Áed Ua Forréid
Irish bishop
d. 1056
70th Archbishop of Armagh
Offices
- Archbishop of Armagh № 70
Áed Ua Forréid was Bishop of Armagh from 1032 to 1056. He was from the Cenél Tigernaig branch of the northern Uí Néill kin-group of Cenél nÉogain. The see was not elevated to an archbishopric until 1106, well after his death.
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- Annala Uladh, Annals of Ulster 1 claim — Annals of Ulster (ed. Hennessy) I, A.D. 431–1056