This campaign was successful, but Áedán's sons Artúr and Eochaid Find were killed in battle according to Adomnán.

The surviving Irish annals contain elements of a chronicle kept at Iona from the middle of the 7th century onwards, so that these too are retrospective when dealing with Áedán's time.

The names of Áedán's wives are not recorded, but one was said to be British, and another may have been a Pictish woman named Domelch, if indeed the Gartnait son of Domelch and Gartnait son of Áedán are one and the same.

These were the Cenél nGabráin, named for Áedán's father, who ruled over Kintyre, Cowal and Bute ; the Cenél Loairn of northern Argyll ; and the Cenél nÓengusa of Islay.

Although nothing is known of Cuildach and Domangart or their descendants, Adomnán mentions a certain Ioan, son of Conall, son of Domnall, " who belonged to the royal lineage of the Cenél nGabráin ", but this is generally read as meaning that Ioan was a kinsman of the Cenél nGabráin, and his grandfather named Domnall is not thought to be the same person as Áedán's brother Domnall.

Dál Riata did expand to include Skye, possibly conquered by Áedán's son Gartnait.

Áedán's dominance came to an end around 604, when his army, including Irish kings and Bernician exiles, was defeated by Æthelfrith at the battle of Degsastan.

Áedán's campaigns on the Isle of Man have sometimes been confused with the battle against the Miathi mentioned by Adomnán.

Áedán's army included the Bernician exile Hering, son of the former Bernician king Hussa ; his participation is mentioned by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ( manuscript E, year 603 ), and may indicate dynastic rivalry among the Bernicians.

Áedán's army also included the Cenél nEógain prince Máel Umai mac Báetáin, who is said by Irish sources to have slain Eanfrith, brother of Æthelfrith.

The Senchus fer n-Alban records the sub-divisions of Dál Riata in the 7th and 8th centuries, but no record from Áedán's time survives.

Áedán's byname in later Welsh poetry, Aeddan Fradawg ( Áedán the Treacherous ) does not speak to a favourable reputation among the Britons of Alt Clut, and it may be that he seized control of Alt Clut.

Although Æthelfrith commanded an inferior force, according to Bede, he won a crushing victory at a place called Degsastan ; most of Áedán's army was killed, and Áedán himself fled.

The Irish annals record Áedán's campaigns against his neighbours, in Ireland, and in northern Britain, including expeditions to the Orkney Islands, the Isle of Man, and the east coast of Scotland.

The sources for Áedán's life include Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ; Irish annals, principally the Annals of Ulster and the Annals of Tigernach ; and Adomnán's Life of Saint Columba.

Late in Áedán's life, the kingdom of Bernicia would become the greatest power in north Britain.

The most important Cruithne king in Áedán's time was Fiachnae mac Báetáin.

Of the Uí Néill kings, Áed mac Ainmuirech of the Cenél Conaill, Columba's first cousin once removed, was the most important during Áedán's reign.

A Welsh poem states that Áedán's mother was a daughter of King Dumnagual Hen of Alt Clut.

Áedán's brother Eoganán is known from Adomnán and his death is recorded c. 597.

His succession as king may have been contested ; Adomnán states that Columba had favoured the candidacy of Áedán's brother Eoganán.

The purpose of the meeting is not entirely certain, but one agreement made there concerned the status of Áedán's kingdom.

A Welsh triad names Áedán's plundering of Alt Clut as one of the " three unrestrained plunderings of Britain ", and the poem Peiryan Vaban tells of a battle between Áedán and Rhydderch.

Even less certainly, it has been argued that Gartnait's successor in the Pictish king-lists, Nechtan, was his grandson, and thus Áedán's great-grandson.

Of Áedán's daughters, less is known.

" For what happens to the sons of men also happens to animals ; one thing befalls them: as one dies, so dies the other.

" Alaric had made no provision for a successor, and although he had two sons, one was of age but illegitimate and the other the offspring of a legal marriage but still a child.

The brothers had agreed that whichever of them outlived the other would inherit the personal property that King Æthelwulf had left jointly to his sons in his will.

