Máel Bressail mac Ailillo
Máel Bressail mac Ailello (died 825) was a king of
He was the first member of the Uí Echach Cobo to hold the throne of all Ulaid since
In 819 Máel Bressail was able to acquire the throne of Ulaid after internal squabbling among the Dal Fiatach. The kinglists such as those in the Book of Leinster list him as king but only give him a reign of two years. The Annals of Ulster as well do not give him the title King of Ulaid at his death notice.[2] However the death notice of Dal nAraide kings of Ulaid is often biased in the annals in favor of the Dal Fiatach as the "true" Ulaid.[3]
Viking raids were common on Ulster in this period and the monastery of Bangor was attacked twice in 823 and 824.[4]
His son Cernach mac Máele Bressail (died 853) was also a King of Coba.
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References
- Annals of Ulster at [1] at University College Cork
- Byrne, Francis John (2001), Irish Kings and High-Kings, Dublin: Four Courts Press, ISBN 978-1-85182-196-9
- Ó Cróinín, Dáibhí (2005), A New History of Ireland, Volume One, Oxford: Oxford University Press
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