Muirchertach Ua Tuathail, king of northern Leinster

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 1164.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Mac Shamhráin.

Relationships

Father: Gilla-Comgaill Ua Tuathail.

This relationship is given by Mac Shamhráin, by Jaski (p. 120), and by A New History of Ireland (9:256).

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: Mór, daughter of Cú Aifne Uí Conchobair Fáilge.

This relationship is given by Candon.

Spouse: a daughter of Cerball, grandson of Bricc.

This relationship is given by Mac Shamhráin and by Candon.

Spouse: Cacht, daughter of Loigsech Ua Mórda of Loigis.

This relationship is given Baldwin and by Candon. Mac Shamhráin states that she was the daughter of "Ua Mórda of Loigis."

Children (by Mór):

(Information about Muirchertach’s children comes from Mac Shamhráin.)

Augaire Ruad.

Children (by the daughter of Cerball):

Lorcán.

Gilla-Comgaill.

Dúnlaing.

Sadb.

Children (by Cacht):

Áed.

Tuathal.

Conchobar.

Mór married Diarmait Mac Murchada.

Children (mother uncertain):

Gormlaith.

References

Baldwin, Stewart. “Eve of Leinster and Radnaillt of Dublin”, a posting (26 February 1998) to soc.genealogy.medieval.

Candon, Anthony. “Power, politics and polygamy: women and marriage in late pre-Norman Ireland” in Ireland and Europe in the Twelfth Century: Reform and Renewal (Damian Bracken & Dagmar Ó Riain-Raedel, eds.). (Four Courts Press, 2006).

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

Mac Shamhráin, Ailbhe. “Ua Tuathail, Muirchertach” in the Dictionary of Irish Biography (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

A New History of Ireland. Moody, T.W., F.X.Martin, and F.J. Byrne (eds.). Volume 9 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984).