See also
| Husband: | Ugaine + MOR (c. 633-c. 594) | |
| Wife: | unknown (c. 630- ) | |
| Children: | Cobhthach + CAEL BREAGH (c. 591-c. 542) | |
| Name: | Ugaine + MOR1,2 | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Father: | Eochaidh + BUADHACH (660- ) | |
| Mother: | - | |
| Birth | c. 0633 B.C. | |
| Occupation | High King of Ireland | |
| Title | High King of Ireland | |
| Death | c. 0594 B.C. (age 38-39) | Magh Muireach,Ireland |
| Cause: murdered by his brother Badhbhchadh | ||
| Name: | unknown | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | - | |
| Mother: | - | |
| Birth | 0630 B.C. (cal) | |
| Name: | Cobhthach + CAEL BREAGH | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Birth | c. 0591 B.C. | |
| Occupation | High King of Ireland | |
| Title | High King of Ireland | |
| Death | c. 0542 B.C. (age 48-49) | Dinn Righ, Ireland |
| Cause: roasting alive in a metal building at the burning of Dinn Righ | ||
He became the sixty-sixth monarch of Ireland ca. 633 BC and reigned for forty years. He was the foster son of Macha Mong Ruadh (Macha the Red Haired) and Cimbaeth. After Cimbaeth died Macha ruled as the first Queen of Ireland. She ruled for seven years before she was slain by Reachtaidh Righdhearg. Ugaine slew Reachtaidh in revenge.
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According to some historians Ugaine Mor commanded a fleet to the Mediterranean, landed in Africa, and attacked Sicily. Afterward he went to Gaul, where he married Cesair. They had twenty one sons and three daughters. He supposedly conquered western Europe.
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Úgaine Mór ("the great"), son of Eochu Buadach, son of Dui Ladrach, was, according to medieval Irish legend and historical tradition, a High King of Ireland. He was the foster-son of Cimbáeth and Macha Mong Ruad, and took power by killing his predecessor, and his foster-mother's killer, Rechtaid Rígderg. The Lebor Gabála Érenn says that, as well as Ireland, he ruled "Alba to the Sea of Wight" – i.e. the whole of the island of Britain – and that "some say" he ruled all of Europe. He married Cessair Chrothach, daughter of the king of the Gauls, who bore him twenty-two sons and three daughters. He is said to have divided Ireland into twenty-five shares, one for each of his children, which stood for three hundred years, until the establishment of the provinces under Eochu Feidlech. He ruled for thirty or forty years, until he was killed by his brother Bodbchad. According to the Lebor Gabála[1] he was succeeded directly by his son Lóegaire Lorc, although the Annals of the Four Masters[2] and Geoffrey Keating's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn[3] say Bodbchad was king for a day and a half until Lóegaire killed him. The Lebor Gabála synchronises his reign to that of Ptolemy II Philadelphus (281-246 BC). The chronology of Keating's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn dates his reign to 441-411 BC, the Annals of the Four Masters to 634-594 BC.
Ugaine extracted oaths from the men of Ireland by "all the elements visible and invisible" that they would never contend with his children or race for the sovereinty of Ireland.
After Ugaine's murder his son, Laeghaire Lorc, became king.3
| 1 | Irish Texts Society, "Lebor Gabala Erenn: The book of the Taking of Ireland, Part V" (1956). |
| 2 | unknown, "Annals of the Four Masters". |
| 3 | "Wikipedia". |