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Eoganan of Dalriada, also known as Eoganan mac Oengus Eoganan was king of Dalriada.
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 Kenneth MacAlpin, "the Hardy"
Kenneth Mac Alpin is generally considered the first king the united Scots of Dalriada and the Picts, and so of Scotland, north of a line between the Forth and Clyde rivers.
Dalriada was established by Irish immigrants, or raiders, from county Antrim, Ireland around 500 AD., although Scottish raiders had been coming to these shores since circa 330 AD.
Now Kenneth's sovereignty of Dalriada was regarded as an obstacle to his becoming Ard-righ (High King) of Alban just as there is was sometimes a tendency to prevent the merging of two ancient noble families or houses.
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 Eo Eob Eobaatar Eobaataridae Eocene Eocene Epoch Eochaid Eochaid   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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Drust of Dalriada, also known as Drust mac Constantine Drust was king of Dalriada.
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 Dalriada -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
It has been excavated and in addition to fortifications many moulds for the manufacture of (An adornment (as a bracelet or ring or necklace) made of precious metals and set with gems (or imitation gems)) jewellery were found.
A (A period count of the population) census of Dalriada exists, the (additional info and facts about Senchus fer n'Alba) Senchus fer n'Alba.
Dalriada was conquered militarily by the Picts but eventually overwhelmed them culturally.
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 The Tribe of Loarn
Amongst the kings of Dalriada, the succession alternated between the descendants of Erc, with those of Fergus dominating.
At the time of Ferchar Fota's reign, Dalriada was a weakened kingdom; the throne was fleetingly held by the various claimants, and the Scots were dominated by the Picts.
3 Ruadri was the brother of Muiredach, the last king of Dalriada to come from the Tribe of Loarn (died around 736).
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 ScottishDalRiada
This Arthur of Dalriada married the daughter of Leo de Grance, Gwenhwyfar de Bretagne.
The Dalriada expansion westward and northward across Alba and into the lands of the Picts continued relatively unabated until the 10th Century.
As noted before, the expansion of Dalriada was accomplished not so much by invasion, as by the joining together in marriage of the Dalriadans and the Picts.
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 Scotland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
A small land and thinly populated, her skeptical and occasionaly dour children are legendary the world over as soldiers, merchants, doctors, explorers, engineers, and inventors; any trade, in fact, that requires considerable self-discipline combined with a flare of creativity.
Hereafter the title was always associated with the direct heir to the throne of Great Britain, and merges with the Dukedom of Cornwall, the Earldom of Chester, the Hereditary Great Stewardship of Scotland, and the Lordship of the Isles as a subsidiary title of the Prince of Wales.
from the enforced union of the Kingdom of DalRiada, under Kenneth I, with that of the Kingdom of the Picts.
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 Dalriadic Scots (500-846 AD) - DBA 61a   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The balance of this period is not well recorded, although it is believed that the rise of Christianity and the power of Columba and his successors exercised in non-secular matters encouraged relative peace and prosperity between Dalriada and her neighbors, the Picts to the east and north, and the Britons to the south.
Unable to resist, Dalriada and the Pictish kingdoms were forced to swear fealty to the Northumbrian bretwaldas.
Dalriada and the Picts fought unsuccessfully for independence, the Picts suffering a massive defeat in which their dead were reputed to lie so thick in two rivers that the Northumbrians could walk dry-shod from bank to bank.
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List of Kings of Dalriada This is the list of the kingss of Dalriada, in chronological order, with their approximate reigns: Alpin II of Dalriada 839 - 841 Eoganan of Dalriada 837 - 839 Drust of Dalriada 834 - 837...
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List of Kings of Dalriada This is the list of the kings of Dalriada, in chronological order, with their approximate reigns: Alpin II of Dalriada 839 - 841 Eoganan of Dalriada 837 - 839 Drust of Dalriada 834 - 837...
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Eoganan of Dalriada -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
Eoganan of Dalriada, also known as Eoganan mac Oengus Eoganan was king of (additional info and facts about Dalriada) Dalriada.
