Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
NameAiden 'the False' mac GABRAN King Of Scots, 40G Grandfather
FatherGabhran mac DOMANGART King Of Scots Of Dalriada (-~559)
Web Notes notes for Aiden 'the False' mac GABRAN King Of Scots
Consecrated King by his cousin St Columba about 574.
Killed about 608.
From the book, "Scotland: a Concise History" revised edition, by Fitzroy Maclean, 1993, page 19: Saint Columba was by any standards a remarkable man. Of royal birth and powerful intellect and physique, he seems to have left Ireland under some kind of a cloud. In Scottish Dalriada his impact was to a high degree political as well as spiritual. Arriving on the scene from Ireland in 563 at a moment when the Scots had suffered a crushing military defeat at the hands of the Picts, when their king had been killed, their morale was low, and their very independence was threatened, he not only preached the Gospel, but at once took active measures to re-establish and consolidate the monarchy. Aidan the False, whom he now made king in place of the rightful heir to the throne, proved an astute and resourceful monarch. The good work which he began was carried on by his descendants.
Weis' "Ancestral Roots. . ." (170:5). the following is taken from an Internet posting of Michael R. Davidson of Edinburgh. Scotland, on 23 Oct 1995:
Aedan mac Gabran
Aedan succeeded to the kingship upon his cousin Conall's death in 574. There is an entertaining story in Adomnan's _Life of Columba_ which relates how Columba would have preferred to support Eoganan as king. According to the life, an angel commanded Columba three times to support Aedan, and Columba did not relent until the angel struck him with a scourge. In 575 Aedan attended the Convention of Druim Cett in Ireland, which apparently convened to decide the political relationship between Dal Riata and the kings of the Northern Ui Neill in Ireland, whose power was growing.
In 581 he led an expedition to the Orkney islands, and he won a victory at the Isle of Man in the following year. In 590, he won a battle against the Maetae, his British neighbors, but lost two of his sons in the battle. In 596, in the first battle between Scots and English, two more of his sons were slain. In 600, he lead an army against the English of Northumbria, but was decisively defeated at Degsastan. He was victorious in a battle against the Picts sometime between 596 and 606. He died, at the age of seventy-four according to the annals, in 606, and was succeeded by his son Eochaid Buid.
Killed about 608.
From the book, "Scotland: a Concise History" revised edition, by Fitzroy Maclean, 1993, page 19: Saint Columba was by any standards a remarkable man. Of royal birth and powerful intellect and physique, he seems to have left Ireland under some kind of a cloud. In Scottish Dalriada his impact was to a high degree political as well as spiritual. Arriving on the scene from Ireland in 563 at a moment when the Scots had suffered a crushing military defeat at the hands of the Picts, when their king had been killed, their morale was low, and their very independence was threatened, he not only preached the Gospel, but at once took active measures to re-establish and consolidate the monarchy. Aidan the False, whom he now made king in place of the rightful heir to the throne, proved an astute and resourceful monarch. The good work which he began was carried on by his descendants.
Weis' "Ancestral Roots. . ." (170:5). the following is taken from an Internet posting of Michael R. Davidson of Edinburgh. Scotland, on 23 Oct 1995:
Aedan mac Gabran
Aedan succeeded to the kingship upon his cousin Conall's death in 574. There is an entertaining story in Adomnan's _Life of Columba_ which relates how Columba would have preferred to support Eoganan as king. According to the life, an angel commanded Columba three times to support Aedan, and Columba did not relent until the angel struck him with a scourge. In 575 Aedan attended the Convention of Druim Cett in Ireland, which apparently convened to decide the political relationship between Dal Riata and the kings of the Northern Ui Neill in Ireland, whose power was growing.
In 581 he led an expedition to the Orkney islands, and he won a victory at the Isle of Man in the following year. In 590, he won a battle against the Maetae, his British neighbors, but lost two of his sons in the battle. In 596, in the first battle between Scots and English, two more of his sons were slain. In 600, he lead an army against the English of Northumbria, but was decisively defeated at Degsastan. He was victorious in a battle against the Picts sometime between 596 and 606. He died, at the age of seventy-four according to the annals, in 606, and was succeeded by his son Eochaid Buid.