Cobthach Cóel Breg, High King of Ireland

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• Name	Cobthach Cóel Breg
  Suffix	High King of Ireland
  Birth	Ireland
  Gender	Male
  FamilySearch ID	LKDT-7TC
  Death	379 BC	Ireland
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  Person ID	I41165	mytree
  Last Modified	25 Feb 2024

  
  

  Father	Úgaine "The Great" Mór, High King of Ireland   d. 411 BC, Ireland
  Mother	Cessair Chrothach,   b. République française
  Family ID	F16512	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Children	+ 1. Meilge Molbthach, High King of Ireland   d. 362 BC
  Family ID	F16513	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Apr 2024

  
  

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• Notes

  Cobthach Cóel Breg, son of Úgaine Mor, was, according to medieval Iris h l egend and historical tradition, a High King of Ireland. He took powe r aft er murdering his brother Lóegaire Lorc. The story is told that he w as s o consumed with jealousy for his brother that he wasted away to almo st no thing, from which he gained his epithet Cóel Breg, the "meagre of B rega" . Acting on advice from a druid, he sent word to that he was ill, s o tha t Lóegaire would visit him. When he arrived, he pretended to be dea d. A s he lay on his bier, Lóegaire prostrated himself over his body in g rief , and Cobthach stabbed him with a dagger. He paid someone to poiso n Lóega ire's son, Ailill Áine, and forced Ailill's son Labraid to eat pa rt of hi s father's and grandfather's hearts, and a mouse, and forced hi m into exi le – according to one version, because it had been said that L abraid wa s the most hospitable man in Ireland. Cobthach later made peac e with Labr aid, now known by the epithet Loingsech, "the exile", and gav e him the pr ovince of Leinster, but relations broke down again and war b roke out betw een them, and Labraid burned Cobthach and his followers t o death in an ir on house at Dind Ríg. He had ruled for either fifty or t hirty years. Th e Lebor Gabála gives fifty, and dates his death to Christ mas Eve, 307 BC . It also synchronises his reign with that of Ptolemy I I Philadelphus (28 1–246 BC). The chronology of Keating's Foras Feasa a r Éirinn dates his re ign to 409–379 BC,[3] that of the Annals of the Fou r Masters to 592–542 B C.