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King Alpin [Elphin] of Dalriada was killed in the battle for the city; while Muredach, the rival-king, was chased out of the country and fled to Ireland for refuge.
The inhabitants of the Kingdom of Dalriada were the Scots, who migrated from Ireland to Scotland in the fifth century AD and gave the country its name.
After that, the kings of Dalriada who had until then lived peacefully as neighbors of the Picts turned their policy of expansion against the Scottish natives and obtained territories in Scotland by force or treaty from the Picts.
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 Alpin II of Dalriada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Alpin II of Dalriada, also known as Alpin mac Eochaid was the father of Kenneth I of Scotland and Donald I of Scotland who united the Kingdom of the Scots and the Picts.
Little is known about Alpin other than that his father was Eochaid IV of Dalriada, who has been called in some accounts the King "of Scotland".
Alpin was certainly dead by 840, when his son, Kenneth, took the kingship of Dalriada.
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 Scottish History: The Decline of the Picts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Picts used a matrilineal system to choose their rulers and by the time Rome left Britain in the 4th Century AD the bloodlines of the seven tribes were deeply entwined, leaving the Kingdom intact.
It was on one of these occasions in 739 AD when Oengus (Angus) Mac (Son of) Fergus laid waste to the Scottish capital of Dunnadd and then proceeded to Ireland where he won two large battles in 741 AD.
As a king of Dalriada he is listed as Eoganan, as a king of Picts he is shown as Eogan, and in other places he is shown as Eoghann or as Uven.
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Notes for KING OF DALRIADA HUGH II: King of Dalriada Hugh II was a descendant from the Picts who are most likely the first or one of the first inhabitants of Scotland.
KING OF DALRIADA HUGH THE4 POISONOUS IV (KING OF DALRIADA AED3 FINN, HUGH2 III, KING OF DALRIADA1) was born Bef.
Some say he was related Eoganan and had a claim to the Pictish throne through one of the line of royal women.
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 Kenneth MacAlpin
Oengus had split his men into two, and whilst Alpin defeated the southern army, he in turn was routed by the main body of the Pictish forces, and was captured and beheaded.
Kenneth succeeded to his father's throne of Galloway immediately, and later became King of Dalriada in 841, after the death of Eoganan and his brother at the hands of the Vikings in 839.
The first, Constantine, son of Fergus (or Castatin, son of Uurguist as he was known to the Picts) ruled at the beginning of the ninth century.
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 BBC - Legacies - Immigration and Emigration - Scotland - Western Scotland - Dalriada: The Land of the First Scots - ...
Iona, off the west coast of Mull, was the spiritual centre of the Celtic Church, which was dominant throughout the country, and was the pre-eminent seat of learning in the British Isles at that time.
The Viking raids also cut sea communication between Dalriada and Ireland, forcing the Scots to focus entirely on their Scottish territories (the primary Dalriadan relic, the Stone of Destiny, was smuggled over from Ireland just prior to this, later to become one of the most prominent symbols of Scottish identity).
Eoganan had served not only as King of Picts, but also as King of Dalriada, since the Picts had acted as overlords to the Scots since the smiting of 741.
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 magoo.com: Scots Kings by Hugh McGough
Further confirmation that the Irish of Dalriada were the Scoti who settled in Scotland as early as the fourth century, and eventually gave Scotland its name, is found in Settlement on the Western Seaboard c.
On Michael McKay's web site are pages on the Irish Kings of Dalriada (to 501 A.D.), the Scottish Kings of Dalriada (Tribe of Loarn 501 to 736), the Royal House of Moray (736 to 1215), and the Kings of Scots (844 to 1290).
Cairbre (alias Eochaidh) Riada —a quo "Dalriada," in Ireland, and in Scotland.
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 ScotKings02
It included the names of the grandsons of Eochaid Muin~remor who crossed over the North Channel of the Irish Sea to establish the settlement of the Scottish Dalriada on the west coast of Argyll in Alba, present-day Scotland.
The Celtic tribe of Scots who resided in Dal Riata were often called the Dalriada, referring to their place of origin, in the same way that people residing in the United States of America are often called Americans without distinguishing between and referring to their unique cultural and ethnic backgrounds.
