Angias or Angas, daughter of Ailill Tassach, son of Eochu Liathán, was the wife of Lóegaire mac Néill,

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, and mother of

Lugaid mac Lóegairi Lugaid mac Lóegairi (died ) was a High King of Ireland. He was a grandson of Niall of the Nine Hostages. One of the supposed twelve sons of Lóegaire mac Néill, his mother was Angias, a daughter of (Ailill) Tassach of the Uí Liatháin. Compare ...

, who later became High King. Her brother was Bressal mac Ailello, a possible

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. Their dynastic kindred, known as the

Uí Liatháin The Uí Liatháin (IPA: �iːˈlʲiəhaːnʲ were an early kingdom of Munster in southern Ireland. They belonged the same kindred as the Uí Fidgenti, and the two are considered together in the earliest sources, for example ''The Expulsion of th ...

, ruled over a kingdom on the southern Irish coast, and were also very active in British affairs. Angias features in the ''

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'', in which she beseeches

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to allow her unborn son to one day become High King of Ireland.Stokes, pp. 47, 465, 557

Political context

Notes

References

* Anne Connon, "A Prosopography of the Early Queens of Tara", in

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(ed.), ''The Kingship and Landscape of Tara''. Dublin: Four Courts Press for

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. 2005. pp. 225–327 * Whitley Stokes (ed. & tr.).
The Tripartite Life of Patrick
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