Domnall Gerrlámhach

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Domnall Gerrlámhach
Uí Briain
FatherMuirchertach Ua Briain
MotherDerb Forgaill ingen Uí Laidcnén

Domnall Gerrlámhach (died 1135),

Toirdelbach Ua Conchobair, King of Connacht
, and the death of his father, Domnall disappears from record until his own death in 1135. He was perhaps survived by two sons.

Background

Norse-Gaelic settlements, including the Kingdom of Dublin, and major Irish kingdoms, including Kingdom of Munster.[5]

Domnall was one of two recorded sons of

Dál Cais, descended from the eponymous Brian Bóruma mac Cennétig, High King of Ireland.[7] Domnall's mother was Derb Forgaill, daughter of Lethlobar Ua Laidcnén, King of Airgíalla.[8] The fourteenth-century Annals of Tigernach accord Domnall the epithet gerrlámhach ("short-armed") which may indicate—if the term is taken literally—that he suffered some sort of deformity.[9]

Muirchertach Ua Briain was one of three sons of

Magnús Óláfsson, King of Norway seized control of not only the Isles, but perhaps even Dublin itself, before falling in battle in 1103.[19] Later in 1111, Domnall mac Taidc temporarily seized the kingship of the Isles in an act that may have been opposed by his aforesaid uncle.[20] The reasons for Domnall mac Taidc's exit from the Isles are uncertain. Although he may have been forcibly ejected by the Islesmen,[21] he may well have returned to Ireland to take advantage of Muirchertach Ua Briain's rapidly failing health.[22]

Kingship of Dublin

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Excerpt from folio 34r of Oxford Bodleian Library Rawlinson B 503 (the Annals of Inisfallen) concerning Domnall's participation in the defence of Dublin in 1115.[23] Domnall's name appears in the top two lines of script.

In 1114, the power of a now gravely ill Muirchertach Ua Briain's began to waver.

King of Uí Failge—took advantage of his own decline, and attempted to gain control of Dublin by way of a major assault upon the town.[28] In fact, Domnall's father and grandfather had excluded the Kingdom of Leinster from overlordship of Dublin for the last forty years.[29] Furthermore, not only was Conchobar was an unremitting opponent of Domnall's father,[30] but Donnchad possessed several links to the kingship of Dublin as he was married to Domnall mac Taidc's sister, and further had a claim of his own, as both his father and grandfather—Murchad and Diarmait mac Maíl na mBó—held the kingship during their own careers.[31][note 1]

The prospect of overlordship from nearby Leinster, as compared to the more distant and anaemic overlordship of Munster, appears to have compelled the Dubliners to oppose the Leinstermen.

Giraldus Cambrensis, the Dubliners added insult to injury by burying his corpse with that of a dog as a show of contempt to the Leinstermen.[35] There is uncertainty as to when Domnall originally gained the kingship of Dublin. His father could have installed him as such upon assuming the Irish high-kingship,[36] or perhaps following the aforesaid ousting of Gofraid Crobán in 1094[37]—although it is not impossible that Domnall mac Taidc was installed as king at this point instead.[38] Another possibility is that Domnall had been appointed king not long before his victory over the Leinstermen[39]—perhaps upon his father's failing health in 1114[40]—or else not long after his successful defense of Dublin.[41] Whatever the case, the evidence of Domnall's kingship indicates that Muirchertach Ua Briain was the third consecutive claimant to the high-kingship to appoint an intended successor to the kingship of Dublin.[42]

Although Muirchertach Ua Briain recovered enough to regain power in Munster within the year, Dublin was later lost to Donnchad's kinsman and Leinster successor,

Kingdom of Thomond.[51] Domnall himself was excluded from the kingship.[38]

Death

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Excerpt from folio 486v of Dublin Royal Irish Academy C iii 3 (the Annals of the Four Masters),[52] a seventeenth-century manuscript documenting Domnall's death in 1135. The annal-entry literally calls Domanall a lord of "the foreigners" and of Leinster.

Thereafter Domnall disappears from record until his death,

Muirchertach Mac Lochlainn, King of Cenél nEógain, a contender to the Irish high-kingship, invaded the partitioned Munster and forced the submission of Diarmait Mac Carthaig,[55] and further drove out Toirdelbach mac Diarmata Uí Briain—the son of Domnall's aforesaid uncle, Diarmait Ua Briain[56]—and replaced him with another Uí Briain dynast, Conchobar mac Domnaill Uí Briain, King of Ormond.[55] The latter was likely a brother of Lughaid mac Domnaill Uí Briain who was slain in the battle of Móin Mhór in 1151. Both men—Conchobar and Lughaid—could well have been sons of Domnall himself.[57]

Primary Source Data

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Excerpt from folio 486v of Dublin Royal Irish Academy C iii 3 (the Annals of the Four Masters),[52] a seventeenth-century manuscript documenting Domnall's death in 1135. The annal-entry literally calls Domanall a lord of "the foreigners" and of Leinster.

