Feidlimind Mac Cremthanin was the King of Cashel or Munster between 820 and 846. He was numbered as a member of the Céili Dé, an abbot of Cork Abbey and Clonfert Abbey, and possibly a bishop. After his death, he was later considered a saint in some martryologies. Cashel (Irish: An Caisleán) is a town in County Tipperary, Republic of Ireland, located south of the midlands of Ireland. ... Alternate uses: See Munster (disambiguation). ... Red Abbey Tower on Mary Street in Cork City is a remnant of the former Augustinian Abbey. ...

Early Kingship

Feidlimid was of the Cashel branch of the Cénel Éoganacht ¹, and he is noted as having assumed the sovereignty of Munster in 820 ². In 823, in co-operation with the Artrí mac Conchobar of Armagh, he had the ‘Law of St. Patrick established in Munster' ³, and sacked the monastery, that of Gailline of the Britons, in modern County Offaly ⁴. The Dealbhna Breatha was burnt by Feidlimid in 825 ⁵. In 827, there is the first of a number of royal meetings between Feidlimid and Conchobar and the Southern Uí Neill, King of Tara ⁶. Events Michael II succeeds Leo V as Byzantine Emperor The Historia Brittonum is written (approximate date) Births Rhodri Mawr (the Great), ruler of Gwynedd (Wales) (approximate date) Photius I, patriarch of Constantinople (approximate date) Deaths December 24: Leo V, Byzantine Emperor (assassinated) Shankara, Hinduist teacher Tang Xian Zong, emperor of... Events Crete is conquered from the Byzantines by the Saracens. ... Events Succession of Pope Valentine, then Pope Gregory IV. Arabs invade Sicily. ...

In 830, Feidlimid was back burning monasteries this time it was probably that of Fore in modern Westmeath ⁷ , while in Southern Galway, he destroyed the Ui-Briuin ⁸ , and in the same year, the Munstermen were recorded as killing Folloman, son of Donnchad and brother of Concobhar, the High King of Ireland ⁹. In 831 and 832, he is recorded as taking an army of Leinster and Munster into East Meath, plundering as far north as Slane ¹⁰ , while also radiing the Dealbhna-Beatha of southern Offaly three time, and burning Clonmacnoise ¹¹. In 833, he is back in Clonmacnoise burning it and the Clann Cholmán monastery of Durrow to the door of their churches ¹². In 835, the Munstermen are recorded as having slain Fergus, son of Bodbchad, the King of Carraic-Brachaidhe, from the very north-west of country, Inishowen ¹³. Events Christian missionary Ansgar visits Birka, trade city of the Swedes. ... The Fore are a highland people of Papua New Guinea. ... County Westmeath (Irish: An Iarmhí) is a county situated in the Irish Midlands, in the western part of the province of Leinster. ... Events The Saracens capture Palermo. ... Events Theophilus forbids the usage of icons, establishing strict punishments. ... Slane (Baile Shláine in Irish) is an ancient town on the River Boyne in County Meath, Ireland. ... County Offaly (Irish: Uíbh Fhailí) is a county in Leinster, Ireland, bordered by seven other counties: Galway, Roscommon, Westmeath, Meath, Kildare, Laois, and Tipperary. ... Events End of the reign of caliph Al-Mamun Nimmyo succeeds Junna as emperor of Japan Creation of Great Moravia Births Deaths Categories: 833 ... Clonmacnoise viewed from the River Shannon The monastery of Clonmacnoise (Cluain Mhic Nóis in Irish, meaning Meadow of the Sons of Nós) is situated in County Offaly, Ireland on the River Shannon south of Athlone Foundation Clonmacnoise was founded in 545 by Saint Ciaran at the point where... Events Ragnar Lodbrok rises to power (approximate date) The celebration of All Saints is made an obligation throughout the Frankish Empire and fixed on November 1. ... Categories: Ireland-place stubs | Peninsulas of Ireland | County Donegal ...

