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	Kenneth I Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
		Cináed mac Ailpín, Kenneth Mac Alpin, and Kenneth the Hardy) lived from 810 to 858 and was arguably the first King of the Kingdom of Scotland, which he ruled from 843 to 858.
		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.
		Mac Alpin continued to fight against Picts who challenged his right to hold their crown, but by 855 his grip on those parts of modern Scotland north of the Clyde and Forth not under the control of the Vikings was relatively secure.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /usbiography/monarchs/kennethi.html (510 words)

	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.
		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.
		Kenneth I died in 858, near Scone in Pictish territory, and was buried on the island of Iona.
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	Scotland - MSN Encarta
		The status of Kenneth may owe more to claims that he was the first “king of Scots”, which were made by his successors up to three centuries after his death, rather than to anything that he achieved himself.
		Kenneth certainly established royal and religious centres at Scone and Dunkeld, as a counterweight to the Pictish centres at Fortriu and St Andrews.
		The extent of rule of the mac Alpin dynasty south of the Forth ebbed and flowed during the 10th century and was not established until the Battle of Carham, immediately to the south of the Tweed, in 1018.
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	The Barony of Corstorphine
		Kenneth mac Alpin was the first king to unite the kingdoms of Dalriada in the west and the Picts and as such is regarded as the first king of Scotland.
		Kenneth mac Alpin or Kenneth, son of Alpin, was 35th king of Dalriada.
		Kenneth II was the son of Malcolm I and therefore a great-great-grandson of Kenneth I. Constantine III (995-997)
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		Kenneth I lived from It is thus that Kenneth Mac Alpin was one of several nobles with a claim to the crown of Picts and Scots.
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		Mac Alpin the King The sources for facts of how Kenneth Mac Alpin the avenging son of the Kenneth mac Alpin the son of a minor king in Galloway has a dream of a united Scotland.
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		Kenneth the Hardy, son of Alpin, avenged his fathers death by taking the remaining territory of the Picts.
		Kenneth MacAlpin was the first Scottish King of Alba, (the Pict name for their Kingdom) although his mother was a Pict.
		When Kenneth MacAlpin died in the latter half of the 9th century, Scotland went through a series of mediocre kings who were kept very busy trying to hold the Norsemen out of Scotland and keep its borders fixed.
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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.
		Kenneth MacAlpin died of cancer on Feb 6th, 859 in Forteviot and was buried on Iona.
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	Mac Alpin's Treason
		Overwhelmed with victory, Alpin marched north to attack the rear of the main Pictish army in the north.
		His Pictish mother was descended from the royal house of Fortrenn, and his great-grand uncle, Alpin Mac Eachaidh had actually reigned as King of Picts until deposed by Oengus I. It is thus that Kenneth Mac Alpin was one of several nobles with a claim to the crown of Picts and Scots.
		Mac Alpin then invites the Pictish king Drust IX and the remaining Pictish nobles to Scone to perhaps settle the issue of Dalriada's freedom or MacAlpin's claim to the Dalriadic crown.
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	McIan's Clann Labhrainn-The Mac Laurins
		In 843, Kenneth Mac Alpin, chief of posterity of the above brothers and their followers, overthrew the southern Picts, took possession of their territories, and transfered the seat of of Government to their capital, Abernethie, in Strathearn, county of Perth, where he was crowned King of All Scotland.
		One of the Mac Laurins who was an "innocent," or of weak intellect, having gone to a fair, held at Kilmahog, a place west of Callendar, one of the Lenie Buchanas, a neighboring clan passing along, struck Mac Laurin on the cheek with a salmon he was carrying and knocked off his bonnet.
		Balquhidder, "the country of the Mac Laurins," is eighteen miles in length and seven in breadth; by the lasyt census the number of inhabitants was reduced to 1,049 souls, of whom, perhaps, not more than twenty bear their appropriate patronymic.
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	Scotland's Past - Kenneth MacAlpin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		It is considered unlikely that Kenneth was ever crowned king, he certainly did not get the papal blessing as this did not happen to a Scottish king until David II in 1329.
		Kenneth's importance in Scottish history lies in the fact that he is traditionally seen as the monarch who became the first king to unite the Picts and Scots.
		Kenneth has a reputation for having been skilful in politics as well as warfare, for at this time being a successful warrior was the only way to hold on to power.
	www.scotlandspast.org /kenni.cfm (452 words)

	The Highlanders of Scotland
		Kenneth was succeeded by Elpin, but it is uncertain whether he was of the northern or southern Picts.
		Alpin’s attack appears, from the register of St Andrews, to have been confined to Galloway, a province of the southern Picts; and it is expressly said by that chronicle, that it was his conquest of that territory which transferred the kingdom of the Picts to the Scots.
		Kenneth, his son, apparently fought but one battle, and that battle took place, according to the same chronicle, at Forteviot, in the very heart of the territory of the southern Picts.
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	Scottish Blog
		Until the reign of Kenneth Mac Alpin, Dumbarton Castle and its surrounding areas were a constant source of contestation between the independent Alt Clut kingdom who ruled the area, the Norse and other Celtic and Pictish groups.
		Cinaed Mac Ailpin was born sometime after the year 800 AD in Iona, possibly around 810, and he died on the 13th of February 858.
		Kenneth MacAlpin died on Feb 13th, 858 in Forteviot and was buried on Iona.
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	Famous Scots - Kenneth mac Alpin
		His name is variously written as Kenneth mac Alpin or Kenneth MacAlpin or King Kenneth I. His father died in 834 and Kenneth came to the throne.
		Kenneth's brother became King Donald I. Described at the time as "the wanton son of the foreign woman" Donald extended Dalriadic law into Pictland and died of natural causes near Scone, Perthshire in 862.
		Of Kenneth's five children, two later became kings - Constantine I who took over on the death of King Donald I, ruled from 862 to 878 and was killed in a battle fighting the Danes.
	www.rampantscotland.com /famous/blfamalpin.htm (424 words)

