Deen, Fordice, Hallett, Hodges and Van Horn Families - Person Sheet
Deen, Fordice, Hallett, Hodges and Van Horn Families - Person Sheet
NameNiall Noígiallach mac Echdach
Birthabt 311, Eire (Ireland)
Deathbef 382, Britannia
OccupationRí Na Connachta
Notes for Niall Noígiallach mac Echdach
Niall of the Nine Hostages
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niall_of_the_Nine_Hostages
Niall Noígíallach ,[1] or in English, Niall of the Nine Hostages, was a prehistoric Irish king, the ancestor of the Uí Néill family that dominated Ireland from the 6th to the 10th century. The rise of the Uí Néill dynasties and their conquests in Ulster and Leinster are not reliably recorded and have been the subject of considerable study and attempts to reconstruct them. Irish annalistic and chronicle sources place his reign in the late 4th and early 5th centuries, although modern scholars, through critical study of the annals, date him about half a century later. He is presumed to have been a real person, but most of the information about him that has come down to us is legendary.