Aidan Mac Gabhran King of Scots [5267] ²⁴

   Another name for Aidan was Aedán mac Gabráin King of Dál Riata.

  General Notes:

Acceded: CIR 574

consecrated by his cousin St. Columba.

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Also spelled AEDAN, king of the Scottish kingdom of Dalriada. He was the son of Gabran, king of Dalriada.

Aidan was crowned at Iona by St. Columba. He refused to allow his kingdom to remain dependent on the Irish Dalriada; but, coming into collision with his southern neighbours, he led a large force against Aethelfrith, king of the Northumbrians, and was defeated at Degsanstan, probably in Liddesdale



Aidan ruled the Scottish kingdom of Dalriada, succeeding his kinsman King Conall; Aidan was crowned at Iona by St. Columba; he refused to remain dependent upon the Irish Dalriada; he was defeated by Aethelfrith, King of Northumberland, at a place called Daeganstane (probably Liddesdale). {see Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1956 Ed., 1:441; 6:994.} Dalriada was
the name of two Gaelic kingdoms, one in Ireland and one in Scotland (settled from northern Antrim in Ireland ca. 500 A.D.),
the latter based in Argyllshire and dependent upon the Irish Dalrieda until about 575 when Aidan asserted its independence.

He was consecrated by his cousin St. Columba.
He invaded Northumbria in 603. He was defeated at Daegastan in 603.


Events in the life of Àedán "the Treacherous" mac Gabráin

birth 1 .
ABT 0533, in "near the Forth".
† death 1 .
17 Apr 0608, in Kilkerran.
event 1 .
0574, in Scotland.
·was crowned and anointed King of Scots Dalriada and Pendragon of the Celtic Isle (Aedàn Pen Draco Insularis) by (his 3rd cousin) St. Columba of Iona
event 1 .
BEF 0590.
·asked St. Columba which of his three sons-Artúr, Eochaid Find, or Domangart-will succeed him
burial 1 .
in Kilkerran.
event 1 .
0603, in the Battle of Degsastan, Liddesdale, Lothian.
·defeated by Aethelfrith, King of the North-Eastern kingdom of Bernicia, though both sides had heavy losses, and Aedan lost another son, Domangart
event 1 .
BETWEEN 0590 AND 0596, in the Battle of Miathi.
·defeated the Southern Picts, the Maeatae, in the battle which he lost two sons, Arthur and Eochaid Find,
event 1 .
0574.
·succeeded his 1st cousin, Conall I, to the throne of Dál Riata
event 1 .
0573, in the Battle of Arfderydd.
·served, probably, as a chief of the Gododdin Britons, commanding the lands around Aberfoyle, the region where he subsequently granted land to St. Berach for a monastery, and this capacity fought for the Britons
event 1 .
0575, in Drumceat, Derry, Ireland.
·concluded an agreement with the High King of Ireland, Aed mac Ainmerech, in which Aedan retained authority, to tax and collect tribute, over the Dál Riatan peoples who still lived in the original homeland of Fergus in Ulster, but these Dál Riatans were ultimately answerable to the Irish High King for military support, showing the Dál Riatan kings, even in Scotland, were subject to some degree to the High Kings of Ireland,
event 1 .
0582.
·ejected Baetán mac Cairill from the Isle of Man
event 1 .
0580.
·undertook a raid on the Orkney Islands, otherwise the territory of the Picts and King Brude, whose piratical inhabitants, Norseman, were conducting raids on Dál Riatan territory, most likely Iona,
event 1 .
BETWEEN 0580 AND 0584.
·fought a series of skirmishes with the Picts under King Brude, and generally won the advantage,
event 1 .
AFT 0603, in Kilkerran.
·is said to have abdicated after his defeat at the hands of the Angles of Bernicia and retired to a monastery

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List of Kings of Dál Riata

mac Gabráin (Cenél nGabráin; son of Gabrán)
Died c. 606
Known from Adomnán of Iona <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adomn%C3%A1n_of_Iona>'s Life of Saint Columba and from many entries in the Annals


