Dauí Tenga Uma (died 500) was a King of
Connacht
Connacht ( ; ga, Connachta or ), is one of the provinces of Ireland, in the west of Ireland. Until the ninth century it consisted of several independent major Gaelic kingdoms ( Uí Fiachrach, Uí Briúin, Uí Maine, Conmhaícne, and Del ...
from the
Uí Briúin
The Uí Briúin were a royal dynasty of Connacht. Their eponymous apical ancestor was Brión, son of Eochaid Mugmedon and Mongfind, and an elder half brother of Niall of the Nine Hostages. They formed part of the Connachta, along with the U ...
branch of the
Connachta.
Biography
Dauí Tenga Uma ("Copper-Tongue"—for the beauty of his speech) is listed in the genealogies as a great-great-great grandson of
Brión
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, the eponymous founder of his dynasty. He is specifically stated to be the ancestor of the Uí Briúin Seóla branch. (His brothers Echu Tirmcharna and Feargna were the progenitors of the Uí Briúin Aí and Uí Briúin Bréifne branches respectively.) Francis Byrne believes him to be a duplicate of his supposed great-great grandfather, Dauí Galach, that the early Uí Briúin genealogies are fabrications and that these two were the same person.
[Byrne, pg.245] Dauí succeeded
Ailill Molt of the
Ui Fiachrach (died 484) as king.
Keating mentions two marital relations of his family:
*his daughter
Duinseach ingen Duach married the high-king
Muirchertach mac Ercae
Muirchertach mac Muiredaig (died c. 534), called Mac Ercae, Muirchertach Macc Ercae and Muirchertach mac Ercae, was said to be High King of Ireland in the 6th century. The Irish annals contain little reliable information on his life, and the survi ...
(died 532) of the Cenel nEogain and was mother of his sons Domnall and Fergus;
*his granddaughter
Mugain ingen Cú Charainn was married to the high-king
Diarmait mac Cerbaill
Diarmait mac Cerbaill (died ) was King of Tara or High King of Ireland. According to traditions, he was the last High King to follow the pagan rituals of inauguration, the ''ban-feis'' or marriage to goddess of the land.
While many later storie ...
(died 563) of the southern Ui Neill and mother of the high-king Áed Sláine (died 602).
In 500 Daui was defeated and slain at the Battle of Segsa (Seghais or Boyle River) by his own son-in-law Muirchertach mac Ercae. The annals record that the war was caused by his daughter Duinseach.
Notes
See also
*
Kings of Connacht
The Kings of Connacht were rulers of the ''cóiced'' (variously translated as portion, fifth, province) of Connacht, which lies west of the River Shannon, Ireland. However, the name only became applied to it in the early medieval era, being name ...
References
* ''Annals of Tigernach''
* ''Annals of the Four Masters''
* G.Keating, ''History of Ireland''
* Francis J.Byrne, ''Irish Kings and High-Kings''
* ''The Chronology of the Irish Annals'', Daniel P. McCarthy
External links
CELT: Corpus of Electronic Textsa
University College Cork
Kings of Connacht
500 deaths
People from County Roscommon
5th-century Irish monarchs
Year of birth unknown
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