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Flaithbertach mac Inmainén (died 944) was abbot of ''Inis Cathaig'' (Scattery Island) and sometime King of Munster in the south of Ireland. Unrelated to the dominant Eóganachta, Flaithbertach belonged to the Múscraige, an Érainn people. ==''Cath Belach Mugna''== Flaithbertach is first mentioned by the Irish annals in 907, when he is recorded, along with the then-King of Munster Cormac mac Cuilennáin, leading an expedition by the Munstermen against Connacht and the Uí Néill. According to the partisan pro-Munster ''Annals of Innisfallen'', Cormac and Flaithbertach defeated Flann Sinna, the High King of Ireland, and later obtained hostages from the Uí Néill. The northern ''Annals of Ulster'' make no mention of this although the late ''Annals of the Four Masters'' agree with the ''Annals of Innisfallen''.〔For the origins of the Irish annals, see Hughes, ''Early Christian Ireland'', and for their biases in the 9th and 10th centuries, especially pp. 135–137. Russell, "Cormac", accepts that Cormac and Flaithbertach did obtain hostages; ''Annals of Innisfallen'', AI 907.3 & 907.4; ''Annals of the Four Masters'', AFM 902.6 & 902.7.〕 In 908 Cormac and Flaithbertach collected an army to campaign against their eastern neighbours, Leinster, whose king Cerball mac Muirecáin was Flann Sinna's son-in-law and staunch ally. The ''Fragmentary Annals of Ireland'', a source compiled in the 11th century for Donnchad mac Gilla Pátraic, king of Osraige and king of Leinster, contain a long account of this campaign, perhaps written within living memory.〔Wiley, "Cath Belaig Mugna".〕 After the army of Munster had gathered, while riding through the camp Flaithbertach's horse stumbled and threw him to the ground. This, it is said, was taken to be a very bad omen. Many of the Munstermen were unwilling to fight, and news of this came to Cerball mac Muirecáin, who proposed a negotiated settlement. The Leinstermen would pay tribute, and give hostages, but the hostages would be given to Móenachm abbot of ''Diseart Díarmata'' (Castledermot, modern County Kildare), rather than to the Munstermen. Cormac, it is said, was willing to accept this settlement, but Flaithbertach—Byrne refers to him as "Cormac's evil genius"〔Byrne, ''Irish Kings'', p. 214〕— was not and persuaded Cormac to fight, in spite of the king's conviction that he would be killed.〔Wiley, "Cath Belaig Mugna"; Russell, "Cormac"; ''Fragmentary Annals'', FA 423.〕 This, and the news than Flann and the Uí Néill had come to Cerball's aid, led to desertions from Cormac's army, but he marched on Leinster all the same, meeting Cerball and Flann at the Battle of Bellaghmoon' (Bellaghmoon, in the south of modern County Kildare). The ''Fragmentary Annals'' say that "the men of Munster came to the battle weak and in disorder" and they quickly broke and fled the field. Many were killed, Cormac among them, his neck broken when falling from his horse. Flaithbertach was captured.〔Wiley, "Cath Belaig Mugna"; Russell, "Cormac"; ''Fragmentary Annals'', FA 423; ''Annals of Ulster'', AU 908.3; ''Annals of Innisfallen'', AI 908.2; ''Annals of the Four Masters'', AFM 903.7.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Flaithbertach mac Inmainén」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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