High point of his rule

In 836, Feidlimid took the oratory in Kildare, against Forindam, the abbot of Armagh, and had him and the congregation of Patrick congregation imprisoned ¹⁴. In 837, Feidlimid is recording as taking the abbacy of Cork, and also he plundered the Cenél Cairpri Cruim ¹⁵. In 838, there was a great royal meeting in Cluain-Conaire-Tommain (north modern Kildare) between Feidlimid and Niall, the King of the Northern Uí Neill, and Tara ¹⁶ , as a result of which the Annals of Inisfallen, presumably acting on Munster tradition, that Feidlimid became full king of Ireland that day and occupied the abbot’s chair of Clonfert ¹⁷. Events Abbasid caliph al-Mutasim establishes new capital at Samarra, Iraq. ... Events Pietro Tradonico elected Doge of Venice. ... Events At Hingston Down, Egbert of Wessex beats the Danish and the West Welsh. ... Tara might mean: Place names Tara, Australia is a place in Queensland Tara, Ireland was the home of the Kings of Ireland. ... The Annals of Inisfallen are a chronicle of the medieval history of Ireland. ...

The year 840 was probably the high point of Feidlimid’s rule, when he ravaged Midhe and Bregha and is recorded as having rested in ‘Temhar’, and the annals have a short poem on this: Events After the death of Louis the Pious, his sons Lothar, Charles the Bald and Louis the German fight over the division of the empire, with Lothair succeding as Emperor. ...

“Feidhlimid is the King, To whom it was but one day’s work [To obtain] the pledges of Connaught without battle, And to devastate Midhe” ¹⁸;

Downfall

However, this was short lived and in 841, he was defeated in battle by Niall at Magh-Ochtar in Kildare, a presumably meet with surprise, as the following verse suggest: Events June 25: Battle of Fontenay _ Louis the German and Charles the Bald defeat Lothar. ... Kildare (Irish: Cill Dara) is a town in County Kildare, Republic of Ireland. ...

“The crozier of the devout Feidlimid, Was abandoned in the blackthorns, Niall, mighty in combat, took it, By right of victory in battle with swords.’ ¹⁹

Death

Feidlimid does not appear to have recovered from this defeat and died in 847 ¹⁹. Although the cause of his death is not noted in the Annals of Ulster, the majority of the other sources, place the cause of his death on St. Kieran, the patron saint of Clonmacnoise, as revenge for Feidlimid’s plunderings of the site. The Annals of Clonmacnoise offers the following description: Events Succession of Pope Leo IV, (847 - 855) Births Alfred the Great Deaths Pope Sergius II, (844 - 847) Categories: 847 ...

‘'After his returne to Munster ye next year, he was overtaken by a great disease of the flux of the belly, which happened in this wide. As King felym (soone after his return to Mounster) was takeing his rest inn his bed, St. Wueran appeared to him with his habit and bachall.. & there gave him a push of his Bachall in his belly whereof he tooke his disease and occasiontion of Death, and notwithstanding his great irregularity and great desire of spoyle he was of sum numbered among the scribes and anchorites of Ireland.'’ ²⁰

Notes

• Note (1): p.295, Francis J. Byrne, Irish Kings and High-Kings, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001
• Note 2: 823.5, The Annals of Ulster (AU), Edited by Seán Mac Airt and Gearóid Mac Nocaill, Dublin: Institute for Advanced Studies, 1983. Where references are made, this version of the Annals of Ulster will be used as the base text for events, and their dates. For topographical notes, John O’Donovan’s topographical notes in the Annals of Ulster and the Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland the has been used, even though it is not cited. Only events that do not occur in the Annals of Ulster edited by Seán Mac Airt and Gearóid Mac Nocaill, are cited from other texts. Shared events are cited only from AU.
• Note 3: 823.9, AU
• Note 4: 824, The Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland (AFM), Edited and translated by John O’Donovan, Volume 1, New York: AMS Press, 1966
• Note 5: 827.10, AU
• Note 6: 830.4, AU
• Note 7: 830.6, AU
• Note 8: 830.5, AU
• Note 9: 831.9, AU
• Note 10: 831, AFM
• Note 11: 833.7, AU
• Note 12: 835.8, AU
• Note 13: 836.3, AU
• Note 14: 837.7, AU
• Note 15: 838.6, AU
• Note 16: 838, Seán Mac Airt, The Annals of Inisfallen Dublin: 1951 available at UCC Celt Website (http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100004/index.html)
• Note 17: 840.4, AU
• Note 18: 841.5, AU
• Note 19: 847.1, AU
• Note 20: 844, Connell Mageoghagain (edited by Denis Murphy), The Annals of Clonmacnoise (AConn), Dublin: Llanerech, 1993

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External Links

Annals of Ulster (http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100001A/) Annals of Inisfallen (http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100004/)