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According to the legend, a Pictish nobleman is invited by the Scots to a meeting or a feast in Scone and is treacherously killed there. At the same time, List One gives the year 843 as the date when Kenneth received the title of King of the Picts. [3] [6] Sources do not detail Kenneth's conquest of Pictavia.
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.
Said to have reigned three years in some lists; the myth of MacAlpin's treason calls the Pictish king Drest 848– 13 February 858 Kenneth MacAlpin: Ciniod son of Elphin, Cináed mac Ailpín, Coinneach mac Ailpein: Unknown, but his descendants made him a member of the Cenél nGabráin of Dál Riata
The reign of Kenneth MacAlpin begins what is often called the House of Alpin, an entirely modern concept. The descendants of Kenneth MacAlpin were divided into two branches; the crown would alternate between the two, the death of a king from one branch often hastened by war or assassination by a pretender from the other. Malcolm II was the last ...
Kenneth I MacAlpin King of the Picts 810–858/859 r. 841/843–858/859: Giric King of the Picts c. 832 –889 r. 878–889: Constantín I mac Cináeda King of the Picts r. 862–877: Áed Findliath High King of Ireland: Máel Muire ingen Cináeda: Flann Sinna High King of Ireland 847/848–916: Áed mac Cináeda King of the Picts d. 878 r. 877 ...
Kenneth II before 954–995 King of Alba r. 971–995: Amlaíb mac Ilduilb d. 977 King of Alba r. 973–977: Cuilén d. 971 King of Alba r. 967–971: House of Knýtlinga: Richard II 963–1026 Duke of Normandy: Sweyn Forkbeard 963–1014 King of the English r. 1013–1014: Kenneth III c. 966 –1005 King of Alba r. 997–1005: Malcolm II c ...
MacAlpin then invited the Pictish king, Drest X, and the remaining Pictish nobles to Scone to settle the issue of Dál Riata's freedom or MacAlpin's claim to the Dál Riatan crown. Faced with a recently victorious MacAlpin in the south and a devastated army in the north, Drest, as well as all claimants to the Pictish throne from the seven royal ...
Clan Gregor held lands in Glen Orchy, Glenlochy and Glenstrae. [2] According to Iain Moncreiffe the MacGregors were descended from an ancient Celtic royal family, through the Abbots of Glendochart. [2] This is alluded to in the clan's motto: "Royal is my race". [2] There is also a tradition that Gregor was the brother of Kenneth MacAlpin. [2]