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mac Gabráin (pronounced ['aiða?n mak 'gavra?n?] </wiki/Wikipedia:IPA> in Middle Irish ) was a king of Dál Riata from circa 574 until his death, perhaps on 17 April 609. The kingdom of Dál Riata was situated in modern Argyll and Bute , Scotland , and parts of County Antrim , Ireland . Genealogies record that Áedán was a son of Gabrán mac Domangairt .
He was a contemporary of Saint Columba , and much that is recorded of his life and career comes from hagiography such as Adomnán of Iona 's Life of Saint Columba. Áedán appears as a character in Old Irish and Middle Irish language works of prose and verse , some now lost.
The Irish annals record Áedán's campaigns against his neighbours, in Ireland , and in northern Britain , including expeditions to the Orkney Islands , the Isle of Man , and the east coast of Scotland. As recorded by Bede , Áedán was decisively defeated by Æthelfrith of Bernicia at the Battle of Degsastan . Áedán may have been deposed, or have abdicated, following this defeat.
Sources
The sources for Áedán's life include Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum </wiki/Historia_ecclesiastica_gentis_Anglorum>; Irish annals </wiki/Irish_annals>, principally the Annals of Ulster </wiki/Annals_of_Ulster> and the Annals of Tigernach </wiki/Annals_of_Tigernach>; and Adomnán's Life of Saint Columba. The Senchus fer n-Alban </wiki/Senchus_fer_n-Alban>, a census </wiki/Census> and genealogy </wiki/Genealogy> of Dál Riata, purports to record his ancestry and that of his immediate descendants. None of these sources are contemporary. Adomnán's work was written in the very late 7th century, probably to mark the centenary of Columba's death. It incorporates elements from a now lost earlier life of Columba, De virtutibus sancti Columbae, by Cumméne Find </wiki/Cumm%C3%A9ne_Find>. This was written perhaps as early as 640. However, neither the elements incorporated from Cumméne's work nor Adomnán's own writings can be treated as simple history. Bede's history was written some 30 years after Adomnán's. The surviving Irish annals contain elements of a chronicle kept at Iona from the middle of the 7th century onwards, so that these too are retrospective when dealing with Áedán's time.[1]
The Rawlinson B. 502 manuscript, dated to c. 1130, contains the tale Gein Branduib maic Echach ocus Aedáin maic Gabráin (The Birth of Brandub son of Eochu and of Aedán son of Gabrán). In this story, Áedán is the twin brother of Brandub mac Echach , a King of Leinster who belonged to the Uí Cheinnselaig kindred. Áedán is exchanged at birth for one of the twin daughters of Gabrán, born the same night, so that each family might have a son. The Prophecy of Berchán also associates Áedán with Leinster . John Bannerman concluded that "[t]here seems to be no basis of fact behind these traditions."[2] Francis John Byrne suggested that the Echtra was written by a poet at the court of Diarmait mac Maíl na mBó , an 11th-century descendant of Brandub, and was written to cement an alliance between Diarmait and the Scots king Máel Coluim mac Donnchada ("Malcolm III"), who claimed to be a descendant of Áedán.[3] A lost Irish tale, Echtra Áedáin mac Gabráin (The Adventures of Áedán son of Gabrán), appears in a list of works, but its contents are unknown.[4] Áedán is a character in the epic Scéla Cano meic Gartnáin , but the events which inspired the tale appear to have taken place in the middle of the seventh century.[5] He also appears in the tale Compert Mongáin.[6]Áedán additionally appears in a variety of Welsh sources, making him one of the few non-Britons to figure into Welsh tradition.[7]

Áedán's descendants
Áedán was succeeded by his son Eochaid Buide . Adomnán gives an account of Columba's prophecy that Eochaid's older brothers would predecease their father.[37] Áedán's other sons are named by the Senchus fer n-Alban as Eochaid Find, Tuathal, Bran, Baithéne, Conaing, and Gartnait.[38] Adomnán also names Artúr, called a son of Conaing in the Senchus, and Domangart, who is not included in the Senchus. Domangart too may have been a grandson rather than a son of Áedán, most likely another son of Conaing. The main line of Cenél nGabráin kings were the descendants of Eochaid Buide through his son Domnall Brecc , but the descendants of Conaing successfully contested for the throne throughout the 7th century and into the 8th.[39]
It has been suggested that Gartnait son of Áedán could be the same person as Gartnait son of Domelch , king of the Picts, whose death is reported around 601, but this rests on the idea of Pictish matriliny , which has been criticised. Even less certainly, it has been argued that Gartnait's successor in the Pictish king-lists, Nechtan , was his grandson, and thus Áedán's great-grandson.[40]
Of Áedán's daughters, less is known. Maithgemm, also recorded as Gemma, married a prince named Cairell of the Dál Fiatach. The names of Áedán's wives are not recorded, but one was said to be British, and another may have been a Pictish woman named Domelch, if indeed the Gartnait son of Domelch and Gartnait son of Áedán are one and the same.[41]

