Généalogie and Heritage

KENNITH I "MacAlpin" King of Alba KQ01

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Autres noms

Autres noms Nom
Nom de scène Kenneth MacAlpin
Nom de scène Kenneth I Mac Alpine King Of The Picts
Nom de scène King Kenneth MacAlpin Of The picts
Nom de scène Kenneth Mac Alpin King of Alba
Surnom Cináed An Ferbasach
Surnom Kenneth the Conqueror
Surnom Kenneth the Hardy
Nom de naissance Cináed mac Ailpin

Parents

Père Date de naissance Mère Date de naissance
ALPIN mac Echdach about 0780 Queen FERGUSA Mac Achalas Of Scotland KQ01 0782

Conjoints

Conjoint Date de naissance Enfants
ÁED "Aedh" mac Cináeda KQ01

Événements personnels

Type d’événement Date Lieu Description
Naissance 0810 Argyll, Scotland
Décès 13/02/858 Forteviot, Perthshire, Scotland
Inhumation Isle of Iona, Argyll, Scotland, United Kingdom

Notes

KQ01 Leads to the Kings and Queens of Scotland and to DR01. Following the final withdrawal of the Romans from Scotland in the 4th century, there were a number of tribal groupings whose boundaries changed over the centuries. In the north, the Picts covered the Highlands and parts of the Lowlands as far as Angus, Fife and Stirling. Although little is known of the Picts and apart from late lists of kings written in Latin, they left no written record. The earliest king who is more than just a name on a list is Bridei in the 6th century who was a son of the Welsh king Maelcon. Bridei won a victory over Gabran, the most powerful of the Scots in Dalriada which was roughly where Argyllshire is now. Bridei was the first Pictish king to show an interest in Christianity and he met St Columba at his power base near Inverness.

South of the Picts and Scots was the kingdom of Strathclyde, centred on Dumbarton Rock. To the east, in Lothian and around present day Edinburgh were the Gododdin, who spoke a form of early Welsh language. They were eventually overwhelmed by the Nothumbrians. In the south-west was the kingdom of Rheged on both sides of the Solway Firth.

KENNETH mac Alpin 0810 was the first king to unite the kingdoms of Dalriada in the west and the Picts and as such is regarded as the first king of Scotland.

Kenneth I (843-858)
Kenneth mac Alpin or Kenneth, son of Alpin, was 35th king of Dalriada. By inheritance (his grandmother was a Pict) and by conquest, he also became king of the Picts in 843 and by 858 ruled as far as the river Tweed (near the current English border). One of his daughters married the King of Strathclyde and their son became King Eochaid (below). On his death in 858, Kenneth's brother became King Donald I and his cousins later became Kings Constantine I and King Aed.

AEDH (878-879)
Another son of Kenneth I and brother of Constantine I, he was killed by Giric, a son of Donald I.

Constantine II (900-942)
Son of Aedh. After an unsuccessful invasion of Northumbria, Constantine had to submit to the Saxon King Edward the Elder, son of Alfred the Great. Constantine was also defeated in a later battle against Athelstan, Edward's son, at Brunanburgh. He renounced the throne in favour of his cousin, Malcolm I and became a monk at St Andrews. He died in 952.

Histoire

Date Âge Événement Catégorie
843 33.0 Traité de Verdun, naissance de la communauté autonome Française France
CA 850 40.0 Invention de la poudre Technologie