Dumnagual III of Alt Clut
Dumnagual III (Welsh: Dyfnwal ap Tewdwr, died c. 760) was a king of Strathclyde in the mid-eighth century (probably 754–760). According to the Harleian genealogies, he was the son of Teudebur, one of his predecessors.[1]
According to
Britons. However, nine days later, the Northumbrian king's army was destroyed while Eadberht was leading it between "Ouania" and "Niwanbirig",[2] probably meaning "Govan" and "Anglian Northumbria".[3] Dumnagual is usually regarded as the king of Alt Clut in the period, but it has also been suggested that the destroyer of the Northumbrian army was Óengus.[4] Phillimore's reconstruction of the Annales Cambriae puts Dumnagual's death in battle at 760.[5] It is thought likely that the territory of Alt Clut remained under Pictish or joint Pictish and English control in the years following his death.[6]
Dumnagual is the last British king of Alt Clut to be known as anything more than a name until the later ninth century.
References
- ^ "Harleian genealogy of the Kings of Alt Clut".
- ^ Symeon of Durham, Historia Regum Angliae, in T. Arnold (ed.) Symeonis Dunelmensis Opera Omnia, (Rolls Series, 1882), vol. ii, pp. 40-41; translated and quoted in Alan Orr Anderson, Scottish Annals from English Chroniclers: AD 500–1286, (London, 1908), republished, Marjorie Anderson (ed.) (Stamford, 1991), p. 57.
- ^ Govan is increasingly being accepted as the identification of Ouania, for a variety of historical and philological reasons; see Thomas Owen Clancy, "Govan, the Name, Again", in Report of the Society of Friends of Govan Old, 8 (1998), pp. 8-13; Kathryn Forsyth, , "Evidence of a Lost Pictish source in the Historia Regum Anglorum of Symeon of Durham", in Simon Taylor (ed.) Kings, Clerics, and Chronicles in Scotland, 500-1297: Essays in Honour of Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson on the Occasion of Her Ninetieth Birthday, (Dublin, 2000), pp. 19-32; Appendix by John Koch, pp. 33-4; Alex Woolf, "Onuist son of Uurguist:Tyrannus Carnifex or a David for the Picts", in David Hill & Margaret Worthington (eds.), Æthelbald and Off, Two Eighth-Century Kings of Mercia: Papers from a Conference held in Manchester in 2000, (Manchester, 2005), p. 38.
The English name Niwanbirig suggests a location in English-speaking Northumbria, perhaps one of the many Newburghs there. - ^ Alan MacQuarrie, "The Kings of Strathclyde", in A. Grant & K.Stringer (eds.) Medieval Scotland: Crown, Lordship and Community, Essays Presented to G.W.S. Barrow, (Edinburgh, 1993), p. 11.
- ^ Annales Camrbiae, s.a. 760, here
- ^ Alan MacQuarrie, loc. cit.
- Anderson, Alan Orr, Scottish Annals from English Chroniclers: AD 500–1286, (London, 1908), republished, Marjorie Anderson (ed.) (Stamford, 1991)
- Clancy, Thomas Owen, "Govan, the Name, Again", in Report of the Society of Friends of Govan Old, 8 (1998), pp. 8–13
- Forsyth, Kathryn, "Evidence of a Lost Pictish source in the Historia Regum Anglorum of Symeon of Durham", in Simon Taylor (ed.) Kings, Clerics, and Chronicles in Scotland, 500-1297: Essays in Honour of Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson on the Occasion of Her Ninetieth Birthday, (Dublin, 2000), pp. 19–32; Appendix by John Koch, pp. 33–4.
- MacQuarrie, Alan, "The Kings of Strathclyde", in A. Grant & K.Stringer (eds.) Medieval Scotland: Crown, Lordship and Community, Essays Presented to G.W.S. Barrow, (Edinburgh, 1993), pp. 1–19
- Woolf, Alex, "Onuist son of Uurguist:Tyrannus Carnifex or a David for the Picts", in David Hill & Margaret Worthington (eds.), Æthelbald and Off, Two Eighth-Century Kings of Mercia: Papers from a Conference held in Manchester in 2000, (Manchester, 2005), pp. 35–42.