This entry in the Annals of the Four Masters speaks the battle of 1115 between Domnall Gerrlámhach (aka Domhnall Ua Briain) and Donnchad mac Murchada (aka Donnchadh Ua Mael-na-mbo)

  • M1115.5 "A battle was gained by Domhnall Ua Briain and the foreigners of Ath-cliath over the Leinstermen, wherein fell Donnchadh Ua Mael-na-mbo, lord of Ui-Ceinnsealaigh, and Conchobhair Ua Conchobhair, lord of Ui-Failghe, with his sons, and many others besides them."

This entry in the Annals of Ulster speaks the battle in 1115 mentioned above between Domnall Gerrlámhach (aka Domnall ua Briain) and Donnchad mac Murchada (aka Donnchad grandson of Mael na mBó):

  • U1115.4 "A defeat was inflicted by Domnall ua Briain and the foreigners of Áth Cliath on the Laigin, and in it fell Donnchad grandson of Mael na mBó king of Uí Cheinnselaigh, and Conchobor ua Conchobuir, king of Uí Fhailgi, with their sons and many others besides."

Ancestry

Notes

  1. Echmarcach mac Ragnaill, King of Dublin and the Isles.[32]

Citations

  1. ^ The Annals of Ulster (2012) § 1115.4; The Annals of Ulster (2008) § 1115.4.
  2. ^ Duffy (1993b).
  3. ^ Duffy (1992).
  4. ^ Downham (2018); O'Byrne (2005b); O'Byrne (2005c).
  5. ^ Duffy (1993b) p. 15.
  6. ^ Duffy (1992) p. 116 n. 111; Pender (1951) p. 147 (§ 1935).
  7. ^ Jefferies (2005); Bracken (2004a).
  8. ^ Candon (2006) p. 118; Bracken (2004a).
  9. ^ The Annals of Tigernach (2010) § 1118.5; Duffy (2006) p. 71; Annals of Tigernach (2005) § 1118.5; Duffy (2005b); Duffy (1992) p. 116 n. 111.
  10. ^ Duffy (2005b); Hudson, B (2005b); Bracken (2004a).
  11. ^ Hudson, B (2005b); Jefferies (2005).
  12. ^ MacCotter (2017); Duffy (2005b); Bracken (2004a); Bracken (2004b); Duffy (1993b) p. 15; Duffy (1992) p. 103.
  13. ^ Hudson, B (2005a); Hudson, BT (2004); Duffy (1993a) p. 34; Duffy (1993b) pp. 14–15; Duffy (1992) pp. 99–100, 103.
  14. ^ Duffy (2005b); Bracken (2004a); Duffy (1993b) p. 15.
  15. ^ Duffy (2005b); Ryan (1949) pp. 76–77.
  16. ^ a b Duffy (1993a) pp. 35–36; Duffy (1992) pp. 108–110; Duffy (1993b) p. 16; Ryan (1949) p. 77.
  17. ^ Duffy (1993b) p. 16.
  18. ^ Ní Mhaonaigh (2018) p. 146, 146 nn. 83–84; Candon (2006) p. 116; Duffy (2002) p. 57; Duffy (1993b) p. 16; Duffy (1992) pp. 108–110.
  19. ^ Duffy (2002) pp. 57–59; Duffy (1993b) p. 16; Duffy (1992) pp. 110–113.
  20. ^ Duffy (2002) pp. 57 n. 11, 59; Duffy (1993b) p. 16; Duffy (1992) pp. 114–115.
  21. ^ Hudson, BT (2005) p. 5.
  22. ^ Duffy (2002) p. 60; Duffy (1992) p. 115.
  23. ^ Annals of Inisfallen (2010) § 1115.8; Annals of Inisfallen (2008) § 1115.8.
  24. ^ Duffy (2002) p. 60; Duffy (1993a) p. 40; Duffy (1992) pp. 115–116.
  25. ^ a b Duffy (2006) p. 72.
  26. ^ Mac Carthaigh's Book (2010a) § 1114.3; Mac Carthaigh's Book (2010b) § 1114.3; Flanagan (1989) p. 88 n. 19; Candon (1988) p. 401.
  27. ^ a b c Duffy (2005b).
