Dauí Tenga Uma
Dauí Tenga Uma (died 500)[1] was a King of Connacht from the Uí Briúin branch of the Connachta.
Biography
Dauí Tenga Uma ("Copper-Tongue"—for the beauty of his speech) is listed in the genealogies as a great-great-great grandson of
Ui Fiachrach
(died 484) as king.
Keating mentions two marital relations of his family:
- his daughter Muirchertach mac Ercae(died 532) of the Cenel nEogain and was mother of his sons Domnall and Fergus;
- his granddaughter Mugain ingen Cú Charainn was married to the high-king Diarmait mac Cerbaill (died 563) of the southern Ui Neill and mother of the high-king Áed Sláine (died 602).
In 500 Daui was defeated and slain at the Battle of Segsa (Seghais or Boyle River) by his own son-in-law Muirchertach mac Ercae. The annals record that the war was caused by his daughter Duinseach.
Notes
See also
- Kings of Connacht
References
- Annals of Tigernach
- Annals of the Four Masters
- G.Keating, History of Ireland
- Francis J.Byrne, Irish Kings and High-Kings
- The Chronology of the Irish Annals, Daniel P. McCarthy
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