Sláine

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Brian Bóruma (died 23 April 1014).

This relationship is given by Duffy (“Brian Bóruma” ODNB) and by Baldwin (LaI). It is recorded in the sources mentioned below for her spouse.

Mother: uncertain.

It is not known which of Brian’s wives was Sláine’s mother.

Spouse: Sihtric (died 1042).

This relationship is given by Hudson (“Sihtric”, ODNB), by Duffy (“Brian Bóruma” ODNB), and by Baldwin (LaI). It is recorded in The History of Gruffydd ap Cynan § 1 (“Slani hagen, mam avloed vrenhin,oed verch ẏ vrien brenhin muen, dwẏ rann o ẏwerdon.”) and, without naming Sláine, in Cogadh Gaedhel Re Gallaibh (pp. 192-193, p. 257).

Children:

Óláf (died 1034) married Máelcorcre ingen Dúnlaing.

References

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

Guy, Ben. Medieval Welsh Genealogy. (The Boydell Press, 2020).

From Guy’s critical edition of the Llywelyn ab Iorwerth genealogies, which were based on an archetype created no later than the first half of the fourteenth century from an original compilation dating to the early thirteenth century, partly based on earlier written sources (Note that Guy is striving for textual rather than genealogical accuracy):

16.1.2 Slani oed fam Afloyd vrenin, merch brenin Muen, dwy rann o Iwerdon.

Duffy, Seán. “Brian Bóruma [Brian Boru] (c. 941-1014)”, in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Hudson, Benjamin T. “Sihtric (d.1042)”, in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Hudson, Benjamin T. Viking Pirates and Christian Princes: Dynasty, Religion, and Empire in the North Atlantic. (Oxford University Press, 2005).

Jones, Arthur (ed.) The History of Gruffydd ap Cynan. (Manchester U.P., 1910).

Todd, James Henthorn (ed.). Cogadh Gaedhel Re Gallaibh: The Wars of the Gaedhill with the Gaill. Rolls Series 48. (London, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1867 ).