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The Picts are often thought to have practised matrilineal kingship succession on the basis of Irish legends and a statement in Bede's history. [48] [49] The kings of the Picts when Bede was writing were Bridei and Nechtan, sons of Der Ilei, who indeed claimed the throne through their mother Der Ilei, daughter of an earlier Pictish king. [50]
Pictish sites in Scotland (10 P) T. Pictish territories (6 P) Pages in category "Picts" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total.
The Pictish Beast (sometimes Pictish Dragon or Pictish Elephant) is an artistic representation of an animal, distinct to the early medieval culture of the Picts of Scotland. The great majority of surviving examples are on Pictish stones .
In 843 tradition records the replacement of the Pictish kingdom by the Kingdom of Alba, although the Irish annals continue to use Picts and Fortriu for half a century after 843. The king lists are thought to have been compiled in the early 8th century, probably by 724, placing them in the reigns of the sons of Der-Ilei , Bridei and Nechtan .
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Burghead Fort was a Pictish promontory fort on the site now occupied by the small town of Burghead in Moray, Scotland.It was one of the earliest power centres of the Picts [1] and was three times the size of any other enclosed site in Early Medieval Scotland. [2]
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The House of Alpin, also known as the Alpinid dynasty, Clann Chináeda, and Clann Chinaeda meic Ailpín, was the kin-group which ruled in Pictland, possibly Dál Riata, and then the kingdom of Alba from Constantine II (Causantín mac Áeda) in the 940s until the death of Malcolm II (Máel Coluim mac Cináeda) in 1034.