Brian Felled Brodir

The One King
23, April, 1014: King Brian Boru doesn't pray at the Battle of Clontarf, thus he is ready when Brodir attacks him, brodir is killed. The Battle of clontarf is a sweeping victory for Boru.

1019: The Battle at Tara, a sweeping victory for Boru, leads to the death of the opposition.

1021: Brian Boru declares himself the One King, or Aon Rí, of Eire. No other king is allowed. Instead, the Four Kings become the Iarlas, the High King becomes the Ard Tiarna. The chieftains (such as the Ui Fergusa) are renamed the Tiarnas.

1102: The third Ui Boruma Aon Rí, Conall, builds the Rí Pálás, or King's Palace, in Dubh Linn

1119: The Iarla of Munster sets up permanent residence in Cork.

1127: The Iarla of Connacht builds city of Gaillimhe

1139: The Iarla of Lienster sets up residence in Dubhlin

1148: The Iarla of Ulster sets up residence in Doire.

1168: The Ard Tiarna moves from Tara to Dublin.

The Rebellion
1221: The Fifth king of the Ui Boruma, Brian III, assumes the titles of both Aon Rí and Ard Tiarna.

1223: Brian III abolishes the title of Ard Tiarna, so that all the Iarlas report directly to the King.

1228: The last Ui Niell Ard Tiarna secretly travels through Eire gathering support, believing that he should have been the Ard Tiarna.

1230: The Iarlas of Connacht and Ulster rebel under the leadership of the Ui Niell

March, 1231: King Brian III gathers his army and meets the rebels along the Shannon River. Battle is fougt to a draw.

June, 1231: The battle at Gaillihme is fought. Rebel victory.

August, 1231: The Battle at Armagh is fought. Crushing royalist defeat.

September, 1231: The Battle at Athlone is fought. Iarla Cedric II of Munster is killed in the fighting.

December, 1231: The surprise Winter Campaign by royalist forces was a limited success. The Tiana of Dundalk is captured and held for ransom.

February, 1232: The Rebellion seemed to be going well. Rebel sympathisers could be found in Lienster and Munster. However, the fact remainsed that the Royalists held a good quarter of the Rebel's terrirory, where most of the fighting went on. They would need to launch an offensive deep into royalist territory to assure victory. The time has come for a propaganda and moral victory that would rock the royalists to their core.

April, 1232: The Spring Offensive begins.

21, April, 1232: The battle at Caiseal. Rebel victory at first, with the archbishop captured and the Tiarna is killed.However, the tide turns when reinforcements from Lienster arrive and attack from the flanks. The rebel force is slaughtered. The Archbishop is killed in the process, taking the wind out of the rebels' sails.

May, 1232: The Second Battle at Gaillihme is fought. Royalist victory.

August, 1232: The Second Battle at Armagh. Iarla Rauri Uí Laoghaire is killed in the fighting.

October, 1232: The Battle at Doire is fought. The Iarla Rian Ó Conchobhair is killed.

June, 1233: The Summer Offensive begins.

July, 1233: The Second Battle at Tara is fought. Rebel Victory.

4, August, 1233: The Second Battle at Clontarf. Crushing defeat for the Rebels. The last of the Ui Niell are killed. Also, all the rebel Iarlan Families are killed.

2, September, 1233: The Great Rebellion ends. The Ui Fergusa are made Iarlas of Ulster, and the Ui Byrne are made Iarlas of Connacht.

An Era of Peace
1240: King Brian III begins costruction on the Ríoga Mainéar (Royal Manor) in Dublin.

1252: Brian III begins cultivating closer relations with Alba

1256: Falling out between Brian III and Sean, Sean disowned.

1274: Brian III (The Great) dies, succeeded by brother Cormac II

Janaury 1276:Cormac II marries Margret of Alba.

September, 1276: Margaret of Alba gives birth to Seamus, thus begins his tragic life.

February, 1279: Cormac II dies, succession crisis begins.

March, 1279: Prince Lorcan killed by Prince Rian's supporting knights.

April, 1279: Prince Sean's sons killed by Rian.

June, 1279: Prince Rian poisoned by his wife.

September 1279: Despite his disownment, Sean becomes Ri of Eire

1283: Margaret of Alba dies in childbirth.

1286: Sean, being the cousin of the son of the daughter of Alba's King Alaxandair's only daughter, is made Regent of Alba.

1290: Sean builds up the Eireann navy, setting up a major base in Mannin, Making Crioboir Ui Fergusa the Tiarna of Mannin, along with being the Iarla of Ulster and Tiarna of Dublin. The Ard Arthair of the Ui Fergusa is now the Second most powerful man in Eire after the Ri.

1296: The first Comhairle mór is called by Sean. It is a council of the Four Iarlas and all the Tiarnas. Disputes are settled, new agreements are signed, and the Ri is advised on actions. It is decided that Feudalism will never be introduced into Eire.

1302: Sean dies, Seamus made Ri of Eire and Alba.

A New Union
1303: Eire and Alba are united into one kingdom.

