnán's "Life" tells how Saint Columba forecast the same death for Áed Dub. The same Threefold Death is said in a late poem to have befallen Diarmait's predecessor, Muirchertach macc Ercae, and even the usually reliable Annals of Ulster record Muirchertach's death by drowning in a vat of wine. A second sign that sacred kingship did not disappear with the arrival of Christianity is the supposed lawsuit between Congal Cáech, king of the Ulaid, and Domnall mac Áedo. Congal was supposedly blinded in one eye by Domnall's bees, from whence his byname Cáech (half-blind or squinting), this injury rendering him imperfect and unable to remain High King. The enmity between Domnall and Congal can more prosaically be laid at the door of the rivalry between the Uí Néill and the kings of Ulaid, but that a king had to be whole in body appears to have been accepted at this time. Succession order The business of Irish succession is rather complicated because of the nature of kingship in Ireland before the Norman take-over of 1171. Ireland was divided into a multiplicity of kingdoms, with some kings owing allegiance to others from time to time, and succession rules (insofar as they existed) varied. Kings were often succeeded by their sons, but often other branches of the dynasty took a turn—whether by agreement or by force of arms is rarely clear. Unfortunately the king-lists and other early sources reveal little about how and why a particular person became king. To add to the uncertainty, genealogies were often edited many generations later to improve an ancestor's standing within a kingdom, or to insert him into a more powerful kindred. The uncertain practices in local kingship cause similar problems when interpreting the succession to the high kingship. The High King of Ireland was essentially a ceremonial, pseudo-federal overlord (where his over-lordship was even recognised), who exercised actual power only within the realm of which he was actually king. In the case of the southern branch of the Uí Neill, this would have been the Kingdom of Meath (now the counties of Meath, Westmeath and part of County Dublin). High Kings from the northern branch ruled various kingdoms in what eventually became the province of Ulster. In 1002, the high kingship of Ireland was wrested from Mael Sechnaill II of the southern Uí Neill by "Brian 'Boruma' mac Cennédig" of the Kingdom of Munster. Some historians have called this a "usurpation" of the throne. Others have pointed out that no one had a strict legal right to the kingship and that Brian "had as much right to the high throne as any Uí Neill and... displayed an ability sadly lacking amongst most of the Uí Neill who had preceded him." Brian was killed in the Battle of Clontarf in 1014. Mael Sechnaill II was restored to the High Kingship but he died in 1022. From 1022 through the Norman take-over of 1171, the High Kingship was held alongside "Kings with Opposition." Early Christian High Kings Even at the time the law tracts were being written these petty kingdoms were being swept away by newly emerging dynasties of dynamic overkings. The most successful of these early dynasties were the Uí Néill (encompassing descendants of Niall of the Nine Hostages such as the Cenel Eoghain) who as kings of Tara had been conquering petty kingdoms, expelling their rulers and agglomerating their territories under the direct rule of their expanding kindred since the fifth century. Gaelic and foreign, pagan and Christian ideas were comingled to form a new idea of Irish kingship. The native idea of a sacred kingship was integrated with the Christian idea in the ceremony of coronation, the relationship of king to overking became one of tigerna (lord) to king and imperium (sovereignty) began to merge with "dominium" (ownership). The Church was well disposed to the idea of a strong political authority. Its clerics developed the theory of a high kingship of Ireland and wrote tracts exhorting kings to rule rather than reign. In return the "paruchiae" (monastic federations) of the Irish church received royal patronage in the form of shrines, building works, land and protection. The concept of a high king was occasionally recorded in various annals, such as an entry regarding the death of Máel Sechnaill mac Máele Ruanaid in 862 in the Annals of Ulster which lists him as "rí Érenn uile" (king of all Ireland), a title that his successor Aed Finliath apparently never was granted. It is unclear what political reality was behind this title. Later High Kings By the twelfth century the dual process of agglomeration of territory and consolidation of kingship saw the handful of remaining provincial kings abandoning the traditional royal sites for the cities, employing ministers and governors, receiving advice from an "oireacht" (a body of noble counselors), presiding at reforming synods and maintaining standing armies. Early royal succession had been by alternation between collateral branches of the wider dynasty but succession was now confined to a series of father/son, brother/brother and uncle/nephew successions within a small royal "fine" marked by an exclusive surname. These compact families (the Uí Briain of Munster, the Meic Lochlainn of the North, the Uí Conchobhair of Connacht) intermarried and competed against each other on a national basis so that on the eve of the Anglo-Norman incursion of 1169 the agglomeration/consolidation process was complete and their provincial kingdoms divided, dismembered and transformed into fiefdoms held from (or in rebellion against) one of their number acting as king of Ireland.
