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and rise to power[edit]  How Medb came to power in Connacht and
married Ailill is told in the tale Cath Bóinde ("The Battle of
the Boyne"), also known as Ferchuitred Medba ("Medb's man-
share").[1] Her father, Eochaid Feidlech, the High King of
Ireland, married her to Conchobar mac Nessa, king of Ulster,
because he had killed Conchobar's purported father, the former
High King Fachtna Fáthach, in battle. She bore him a son,
Glaisne, but the marriage was a bad one and she left him.
Eochaid gave Conchobar another of his daughters, Eithne (or
Clothru),[2] but Medb murdered her while she was pregnant; her
son Furbaide was born by posthumous caesarian section.  Eochaid
deposed the then-king of Connacht, Tinni mac Conri, and
installed Medb in his place. However, Tinni regained a share of
the throne when he and Medb later became lovers. Conchobar raped
Medb after an assembly at Tara, and war ensued