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Conall mac Taidg was a king in Scotland in the years around 800. Motto: Nemo me impune lacessit (English: No one provokes me with impunity) Scotlands location within Europe Scotlands location within the United Kingdom Languages English, Gaelic, Scots Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow First Minister Jack McConnell Area - Total - % water Ranked 2nd UK 78,782 km² 1. ...
He is mentioned twice in the Annals of Ulster. The first report has him defeated by Caustantín mac Fergusa of Fortriu in 789, this in "a war between the Picts themselves", the normal form of words for internecine strife. On this basis, Conall may have been king of the Picts from 787 to 789, but this is uncertain. The second report, in 807, tells of his defeat and death at the hands of his namesake Conall mac Áedáin in Kintyre. The Annals of Ulster are a chronicle of medieval Ireland. ...
CaustantÃn (Scottish Gaelic: CaustantÃn mac Fergusa) was king of Dál Riada and king of the Picts or Fortriu, in modern Scotland, from 789 until 820. ...
Fortriu or the the Kingdom of Fortriu is the name given by historians for an ancient Pictish kingdom, and often used synonymously with Pictland in general. ...
The Pictish Strathpeffer eagle stone, Highland, Scotland. ...
Kintyre shown within Argyll Kintyre is a peninsula in western Scotland in the south-west of Argyll. ...
Conall is thought to be mentioned in the Duan Albanach: "The two years of Conall of glorious career, And the four of another Conall." The other Conall is presumed to be Conall mac Áedáin. The Duan Albanach (Song of the Scots) is a Middle Gaelic poem found with the Lebor Bretnach, a Gaelic version of the Historia Brittonum of Nennius, with extensive additional material (mostly concerning Scotland). ...
The question of what Conall was king of is not definitely settled, but the most recent reconstructions would make him a king, or sub-king, in Dál Riata, between 805 and 807 approximately. The name of king or kings who reigned in Dál Riata, if any did, between the death of Donncoirce in 792, and the coming to power of Conall, are unknown. Dál Riata (also Dalriada or Dalriata) was a Goidelic kingdom on the western seaboard of Scotland and the northern coasts of Ireland, situated in the traditional Scottish and Northern Irish counties of Argyll, Bute and County Antrim. ...
Conall is not named in extant genealogies, so his ancestry beyond the name of his father, Tadg, is unknown. On weak anthroponymic grounds, Conall mac Áedáin might be of the Cenél nGabráin, in which case Conall mac Taidg may have been of the Cenél Loairn, but this is speculative. Genealogy is the study and tracing of family pedigrees. ...
Anthroponomastics (or Anthroponymy), a branch of onomastics, is the study of anthroponyms (<Gk. ...
Gabrán mac Domangairt was king of Dál Riata in the middle of the 6th century. ...
Loarn mac Eirc was a legendary king of Dál Riata who may have lived in the 5th century. ...
References - Anderson, Alan Orr, Early Sources of Scottish History A.D 500–1286, volume 1. Reprinted with corrections. Paul Watkins, Stamford, 1990. ISBN 1-871615-03-8
- Broun, Dauvit, "Pictish Kings 761–839: Integration with Dál Riata or Separate Development" in Sally M. Foster (ed.), The St Andrews Sarcophagus: A Pictish masterpiece and its international connections. Four Courts, Dublin, 1998. ISBN 0-85182-414-6
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