His murder within a few months saw Domnall restored with one of Máel Coluim sons by his second marriage, Edmund, as his heir.

According to the Annals of Ulster he was killed by his own people while the Annals of Tigernach say that the sons of his brother Máel Brigte were responsible.

One of these sons, Máel Coluim mac Máel Brigte, died in 1029.

Máel Coluim's sons Dub and Cináed were later kings.

Either soon before or soon after his victory over Máel Muad, Brian routed Donnubán and the remainder of the Norse army in the Battle of Cathair Cuan, there probably slaying the last of Ivar's sons and successor Aralt.

The Cogadh Gaedhil re Gallaibh relates a story in which one of Brian's sons insults Máel Morda, which leads him to declare his independence from Brian's authority.

Another contender, imprisoned at Roxburgh since about 1130, was Máel Coluim mac Alaxandair, an illegitimate son of Alexander I. Máel Coluim's sons were free men in 1153.

The first opposition to Malcolm came in November 1153, from the combination of a neighbour, Somerled of Argyll, and family rivals, the sons of Máel Coluim mac Alaxandair.

Support for the sons of Máel Coluim mac Alaxandair may also have come from areas closer to the core of the kingdom ; two conspirators are named by chroniclers, one of whom died in trial by combat in February 1154.

In 1020, Mac Bethad's father Findláech mac Ruaidrí was killed by the sons of his brother Máel Brigte.

Máel Coluim had no living sons, and the threat to his plans for the succession was obvious.

By the 1030s Máel Coluim's sons, if he had any, were dead.

The only evidence that he did have a son or sons is in Rodulfus Glaber's chronicle where Cnut is said to have stood as godfather to a son of Máel Coluim.

" The Prophecy of Berchán, perhaps the inspiration for John of Fordun and Andrew of Wyntoun's accounts where Máel Coluim is killed fighting bandits, says that he died by violence, fighting " the parricides ", suggested to be the sons of Máel Brigte of Moray.

Bethóc ingen Maíl Coluim meic Cináeda was the eldest daughter of King Máel Coluim mac Cináeda, King of Scots, who had no known sons.

And the foreigners gave him the kingship of Dublin, and he made prisoner the sons of Domnall, son of Máel na mBó, in Dublin, and brought back the hostages of Osraige on that occasion.

The same style is used of Kenneth's brother Donald I ( Domnall mac Ailpín ) and sons Constantine I ( Constantín mac Cináeda ) and Áed ( Áed mac Cináeda ).

In 945, Edmund of Wessex, having expelled Amlaíb Cuaran ( Olaf Sihtricsson ) from Northumbria, devastated Cumbria and blinded two sons of Domnall mac Eógain, king of Strathclyde.

Two of Harold's other sons, Godwine and Edmund, invaded England in 1068 and 1069 with the aid of Diarmait mac Mail na mBo.

He was one of the 12 sons of Cennétig mac Lorcáin ( d. 951 ), king of Dál Cais and king of Tuadmumu ( Thomond ), modern County Clare, then a sub-kingdom in the north of Munster ).

Of William's other sons, Bishop Wimund was already blinded, emasculated and imprisoned at Byland Abbey before David's death, but Domnall mac Uilleim, first of the Meic Uilleim, had considerable support in the former mormaerdom of Moray.

He was one of three known sons of King Indulf ( Ildulb mac Causantín ), the others being Amlaíb and Eochaid.

Fiannamail is said to have had at least two sons, Indrechtach and Conall, who were killed in 741 at the battle of Forboros, perhaps fighting against the Picts led by Óengus mac Fergusa.

His sons Ainbcellach and Selbach were kings of Dál Riata and his descendants included Mac Bethad mac Findláich ( Shakespeare's Macbeth ).

Dúnchad mac Conaing appears in the Senchus fer n-Alban: " These are the sons of Conaing, son of Áedán. i. Rigallán, Ferchar, Artán, Artúr, Dondchad, Domungart, Nechtan, Ném, Crumíne.

Eochaid's other sons named by the Senchus fer n-Alban are Conall Crandomna, Failbe ( who died at the Battle of Fid Eoin ), Cú-cen-máthair ( whose death is reported in the Annals of Ulster for 604 ), Conall Bec, Connad or Conall Cerr ( who may be the same person as Connad Cerr who died at Fid Eoin ), Failbe, Domangart and Domnall Donn ( not the same person as Domnall Donn unless his obituary is misplaced by 45 years like that of Ferchar mac Connaid )

* After Áedán mac Gabráin, between the main line, called " the sons of Eochaid Buide " and " the children of Cináed mac Ailpín ", and the " sons of Conaing "

His father is Rus Ruad, king of the Laigin, whose other sons include Cairbre Nia Fer, king of Tara, Find Fili, who succeeded him as king of the Laigin, and in some texts Cathbad, chief druid of Conchobar mac Nessa of the Ulaid.

First, Ó Riain argues that such sympathies as Thurneysen refers to are pertinent only to the next kings in the royal line, Cellach mac Brain ( r. 829-834 ) and Conchobar mac Donnchada ( r. 819-833 ), sons of Bran and Donnchad respectively.

Flaithbertach's sons included: Áed Muinderg ( died 747 ) called King of the North ; Loingsech mac Flaithbertaig ( died 754 ) and Murchad mac Flaithbertaig ( died 767 ) called chiefs of the Cenél Conaill.

