Posted on February 7, 2013 by Donald
Cináed mac Ailpín was king of the Picts and, according to national myth, first king of Scots. Cináed's undisputed legacy was to produce a dynasty of rulers who claimed descent from him. If he cannot be regarded as the father of Scotland, he was the founder of the dynasty which ruled that country f...
Posted on February 7, 2013 by Donald
Domnall mac Ailpín (died 862) was king of the Picts from 858 to 862. He followed his brother Cináed to the throne.
The Chronicle of the Kings of Alba says that Domnall reigned for four years, matching the notices in the Annals of Ulster of his brother's death in February 858 and his own in April ...
Posted on February 7, 2013 by Donald
Causantín mac Cináeda (died 877) was a son of Cináed mac Ailpín. Although tradition makes Causantín a king of Scots, it is clear from the entries in the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba and the Annals of Ulster, that he was king of the Picts. He became king in 862 on the death of his uncle Domnall m...
Posted on February 7, 2013 by Donald
Áed mac Cináeda (died 878) was a son of Cináed mac Ailpín. He became king of the Picts in 877 when he succeeded his brother Causantín.
The Chronicle of the Kings of Alba says of Áed: "Edus held the same [i.e. the kingdom] for one year. The shortness of his reign has bequeathed nothing memorable t...
Posted on February 7, 2013 by Donald
Eochaid may have been king of the Picts from 878 to 885 or 889. He was a son of Run, King of Strathclyde, and his mother may have been a daughter of Cináed mac Ailpín. His kingship is usually portrayed as some form of joint rule with Giric.
However there is no consensus as to whether Eochaid was ...
Posted on February 7, 2013 by Donald
Domnall mac Causantín was King of the Picts or King of Alba in the late 9th century. He was the son of Causantín mac Cináeda.
Domnall became king on the death or deposition of Giric mac Dúngail, the date of which is not certainly known but usually placed in 889.
It is thought that he was killed ...
Posted on February 7, 2013 by Donald
Causantín mac Áeda was king of Alba from 900 to 943. He was the son of Áed mac Cináeda and first cousin of the previous ruler, Domnall mac Causantín. Causantín mac Áeda's reign is the second longest before the Union of the Crowns in 1603, exceeded only by William the Lion.
Posted on February 7, 2013 by Donald
Máel Coluim mac Domnaill was king of Scots, becoming king when his cousin Causantín mac Áeda abdicated to become a monk. He was the son of Domnall mac Causantín.
In 945 Edmund of Wessex, having expelled Amlaíb Cuaran (Olaf Sihtricsson) from Northumbria, devastated Cumbria and blinded two sons of ...
Posted on February 7, 2013 by Donald
Idulb mac Causantín was king of Scots from 954. He was the son of Causantín mac Áeda.
Idulb is an Old Irish name derived from either the Old Norse name Hildulfr or the Old English name Eadwulf. Idulb was later rendered Indulf under Old French influence.
John of Fordun and others supposed that Id...
Posted on February 7, 2013 by Donald
Dub mac Maíl Coluim was king of Alba. In older histories his name may be found anglicised as Duff; the modern Gaelic version is Dubh, which has the sense of dark or black. It may be that Dub was an epithet, as the Duan Albanach refers to him as Dubhoda dén, Dubod the vehement or impetuous. He was ...