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| Aedan (Aidan or Aedhan) [FC6] MAC GABHRAN 6th King of Dal Riata 1 | |
| Burial: Kilkerran |
| Education: FC6 |
| Changed: 30 May 2004 |
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Individual:
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cousin/html/p89.htm#i5767Also called Aldanus. Also called 6th King of Dál Riata Áedán"the Treacherous" mac Gabráin.2,3,4 Áedán mac Gabráin, rí Albanwas born circa 533 in "near the Forth".5 He was the son ofGabráin mac Domangart, ríg Alban and Fedelm ingenFeidelmid.6,7,1,8 He married N. N. of Britain circa 558.9 Hemarried Domelch verch Mælgwn o Gwynedd, daughter of Mælgwn I Hirap Cadwallon, Brenin Gwynedd and N. N. ingen Girom, before570.10 He was served, probably, as a chief of the GododdinBritons, commanding the lands around Aberfoyle, the region wherehe subsequently granted land to St. Berach for a monastery, andthis capacity fought for the Britons in 573 in the Battle ofArfderydd.5 He succeeded his 1st cousin, Conall I, to the throneof Dál Riata in 574.5 He was was crowned and anointed King ofScots Dalriada and Pendragon of the Celtic Isle (Aedàn Pen DracoInsularis) by (his 3rd cousin) St. Columba of Iona in 574 inScotland.11 6th King of Dál Riata, between 574 and 16 April608.5,1 He concluded an agreement with the High King of Ireland,Aed mac Ainmerech, in which Aedan retained authority, to tax andcollect tribute, over the Dál Riatan peoples who still lived inthe original homeland of Fergus in Ulster, but these Dál Riatanswere ultimately answerable to the Irish High King for militarysupport, showing the Dál Riatan kings, even in Scotland, weresubject to some degree to the High Kings of Ireland, in 575 inDrumceat, Derry, Ireland.5 He undertook a raid on the OrkneyIslands, otherwise the territory of the Picts and King Brude,whose piratical inhabitants, Norseman, were conducting raids onDál Riatan territory, most likely Iona, in 580.5 He fought aseries of skirmishes with the Picts under King Brude, andgenerally won the advantage, between 580 and 584.5 He ejectedBaetán mac Cairill from the Isle of Man in 582.5 Annals ofTigernach 582: "Cath Manand, in quo uictor erat Aedan macGabran."12 He asked St. Columba which of his three sonsùArtúr,Eochaid Find, or Domangartùwill succeed him before 590.13 Hedefeated the Southern Picts, the Maeatae, in the battle which helost two sons, Arthur and Eochaid Find, between 590 and 596 inthe Battle of Miathi.5 Annals of Ulster 590: "The battle ofLethreid won by Aedán son of Gabrán. / Bellum Leithreid laAedhan m. Gabran."14 Annals of Tigernach 596: "Iugulaciofiliorum Aedan .i. Bran & Domungort & Eochaid Fínd & Artur, icath Chirchind in quo uictus est Aedhan, & cath Coraind."15 Hewas defeated by Aethelfrith, King of the North-Eastern kingdomof Bernicia, though both sides had heavy losses, and Aedan lostanother son, Domangart in 603 in the Battle of Degsastan,Liddesdale, Lothian.5 He is said to have abdicated after hisdefeat at the hands of the Angles of Bernicia and retired to amonastery after 603 in Kilkerran.5 Annals of Ulster 606: "Deathof Aedán son of Gabrán son of Domangart, king of Albu, and theslaying of the sons of Baetán i.e. son of Cairell. / MorsAedhain m. Gabrain mc. Domangairt righ Alban, & iugulatiofiliorum Baetan .i. m. Cairill."7 He died on 17 April 608 in or609, Kilkerran.5,1 Áedán mac Gabráin, rí Alban was buried inKilkerran.5 Children of Áedán mac Gabráin, rí Alban and Domelch verch Mælgwno Gwynedd: King of Picts Gartnait II mac Domech d. c 602 Conaing mac Áedán+ Domangart mac Áedán+ b. c 559, d. 603 Eochaid Find mac Áedán b. c 560, d. bt 590 - 596 Eochaid Buide mac Áedáin, regis Pictorum+ b. bt 583 - 584, d.bt 629 - 631 Children of Áedán mac Gabráin, rí Alban and N. N. of Britain: Artúr mac Áedán b. c 563 [S1096] Stewart Baldwin (e-mail address), Re: Kings of Scotlandin "Re: Kings of Scotland", newsgroup message tosoc.genealogy.medieval, 1999/01/21 . Printout dated read 8 October 2001. Hereinafter cited as Re:Kings of Scotland. [S204] Roderick W. Stuart, Royalty for Commoners: The CompleteLineage of John of Gaunt, Son of Edward III, Kings of England,and Queen Philippa (.: ., 3rd Ed., 1998), 165-48. Hereinaftercited as RfC. [S206] With additions and corrections by Walter Lee Sheppard,Jr. and assisted by David Faris Frederick Lewis Weis, AncestralRoots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before1700 (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.,1992), 170-5. Hereinafter cited as Weis: AR 7th ed.. [S278] A Descent from Adam, onlinehttp://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/2444/Adam.htm, The Lineof Fergus Mór mac Eirc, 115. Hereinafter cited as DfAdam. [S592] Mike Ashley, The Mammoth Book of British Kings and Queens(7 Kensington Road Church Court, London W8 4SP: RobinsonPublishing Ltd., 1998), [FC6]. Hereinafter cited as Ashley, M.. [S298] HRH Prince Michael of Albany, The Forgotten Monarchy ofScotland (160 North Washington Street, Boston, MA 02114: ElementBooks, Inc., 1998), pg. 16. Hereinafter cited as Albany. [S897] [unknown], The Annals of Ulster, AD 431-1131 (CollegeRoad, Cork, Ireland: University College Cork, 1997), U606.2. Hereinafter cited asAU. [S278] DfAdam, onlinehttp://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/2444/Adam.htm, The Lineof Fergus Mór mac Eirc, 114. [S597] John Bannerman, Studies in the History of Dalriada(Edinburgh, Scotland: Scottish Academic Press, 1974), 89.Hereinafter cited as Bannerman, J.. [S266] Early British Kingdoms Web Site, onlinehttp://freespace.virgin.net/david.ford2/Early%20British%20Kingdoms.html. Hereinafter cited as EBK. [S299] The Genealogy of the Royal Family O'Neill Website, onlinehttp://www.cgocable.net/~aoneill/. Hereinafter cited asGenealogy of Family O'Neill. [S297] Unknown, The Annals of Tigernach (University CollegeCork, Ireland: Corpus of Electronic Texts, 1996), T582.1.Hereinafter cited as AT. [S599] ., Adomnan's Life of Columba (Oxford: Clarendon Press,1991), Book I, chapter 9. Hereinafter cited as Life of Columba.
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- Text: Gardner, Laurence, "Bloodline of the Holy Grail," Element Books,
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