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Encyclopedia > Cimbáeth

In Irish Mythology Cimbáeth or Cimbaoth was a High King of Ireland. He ruled in rotation with his cousins Áed Ruad and Díthorba, each ruling for seven years in turn. Each ruled for three seven-year periods. Although many of the manuscripts containing texts relating to Irish mythology have failed to survive, and much more material was probably never committed to writing, there is enough remaining to enable the identification of four distinct, if overlapping, cycles: the Mythological Cycle, The Ulster Cycle, the Fenian Cycle and the... The office of High King of Ireland (Irish: Ard Rí Érenn) was in origin a pseudohistorial construct of the eighth century that placed a king of all Ireland atop the fragmented pyramid of kingship that actually existed at that time. ... In Irish Mythology Áed Ruad or Áedh Ruadh, the red, was a High King of Ireland. ...


Áed Ruad had died after his third stint as king, and when Cimbáeth's third period ended Áed's daughter Macha demanded the kingship in her father's place. Cimbáeth and Díthorba refused, but she defeated them on the battlefield, killing Díthorba in Connacht. She married Cimbáeth and ruled jointly with him for a further seven years. He died of plague at Emain Macha, and Macha became the only queen in her own right in the List of High Kings of Ireland. This article is about the goddess in Celtic mythology. ... Connaught redirects here. ... Categories: Ireland-place stubs | Ulster cycle ... The High Kingship of Ireland was a pseudohistorical construct of the eighth century AD, a projection into the distant past of a political entity that did not become reality until the ninth century. ...



Preceded by:
Díthorba
High King of Ireland
First time

7 years
Succeeded by:
Áed Ruad


The High Kingship of Ireland was a pseudohistorical construct of the eighth century AD, a projection into the distant past of a political entity that did not become reality until the ninth century. ... In Irish Mythology Áed Ruad or Áedh Ruadh, the red, was a High King of Ireland. ...




Preceded by:
Díthorba
High King of Ireland
Second time

7 years
Succeeded by:
Áed Ruad


The High Kingship of Ireland was a pseudohistorical construct of the eighth century AD, a projection into the distant past of a political entity that did not become reality until the ninth century. ... In Irish Mythology Áed Ruad or Áedh Ruadh, the red, was a High King of Ireland. ...




Preceded by:
Díthorba
High King of Ireland
Third time

7 years
Succeeded by:
Cimbáeth
and Macha


The High Kingship of Ireland was a pseudohistorical construct of the eighth century AD, a projection into the distant past of a political entity that did not become reality until the ninth century. ... This article is about the goddess in Celtic mythology. ...




Preceded by:
Cimbáeth
and Macha
High King of Ireland
Fourth time
(with Macha)

7 years
Succeeded by:
Macha
(alone)


This article is about the goddess in Celtic mythology. ... The High Kingship of Ireland was a pseudohistorical construct of the eighth century AD, a projection into the distant past of a political entity that did not become reality until the ninth century. ... This article is about the goddess in Celtic mythology. ... This article is about the goddess in Celtic mythology. ...



 
 

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