  28. ^ a b Downham (2018) pp. 268–269; The Annals of Ulster (2012) § 1115.4; Annals of Inisfallen (2010) § 1115.8; Annals of Inisfallen (2008) § 1115.8; The Annals of Ulster (2008) § 1115.4; O'Byrne (2005b); Duffy (1992) pp. 115–116; Ó Corráin (1971) pp. 24–25.
  29. ^ Duffy (1993b) p. 17.
  30. ^ Ó Corráin (1971) p. 25.
  31. ^ Duffy (1992) pp. 115–116, 115 n. 109.
  32. ^ Duffy (2002) p. 55, 55 n. 7; Duffy (1992) p. 105, 105 n. 59.
  33. ^ Duffy (1992) pp. 116.
  34. ^ Downham (2018) pp. 268–269; Byrne (2008) p. 26; Duffy (1992) p. 116; Ó Corráin (1971) p. 25.
  35. ^ Duffy (2005a) p. 359; Clarke (1993) p. 6; Duffy (1993b) p. 17; Duffy (1992) p. 116; Scott; Martin (1978) p. 67; Wright; Forester; Hoare (1905) p. 213.
  36. ^ Byrne (2008) p. 26.
  37. ^ MacCotter (2017); Flanagan (2008) p. 907.
  38. ^ a b Bracken (2004a).
  39. ^ Duffy (1992) p. 116, 116 n. 112; Ó Corráin (1971) p. 25.
  40. ^ Candon (1988) p. 401.
  41. ^ Ó Corráin (2001a) p. 103; Ó Corráin (2001b) p. 26; Ó Corráin (n.d.) p. 35.
  42. ^ Duffy (1992) pp. 116–117; Duffy (1993b) pp. 14–17.
  43. ^ Duffy (1992) p. 116; Ó Corráin (1971) p. 25; Ryan (1949) p. 77.
  44. ^ Duffy (2005b); O'Byrne (2005b); Simms (2004).
  45. ^ Annals of the Four Masters (2013a) § 1118.6; Annals of the Four Masters (2013b) § 1118.6; Chronicon Scotorum (2012) § 1118; Chronicon Scotorum (2010) § 1118; The Annals of Tigernach (2010) § 1118.5; Chronicon Scotorum (2008) § 1118.7; Annals of Tigernach (2005) § 1118.5; Chronicon Scotorum (2005) § 1118.7; Duffy (1993a) p. 40; Candon (1988) p. 401; Ryan (1949) p. 77.
  46. ^ Flanagan (2008) p. 917; O'Byrne (2005c); Duffy (1992) pp. 116–117; 116 n. 112; Candon (1988) p. 401.
  47. ^ Duffy (1992) p. 117.
  48. ^ Duffy (1992) p. 116; Duffy (2006) p. 71.
  49. ^ Duffy (1992) p. 116.
  50. ^ Duffy (2006) p. 72; Duffy (2005b).
  51. ^ Byrne (2008) p. 30; Flanagan (2008) p. 917; Campbell (2005); Duffy (2005b); Bracken (2004a); Simms (2004).
  52. ^ a b Annals of the Four Masters (2013a) § 1135.5; Annals of the Four Masters (2013b) § 1135.5.
  53. ^ Annals of the Four Masters (2013a) § 1135.5; Annals of the Four Masters (2013b) § 1135.5; Duffy (2006) p. 71; Duffy (1992) p. 117 n. 117; Kelleher (1988) p. 23 n. 4.
  54. ^ The Annals of Tigernach (2010) § 1135.11; Annals of Tigernach (2005) § 1135.11; Kelleher (1988) p. 23 n. 4.
  55. ^ a b O'Byrne (2005a); Kelleher (1988) p. 23.
  56. ^ Kelleher (1988) p. 23.
  57. ^ Kelleher (1988) pp. 23 n. 4, 24–25, 26 tab.
  58. ^ a b Candon (2006) pp. 114, 115 fig. 3, 117 fig. 4; Bracken (2004a).
  59. ^ a b c Hudson, B (2005b); Bracken (2004b).
  60. ^ a b Casey (2010) p. 37; Candon (2006) pp. 115 fig. 3, 117 fig. 4; Jaski (2005); Duffy (2004).
  61. ^ Candon (2006) pp. 115 fig. 3, 117 fig. 4.

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Secondary sources

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