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Brian Bóruma mac Cennétig
(926 or 941–23 April 1014) (known as Brian Boru in
English) was High King of Ireland from 1002 to 1014. Although
the exact details of his birth are unknown, he was born in the
mid tenth century near Killaloe (Kincora) (in modern
County
Clare). His father was
Cennétig mac Lorcáin, King of Thomond and his mother was Bé Binn
ingen Murchada, daughter of the King of West Connacht. He
subsequently united the warring Irish Tribes to expel Danish
Vikings at the battle of Clontarf.
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
is said to descend from Boru through her mother Elizabeth
Bowes-Lyon.
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