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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]
The death of "Cennalaph, king of the Picts" is recorded, may have ruled jointly with Bridei son of Maelchon 554–584 Bridei I: Bridei son of Maelchon Brude son of Melcho His death and other activities are recorded, he is named in Adomnán's Life of Saint Columba; the first Pictish king to be more than a name in a list 584–595 Gartnait II
The sole notice of Uuen in the Irish annals is the report of his death, together with his brother Bran and "Áed mac Boanta, and others almost innumerable" in a battle of 839 fought by the men of Fortriu against Vikings in 839. [1]
Drest son of Donuel (Old Irish: Drust mac Domnaill or Drust mac Dúngail; died 677) was king of the Picts from c. 663 until 672. Like his brother and predecessor Gartnait son of Donuel (Gartnait IV), and Gartnait's predecessor Talorgan son of Eanfrith (Talorgan I), he reigned as a puppet king under the Northumbrian king Oswiu. [1]
Bridei son of Uuid (Old Irish: Bruide mac Foith; died 641) was a king of the Picts from 635 to 641. The Pictish Chronicle king list gives him a reign of five years following his brother Gartnait III. His death is reported by the Annals of Ulster and the Annals of Tigernach. He was followed by another brother, Talorc III, according to the king ...
Cinioch, named Cínaed mac Luchtren or Ciniod I, in the Irish Annals, was king of the Picts, in modern Scotland, from circa 616 to 631, when his death is reported in the Annals of Ulster, the Annals of Tigernach and the Chronicon Scotorum. [1] According to the Pictish Chronicle king lists, he reigned for 14 or 19 years and was followed by ...
The Battle of 839, also known as the Disaster of 839 or the Picts’ Last Stand, was fought in 839 between the Vikings and the Picts and Gaels. It was a decisive victory for the Vikings in which Uuen , the king of the Picts, his brother Bran and Aed son of Boanta , King of Dál Riata , were all killed.
The Chronicle of the Kings of Alba says that Domnall reigned for four years, matching the notices in the Annals of Ulster of his brother's death in February 858 and his own in April 862. [2] The Chronicle notes: In his time the Gaels with their king made the rights and laws of the kingdom, [that are called the laws] of Aed, Eochaid's son, in ...