Notes
1. ^ Hughes; Bannerman; Fraser.
2. ^ Bannerman, pp. 89\endash 90
3. ^ Byrne, "Ireland and her neighbours", p. 897. Fraser, p. 296, notes that "the 'discovery' of a genealogical link" was a common result of an alliance.
4. ^ MacQuarrie, p. 109. The Echtra Áedáin mac Gabráin is listed in "Scéla: Catalogue of medieval Irish narratives & literary enumerations <http://volny.cz/enelen/sc.htm>". <http://volny.cz/enelen/sc.htm>. Retrieved 2006-12-26.
5. ^ M.O. Anderson, pp. 154\endash 155. MacQuarrie, pp. 167\endash 170, discusses the tale, describing it as a "pseudo-historical romance </wiki/Romance_(genre)>".
6. ^ Wiley, Dan M. (2004) "The Cycles of the Kings: Compert Mongáin" <http://www.hastings.edu/academic/english/Kings/Compert_Mongain.html> Hastings College. Retrieved 2009-09-16.
7, ^ Bromwich, p. 273.
8. ^ Bannerman, pp 47\endash 49 and 108\endash 118; Charles-Edwards, pp. 296\endash 297.
9. ^ An overview of the politics of northern Britain can be found in, for example, Yorke, pp. 33\endash 97.
10 ^ See, for example, Byrne, Irish kings, pp. 106ff.; Charles-Edwards, pp. 54\endash 67, 293\endash 299, & pp. 481ff.
11 ^ Adomnán, I, 49; Bannerman, pp. 80 and 88\endash 89; Anderson, ESSH, pp. cxxix\endash clvii.
12 ^ Bromwich, 256\endash 257.
13 ^ Adomnán, III, 5; Anderson, ESSH, p. 118; Bannerman, p. 90.
14 ^ Anderson, ESSH, p. cl; Bannerman, p. 48.
15 ^ Adomnán, II, 22.
16 ^ Adomnán, II, 22, translator's note 258; Bannerman, p. 107.
17 ^ Bannerman, p. 81.
18^ Adomnán, III, 5.
19 ^ Adomnán, III, 5 and translator's note 358; Broun; Byrne, Irish kings, p. 159; Yorke, p. 241.
20 ^ Bannerman, pp. 81\endash 82; Anderson, ESSH, pp. 78\endash 79; M.O. Anderson, p. 149, suggests that Báetán mac Cairill may have been the enemy against whom the battle was fought.
21 ^ Anderson, ESSH, p. 79. The date of Druim Cett has been disputed. Sharpe, in the editor's notes to Adomnán's Life, note 204, proposes a much later date, c. 590. Sharpe is followed by Meckler ("The Annals of Ulster and the date of the meeting at Druim Cett", Peritia, vol. 11, 1997) but this is challenged by Jaski ("Druim Cett revisited", Peritia, vol. 12, 1998). Charles-Edwards, Early Christian Ireland, p. 491, takes the meeting to have been "some years later" than 575.
22 ^ Adomnán, I, 48.
23 ^ Anderson, ESSH, p. 83, note 2; M.O. Anderson, pp. 148\endash 149; Bannerman, pp. 1\endash 2; Byrne, Irish kings, p. 110.
24 ^ Anderson, ESSH, pp.87\endash 88; Bannerman, pp. 2\endash 4; Byrne, Irish kings, pp. 109\endash 111; Ó Cróinín, Early Medieval Ireland, pp. 50\endash 51.
25 ^ Anderson, ESSH, p. 89; Bannerman, pp. 83\endash 84; Ó Cróinín, pp. 50\endash 51.
26 ^ Adomnán, II, 42, and translator's note 324; Anderson, ESSH, p. 86; Bannerman, pp. 79 & 83.
27 ^ Adomnán, I, 8\endash 9 and translator's note 81; Bannerman, pp. 82\endash 83. Bannerman, pp. 90\endash 91, notes that Artúr is the son of Conaing, son of Áedán in the Senchus fer n-Alban.
28 ^ Anderson, ESSH, p. 94; Bannerman, pp. 84\endash 85 and 91.
29 ^ Bannerman, pp. 84\endash 86.
30 ^ The Battle of Asreth is apparently misdated, appearing under 752 in the Annals of Tigernach; see M.O. Anderson, pp. 30\endash 31 & 36\endash 37.
31 ^ Adomnán, I, 15 and translator's note 89; Bannerman, pp. 88\endash 89.
32 ^ MacQuarrie, p. 109.
33 ^ Adomnán, I, 9; Bannerman, pp. 85 and 91\endash 92.
34 ^ Bede, I, 34; Bannerman, pp.86\endash 88; Byrne, Irish kings, p. 111; Kirby, pp. 70\endash 72. MacQuarrie, pp. 103\endash 104, notes some textual inconsistencies in the Irish sources, and suggests that the "Battle of the Saxons" recorded in the Irish annals may not be Bede's "Battle of Degsastan".
35 ^ Bannerman, pp.80\endash 81; Fraser, Caledonia to Pictland, p. 141.
36 ^ Bannerman, pp. 80\endash 81 and 86\endash 87.
37 ^ Adomnán, I, 9.
38 ^ The name Conaing implies a familiarity with Anglo-Saxons and their language as it is derived from Old English cyning, king; Byrne, Irish kings, pp.111\endash 112. The appearance of two sons named Eochaid is not an error, as noted by Charles-Edwards, p. 6.
39 ^ Adomnán, I, 9; Anderson, ESSH, pp.95\endash 96; Bannerman, pp. 47\endash 49, 90\endash 96 and 103.
40 ^ Anderson, ESSH, pp. 121\endash 123 and 145; Bannerman, pp. 93\endash 94, Smyth, p.70. On Pictish matriliny in general, see Woolf. That the Pictish king Nechtan and Nechtan son of Cano are the same person is questionable: see M.O. Anderson, pp. 116 & 154; MacQuarrie, pp. 167\endash 170.
41 ^ Bannerman, pp. 88\endash 89. A daughter named Conchenn is mentioned in some very late tales.

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  Noted events in his life were:

• Acceded, Abt 574, consecrated by his cousin St. Columba.

Aidan married Domelch of the Picts [19281] [MRIN: 1652] about 535 in Scotland. (Domelch of the Picts [19281] was born about 515 in England.)