House of Alpin
House of Alpin | |
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Country | Kingdom of the Picts ?
King of Dál Riata (possibly) |
Dissolution | 1034 |
The House of Alpin, also known as the Alpínid 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 the advent of Kenneth MacAlpin (Cináed mac Ailpín) in the 840s until the death of Malcolm II (Máel Coluim mac Cináeda) in 1034.
Kings traced their descent from Kenneth MacAlpin (and not from his father,
The origins of the family are uncertain. Later genealogies make Kenneth a descendant of
Early kings of Clann Cináeda meic Ailpín are described as kings of the Picts, and the third king, Kenneth's son Constantine I (Causantín mac Cináeda), appears to have been regarded as the last of the 70 Pictish kings soon after his death. The descendants of Kenneth were ousted in 878, when Constantine I's brother, Áed mac Cináeda, was killed by Giric mac Dúngail, but they returned in 889, when Constantine I's son Donald II (Domnall mac Causantín) ascended the throne upon the death or deposition of Giric. Donald II and his successors are described as kings of Alba.[6]
During the tenth century, succession alternated between the descendants of Constantine I and those of Áed. Internecine strife in the late tenth and early eleventh centuries left the descendants of Constantine I unchallenged by male-line descendants of Kenneth MacAlpin, but Malcolm II left no male heirs. On Malcolm's death, the line of kings descended from Kenneth came to an end.
See also
- Scottish monarchs' family tree#House of Alpin
- Siol Alpin
Notes
- ^ Downham, Claire. "Scottish Affairs and the Political Context of Cogadh Gaedhel Gallaibh" (PDF). p. 6.
- ^ "Cogadh Gaedhel re Gallaibh, Chapter XXV(25) (left side of the page)". p. 232.
- ^ Woolf, Pictland to Alba, pp. 222–224; Broun, Irish Identity, pp. 173–174.
- ^ Woolf, Pictland to Alba, p. 173.
- ^ Woolf, Pictland to Alba, pp. 93–98 & 116–117.
- ^ Woolf, Pictland to Alba, pp. 122–126.
- ^ Woolf, Pictland to Alba, pp. 225–230.
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