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Simeon Breac Monarch of Ireland [60871]
- Marriage: Unknown
- Died: 903 B.C.
Cause of his death was drawn and quartered by horses.
General Notes:
http://www.rpi.edu/~holmes/Hobbies/Genealogy/ps11/ps11_048.htm
was the 44th Monarch; he inhumanly caused his predecessor to be torn asunder; but, after a reign of six years, he met with a like death, by order of Duach Fionn, son to the murdered King, B.C. 903.
Part III, Chapter IV of Irish Pedigrees, by John O'Hart, published 1892, pages 351-9, 664-8 and 708-9.
Events in the life of Símón Brecc mac Àedán
† death 1 , 2 . 0903 B.C. , in A.M. 3345. ·He was foiled in battle, taken prisoner and served in the very same manner by his predecessor's son, i.e. drawn and quartered by horses. event 1 . 0909 B.C. . ·overcome and took prisoner the Hiberian Monarch, Sedneus the Second, and caused his limbs to be drawn asunder by wild horses
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siom%C3%B3n_Brecc
Siomón Brecc ("the speckled, spotted, ornamented"),[1] son of Áedan Glas, son of Nuadu Finn Fáil , was, according to medieval Irish legend and historical tradition, a High King of Ireland He took power after killing the previous incumbent, Sétna Innarraid , ruled for six years, and was killed by Sétna's son Dui Finn . The Lebor Gabála Érenn synchronises his reign with that of Xerxes I of Persia (485\endash 465 BC).[2] The chronology of Geoffrey Keating 's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn dates his reign to 685-679 BCBC,[3] that of the Annals of the Four Masters to 910-904 BC.[4]
References 1. ^ Dictionary of the Irish Language , Compact Edition, Royal Irish Academy, 1990, p. 82 2. ^ R. A. Stewart Macalister (ed. & trans.), Lebor Gabála Érenn: The Book of the Taking of Ireland Part V, Irish Texts Society, 1956, p. 253 3. ^ Geoffrey Keating </wiki/Geoffrey_Keating>, Foras Feasa ar Éirinn 1.26 <http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100054/text036.html> 4. ^ Annals of the Four Masters </wiki/Annals_of_the_Four_Masters> M4290-4296 <http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100005A/text012.html>
Simeon married.
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