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Name: Domnall Brecc Mac EOCHAID BUID, King Of Dal Riata
Sex: M
Death: Abt Dec 643 in Strathcarron ^d

Parents:

Father:
Eochaid Buid Mac AEDAN, King Of Dal Riata Death: Abt 632

Family:
Children:

Domongart Mac DOMNALL BRECC, King Of Dal Riata Death: 673
Cathusach Mac DOMNALL BRECC Death: 650

Bibliography

The Henry Project: The Ancestors of King Henry II of England, An eperiment in a cooperative online database for scholarly medieval genealogy. Contributors and Editors: Stewart Baldwin, Todd Farmerie, Peter Stewart. Available at https://fasg.org/projects/henryproject/ Information from this source tagged as [Ref: HenryII .*].
Davidson, Michael The Genealogy of the Early Medieval Scottish Kings. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 10/23/1995. Subject: The Genealogy of the Early Medieval Scottish Kings. Apparently not archived by Google Groups. Author address: M dot R dot DAVIDSON at SMS dot ED dot AC dot UK. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Michael Davidson SGM 10/23/1995].
Moncreiffe, Sir Ian of that Ilk, Royal Highness: Ancestors of the Royal Child. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1982. NYPL ARF 83-3293. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Moncreiffe RoyalAnc p[0-9]*].
Moriarty, G Andrews, Plantagenet Ancestry of King Edward III And Queen Philippa. Salt Lake: Mormon Pioneer Genealogical Society, 1985. LDS Film#0441438. NYPL ARF-86-2555. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/film/007905814?cat=66443. Also available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/66443. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Moriarty Plantagenet p[0-9]*].
Tapsell, R. F., Monarchs, Rulers, Dynasties and Kingdoms of the World. New York: Facts on File Publications, 1983. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Tapsell Dynasties p[0-9]*].
Weis, Frederick Lewis, Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr, David Faris, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who came to America before 1700, 7th Edition, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1992. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Weis AR7 #[0-9][0-9]*[A-Z]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information

father:: [Ref: HenryII domna002 4/26/2007, HenryII eoch0001 4/26/2007, Michael Davidson SGM 10/23/1995, Moncreiffe RoyalAnc p20, Moriarty Plantagenet p29, Tapsell Dynasties p180, Weis AR7 #170]

Sources for death Information

date:: 642 [Ref: Moriarty Plantagenet p29, Tapsell Dynasties p180]; Dec abt 643 [Ref: HenryII domna002 4/26/2007]; about 642 [Ref: Weis AR7 #170]; abt 643 [Ref: Moncreiffe RoyalAnc p20],
place:: Battle of Strathcarron [Ref: HenryII domna002 4/26/2007]

Sources with Information about marriage to unknown

child:: [Ref: HenryII doman001 4/26/2007, HenryII domna002 4/26/2007, Michael Davidson SGM 10/23/1995, Moncreiffe RoyalAnc p20, Moriarty Plantagenet p29, Tapsell Dynasties p180, Weis AR7 #170]

Research Notes:
King of Dal Riata [Ref: HenryII domna002 4/26/2007, Tapsell Dynasties p180]
King of Scots of Argyll [Ref: Moncreiffe RoyalAnc p20]

629-642: King of Dal Riata [Ref: Tapsell Dynasties p180]

633-c643: King of dal Riata [Ref: HenryII domna002 4/26/2007]

apparently the last king of Dalraiada known to early Welsh tradition [Ref: Weis AR7 #170]

succeeded to the kingship in 629, when his predecessor and distant relative Connad Cerr was killed in Ireland after a three month reign [Ref: Michael Davidson SGM 10/23/1995]

either incompetent, unlucky, or both; he never won a battle [Ref: Michael Davidson SGM 10/23/1995]

635: lost a battle which was possibly against the Picts [Ref: Michael Davidson SGM 10/23/1995]

637: he was defeated at the battle of Mag Rath in Ireland, and from this point on the kings of Dal Riata completely lost control of their possessions [Ref: Michael Davidson SGM 10/23/1995]

about 637: demoted to position of joint king with his third cousin Ferchar, son of Connad Cerr. [Ref: Michael Davidson SGM 10/23/1995]

killed in battle against Britons at Strathcarron [Ref: Moncreiffe RoyalAnc p20]

killed at the battle of Strathcarron [Ref: Weis AR7 #170]

his death was triumphantly recorded in one rescension of 'Y Goddodin,' a famous seventh-century Old Welsh poem [Ref: Michael Davidson SGM 10/23/1995]

succeeded by his joint king Ferchar [Ref: Michael Davidson SGM 10/23/1995]

Pedigree of Domnall Brecc Mac EOCHAID BUID, King Of Dal Riata
                                                                /-----Angus
                                                       /-----Eochaid Muinremur King Of Dal Riata
                                              /-----Ercc King Of Dal Riata
                                             |        |         /-----Loarn
                                             |         \-----Erca
                                     /-----Fergus Mor Mac Erc, King Of Dal Riata
                                    |         \-----Misi
                            /-----Domongart Mac Fergus, King Of Dal Riata
                   /-----Gabran The Treacherous Mac DOMANGART, King Of Dal Riata
                  |        |                  /-----Eochaid Mugmedon High King Of Ireland
                  |        |         /-----Brian Mac Eochaid Mugmedon
                  |         \-----Feidelm Fotchain
          /-----Aedan Mac GABRAN, King Of Dal Riata
         |        |         /-----Brychan
         |         \-----Luan
/-----Eochaid Buid Mac AEDAN, King Of Dal Riata
Domnall Brecc Mac EOCHAID BUID, King Of Dal Riata

Descendants of Domnall Brecc Mac EOCHAID BUID, King Of Dal Riata

1. Domnall Brecc Mac EOCHAID BUID, King Of Dal Riata m.

2+ Domongart Mac DOMNALL BRECC, King Of Dal Riata m.

3 Cathusach Mac DOMNALL BRECC

2nd generation

2. Domongart Mac DOMNALL BRECC, King Of Dal Riata m.

4+ Eochaid Mac DOMONGART, King Of Dal Riata m. Spondana

3rd generation

4. Eochaid Mac DOMONGART, King Of Dal Riata m. Spondana

m. Spondana father: Gartnaich Mac Domhnall King Of The Picts

5+ Eochaid Mac EOCHAID, King Of Dal Riata m.

6 Alpin Mac DOMONGART, King Of The Picts

7+ Fland m. Wroid