Dúnlaing mac Muiredaig, king of Leinster

King of Leinster

Dúnlaing was of the Uí Muiredaig branch of Uí Dúnlainge. (Baldwin Lal)

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 869.

This date is given by Baldwin (LaI). It is recorded in Chronicum Scotorum (pp. 160-161).

Relationships

Father: Muiredach mac Brain (died 818).

This relationship is given by Baldwin (LaI), by Byrne (p. 289), and by Jaski (p. 120). It is recorded in Chronicum Scotorum (pp. 160-161) and in Genealogies from Rawlinson B502 (¶11).

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: unknown.

Children:

Domnall (died 864).

Ailill mac Dúnlaing (died 871).

Cairpre (died 884).

References

Baldwin, Stewart. Llywelyn ap Iorwerth ancestor table. (Hosted at Rootsweb.ancestry.com. Accessed 23 May 2014).

Byrne, Francis J. Irish Kings and High-Kings. (Four Courts Press, 2001).

Chronicum Scotorum. (William M. Hennessy ed.) (London, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1866).

Jaski, Bart. “The traditional rule of succession in early Ireland” (Ph.D. thesis, Trinity College Dublin, 1994). Appendix 2, Genealogical tables of medieval Irish royal dynasties. Online PDF:

https://www.academia.edu/4144299/Genealogical_tables_of_medieval_Irish_royal_dynasties

O’Brien, Michael (ed.) Genealogies from Rawlinson B502. Electronic edition compiled by Donnchadh Ó Corráin. (CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts, University College, Cork, 1997/2010). [Digital images of the original manuscript may be viewed at the Bodleian Library website.]