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Eochaid ab Rhun (fl. 878–889) was a ninth century King of Strathclyde, who may have also been King of the Picts. [note 1] He was a son of Rhun ab Arthgal, King of Strathclyde, and descended from a long line of British kings. Eochaid's mother is recorded to have been a daughter of Cináed mac Ailpín, King of the Picts. [6]
He could have been a son of Rhun ab Arthgal, [7] the last identifiable King of Strathclyde before Dyfnwal. [8] Rhun was a member of the long-reigning Cumbrian dynasty of Strathclyde. He is the last monarch to be named by a pedigree preserved within a collection of tenth-century Welsh genealogical material known as the Harleian genealogies. [9]
Rhun ab Arthgal was a ninth-century King of Strathclyde. [note 1] He is the only known son of Arthgal ap Dyfnwal, King of Alt Clut.In 870, during the latter's reign, the fortress of Alt Clut was captured by Vikings, after which Arthgal and his family may have been amongst the mass of prisoners taken back to Ireland.
The list of the kings of Strathclyde concerns the kings of Alt Clut, later Strathclyde, a Brythonic kingdom in what is now western Scotland.. The kingdom was ruled from Dumbarton Rock, Alt Clut, the Brythonic name of the rock, until around 870 when the rock was captured and sacked by Norse-Gaels from the kingdom of Dublin after a four-month siege.
Eochaid ab Rhun; Eugein I of Alt Clut; Eugein II of Alt Clut; M. Máel Coluim, King of Strathclyde; Máel Coluim (son of the king of the Cumbrians) O. Owain ap ...
Unknown daughter. She married Rhun ab Arthgal (r. 872–878), the King of Strathclyde, and had a son, Eochaid (r. 878–889), who may have ruled as King of Strathclyde and/or King of the Picts; Máel Muire ingen Cináeda. She married Áed Findliath (r. 862–879), the High King of Ireland. There is also a theory the wife of Amlaíb Conung (r.
Arthgal ap Dyfnwal (died 872) was a ninth-century king of Alt Clut. [note 1] He descended from a long line of rulers of the British Kingdom of Alt Clut.Either he or his father, Dyfnwal ap Rhydderch, King of Alt Clut, may have reigned when the Britons are recorded to have burned the Pictish ecclesiastical site of Dunblane in 849.
English: Map for the Wikipedia article concerning Eochaid, son of Rhun (fl. 878–889). The map depicts the territories of the kingdoms of Alba and Strathclyde, and the territories of the Scandinavians and Northumbrians.