Like the family of O ' Neill, that of O ' Donnell of Tyrconnell was of the Uí Néill, i. e. descended from Niall of the Nine Hostages, High-King of Ireland at the beginning of the 5th century ; the O ' Neill, or Cenél nEógain, tracing their pedigree to Eógan mac Néill, and the O ' Donnells, or Cenél Conaill, to Conall Gulban, both sons of Niall.

The Senchus names three other sons of Gabrán, namely Cuildach, Domnall, and Domangart.

It is assumed that Domnall appointed him his heir as Domnall had no sons of his own, and it is thought that Edmund was granted an appanage to rule.

He had two legitimate sons, Domnall Caemhánach ( died 1175 ) and Énna Cennselach ( blinded 1169 ).

According to the Annals of Inisfallen, in 1201 William and the sons of Domnall Mór led a major joint military expedition into Desmond, slaying Amlaíb Ua Donnabáin among others.

According to the later Irish historians, Diarmait was followed as King of Tara by Domnall Ilchegalch and Forguss, sons of Muirchertach mac Ercae, of the Cenél nEógain.

A battle was fought at Monecronock, near modern Leixlip, on 19 October 1082 where Toirdelbach's sons Muirchertach and Tadc won, killing Domnall Ua Ruairc and Cennétig Ua Briain.

According to the Lebor Gabála Érenn, the ancestors of the Gaels were living in the Iberian peninsula, ruled by two of the sons of Míl, Éber Donn and Érimón.

They made then great raids on the Galls, Aed son of Ruaidri and the men of West Connacht plundering the young son of William and Adam Duff, while Donn Oc and the sons of Magnus with the new levies of Sil Murray plundered Mac Gosdelb and Tir Maine as far as Athlone.

Anna then protested that the family was in fear for their lives, her sons were loyal subjects ( Alexios and Isaac were discovered absent without leave ), and had learned of a plot by enemies of the Komnenoi to have them both blinded and had, therefore, fled the capital so they may continue to be of loyal service to the emperor.

There is also the strange myth of the brothers Aegyptus and Danaus, sons of Belus, with the latter supposedly coming from Egypt, that Marianne Luban has suggested may date to this time.

Constantly fearing that his sons may have sinned and " cursed God in their hearts ", he habitually offered burnt offerings as a pardon for their sins.

The significance of Forteviot as the site of this law-making, along with Kenneth's death there and Constantine's later gathering at nearby Scone, may point to this as being the heartland of the sons of Alpín's support.

Once her sons had left for Paris, Eleanor may have encouraged the lords of the south to rise up and support them.

), Sujin summoned two sons and told him he loved them equally and could not make up his mind which to make his heir, bidding them describe the dreams they had, so he may divine their lot by interpreting their dreams.

Kim has theorized that Emperor Keitai may have been a brother of Muryeong of Baekje, and they may be sons of Konchi of Baekje ( 곤지, 昆支 ).

In Numbers 27: 7-11, Jehovah grants that if a man has no sons, then his daughters may inherit, and lays down the order of inheritance: a man's sons inherit first, daughters if no sons, brothers if he has no children, and so on.

In 1743 two of his sons may have reached the Big Horn Mountains of Wyoming, but documentation was poor.

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.

De Situ Albanie is not the most reliable of sources, and the number of kingdoms, one for each of the seven sons of Cruithne, the eponymous founder of the Picts, may well be grounds enough for disbelief.

Searching for Llywarch's kingdom has led some historians to propose that, as was common in later Brythonic kingdoms, Rheged may well have been divided between sons, resulting in northern and southern successor states.

Bolesław I does not appear in the surviving summary of the Dagome Iudex document, and as such it may be supposed that Lesser Poland was already known as Bolesław I's inheritance, while his two surviving half-brothers Mieszko and Lambert, sons of Mieszko I by his second wife Oda, were to divide the rest of the realm between themselves.

He may well have been influenced by Emma, who hoped to keep her power by ensuring that one of her sons was succeeded by another.

The long descriptive passages, some of which may have originated as letters, cover her relationships with the other ladies-in-waiting, Michinaga's temperament, the birth of Shōshi's sons — at Michinaga's mansion rather than at the Imperial Palace — and the process of writing Genji, including descriptions of passing newly written chapters to calligraphers for transcriptions.

Evidence in support of there being descendants of Zenobia is offered by a name in an inscription found in Rome: the name of L. Septimia Patavinia Balbilla Tyria Nepotilla Odaenathiania incorporates the names of Zenobia's first husband and son and may be suggestive of a possible family relationship ( after the deaths of Odaenathus and his sons, Odaenathus had no descendants ).

" William of Tyre's comments may seem rather patronizing to a modern audience, wrote professor Bernard Hamilton of the University of Nottingham ; however, this was a great show of respect from a society and culture in which women were regarded as having fewer rights and less authority than their brothers, fathers, and even sons.

Bede's tale may come from the same root as the Irish tales of Cairpre Riata and his brothers, the Síl Conairi or sons / descendants of Conaire Mór / Conaire Cóem.

These incidents may be due to the practice in zoos of separating mothers and sons, which is contrary to their social organization in the wild.

He may have been freed or " given his time " by one of Clay's sons, as Dupuy continued to work at Ashland, for pay.

It may also have been the case that some families used an agnomen in order to distinguish individuals, especially when there was a famous cognomen which they wanted all their sons to be able to bear.