One of the characters that appears very frequently within Irish traditions is that of the Queen medb, queen also known as Maeve. Within the Circle of Ulster, in Irish mythology, she is the queen of Connacht. She has had several husbands but in her most important stories her husband is Aillil mc Máta. The seat of his government is in what is now Rathcroghan, County Roscommon, and he is the worst enemy of the King of Ulster, the protagonist of Táin Bó Cúailgne.
According to the story she was handed over by her father to be the wife of Conchobar mac nesa, King of Ulster. He gave him a son but ended up abandoning him so his father passed another of his daughters to the king. While she was pregnant, Medb killed her and her son was born by posthumous cesarean section. His father then granted him a kingdom, Connacht, taking the title of king from Tinni mac Conri who, in the end, would become Medb's lover. In an assembly in Tara Medb she is raped by her first husband and this generates a war between the High King, her father, and Ulster. Her lover and her first husband duel and the former loses. Medb ends up staying with another man as husband and king. She is never faithful to her, she cheats on him with one of her knights, there is a duel again, her husband loses and she changes husband and king.
Queen Medb has seven children, all named Maine. They had other names but when consulting a druid which of his seven children would end up killing Conchobar, the druid answered Maine and since he had none with that name, he renamed the seven with that name. Finally, Maine Andoe kills Conchobar. According to legend Medb is buried in a 12 meter high stone chamber on top of Knocknarea, County Sligo.