Máel Brigte is a

Pict The Picts were a group of peoples who lived in what is now northern and eastern Scotland (north of the Firth of Forth) during Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Where they lived and what their culture was like can be inferred from ear ...

ish or Irish name meaning "devotee of

St Brigid Saint Brigid of Kildare or Brigid of Ireland ( ga, Naomh Bríd; la, Brigida; 525) is the patroness saint (or 'mother saint') of Ireland, and one of its three national saints along with Patrick and Columba. According to medieval Irish hagiogra ...

People with the given name

* Máel Ísu I of Cennrígmonaid, aka Máel Brigte I of Cennrígmonaid, 10th-century Bishop *

Máel Brigte of Moray Máel Brigte, also known as Máel Brigte the Bucktoothed or Máel Brigte TuskThomson (2008) p. 28. was a 9th-century Pictish nobleman, most probably a mormaer of Moray. He was responsible – in a bizarre posthumous incident – for the death ...

10th-century Pictish Mormaer of Moray *

Máel Brigte of Perth Máel Brigte of Perth (fl. 1128) was an important figure in Perth in the reign of King David I of Scotland. He is known only because the Church of the Holy Trinity in Dunfermline preserved written instructions from King David to Máel Brigte infor ...

, 12th-century Scottish administrator *

Máel Brigte mac Tornáin Máel Brigte mac Tornáin, also known as Maelbrigte mac Durnan (died 22 February 927), was an Irish clergyman who served as Archbishop of Armagh, abbot of Armagh from 883 and, in his role as ''Coarb'' of Colum Cille, as the Abbot of Iona, non-re ...

, 10th century

Abbot of Iona The Abbot of Iona was the head of Iona Abbey during the Middle Ages and the leader of the monastic community of Iona, as well as the overlord of scores of monasteries in both Scotland and Ireland, including Durrow, Kells and, until the Synod of ...

* Máel Brigte úa Máel Úanaig, the writer of the 12th century illuminated manuscript, the Gospels of Máel Brigte *

Marianus Scotus Marianus Scotus (1028–1082 or 1083) was an Irish monk and chronicler. He authored the ''Chronica Clara'', a history of the world. Name Marianus Scotus is Latin for " Marian the Scot", although that term at the time was still inclusive of ...

, 11th-century Irish monk and chronicler {{given name Irish masculine given names Masculine given names