	Nigel Tranter, Kenneth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Kenneth mac Alpin, the son of a minor king in Galloway, has a dream of a united Scotland.
		But Kenneth rises in prominence through his battle ken on land and sea, as well as his quest for a saint's fingerbone to help install Andrew, the first apostle, as Scotland's patron after his seeming intervention in a battle with the Saxons.
		Kenneth's story is riveting stuff; action-packed sequences in various land battles and brutal encounters at sea punctuate the calmer sections relating to Kenneth's quest.
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	Kenneth MacAlpin King of Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Kenneth I, died 858, traditional founder of the kingdom of Scotland.
		Kenneth was the son of Alpin who may or may not have been King of Dal Riata.
		Kenneth mac Alpin was reputed to have taken some of the relics of Columba to a church built by him, presumably at Dunkeld, and to have raided Northumbria six times, burning Dunbar and Melrose.
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	Kenneth MacAlpin
		The accession of the son of Alpin, Kenneth MacAlpin, to the kingdom of the Scots, marked the beginning of a new direction in Scottish history.
		Dal Riada under Kenneth MacAlpin, king of the Scots, claimed the throne of the Picts and absorbed all of Pictland, and the whole of Scotland north of the Forth and Clyde, establishing Alba, the first united kingdom in Scotland in 844.
		Kenneth Mac Alpin was the founder of the dynasty that ruled Scotland in unbroken succession for well over a thousand years.
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	Scotland's first settlers - Picts, Scots, Britons, Angles and others. - Kenneth I - Kenneth Mac Alpin
		Mac Bili is buried in the royal cemetery on Iona.
		Mac Alpin’s authority extended from Moray Firth in the north to the Firth of Forth in the south.
		In 858 Kenneth died in Forteviot and was buried on Iona.
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	The Decline of the Pictish Kingdom of Caledonia
		The Scottish King, Alpin Mac Eochaid was killed, but it was a hollow victory for the Picts, as whoever won had to face the Viking invaders.
		Kenneth's mother is said to have been either a daughter of Achalas, King of Argyllshire or a princess of the royal lines of the Picts.
		As for Kenneth himself, he was rumored to be a man of astuteness, while his method of uniting the two kingdoms belies this fact and brings the term ruthless to mind.
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	ScotKings01
		Kenneth Mac Alpin is generally given the credit of uniting the Picts and Scots into one nation: Scotland.
		In 843, Kenneth was crowned king at Scone, upon Moot Hill, a sacred place revered by the Picts, the Celtic tribe from which his mother descended.
		The House of Dunkeld commenced as the ruling family of Scotland with the marriage of Beatrix, or Bethoc, a daughter of Malcolm II, to Crinan, the lay Abbot of Dunkeld.
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	Our Family - pafc317 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Mac Alpin then invites the Pictish king, Drust IX, and the remaining Pictish nobles to Scone, Perthshire to perhaps settle the issue of Dalriada's freedom or MacAlpin's claim to the Dalriadic crown.
		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.
		He was the younger son of Alpin II of Dalriada and succeeded his brother, King Kenneth mac Alpin, to the throne upon his death.
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	Crossroads of Time: Afterword (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The historical Kenneth mac Alpin (Cinaed mac Ailpin) is often considered the first of the kings of a united Scots nation as he was the first king to unite the Scoti kingdom of Dalriada and the Picti kingdom called Pictland.
		Kenneth claimed the crown of Dalriada by virtue of his father's line, and the Pictish one through his mother.
		Kenneth's brother Donald succeeded him as king and was in turn succeeded by Kenneth's son who ruled as Constantine I. The Scots kingdom did outlive Kenneth by several centuries.
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	Kenneth I - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		He succeeded his father, Alpin, as king of Dalriada (the kingdom of the Gaelic Scots in W Scotland) and c.843 obtained the Pictish throne, thus establishing the nucleus of the kingdom of Scotland.
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	Kenneth I of Scotland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cináed mac Ailpín (after 800–13 February 858), (anglicised Kenneth MacAlpin) was king of the Picts and, according to national myth, first king of Scots.
		Gofraid mac Fergusa, chief of Airgíalla, went to Alba, to strengthen the Dal Riata, at the request of Cináed mac Ailpín.
		107–108; Broun, "Kenneth mac Alpin"; Forsyth, "Scotland to 1100", pp.
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	Celtic Studio-Clan Mac Alpin
		It was the fortune of King Alpine of Dalriada to beget the son who became the first sovereign of the Picts and Scots and the founder of the royal dynasty of what was to evolve as the modern kingdom of Scotland.
		Kenneth Mac Alpin’s achievement has remained a matter of some surprise ever since, and the explanations for it have been various.
		Although Mac Alpine is used as a surname to this day, there is little trace of an effective clan of that name in historical record.
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	ogths8
		Aidan Mac Gabhran and his wife, Ygerna Del Acqs, gave birth to eight children, the second of which was a son, born in 559, whom they named Arthur, and who became known as Arthur of Dalriada.
		It was the third one, Cinaeth, son of Alpin, who seized the opportunity and wrested control of the Picts from his father-in-law, and became king of both Pictland and the Scots.
		From that point to the present time, the kingdom forged by Kenneth would be known neither by the name of Pict nor Dalriada, but rather as Scotia, or Scotland. Eight generations beyond King Kenneth Mac Alpin, Malcolm III seized the throne of the kingdom of the Scots.
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