Lethlobar mac Loingsig

Lethlobar mac Loingsig

Lethlobar mac Loingsig (d.873) was a Dál nAraidi king of Ulaid, which is now Ulster, Ireland. He was the grandson of Tommaltach mac Indrechtaig, a previous king of Ulaid. [Byrne, Table 7; Charles-Edwards, Appendix XXII] He belonged to the main ruling dynasty of the Dal nAraide known as the Uí Chóelbad based in Mag Line, east of Antrim town in modern county Antrim. He ruled as king of the Dal nAraide from 824/849-873 and as leth-ri (co-king) of Ulaid from 857-871 and sole king of Ulaid from 871-873.

Lethlobar first appears in the annals in the year 828 when he inflicted a battle-route on the Vikings. ["Annals of Ulster", AU 828.5] He is called King of Dál Araidi regarding this event and Lethlobar follows Eochaid mac Bressail (d.824) as king in the king lists in the "Book of Leinster". ["Book of Leinster: Rig Dail Araide"] However two other kings of the Dál Araidi appear in the "Annals of Ulster", Cináed mac Eochada (died 832) and Flannacán mac Eochada (died 849). These last two kings as well as Eochaid mac Bressail are however referred to as kings of Dál Araidi in the north and they belonged to a sept descended from Fiachra Cossalach (died 710) who may have been related to the northern Eilne branch. [Mac Niocaill, pg.138] There was a branch of the Dal nAraidi in west County Down in the south, the Uí Echach Cobo, but they were always referred to as Kings of Coba (or Cuib) in the annals. Whether Lethlobar was king earlier or not he was definitely king from 849 on.

In 857 the Dal Fiatach king of Ulaid, Matudán mac Muiredaig died and Lethlobar became king in a joint-kingship with Cathalán mac Indrechtaig of the Leth Cathail (Lecale) branch of the Dal Fiatach. [the "Book of Leinster" king lists give him a reign of 16 years over Ulaid and omit Cathalan] Cathalán was assasinated at the instigation of the high king Áed Findliath of the northern Ui Neill in 871 and Lethlobar became sole king. [AU 871.1] At his death notice in the annals he is referred to as an old man. [AU 873.2]

His son Cenn Étig mac Lethlobuir (died 900) was also a ruler of all Ulaid and succeeded him as King of Dál nAraidi. His daughter Barrdub was married to Áed mac Eochocáin (died 919), a Dal Fiatach King of Ulaid.

Notes

References

* "Annals of Ulster" at [http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100001A/index.html] at [http://www.ucc.ie/ University College Cork]
* "Book of Leinster","Rig Ulad" at [http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/G800011A/index.html CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts] at [http://www.ucc.ie/ University College Cork]
* "Book of Leinster: Rig Dail Araide" at [http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/G800011A/index.html CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts] at [http://www.ucc.ie/ University College Cork]
* Byrne, Francis John (2001), "Irish Kings and High-Kings", Dublin: Four Courts Press, ISBN 978-1-85182-196-9
* Charles-Edwards, T. M. (2000), "Early Christian Ireland", Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-36395-0
* Mac Niocaill, Gearoid (1972), "Ireland before the Vikings", Dublin: Gill and Macmillan

External links

* [http://celt.ucc.ie/index.html CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts] at [http://www.ucc.ie/ University College Cork]


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