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	Picts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Picts inhabited Pictavia or Pictland - Caledonia (Scotland), north of the River Forth - prior to the Scotticisation of the area.
		Onuist sacked Dunadd and captured the sons of the King of Dalriada.
		According to this theory, the languages of the Picts and the Basques represent remnants of the pre-Indoeuropean population of Europe.
	www.americancanyon.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Pictish_language (1015 words)

	Picts: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Picts
		The Picts were the inhabitants of Caledonia (Scotland), north of the River Forth.
		From the 6th century AD onwards the Picts came under increasing pressure from the invasions of the Dalriadan Scots in the west and the Vikings in the east.
		It remains uncertain whether or not the Picts were Celts although most available placename evidence tends to support the theory that they were Brythonic Celts.
	www.encyclopedian.com /pi/Pict.html (311 words)

	List of Kings of the Picts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The list of kings of the Picts is based on the Pictish Chronicle which survives in a late copy and did not record the dates the kings reigned.
		They ruled a vast region encompassing most of eastern Scotland until 843 when it was merged with the kings of Dál Riada to form the Kingdom of Scotland.
		Kenneth I became King of the Scots and Picts in 843.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Kings_of_the_Picts (222 words)

	List of British monarchs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In 1328, on the death of the French king, Charles IV, Edward III (nephew of Charles IV) claimed the French throne.
		James VI of Scotland and I of England, united the Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland in a personal union, later merged into a single Kingdom of Great Britain by the Act of Union 1707.
		King Edward I of England took over and installed a puppet, John Balliol.
	www.hartselle.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/List_of_British_monarchs (1209 words)

	List of monarchs in the British Isles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		English monarchs, and subsequently British monarchs, then styled themselves King of France or Queen of France until the Act of Union 1800, which led to the creation of the United Kingdom in 1801.
		All Scottish monarchs held the title King of Scots or Queen of Scots, with the exception of the last three: Mary II, William III and Anne I used the style "of Scotland" rather than "of Scots".
		England had no king from 1649 to 1660, but was a Republic until 1653.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_British_monarchs (1358 words)

	Scottish History: The Decline of the Picts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		What the Picts called their country before first contact is unknown, but the Pictish people are probably best represented by the title Cruithni, a name given by the Irish and generally applied to all tribes in the area.
		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.
		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.
	www.tartans.com /articles/pictdecline.html (922 words)

	picts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Picts spoke a language, Pictish, of which little is known.
		It remains uncertain whether or not we should classify the Picts as Celts although most available placename evidence tends to support the hypothesis that they were Brythonic Celts.
		According to this theory, the languages of the Picts and the Basques would be remnants of the Preindoeuropean population of Europe.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Picts.html (530 words)

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	magoo.com: Scots Kings by Hugh McGough
		"King of Fortrenn [Picts] and King of Dal Riada." [796].
		The Celtic Picts, by way of the female." "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." MacAlpin's Treason.
		Fiatach Finn was King of Ulster #25 and King of Ireland #103.
	www.magoo.com /hugh/scotskings.html (8494 words)

	Picts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		We owe their name to the Romans: in Latin the word Picti means painted folk or possibly tattooed ones and may be akin to the Welsh word Pryd meaning to mark or draw.
		There are plenty of archaelogical remains in the form of buildings and jewelry to indicate the society of the Picts but little in the way of writing.
		Also supporting this hypothesis is the Gaelic tradition that the Picts were identical with or descended from the Brythonic group which the Gaels called, and still call, the Cruithne.
	www.yotor.com /wiki/en/pi/Picts.htm (553 words)

	Pictish Nation ®
		The origins of the Picts are clouded with many fables, legends and fabrications, and there are as many theories as to who the Picts were (Celtic, Basque, Scythians, etc.), where they came from, what they ate or drank, and what language they spoke, as there once were Pictish raiders defying the mighty legions of Rome.
		However, the lesson grimly taught by the Roman and the decimation caused in the Pictish countryside must have been of such consequences that for nearly a century peace was kept in the land; the Romans manned Hadrian's Wall and the northern tattoed tribes stayed in their grim, brooding hills north of it.
		The Picts fought invasions by the Scots in the west, the Britons and Angles in the south and the Vikings in the north.
	members.tripod.com /~Halfmoon (2661 words)

	Picts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		From the 6th century AD onwards the Picts came under pressure from the invasions of the Dalriadan in the west and of the Vikings in the east.
		It remains uncertain whether or not we classify the Picts as Celts although most available placename evidence tends support the hypothesis that they were Brythonic Celts.
		According to theory the languages of the Picts and Basques would be remnants of the Preindoeuropean of Europe.
	www.freeglossary.com /Picts (763 words)

