the ledger of connections
The Connections of Brian Boru
High King of Ireland Every person recorded alongside Brian Boru in the archive: family, teachers, students, influences, and the contemporaries who shared the same years.
Family & Connections
People recorded alongside Brian Boru in the ledgers of the archive.
- Parents
- Cennétig mac Lorcáin, Bé Binn inion Urchadh
- Spouses
- Gormflaith ingen Murchada, Mor (?), Echrad (?), Dub Chablaigh ingen Cathal
- Children
- Donnchad mac Briain, Tadc mac Briain, Sláine ingen Briain, Murchad mac Briain, Dearbforgail (?)
Alive in the same years
Records in the archive whose lifetimes overlapped the years 941 CE to 1014.
Medieval era
Ibn al-Haytham
965 CE – 1038
Arab physicist, mathematician and astronomer (c. 965 – c. 1040)
Medieval era
Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
980 CE – June 18, 1037
Persian polymath whose Canon of Medicine taught Europe for 600 years
Medieval era
Al-Biruni
September 4, 973 CE – December 9, 1048
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
Medieval era
Murasaki Shikibu
978 CE – 1014
Japanese novelist and poet (c.973–c.1014)
Medieval era
Ferdowsi
940 CE – 1020
Persian poet, author of Shahnameh (940–1020)
Medieval era
Leif Erikson
972 CE – 1020
Norse explorer (c. 970 – c. 1020)
Medieval era
Ali Hujwiri
1009 – September 25, 1072
Sufi mystic
Medieval era
Rabia Balkhi
b. c. 1000
Persian poet, first woman poet of Islamic period
Medieval era
Sei Shonagon
966 CE – 1025
Japanese author and court lady
Medieval era
Ly Thai To
March 8, 974 CE – 1028
Vietnamese emperor
Medieval era
Anawrahta
May 11, 1014 – April 11, 1077
Founder of the Pagan Empire
Medieval era
Rudaki
859 CE – 941 CE
Persian poet, the father of Persian poetry