• Cináed mac Duib (Modern Gaelic: Coinneach mac Dhuibh; c. 966 – c. 25 March 1005), anglicised as Kenneth III, and nicknamed An Donn ("the Chief" or "the...
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    Kenneth III. Boite mac Cináeda is sometimes ascribed as the son of Kenneth II, at others as the son of Kenneth III (Cináed mac Duib), however, is more...
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  • Hartacáin (died 975), poet Cináed mac Maíl Coluim (died 995), King of Alba Cináed mac Duib (died 1005), King of Alba The name Cináed originates with the Pictish...
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    is also presented. It is not entirely certain that the Cináed father of Boite was Cináed mac Duib rather than Kenneth II. Both possibilities are admitted...
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  • Scotland (Cináed mac Maíl Coluim) or King Kenneth III of Scotland (Cináed mac Duib). He was the father of Gruoch of Scotland and friend to Findláech of...
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  • he was a brother of the reigning Máel Coluim mac Cináeda, King of Alba, or else a son of Cináed mac Duib, King of Alba. Suibne's career appears to have...
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    Forres, may be a monument to Dub, erected by his brother Kenneth II (Cináed mac Maíl Coluim). It is presumed that Dub was killed or driven out by Cuilén...
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  • (Máel Coluim mac Cináeda), as King of Alba at the time, having directly succeeded his father, Kenneth II of Scotland, (Cináed mac Duib). The same Irish...
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  • sources. John of Fordun credits Constantine III (Causantín mac Cuilén) and Kenneth III (Cináed mac Duib) with the planning, claiming that Kenneth II planned...
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    According to tradition, the first King of Scotland was Kenneth I MacAlpin (Cináed mac Ailpín), who founded the state in 843. The Kingdom of the Picts just...
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    of Clan MacDuff (clann meic Duibh). There is little doubt that the style MacDuib, or Macduff, derives from the name of King Cináed III mac Duib, and ultimately...
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    Cuilén (redirect from Cuilén mac Iduilb)
    Cináeda, Cináed mac Maíl Choluim, a man who appears to have launched a retaliatory raid against the Cumbrians. There is evidence indicating that Cináed faced...
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    reign of Kenneth MacAlpin begins what is often called the House of Alpin, an entirely modern concept. The descendants of Kenneth MacAlpin were divided...
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  • Ailill mac Duib dá Crích, was slain. The Annals of Ulster state that Aillil was slain in the first attack but in a counter-attack Domnall mac Cináeda...
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  • Dúnchad mac Duib-dá-Bairenn (died 888), King of Munster and Cerball mac Dúnlainge (died 888), king of Osraige. The heir to Connacht, Abán son of Cinaed was...
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  • a decade before the battle, in 1005, Máel Coluim mac Cináeda overturned his cousin, Cináed mac Duib, King of Alba, and seized the kingship of Alba. That...
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    grandson of the Mac Duib who gave rise to William Shakespeare's character Macduff; the latter being the son of Giric, son of Cináed mac Duib, king of Alba...
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  • the synods of the Uí Néill in Dún Cuair was presided over by Condmach mac Duib dá Leithe (died 807), abbot of Ard Macha (Armagh), at which the clergy...
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  • expansionist historical Eóganacht king before him was Faílbe Flann mac Áedo Duib (d. 639). The Eóganachta kingship, which had its chief seat at Cashel...
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  • Artgal mac Cathail, King (777–782) Tipraiti mac Taidg, King (782–786) Cináed mac Artgail, King (786–792) Colla mac Fergusso, King (792–796) Muirgius mac Tommaltaig...
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  • one "Malcolm MacKenneth", a son of Kenneth III of Scotland (Cináed mac Duib), presented as the successor of Malcolm II (Máel Coluim mac Cináeda) in the...
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    Néill (AFM 849.8 [=851]). It is possible that the Cináed who was Amlaíb's father-in-law was Cináed mac Ailpín King of Scotland. At least one daughter, Helgi...
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    Ireland south of a line from Dublin to Galway. The Eóganacht king Fíngen mac Áedo Duib (Fingin son of Hugh Dubh) ruled as King of Munster (died 618) and is...
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    Clan Macfie (redirect from Clan MacFie)
    according to Skene could all trace their ancestry back to Alpin, father of Cináed mac Ailpín. Little is known of the early history of the clan. However, is...
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  • for elaid úair" 150a 635 Fland Fína (ascr.), "Inn eól dúib in senchas sen" 150b 637 Flann mac Lonáin (ascr.), "Maiccni Echach ard a ngle" 151-8 Metrical...
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  • Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan, general of the Rashidun Caliphate Faílbe Flann mac Áedo Duib, king of Munster (Ireland) Wang Gui, chancellor of the Tang dynasty...
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