Person:Domnall Brecc (1)

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Name[2] Domnall Brecc
Alt Name Domnal King of Dalriada Brecc
Alt Name // Domnall Brece, King of Dalraida
Alt Name The Speckled
Alt Name Domnall Brece, _____
Alt Name Domnall Brecc Scotland
Alt Name MacAiden Eochaidh Buidhe
Alt Name Dongart Scotland
Alt Name Dongart Scotland
Alt Name Dongard Scotland, [King of] II
Gender Male
Birth? 600 Dunolly Castle,Dalriada,Argyllshire,Scotland
Marriage to Unknown
Death[1] 642 Strathcarron
Reference Number? Q712949?
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Domnall Brecc (Welsh: Dyfnwal Frych; English: Donald the Freckled) (died 642 in Strathcarron) was king of Dál Riata, in modern Scotland, from about 629 until 642. He was the son of Eochaid Buide. He was counted as Donald II of Scotland by the scholar Fraxinius.

He first appears in 622, when the Annals of Tigernach report his presence at the battle of Cend Delgthen (probably in the east midlands of Ireland) as an ally of Conall Guthbinn of Clann Cholmáin. This is the only battle known where Domnall Brecc fought on the winning side.

Domnall suffered four defeats after he broke Dál Riata's alliance with the Cenél Conaill clan of the Uí Néill. In Ireland, Domnall and his ally Congal Cáech of the Dál nAraidi were defeated by Domnall mac Áedo of the Cenél Conaill, the High King of Ireland, at the Battle of Mag Rath (Moira, County Down) in 637. He also lost to the Picts in 635 and 638 and lastly to Eugein I of Alt Clut at Strathcarron in 642, where he was killed.

A stanza interpolated into the ancient Welsh poem Y Gododdin refers to these events:

I saw an array that came from Pentir,
And bore themselves splendidly around the conflagration.
I saw a second one, rapidly descending from their township,
Who had risen at the word of the grandson of Nwython.
I saw great sturdy men who came with the dawn,
And the head of Dyfnwal Frych, ravens gnawed it.

Domnall's son Domangart mac Domnaill was later to be king of Dál Riata and from him the later kings of the Cenél nGabráin were descended. A second son, Cathasach, died c. 650, and a grandson of Domnall, also called Cathasach, died c. 688.

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(The Speckled Argyll) Scotland

Eochaidh I Buidhe (608-629), a younger son of Aedan, succeeded his father as his brothers had been killed, called King of the Picts. Source: 'Ancestrial Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England between 1623 and 1650', 1969, Frederick Lewis Weis, p 110.

Domangart mac Domnall (Gaelic: Domongart) was the son of Domnall (Donald Brec).[1] He was a king of Dál Riada (modern western Scotland from about 659 to 673. Weis states that Domangart did not reign. [2] He may just ruled over a part of Dál Riata as king of the Cenél nGabráin.[1]

Domangart succeeded to the kingship in 660, when the joint kingship of his uncle Conall Crandomna and Dunchad son of Duban ended with Conall's death. Nothing about Domangart's reign is mentioned by the sources until he was killed in 673, and succeeded by his cousin Maelduin. [3] Some king-lists state that in his time the Cenél Comgaill separated from the Cenél nGabráin.

Máel Dúin, Domangart's cousin, is often cited as succeeding Domangart. He may have been succeeded by Domnall Donn, Máel Dúin's brother, or Ferchar Fota, a more distant cousin of Cenél Loairn kinship group.[1]

Domangart was the father of Eochaid (Eugene), who later ruled Dál Riada.

Father: Donald IV, King of Dalriada, d. 642 in Strathcarron, Scotland, He became King of Dalriada, ca. 629 in Dungad, Scotland, lost Irish Dalriada 637

References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Domnall Brecc, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Domnall Brecc, in Baldwin, Stewart, and Todd Farmerie. The Henry Project (King Henry II ): Ancestors of King Henry II.
  3. Wikipedia, (http:www.wikipedia.com: accessed 13 June 2015), "Domangart mac Domnaill," https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domangart mac Domnaill.
  4.   Weis, Frederick Lewis; Walter Lee Sheppard; and David Faris. Ancestral roots of certain American colonists, who came to America before 1700: the lineage of Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and some of their descendants. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 7th Edition c1992)
    p. 146 (170:8).
  5.   Ref: Michael Davidson SGM 10/23/1995-115700.

    The Annals of Ulster for 673 report: "The killing of Domangart, son of Domnall Brecc, the king of Dál Riata."

  6.   Royal Ancestors of Magna Charta Barons;
    Page 226,228.
  7.   Anderson, Alan Orr. Early sources of Scottish history : A.D. 500 to 1286. (Stamford [Lincolnshire]: Paul Watkins, 1990)
    volume 1.

    Reprinted with corrections. Paul Watkins, Stamford, 1990. ISBN 1-871615-03-8

  8.   Bannerman, John, Studies in the History of Dalriada. Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, 1974.