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Ruaidri mac Faelain
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Ruaidri mac Faelain was King of Leinster in the late eighth century, dying in 785 - the last generation of Irish kings who never saw a longship. Within a decade of his death the Viking age would open on the Irish coast, and his successors would spend two centuries contending with it.
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✓ DOCUMENTED (Source: the Uí Fáeláin / Uí Dúnlainge royal genealogy of Leinster, attested in the Irish Annals and the medieval tracts (Book of Leinster; Rawlinson B502 - Genelach h-Úa n-Dúnlainge); supplied 23 Jul 2026.): RUAIDRI MAC FAELAIN, KING OF LEINSTER; d. 785. Father of Diarmait. Direct ancestor. Added 23 Jul 2026.