Máel Muire ingen Cináeda

{{Short description|Irish princess (842-912)}}

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Máel Muire ingen Cináeda was a daughter ("ingen") of Kenneth MacAlpin (Cináed mac Ailpin), King of Dal Riáta.{{Cite book |last1=Higham |first1=N. J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=phBUAQAAQBAJ&dq=M%C3%A1el+Muire+flann+sinna&pg=PA89 |title=Edward the Elder: 899-924 |last2=Hill |first2=D. H. |date=2013-10-11 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-136-34941-6 |language=en}} She married two important Irish kings of the Uí Néill.{{Cite journal |last=Warntjes |first=Immo |date=January 2003 |title=The alternation of the kingship of Tara 734–944 |url=https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/10.1484/J.Peri.3.542 |journal=Peritia |language=en |volume=17-18 |pages=394–432 |doi=10.1484/J.Peri.3.542 |issn=0332-1592}}

Her first husband was Áed Findliath (r. 862–879), of the Cenél nEógain, King of Ailech and High King of Ireland.{{Cite journal |last=Sellar |first=W. David H. |date=June 1985 |title=Warlords, Holy Men and Matrilineal Succession |url=https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/inr.1985.36.1.29 |journal=The Innes Review |language=en |volume=36 |issue=1 |pages=29–43 |doi=10.3366/inr.1985.36.1.29 |issn=0020-157X}} Niall Glúndub, ancestor of the O'Neill dynasty, was the son of this marriage.{{Cite journal |last=Broun |first=Dauvit |date=December 1997 |title=Dunkeld and the origin of Scottish identity |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/inr.1997.48.2.112 |journal=The Innes Review |volume=48 |issue=2 |pages=112–124 |doi=10.3366/inr.1997.48.2.112 |issn=0020-157X}}

Her second husband was Flann Sinna of Clann Cholmáin, King of Mide and also High King of Ireland.{{Cite book |last=Venning |first=Timothy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vhaoAwAAQBAJ&dq=info:040efENzX-IJ:scholar.google.com/&pg=PP5 |title=The Kings & Queens of Scotland |date=2013-08-15 |publisher=Amberley Publishing Limited |isbn=978-1-4456-1324-6 |language=en}}{{Cite journal |last=Jaski |first=Bart |date=January 1995 |title=The Vikings and the kingship of Tara |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/j.peri.3.254 |journal=Peritia |volume=9 |pages=310–351 |doi=10.1484/j.peri.3.254 |issn=0332-1592}} As the daughter, wife and mother of kings, when Máel Muire died in 913, her death was reported by the Annals of Ulster, an unusual thing for the male-centred chronicles of that time.