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Kenneth is retroactively listed in the royal lists dating to later periods as the first King of Scotland; modern historians, however, argue the final unification of the kingdom took place half a century later and that Kenneth's main political achievement should be considered the creation of a new dynasty. This dynasty sought to dominate all of ...
MacAlpin then invited the Pictish king, Drest X, and the remaining Pictish nobles to Scone to settle the issue of Dál Riata's freedom or MacAlpin's claim to the Dál Riatan crown. Faced with a recently victorious MacAlpin in the south and a devastated army in the north, Drest, as well as all claimants to the Pictish throne from the seven royal ...
The House of Alpin, also known as the Alpinid 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 Constantine II (Causantín mac Áeda) in the 940s until the death of Malcolm II (Máel Coluim mac Cináeda) in 1034.
The reign of Kenneth MacAlpin begins what is often called the House of Alpin, an entirely modern concept. The descendants of Kenneth MacAlpin were divided into two branches; the crown would alternate between the two, the death of a king from one branch often hastened by war or assassination by a pretender from the other. Malcolm II was the last ...
Kenneth MacAlpin, detail from a frieze in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery Kenneth MacAlpin ( Medieval Gaelic : Cináed mac Ailpin ; Scottish Gaelic : Coinneach mac Ailpein ; 810 – 13 February 858) or Kenneth I was King of Dál Riada (841–850), and King of the Picts (848–858), of likely Gaelic origin.
Said to have reigned three years in some lists; the myth of MacAlpin's treason calls the Pictish king Drest 848– 13 February 858 Kenneth MacAlpin: Ciniod son of Elphin, Cináed mac Ailpín, Coinneach mac Ailpein: Unknown, but his descendants made him a member of the Cenél nGabráin of Dál Riata
Over time the manuscript deteriorated, with many words in the narrative of the reigns of Alpin and his son Kenneth MacAlpin becoming illegible, although the text of these lacunae can usually be supplied by referring to the Chronica Gentis Scotorum of John of Fordun, who used the chronicle as a source. [3]
In 843 the chief of Clan Chattan was Gille Chattan Mor and one of his descendants, the first chief of Clan Macpherson was forced to resettle in Lochaber by Kenneth MacAlpin, first king of Scots. [2] The chief could have been the lay prior of Ardchattan and he seems to have been named in honour of Saint Cathan. [2]