Áed Ua Forréid was

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from 1032 to 1056. He was from the Cenél Tigernaig branch of the northern Uí Néill kin-group of

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. The see was not elevated to an archbishopric until 1106, well after his death. A

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in his honour, written sometime after his election and before 1042, exists in a single copy transcribed in 1628 by

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(Dublin,

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MS B.IV.2 (1080),

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142^r). He may have resigned the bishopric when he became ''fer léigind'' (i.e.

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) in 1049. In the

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, which derive from an Armagh chronicle, in their prose notice of his death at 75 years of age, he is only "eminent lector of Armagh" (''ard-fer leiginn Aird Macha''). Mac Airt and Mac Niocaill (ed. and trans.): The Annals of Ulster, ''s.a.'' (pp.492–493) However, a verse cited in the same entry also describes him as "gentle bishop".

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* * * 1056 deaths 11th-century Irish bishops People from County Armagh Year of birth unknown Bishops of Armagh {{Ireland-RC-bishop-stub