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English: Here is the family tree of all the English and Scottish monarchs and all their different ruling Houses up to present time with the current monarch Charles the IIIrd of the United Kingdom. I decided to start this chart with Alfred the Great, first king of the Anglo-Saxons on the English side and on the Scottish one, with Alpín mac ...
The English renewed their war with Scotland, and David was forced to flee the kingdom by Edward Balliol, son of King John, who managed to get himself crowned (1332–1356) and to give away Scotland's southern counties to England before being driven out again. David spent much of his life in exile, first in freedom with his ally, France, and ...
King of Alba before 879–952 r. 900–943: Eochaid King of the Picts r. 878–889: Malcolm I King of Alba c. 900 –954 r. 943–954: Indulf King of Alba r. 954–962: Cellach d. 937: Dub King of Alba r. 962–967: Kenneth II King of Alba before 954–995 r. 971–995: Cuilén King of Alba r. 967–971: Amlaíb mac Ilduilb King of Alba r. 973 ...
Henry I Sinclair, Earl of Orkney, Lord of Roslin (c. 1345 – c. 1400) was a Scottish nobleman. Sinclair held the title Earl of Orkney (which refers to Norðreyjar rather than just the islands of Orkney) and was Lord High Admiral of Scotland under the King of Scotland. He was sometimes identified by another spelling of his surname, St. Clair.
From the 5th century on, north Britain was divided into a series of petty kingdoms. Of these, the four most important were those of the Picts in the north-east, the Scots of Dál Riata in the west, the Britons of Strathclyde in the south-west and the Anglian kingdom of Bernicia (which united with Deira to form Northumbria in 653) in the south-east, stretching into modern northern England.
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The first monarch of the Stewart line was Robert II, whose male-line descendants were kings and queens in Scotland from 1371, and of England, Ireland and Great Britain from 1603, until 1714. Mary, Queen of Scots (r. 1542–1567), was brought up in France where she adopted the French spelling of the name Stuart.
King Donald II was the first man to have been called rí Alban (i.e. King of Alba), when he died at Dunnottar in 900. [4] This meant king of Caledonia or Scotland. All his predecessors bore the style of either King of the Picts or King of Fortriu. Such an apparent innovation in the Gaelic chronicles is occasionally taken to spell the birth of ...