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Kenneth Mac Alpine I Sex: Male | | | |  | | Birth Date | 0810 | | Death Date | 0859 FEB 13 Forteviot, Perthshire, Scotland | | Father | | Born: | | | Mother | | Born: | | | Kenneth Mac Alpine
Notes: | Kenneth I (a.k.a.Cináed mac AilpÃn, Kenneth Mac Alpin, and Kenneth the Hardy) lived from 810 to 859 and was arguably the first King of the Kingdom of Scotland, which he ruled from 843 to 859. At the time he was referred to as King of the Picts. The wider picture in Scotland at the time is set out in our Historical Timeline He was son of King Alpin II of Dalriada and succeeded his father to the crown of Dalriada in 839. This effectively made him King of the Scots, whose territory roughly covered modern-day Argyll. Meanwhile, also in 839, the Picts, who until then had controlled all of Scotland north of the Forth and Clyde except for Argyll, suffered a heavy defeat at the hands of the Vikings. Most of the Pictish nobility was wiped out in the defeat, including King Bridei VI. Kenneth Mac Alpin had a claim to the Pictish crown through his mother. But his claim was disputed by surviving members of the seven royal houses of the Picts, and Drust X succeeded to the Pictish Crown. Kenneth defeated the Picts in battle in 841: and squeezed between the Scots on one side and the rampaging Vikings on the other, the Picts agreed to a meeting with Mac Alpin at Scone, attended by all claimants to the Pictish Crown.
| | Notes: | It is possible that Cináed mac AlpÃn is himself fictitious, but there are arguments to be made for his historicity. His supposed father, however -- [AlpÃn mac Echdach, Rà na Dál Riata] --does not appear in documents before the 10th century, where he appears in a pediegree constructed in order to give the kings of Scotland an ancient history.
| | Notes: | Occupation: FIRST KING OF SCOTLAND, King of the Picts and Scots, Rei dos Pictos, King of the Picts, He was famous for combining the Picts and Scots into a single Kingdom of Scotland.
| | Notes: | Place of Burial: Isle of Iona, Argyll and Bute
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