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Duncan Sex: Male | | | |  | | Birth Date | 0920 Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland | | Death Date | 0965 Battle Of Duncrub, Perthshire, Scotland (killed in battle) | | Father | Duncan Donnchadh Priest Thane Dule and Earl of Caithness | Born: 0890 Dull, Perthshire, Scotland | Died: 0925 | | Mother | | Born: | | | Duncan
Notes: | The Annals of Ulster record that "Donnchad the abbot of Dún Caillen" was killed in 965 in "a battle between the men of Scotland themselves"[129]. The 10th century Pictish Chronicle Cronica de Origine Antiquorum Pictorum records that "Niger filius Maelcolaim" defeated "Caniculum super Dorsum Crup", in which battle "Duchad abbas Duncalden et Dubdon satrapas Athochlach" were killed, after which Niger was expelled and "Caniculus" reigned for a short time[130]. Alex Woolf tells us that this is a scribe showing off his Latin - and Niger & "Caniculus mean lack & little dog - also the translations of Dub(d967) & Cuilen (d971). So: a battle on Dorsum Crup between these two, resulted in the death of a satrap (mormaer?) of Atholl, and an abbot of Dunkeld. (Woolf, Alex: From Pictland to Alba, 789-1070: Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 2007 pp201-202) Woolf mentions that it was common for senior churchmen to lead the forces of their church estates into combat. Most secondary sources also point out the importance of the Church of St Columba in Dunkeld, & debate the likelihood of the Abbacy being an hereditary post – given that Crinan’s grandson Aethelred inherits it. Woolf, Cawley & Bill Robertson on the Clan Donnachad page say that this would mean Duncan & Crinan are likely to be descended from the Tir Conaill royalty of Ireland, in descent from the kin of St. Columba. However, the fact that the post became hereditary after the era in which Malcolm had successfully changed the succession policy by making his own kingship hereditary, doesn’t automatically mean it was hereditary before – anymore than the Kingship in Scotland had been. Stewart Baldwin points out that if Duncans purported son, Crinan, was conceived in the year of his fathers death 965, that would still make Crinan 80 yrs old when he dies in battle in 1045. This is, however, not impossible – Brian Boru dies in the Battle of Clontarf in his 70’s – but it does seem unlikely.
| | Notes: | Occupation: Gov of Strathclyde, abbot of Dunkeld, Abthane of Dule, EARLOF ATHOLL, Lord, de Mormaer, Comte, dAtholl, Abbé, de Dule, Thane of Dule; Lord of Mormaer; Lay Abbott of Dunkeld, Earl of Strathclyde, Lay Abbot of Dunkeld, Priest of Dull, L2ZB-PP2
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Duncan Donnchadh
b.0890 Dull, Perthshire, Scotland
d.0925 | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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