Áed Dub mac Suibni
Áed Dub mac Suibni | |
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King of Dál nAraidi | |
Reign | –588 |
Predecessor | Báetán mac Echach |
Successor | Fiachnae mac Báetáin |
Died | c. 588 |
House | Dál nAraidi (Ulaid) |
Religion | Christian |
Áed Dub mac Suibni (died c.
Áed Dub — Black Áed — killed the last High King of Ireland to undergo the pre-Christian inauguration ritual, Diarmait mac Cerbaill. Tradition has Diarmaid die a mythic threefold death, and some version make Áed Diarmaid's foster-son. The Annals of Tigernach report, more prosaically, that Diarmaid was killed by Áed Dub in 565 at Ráith Bec, on the plain of Mag Line (Moylinny, near Larne), in the lands of the Dál nAraidi.
Adomnán's account
In Book I, Chapter 36 of
From Adomnán's account it can be surmised that Áed was deposed, or abdicated, and spent time in Britain in a monastery before, presumably, returning to Ulster to try to regain his throne. The report of Áed Dub's death in the Annals of Ulster for 588 — the Annals of Tigernach place it in 579 — may contain some traces of this as it reports the killing of Áed aboard a ship. This is thought to have taken place on Lough Neagh.
See also
- Kings of Dál nAraidi
- Kings of Ulster
References
Bibliography
- ISBN 0-14-044462-9
- Byrne, Francis John, Irish Kings and High-Kings. Batsford, London, 1973. ISBN 0-7134-5882-8