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The sole notice of Uuen in the Irish annals is the report of his death, together with his brother Bran and "Áed mac Boanta, and others almost innumerable" in a battle of 839 fought by the men of Fortriu against Vikings in 839. [1]
Drest son of Donuel (Old Irish: Drust mac Domnaill or Drust mac Dúngail; died 677) was king of the Picts from c. 663 until 672. Like his brother and predecessor Gartnait son of Donuel (Gartnait IV), and Gartnait's predecessor Talorgan son of Eanfrith (Talorgan I), he reigned as a puppet king under the Northumbrian king Oswiu. [1]
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Talorgan was the son of Eanfrith of Bernicia, who had fled into exile among the Picts after his father, the Bernician king Æthelfrith, was killed around the year 616. [2] Talorgan's mother is likely to have been a member of a powerful Pictish royal dynasty, [ 2 ] and may have been the sister of his predecessor Talorg son of Uuid , as "Talorgan ...
The Picts are often thought to have practised matrilineal kingship succession on the basis of Irish legends and a statement in Bede's history. [48] [49] The kings of the Picts when Bede was writing were Bridei and Nechtan, sons of Der Ilei, who indeed claimed the throne through their mother Der Ilei, daughter of an earlier Pictish king. [50]
Ciniod, Cináed or Cinadhon, son of Uuredech (Old Irish: Cináed mac Feradaig; English: Kenneth son of Feradach), was king of the Picts from 763 until 775. It has been supposed that Ciniod's father was the Feradach son of Selbach mac Ferchair, king of Dál Riata, who was captured and put in chains by Óengus mac Fergusa in 736.
RIP.ie is a death notices website in Ireland, launched in 2005. [1] As of 2021, the website received approximately 250,000 visits per day and more than 50 million pages were viewed each month. Accounts for 2019 showed net assets of over €1 million. [ 2 ]
[596] (death announced on this date) Yury Drobyshev, 68, Russian mathematician and academic administrator, rector of Kaluga State University (2004–2010). [597] Durai, 84, Indian film director (Pasi, Oru Veedu Oru Ulagam). [598] Tony Felloni, 81, Irish drug dealer, heart attack. [599] Fedor Flašík, 66, Slovak political marketer, lymphoma. [600]