- time of the Normans, and it was
preceded by the
similar system known as
Rigdomna but
which took
place only
after the
position of king or
chief had become...
- "celebrated". The
historian Dáibhí Ó Cróinín has
proposed that the idea of the
rígdomna in
early medieval Ireland was
adopted from the Anglo-Saxon, specifically...
- the practice.
Previous successions had
involved strife between various rígdomna – men of
royal blood. Far from
being the aged King
Duncan of Shakespeare's...
- the
Battle of Degsastan. The
Irish annals name one
Oisiric mac Albruit,
rigdomna Saxan—ætheling Osric—among the dead,
alongside Connad Cerr, King of Dál...
- Coolavin,
County Sligo. The
first to bear the
surname was Ruaidrí Ua Gadhra,
rígdomna of Luigne, who died in 1059.
Ruaidri Ó Gadhra, died 1285.
Brian Ó Gadhra...
- hEaghra,
tigherna of Teóra
Sloinnte Luighne, d. 1059. Ruaidrí Ua Gadhra,
rígdomna of Luigne, d. 1059.
Dubhdhara ua Aigheannán, d. 1093.
Taichleach Ua hEaghra...
