albipes). The Chronicle of the Kings of Alba says of Áed: "Edus [Áed] held the same [i.e., the kingdom] for one year. The shortness of his reign has bequeathed...
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Áed Find (Áed the White), or Áed mac Echdach (before 732–778), was king of Dál Riata (modern western Scotland and County Antrim, Ireland). Áed was the...
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Scottorum, or King of Scots, to refer to themselves in Latin. The Kingdom of Scotland was merged with the Kingdom of England to form a single Kingdom of Great...
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Acts of William I King of Scots 1165–1214 in Regesta Regum Scottorum, Volume II, (Edinburgh, 1971) Barrow, G. W. S. (ed.), The Charters of King David...
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Eochaid mac Áeda Find (redirect from Eochaid mac Aed Find of Dalriada)
Find is a supposed King of Dál Riata found in some rare High Medieval king-lists and in older history books. Supposedly a son of Áed Find (died 778) and...
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children represented a break with the traditional Scots regal names such as Malcolm, Cináed and Áed. The point of naming Margaret's sons—Edward after her father...
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Causantín mac Cináeda (redirect from Constantine I, King of Scots)
Annals of Ulster record that Áed Findliath, High King of Ireland, took advantage of their absence to destroy the longphorts along the northern coasts of Ireland...
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Domnall mac Ailpín (redirect from Domnall I, King of Scots)
king made the rights and laws of the kingdom, [that are called the laws] of Aed, Eochaid's son, in Forteviot. The laws of Áed Find are entirely lost, but...
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was King of Alba (Scotland) from 997 to 1005. He was the son of Dub (Dub mac Maíl Coluim). Many of the Scots sources refer to him as Giric son of Kenneth...
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Kenneth MacAlpin (redirect from Cináed I, King of Picts)
862–877), King of Alba Áed of the White Flowers (r. 877–878), King of Alba Unknown daughter. She married Rhun ab Arthgal (r. 872–878), the King of Strathclyde...
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and Domnall son Áed king of Ailech died", this Domnall being a son of Áed Findliath who died on 21 March 915. Finally, the deaths of Flann Sinna and Niall...
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Fergus mac Echdach (redirect from Fergus II of Dalriada)
brother of Áed. Some much later sources make him a son of Áed, but this is not credited by modern studies. His death is noticed in 781 by the Annals of Ulster...
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between the Scots in 997: "A battle between the Scots, in which fell Constantine son of Culannan, king of Scotland, and many others." Another entry of the same...
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time. In his reign a battle occurred between Danes and Scots at Innisibsolian where the Scots had victory. He was killed at Opidum Fother [modern Dunnottar]...
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Giric (redirect from Giric, King of Scots)
the kingdom. Kenneth is Kenneth MacAlpin (Cináed mac Ailpín); Áed, Niall's son is Áed Findliath, who died on 20 November 879; and St Cyrus's day was...
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last attested king of Scottish Dál Riata is Fergus mac Echdach, brother of and successor to Áed Find, whose death is reported in the Annals of Ulster in 781...
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Niall Glúndub (redirect from Niall Glúndub, High King of Ireland)
descent from Niall of the Nine Hostages (Niall Noígiallach). His mother was Máel Muire, daughter of Kenneth MacAlpin, King of Scots. Son of Áed Findliath, Niall...
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scholars point out, he was actually 'King of Picts', and the terms 'King of Alba' and the even later 'King of Scots' were not used until several generations...
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of Áed Find. While plausible, such claims are unprovable and appear only in the late tenth century. The associated idea that Kenneth had been a king in...
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Dál Riata (redirect from Kingdom of Dalriada)
a generation. Áed Find may appear in 768, fighting against the Pictish king of Fortriu. At his death in 778, Áed Find is called "king of Dál Riata", as...
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Áed mac Boanta (died 839) is believed to have been a king of Dál Riata[citation needed]. The only reference to Áed in the Irish annals is found in the...
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Regicide (redirect from King assassination)
(mentioned above), was killed by Áed Dub mac Suibni in 565. According to Adomnan of Iona's Life of St Columba, Áed Dub mac Suibni received God's punishment...
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Cuilén (redirect from Cuilén mac Illuilb, King of Alba)
anglicized Colin; died 971) was an early King of Alba (Scotland). He was a son of Illulb mac Custantín, King of Alba, after whom he is known by the patronymic...
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Eógan mac Muiredaig (redirect from Eogan of Dalriada)
to Áed Find. The Chronicle of the Kings of Dál Riata names Eógan son of Muiredach as king after Muiredach, and the king-list in the Chronicle of Melrose...
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Faughart (redirect from Battle of Fochart)
between Áed Allán, king of Ireland, and Áed Róin, king of Ulaid. Áed Róin and Conchad mac Cúanach of Uí Echach Cobo were slain, with Áed Róin being decapitated...
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King (846–860) Áed Findliath, High King (861–876) Flann Sinna, High King (877–914) Kingdom of Ailech (complete list) – Áed Oirdnide mac Néill, King (788–819)...
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Flaithbertach mac Loingsig (category High Kings of Ireland)
northern Uí Néill rival, Áed Allán of the Cenél nEógain. Áed's goal was the conquest of Mag nÍtha, a plain in the valley of the River Finn connecting...
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Flann Sinna (category Year of birth uncertain)
represented by Áed Findliath, son of Niall Caille. Áed began his reign by marrying Máel Sechnaill's widow, Flann's mother, Land (d. 890), daughter of Dúngal mac...
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Eochaid ab Rhun (redirect from Eochaid I of Scotland)
for the record of Eochaid reigning over the Pictish realm after the death of Cináed's son, Áed, in 878. According to various sources, Áed was slain by Giric...
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patrilineal ancestor Áed mac Cináeda—eponym of Clann Áed meic Cináeda—is the last king to be accorded the Latin title rex Pictorum ("king of the Picts"). Scottish...
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