• Gille Coemgáin mac Máil Brigti (died 1032) was the King or Mormaer of Moray, a semi-autonomous kingdom centred on Inverness that stretched across the...
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  • Lulach mac Gille Coemgáin (Modern Gaelic: Lughlagh mac Gille Chomghain, known in English simply as Lulach, and nicknamed Tairbith, "the Unfortunate" and...
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    (1020–1029) Gille Coemgáin mac Maíl Brigti (1029–1032) Mac Bethad mac Findláich, (Macbeth, King of Scotland) (1032–1057) Lulach mac Gille Coemgáin (1057–1058)...
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  • probably responsible for the death of the previous mormaer, Gille Coemgáin. He subsequently married Gille Coemgáin's widow, Gruoch, but they had no children...
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    Gruoch (redirect from Gruoch of Scots)
    daughter of Boite mac Cináeda; her mother's name is not known. Before 1032 Gruoch was married to Gille Coemgáin mac Maíl Brigti, Mormaer of Moray, with whom...
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  • and Gille Coemgáin, both benefited from the killing by succeeding to the throne. Findlaech's son Macbeth eventually succeeded to the throne of Moray in...
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  • McGuigan 2021, p. 58. Anderson, Early Sources, Vol. I, p. 452 Death of Gille Coemgáin, Annals of Ulster, s.a. 1032; Anderson, Early Sources, Vol. I, p. 571 Genealogies...
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  • death of King Máel Coluim II. Máel Coluim mac Máil Brigti seems to have been succeeded by his brother Gille Coemgáin. Domnall mac Máil Coluim, "son of the...
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  • wife firstly of Gille Coemgáin, mormaer of Moray, and secondly of King Macbeth; her son by Gille Coemgáin, Lulach (Lulach mac Gille Coemgáin), succeeded...
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    later king of Alba. Kenneth is also identified to have had a second son, Dúngal, who was killed in 999 by his cousin Gille Coemgáin, son of Kenneth III...
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  • Cenél Loairn (category Kings of Dál Riata)
    Medieval times the Mormaers of Moray claimed descent from Loarn: Findláech mac Ruaidrí Máel Coluim mac Máil Brigti Gille Coemgáin mac Máil Brigti Mac Bethad...
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  • Some have proposed that Wimund was a son of Óengus of Moray (died 1130), grandson of King Lulach mac Gille Coemgáin. However, his link with Cumbria has led...
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    Kingdom of Moray was ruled by the family of Macbeth (Mac Bethad mac Findláich) and Lulach (Lulach mac Gille Coemgáin): not overmighty subjects, but a family...
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  • House of Moray or Clann Ruaidrí is a historiographical and genealogical construct to illustrate the succession of rulers whose base was in Moray and who...
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    husband of Gruoch, a granddaughter of King Kenneth III. It has been supposed that Mac Bethad was responsible for the killing of Gille Coemgáin in 1032...
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    Bezprym (or Besfrim), duke of Poland Constantine Diogenes, Byzantine general Gille Coemgáin, king of Moray (Scotland) John XIX, pope of the Catholic Church Li...
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  • Demona (category Articles with topics of unclear notability from April 2024)
    life of loneliness and pain. Alone for several years, Demona has an encounter with a child named Gillecomgain (based loosely on Gille Coemgáin of Moray),...
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  • and queens of Scotland, since the unification under the House of Alpin in 834, to the personal union with England in 1603 under James VI of Scotland. It...
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    Wallace and Andrew Moray, then John Comyn, and finally Robert the Bruce (the grandson of the 1292 competitor, Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale who in...
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    is a list of rulers in the British Isles. The British Isles are a group of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-western coast of continental...
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  • Bezprym (or Besfrim), duke of Poland Constantine Diogenes, Byzantine general Gille Coemgáin, king of Moray (Scotland) John XIX, pope of the Catholic Church Li...
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