Photaighe ap Odissus

• Preferred Name: Photaighe ap Odissus^{[1] [2] [3]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• Death: 27 APR 410
  
• Birth: 295 in Bretagne, France at LATI: N8.3185 LONG: E2.9377 with note: https://gw.geneanet.org/rogvisse?lang=fr&iz=350&p=potitus+photaighe&n=d+irlande
  
• Religion: a Celtic Christian Priest.
  
• FSID: G6GR-GMK
  
• Nickname:
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  According to a traditional Irish pedigree, he was a descendant of Noah's son Japheth through Magog and Nemhidh. See John O'Hart, Irish Pedigrees: Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation (reprinted 1989), 43, citing "MacFirbis's Genealogies".
  provided June 27, 2017 by Kelly Dickey
  
  According to the autobiography of St Patrick, had for my father Calpornius, a deacon, the son of Potitus, a priest, who lived in Bannaven Taberniae, the original source shows a birth in Armorica, France. The early texts do not confirm nor deny this as a place of his grandfather's birth. What is does confirm is where he was living, Bannaven Taberniae, when St Patrick was captured. But where is that? Unfortunatey we do not know. Many theories have been presented but there is no consensus on where that is today. It is surmised it is somewhere in Britain, Scotland, or Wales and more remotely, France.
  
  The last name of Japhethite does not seem to be associated with Potius who is indicated as being a priest (Roman Catholic) by his grandson. Now, it does not seem likely he would have a name aligned with Jewish families. Please see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japhetites What makes more sense is a Roman surname as it is believed Patrick, by his own writings came from a noble Roman family. In his ST. PATRICK'S EPISTLE TO THE CHRISTIAN SUBJECTS OF THE TYRANT COROTICUS he writes: "I do not say to my fellow-citizens, nor to the fellow-citizens of pious Romans,". And in the biography written by Jocelin, he states: "There was once a man named Calphurnius, the son of Potitus, a presbyter, by nation a Briton, living in the village Taburnia (that is, the field of the tents, for that the Roman army had there pitched their tents), near the town of Empthor, and his habitation was nigh unto the Irish Sea. This man married a French damsel named Conchessa, niece of the blessed Martin, Archbishop of Tours; and the damsel was elegant in her form and in her manners, for, having been brought from France with her elder sister into the northern parts of Britain, and there sold at the command of her father, Calphurnius, being pleased with her manners, charmed with her attentions, and attracted with her beauty, very much loved her, and, from the state of a serving-maid in his household, raised her to be his companion in wedlock. And her sister, having been delivered unto another man, lived in the aforementioned town of Empthor."

1. Calpurnius ap Heireann Potitus of Ireland, b. in Kilpatrick, County Cork, Ireland     d. in Fauquembergues, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France

1. Title: Geneanet
   Publication: Name: https://gw.geneanet.org/rogvisse?lang=fr&iz=350&p=potitus+photaighe&n=d+irlande;
   
2. Title: PEDIGREE - Photaighe, Poititus, Potit, Potitus
   Publication: Name: http://fabpedigree.com/s080/f512245.htm;
   
3. Title: Geni.com - Potitus
   Publication: Name: https://www.geni.com/people/Potitus/6000000004089137964;