Slani ingen Brian (0980 - 1037)

Born 0980 in Kincora, Munster, Ireland

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 1037 at about age 57 in Ireland

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Biography

The most well known reference to Sláine is in the Cogadh Gáedhel re Galliabh. Although only referred to as daughter of Brian and wife of Amlaibh's son in the Cogadh, her attributed words in the Cogadh are jabs at Sigtrygg and his allies:

It appears to me that the foreigners have gotten their inheritance...I wonder is it heat that is upon them. But they tarry not to be milked if that is it — Sláine, Cogadh Gáedhel re Galliabh[3] ^[1]

Name

Slani "O'Brien" ingen /Brian/ was also called Sláine Ní Bhriain. ^[2]

Birth and Parents

She was born about 980 in Kincora, Munster, Ireland ^[3]

Sláine ingen Briain was the daughter of Brian Boru, High King of Ireland, ^[1]

Siblings

Brian had at least three daughters:

1. Sadb (d. 1048)
2. Sláine, (according to the Welsh text Historia Gruffud vab Kenan) married Sihtric Silkenbeard, son of her stepmother, Gormflaeth
3. Bé Binn, who married Flaithbertach, king of the northern Uí Néill (d. 1036).^[4]

Her father's four wives

Slaine's father Brian married four women:

1. Mór, (daughter of the king of Uí Fiachrach Aidne of Connacht) mother of Murchad (Morough), who was slain with Boru at Clontarf.

2. Echrad daughter of the king of Uí Áeda Odba, an obscure branch of the southern Uí Néill, was the mother of Tadc, whose son Toirdelbach and grandson Muirchertach rivalled Brian in power and fame.^[5]

3. Gormflaith, the best known of his wives and said to be the most beautiful. She was the daughter of Murchad mac Finn, King of Leinster, sister of Máel Morda and also widow of Olaf Cuaran, the Viking king of Dublin and York. She was the mother of Donnchad, later King of Munster. She was said to be his true love; having mistakenly challenged his authority one too many times, they divorced. Though she is said to be the cause of his death, she was also said to be the one to mourn him the most.

4. Dub Choblaig, was daughter of the King of Connacht. They had a son Cénnetig mac Briain (Kennedy).

(It's possible Môr, Echrad, Dub were close relatives)

For her third marriage, Gormlaith, d. 1030, (daughter of Murchad mac Finn, a Leinster King of the Uí Fháeláin line) married Brían Bóruma, they had:

1. Donnchadh ^[6]

999 Marriage to Sigtrygg Silkbeard

Sláine ingen Briain was the wife of Sigtrygg Silkbeard, King of Dublin.[1]

Sláine was married to Sigtrygg after his defeat at Glen Máma in 999 to unite Dublin and Munster forces following a failed rebellion by Sigtrygg and others.[2] ^[1]

1037 Death

Sláine ingen Briain died in 1037 in Ireland. ^[3]

1042 Death of Sigtrygg

Her husband Sigtrygg died in 1042, but the date of his wife's death is not known.^[1]

Issue

Sigtrygg and Slaine had one son, Olaf Sigtryggsson. ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} Sláine ingen Briain; Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sl%C3%A1ine_ingen_Briain. Accessed February 27, 2016
2. ↑ Ancestry Family Trees Ancestry Family Trees Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees. Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date:2006
4. ↑ Seán Duffy, Brian Bóruma, [Brian Boru] (c.941–1014), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 23 June 2014, amb
5. ↑ Wikipedia entry for Brian Boru
6. ↑ The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing: Irish women's writing and traditions, retrieved 2014-06-22, amb

See also:

• "Battle of Clontarf". History Department, Trinity College Dublin. Retrieved 19 April 2014.
• Ni Mhaonaigh, Maire (19 April 2014). Brian Boru: Ireland's Greatest King?. Stroud. p. 67
• Todd, James. "Cogadh Gaedhel re Galliabh". openlibrary.org. Retrieved 19 April 2014.
• Wales and the Britons, 350-1064, Volume 1 of History of Wales. p. 334. Author T. M. Charles-Edwards. Edition illustrated. Publisher Oxford University Press, 2013

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