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Cerball mac Muirecáin

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158:. Later traditions had it that she had wished to marry Cormac mac Cuilennáin, but that he had taken vows of celibacy, so for reasons of state she was married to the brutal Cerball, before finding a short period of happiness with Niall, who died in battle in 917. These tales appear to be largely poetic invention. 97: 147:
Given the biases of the Annals of Ulster, it is understood that Cerball had been a reliable ally of his father-in-law Flann Sinna. He was memorialised in a poem by his poet,
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as well as Genealogies, and various Saints' Lives. Most are translated into English, or translations are in progress
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of the Uí Dúnchada sept as king of Leinster on Muiredach's death in 885. Unlike Muiredach, who was
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and a member of the Uí Fáeláin, the descendants of Fáelán mac Murchado (died 738), of one of three
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contain relatively few reports of Cerball's reign. In 902 they state that he, together with
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as well as king, Cerball appears to have been king only as one Lergus son of Cruinnén,
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Cerball son of Muirecán, an excellent king of the Laigin, died of a sickness.
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lead an expedition to Dublin which drove the "foreigners", the Vikings and
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of the Uí Muiredaig sept. He himself had no recorded issue.
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Kings, clerics and chronicles in Scotland 500–1297.
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Cerball died in 909, when the Annals of Ulster report:
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Index

king of Leinster
Muirecán mac Diarmata
septs
Uí Dúnlainge
County Kildare
Ireland
Muiredach mac Brain
lay abbot
Kildare
bishop of Kildare
battle of the Pilgrim
Flann Sinna
High King of Ireland
Vikings
Dublin
king of Osraige
Cerball mac Dúnlainge
Annals of Ulster
Máel Finnia mac Flannacain
Brega
Norse-Gaels
Gormflaith ingen Flann Sinna
Munster
Battle of Bellaghmoon
Castledermot
Cormac mac Cuilennáin
King of Munster
Bishop of Cashel
Dallán mac Móre
Niall Glúndub

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