The combined form of Dalriada generally refers to the settlement made by the Scots in Argyll, in present-day Scotland.
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 Civilization Fanatics' Forums - The Irish Myth about Scotland?
It is mentioned in most popular history, and taken for granted in many general scholarly works that the Scots of Dalriada were the founders of the kingdom of Alba (later Scotland).
The tradtional story, whuch first emerges a century later, is that Kenneth mac Alpin [Cinead mac AilpĂ­n], a king of Dalriada, took over Pictland by force of arms in 843.
It's not clear that Dalriada even existed as a sepearate kingdom at this point, never mind lauching a takeover of Pictland.
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 The Scottish Royal Line
The migration of the Scots from Irish Dalriata to what is now the West coast of Scotland was led by Fergus Mor MacErc, the grandson of Eochaid Muinreamhar King of Dalriata.
He and his descendants ruled both Dalriata and Dalriada.
This continued until the reign of Eochaid III who was the last Dalriadan king to rule both kingdoms simultaneously.
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 King Kenneth I - Part I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Dalriada was established by Irish immigrants, or raiders, from county Antrim, Ireland around 500 AD.
On his father's side he could lay claim as righful heir to the throne of Dalriada and his mother's bloodline gave him the right to petition for the throne of South Pictland, or Caledonia.
Kenneth cleared the way for his claim to the throne of Caledonia and was crowned not long after in the Pictish monastery of Scone on the ancient Stone of Destiny - to the present day the Coronation Stone for all the British monarchs - becoming King of the Picts as well as the Dalriada Scots.
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 EBK: Historical Chronology of the Early Kingdoms of Scotland AD 820-899   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
They are succeeded by their cousin, Eoganan mac Angus.
Death of King Eoganan of the Scots and Picts and also of his brother, Bran.
Ferach mac Bargoch, probably a maternal cousin of the late King, manages to secure the Pictish throne through the right of his mother.
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The Pict earls, having each poured a river of ale down their throats, were as drunk as used up whores.
Though they refused to accept a Scot as Eoganan's successor, they didn't hesitate in singing along to a Scottish tune or drinking their fill of Scottish mead.
The Dalriada king sidestepped, pivoted, and whipped his blade downward.
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Two of Niall's other sons founded the Kingdom of Aileach in 400 (area of the later city of Londonderry) which had 52 known sovereigns until 1170 including 18 High Kings.
Other local manarchs susch as Fergus of Dalriada (c500) crossed North Channel to seek wider domains in Scotland.
The first Viking invasion of Ireland (795) foreshadowed nearly two centuries when Norse kings ruled many tiny coastal states such as Dublin (838, 25 kings known for 856-1170), Waterford (914) and Limerick (920-68).
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 Kingdoms of Caledonia & Ireland - Pictland
His clan-lands were in the region of Tay, embracing parts of Forfarshire, Perthshire, and Fife.
The Scotti of Irish Dalriada begin to colonise Argyll at Cantyre.
The line of descent of Pictish kings is broken when the Pictish army is destroyed and Eoganan is killed by Vikings.
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She came to Dalriada to get revenge and that she would do.
She had been through much in the last days, from attempting to murder the King of Dalriada to marrying a Scot.
I bestow on ye the sacred duty of delivering the Stone of Destiny, from Dalriada to Scone." He raised his arm off the table and curled his fingers into the shape of a rock.
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 Clan Information
(the nephew and agent of King Domnall Brecc of Dalriada) at the battle of Magh Rath in 637 AD, effectively ending Dalriadic control over their Irish possessions.
Finally, the reunified Picts under King Oengus attacked and overran Dalriada between 731-736 AD, forcing the Dalriadic king into brief exile in
Oengus continued his aggressive expansion southward until defeated by the Strathcylde Britons at the battle of Catohic (Mocetauc) near
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Little more is known about Alpin than his father Eochaid IV of Dalriada, who has been called in some acounts as the King "of Scotland".
Alpin was certainly dead by 840, when his son took the kingship of Dalriada.
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