  3. Title: Stamboom Homs » Meilge Molbhthach "Melga Molfach" mac Cobthaich Ard Rí na h'Éireann (± 600-± 522)
    Publication: Name: https://www.genealogieonline.nl/en/stamboom-homs/I6000000004949499576.php;
    Note: Personal data Meilge Molbhthach "Melga Molfach" mac Cobthaich Ard Rí na h'Éireann Nickname is Melga Molfach. He was born about -600 in Ireland. He died about -522 in 199 BCE, Ireland. This information was last updated on December 17, 2011. Ancestors (and descendant) of Meilge Molbhthach mac Cobthaich Úgaine Mór (the Great) mac Echach ± 669-± 593 Caesair Cruthach ± 653-± 633 Cobhthach Cóel Breg mac Ugaine ± 634-± 541 Unknown Meilge Molbhthach mac Cobthaich ± 600-± 522 Unknown wife of Melige wife of Melige Irero Gleo Fáthach mac Meilge ± 560-± 474 Show complete ancestor table Household of Meilge Molbhthach "Melga Molfach" mac Cobthaich Ard Rí na h'Éireann He had a relationship with Unknown wife of Melige wife of Melige Child(ren): Irero Gleo Fáthach mac Meilge ± 560-± 474 Notes about Meilge Molbhthach "Melga Molfach" mac Cobthaich Ard Rí na h'Éireann Seventy-first King of Ireland Meilage the 7th {geni:occupation} 71st High King of Ireland {geni:about_me} Meilge Molbthach ("the praiseworthy"), son of Cobthach Cóel Breg, was, according to medieval Irish legend and historical tradition, a High King of Ireland. He took power after killing his predecessor, and his father's killer, Labraid Loingsech. He ruled for seven or seventeen years, until he was killed by Mug Corb, grandson of Rechtaid Rígderg, in Munster. It is said that when his grave was dug, a lake burst over the land, which was called Loch Meilge after him. The Lebor Gabála Érenn synchronises his reign with that of Ptolemy III Euergetes of Egypt (246-222 BC). The chronology of Geoffrey Keating's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn dates his reign to 369-362 BC, the Annals of the Four Masters to 523-506 BC. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meilge_Molbthach -------------------- Title: King of Ireland -------------------- Melghe Molbhthach, d. ca. 506 BC, cause of death was the battle of Claire at the hands of Modhcorb. Father: Cobhthach Cael Breagh, King of Ireland, d. ca. 542 BC in Dinn Righ, Ireland, cause of death was roasting alive in a metal building at the burning of Dinn Righ. Melghe slew Ladhraidh Loingseach ca. 523 BC in revenge of his father. Melghe is listed in the Annals of the Four Masters as the "Praiseworthy" son of Cobhthach, though it does not explain what made him so. -------------------- 541 BC, in the Battle of Clare Father Cobthach Cáelbreg King of Ireland (-541bc) Misc. Notes was the7lst Monarch; was slain by Modhchorb, son of Cobhthach Caomh, of the Line of Haber Fionn, B. C. 541. Part III, Chapter IV of Irish Pedigrees, by John O'Hart, published 1892, pages 351-9, 664-8 and 708-9. 71st King 71st King 71ST KING He was the 71st King. He was slain by Modhchorb, son of Cobhthach Caomh, of the line of Heber Fionn. He was the 71st King. He was slain by Modhchorb, son of Cobhthach Caomh, of the line of Heber Fionn. Do you have supplementary information, corrections or questions with regards to Meilge Molbhthach "Melga Molfach" mac Cobthaich Ard Rí na h'Éireann? The author of this publication would love to hear from you! Sources Timeline Meilge Molbhthach "Melga Molfach" mac Cobthaich Ard Rí na h'Éireann
    Page: King of Ireland 71st time of BC not AD
  4. Title: Wikiwand: Hill of Tara
    Author: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    Publication: Name: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Hill_of_Tara;
    Note: The Hill of Tara (Irish: "Teamhair" or "Cnoc na Teamhrach") is a hill and ancient ceremonial and burial site near Skryne in County Meath, Ireland. According to tradition, it was the inauguration place and seat of the High Kings of Ireland, and it also appears in Irish mythology. Tara consists of numerous monuments and earthworks—from the Neolithic to the Iron Age—including a passage tomb (the "Mound of the Hostages"), burial mounds, round enclosures, a standing stone (believed to be the Lia Fáil or "Stone of Destiny"), and a ceremonial avenue. There is also a church and graveyard on the hill. Tara is part of a larger ancient landscape and Tara itself is a protected national monument under the care of The Office of Public Works, an agency of the Irish Government. Name The name "Tara" is an anglicization of the Irish name "Teamhair" or "Cnoc na Teamhrach" ("hill of Tara"). It is also known as "Teamhair na Rí "("Tara of the kings"), and formerly also "Liathdruim" ("the grey ridge"). The Old Irish form is "Temair." It is believed this comes from Proto-Celtic "Temris" and means a "sanctuary" or "sacred space" cut off for ceremony, cognate with the Greek "temenos" and Latin "templum." Another suggestion is that it means "a height with a view." Features Ancient monuments The remains of twenty ancient monuments are visible, and at least three times that many have been found through geophysical surveys and aerial photography
  5. Title: Wikiwand: Meilge Molbthach
    Author: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    Publication: Name: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Meilge_Molbthach;
    Note: Meilge Molbthach ("the praiseworthy"), son of Cobthach Cóel Breg, was, according to medieval Irish legend and historical tradition, a High King of Ireland. He took power after killing his predecessor, and his father's killer, Labraid Loingsech. He ruled for seven or seventeen years, until he was killed by Mug Corb, grandson of Rechtaid Rígderg, in Munster. It is said that when his grave was dug, a lake burst over the land, which was called Loch Meilge after him. The Lebor Gabála Érenn synchronises his reign with that of Ptolemy III Euergetes of Egypt (246–222 BC). The chronology of Geoffrey Keating's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn dates his reign to 369–362 BC, the Annals of the Four Masters to 523–506 BC.
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