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King Nechtan son of Der-Ilei abdicated to enter a monastery in 724 [51] and was imprisoned by his successor Drest in 726. [52] In 728 and 729, four kings competed for power in Pictland: [53] Drest; Nechtan; Alpín, of whom little is known; and Óengus, who was a partisan of Nechtan, [54] [47] and perhaps his acknowledged heir. [52]
Óengus succeeded his brother Caustantín to the throne. Previously thought to have been of Dál Riatan origin and descended from Fergus mac Echdach, their family is now assumed to have been that of the first king Óengus mac Fergusa, perhaps originating in Circin (presumed to correspond with the modern Mearns), a Pictish family with ties to the Eóganachta of Munster in Ireland.
Royal figure, dressed like a late antique Roman emperor, on the St Andrews Sarcophagus, probably Óengus I of the Picts.. The House of Óengus is a proposed dynasty that may have ruled as Kings of the Picts and possibly of all of northern Great Britain, for approximately a century from the 730s to the 830s AD.
An entry in the king lists; reigned 30 years 510–522 Galan: Galan Erilich or Galany An entry in the king lists 522–530 Drest III: Drest son of Uudrost (or Hudrossig) 522–531 Drest IV: Drest son of Girom (or Gurum) An entry in the king lists 531–537 Gartnait I: Garthnac son of Girom, Ganat son of Gigurum 537–538 Cailtram
Óengus became the chief king in Pictland following a period of civil war in the late 720s. During his reign, the neighbouring kingdom of Dál Riata was subjugated and the kingdom of Strathclyde was attacked with less success. The most powerful ruler in Scotland for over two decades, he was involved in wars in Ireland and England.
Uuen was a son of Onuist II [son of] Uurguist [Wrguist] (in Gaelic: Óengus II mac Fergusa (Óengus II), died 834) and succeeded his cousin Drest mac Caustantín (Drest IX) as king in 837. 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 ...
Dál Riata was subject to the Pictish king Óengus mac Fergusa (reigned 729–761), and although it had its own kings beginning in the 760s, does not appear to have recovered its political independence from the Picts. [33] A later Pictish king, Caustantín mac Fergusa (793–820), placed his son Domnall on the throne of Dál Riata (811–835). [34]
Óengus mac Fergusa may refer to: . Óengus I (before 700–761), monarch a/k/a Onuist, anglicised as Angus son of Fergus, who, from 732 to 761, reigned as king of Pictland, also referenced as Pictavia, located in northeastern region of land later unified as Scotland