September 1303: It is decided that the Thanes and chieftains of Alba will keep their original titles, many however worry about the lack of feudalism and the possibility of a peasant uprising.

November 1303: Envoys are sent to the kings of England, France and Norway, aswell as the Pope and Holy Roman Emperor to establish recognition. The king of France and the Holy Roman Emperor recognise the union, the kings of England and Norway however view the union as a threat, and the pope is still annoyed at Eires' refusal to rebuke the monastic system and come in line with the rest of Christendom, he does grudgingly accept it though.

12, June 1308: John Balloil signs a secret aggreement with King Edward II of England that, with English support, he will overthrow Seamus I in Alba if he is made king of a Plantagenet puppet in Alba. The humbling of a potential rival, plus the addition of a new Vassal kingdom, could kickstart a revived Angevin Empire.

13, August 1308: Balloil rallies some of the peasants to his side, others however, would rather not get involved in what they know is a bad idea.

21, May 1309: With peasant uprisings simmering in the winter, now English troops cross the border into Alba.

22, May 1309: Shocked by the turn of events, Seamus sends diplomats to Edward's court to come to some sort of arangement. The king blatently refuses to negotiate and the diplomat is sent away.

1, June, 1309: Furious and (partially because in some strange way he now equates the invasion of his kingdom with the bloodshed leading to his cousin's succession and the death of his parents) crazy, Seamus sends his army to meet the Anglo-Alban forces.

3, June, 1309: Seamus stops in Mannin to tell Criostoir Ui Fergusa to harass English shipping at sea, and send people to the ports of the Two Lands to tell the people that, by royal decree, they may raid English shipping as privateers with impunity.

14, June, 1309: Robert Bruce meets with King Seamus. He agrees to gather his supporters and fight alongside Seamus if in return he cam marry Seamus's eldest daughter, Aislinn.

11, July, 1309: Seamus and Bruce's forces are routed at Falkirk.

12, September, 1309: Bruce's supporters defeat Balloil and the English at the Battle at Stirling Bridge.

19, April, 1310: Seamus and Bruce defeat the Balloilists and English at Dunbar.

21, June, 1310: A third defeat for the English at Roslin; casualties high.

9, September, 1310: Perhaps a year of victories had warped his confidence. Whatever the cause, Seamus and Bruce suffered a massive rout at Bannockburn. 11,000 infantry, and 1,000 cavalry were among the casualties.

11, September, 1310: Seamus orders Bruce to use his remaining forces to defend the fortified town of Stirling, preventing the English forces from entering the Highlands where much of the population has fled. Seamus himself retreats to Glasgow to prevent the English from gaining access to the port. Diplomats are sent to the French king, Philip IV, in an attempt to add the French navy to the brutal sea battles already taking place in the Irish Sea and English Channel.

13, September, 1310: the Anglo-Alban force captures Edinburgh. Balloil can not be crowned however as the Stone of Scone was transported to Dublin months ago.

17, September, 1310: Philip agrees to an alliance with the Union, French ships begin attacking the English in the Channel and troops march into the barely defended Calais.

5, Febuary, 1311: William Wallace, skilled Alban commander, lands 5,000 soldiers from Mannin near the town of Preston at the command of Seamus. His orders are to cause as much chaos as possible in an attempt to draw the English forces south.

14, June, 1311: Seamus's plan seems to working, Wallace has reached York after fighting his way east and destroying several villages, England is in anarchy as people flee the path of the advancing army, the English forces were decimated at Carlisle in a pincer attack from Seamus and Bruce's forces, and the French and Eirean navies have done their jobs in controlling the seas.

12, December, 1311: Eireann privateers capture the Earl of Warwick, Guy de Beauchamp

21, April, 1312: Battle at Lancaster: Indecisive. Both sides claim victory.

9, July, 1312 Battle at Pendle Hill. The battle starts out as a seeming repeat of Bannockburn, however, the longbow turns the tide. In another form of revenge for Bannockburn, 13,000 infantry among the English are among ths casualties, and 3,000 cavalry.

29, September, 1312: Earl Warwick is ransomed for 750 pounds.

6, April, 1313: Battle at Sheffield. The battle, despite it's reputation, is relatively small. However, in an unliekely turn of events, Seamus, who has ridden south to see to his occupation of the North of England personally, has his horse shot out from under him, causing him to run into none other than King Edward II. In a confrontation that will be told and retold for centuries, most famously by Welsh playwright Colin Mawryn in his famous play Seamus, King of Two Lands, in 1587, Seamus kills Edward. 13, July, 1313: Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, wins the ensuing power struggle, being crowned King Thomas I in Westminster.

19, August, 1313: Thomas sues for peace. The Treaty of Lancaster is sined. John Balloil is to be executed, Bruce is made Ri Albain, subordinate only to the Aon Ri. All nobles who supported Balloil are to be strripped of their privaleges and titles, to be replaced by Eireann nobles. The penalty for England, however, is a heavy indemnity of 10,000 pounds and the control of the north of England to be granted to the Ri Albain.