When she bore twin sons, she ate one of them while the other one, Iakhos, was saved by Artemis.

This meaning is advocated by several classical rabbinical sources, which argue that it refers to the birth of Benjamin in Canaan, as compared with the birth of all the other sons of Jacob in Aram.

The text of Genesis-Numbers leaves no doubt as to the central concern of the priests: the cult of Yahweh was to be under the control of " Aaron and his sons " forever, and to the exclusion of all other priestly lines ( such as Korah, Dathan and Abiram, who meet terrible fates in Numbers 16-17 for challenging Aaron, but also the lines of David's priests Abiathar and Zadok, as well as the low-level Levites ).

Then the king came to the Haye in Touraine and his men had passed the river of Loire, some at the bridge of Orléans and some at Meung, at Saumur, at Blois, and at Tours and whereas they might: they were in number a twenty thousand men of arms beside other ; there were a twenty-six dukes and earls ( Counts ) and more than sixscore banners, and the four sons of the king, who were but young, the duke Charles of Normandy, the lord Louis, that was from thenceforth duke of Anjou, and the lord John duke of Berry, and the lord Philip, who was after duke of Burgoyne ".

When the Dauphin and other sons withdrew, the duke of Orléans also withdrew.

" His early years were spent with his mother and brother in the London district of Kennington ; Hannah had no means of income, other than occasional nursing and dressmaking, and Chaplin Sr. provided no support for his sons.

The sons of priests were forbidden to undertake other occupations, and compelled to become priests.

) Through Ruhangiz's efforts, Shoghi Effendi's other sister and his cousin Thurayya also married sons of Siyyid Ali Afnan.

Although Abdur Rahman had fathered many children, he groomed Habibullah to succeed him, and he made it difficult for his other sons to contest the succession by keeping power from them and sequestering them in Kabul under his control.

This would typically require the approval of all masters of a guild, a donation of money and other goods ( often omitted for sons of existing members ), and the production of a so-called masterpiece, which would illustrate the abilities of the aspiring master craftsman ; this was often retained by the guild.

Two of his sons – Charles the Bald and Louis the German – swore allegiance to each other against their brother – Lothair I – in the Oaths of Strasbourg, and the empire was divided among Louis's three sons ( Treaty of Verdun, 843 ).

After Somerled's death in 1164 his kingdom was split between his three sons, Ragnall in Islay and Kintyre, Dughall in Lorne and the other Argyll islands, and Angus holding Arran and Bute.

The eldest son received twice as much as the other sons.

Tutush's sons Fakhr al-Mulk Radwan and Duqaq inherited Aleppo and Damascus respectively, further dividing Syria amongst emirs antagonistic towards each other, as well as Kerbogha, the atabeg of Mosul.

But in the event, Charlemagne's other legitimate sons died – Pepin in 810 and Charles in 811 – and Louis alone remained to be crowned co-emperor with Charlemagne in 813.

It concludes that the closest parallels with Isaiah's description of the king of Babylon as a fallen morning star cast down from heaven are to be found not in any lost Canaanite and other myths but in traditional ideas of the Jewish people themselves, echoed in the Biblical account of the fall of Adam and Eve, cast out of God's presence for wishing to be as God, and the picture in of the " gods " and " sons of the Most High " destined to die and fall.

Creticus had two other sons: Gaius ( praetor 44 BC, born c. 83 BC ) and Lucius ( quaestor 50 BC, consul 41 BC, born c. 81 BC ).

All his surviving sons established religious schools close to their homes and taught the young students from Diriyah and other places.

It was now the sons of the mayor that divided the realm among each other under the rule of a single king.

He may have had two other sons whose names were later conflated by scribes into Ruklys and Rupeikis.

In the first 9 days of the lunar 9th month festival, an oil lamp of 9 branches may also be lit to honour both the Northern Dipper and 2 other assistant stars ( collectively known as the Nine Emperor Stars ), sons of Dou Mu appointed by the Taoist Trinity ( the Three Pure Ones ) to hold the Books of Life and Death of humanity.