	Sweden war (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Dalriada Kings of the Picts Kings of the Isles Sweden (Svearike) Kings of Svitjod Kings of Vendel Kings...
		17, 1809) Gustav IV Adolf (1778-1837), king of Sweden, of the house Holstein-Gottorp, was the son of Gustav III of Sweden and Sophia Magdalena of Denmark, and born at...
		Charles IX, or Karl IX (1550-1611), king of Sweden, was the youngest son of Gustav I of Sweden and Margareta Lejonhufvud.
	www.ntc-usa.com /nordic/Sweden%20war&start=56 (1073 words)

	Friends of Grampian Stones - List of Kings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		While it is known that the journeys of Columba brought him to the fortress of Bridei son of Maelchon, king of the Picts, 'near Inverness', the extent of his dominion is not known.
		It may be that he ruled over the 'Northern Picts' as several annals from that time refer to the kingdom of the Picts as being divided by the range of the Mounth into northern and southern kingdoms.
		617-633 Edwin King of Northumbria [Oswald, Eanfrith, Oswiu exiled in Pictland]
	www.electricscotland.com /stones/kinglist.htm (736 words)

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		This latter incident indicates that King Brude or "Bruide" was king of the whole of Scotland and the Isles; and he held the Prince of Orkney hostage.
		After these preliminary kings there now follows an unbroken line of twenty-nine kings of the Picts, each bearing the title of "Brude" or "Bruide"; and they are stated to have ruled jointly over both Hibernia and [North] Alban.
		Another king "Bruidhi son of Maelchon was slain in battle at Coicin (Kincardine) in 752 A.D.," according to "The Annals of Tighernas," and in the same year "Taudar son of Bile" and king of Alclyde (or Dunbarton) died (S.C.P., 76).
	www.jrbooksonline.com /pob/pob_ch09.html (2349 words)

	The Picts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The territory of the Picts was the East Coast of modern Scotland, north of the Firth of Forth and
		Brude son of Maelchon was King of the Picts, and in 560 had defeated the Dalriadans in battle.
		The Picts and Scots were drawn together by their common faith and their dissatisfaction with Northumbrian rule, but things remained quiet until the death of Oswy in 670.
	www.cia-g.com /~jmurphy/picts/picts.html (2537 words)

	Picts Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The term Picts refers to a group of tribes that lived in northwestern Europe.
		It should also be noted that Roman and Medieval scholars tended to ascribe a Scythian origin to any barbarian people (including the Scots and Goths) in order to emphasise their barbarity and 'otherness'.
		Battaglia, F.; "The Matriliny of the Picts" in Mankind Quarterly #31 (1990), pp.
	www.variedtastes.com /encyclopedia/Picts (1901 words)

	Picts - Art History Online Reference and Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Caustantin put his son on the throne of Dalriada and was followed as King of Pictland by his brother, son and nephew until the Pictish defeat by Viking invaders in 839.
		The Picts spoke a language, Pictish, of which little is known (in particular whether, or by how much, it differed from other Brythonic languages).
		The comments on the tribes from the areas of the actual Picts from this section of The Gallic Wars are that they have “designs carved into their faces by iron”.
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Pict (861 words)

	Who Were the Picts - Introduction - Pictish Kings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This corresponds with research suggesting that sovereignty was vested in a female line and that the kings came to the throne by marrying the appropriate female.
		The kings married the representative of sovereignity, the queen, and could only be succeeded by their own brother or a sister’s son.
		This might be the explanation for the merging of the Scots and Picts under Kenneth Macalpin.
	www.pictarts.demon.co.uk /bin/guide/page01f.htm (276 words)

	A History of Scotland Presented by Scottish Radiance - The Mac Alpin Kings and Alba
		Kings consolidated their power but localities also developed a stronger sense of their own identity; kings of Scots emerged, but so did the mormaers (or 'great stewards') in a number of regions, and especially in Moray.
		These kings of Scots of the tenth and early eleventh centuries may often have had less power there than kings of Picts in the eighth or early ninth century.
		Medieval kings of Scots would lend unity to a people habitually described in royal charters as 'French, English and Scots'; in the case of the charter of King William to Robert de Brus, (granting the huge lands of Annandale in the south-west c.1174, the scribe thought it prudent to add 'and Galwegians'.
	www.scottishradiance.com /scothistory/scothistory9911.htm (495 words)

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		In 1328, on the death of the French king,
		Royal titles are also complicated because in some cases, names of kingdoms are used that did not officially come into existence until later, or came into existence earlier without immediate adoption of the royal title.
		Under the Act of Settlement, descendants of Sophia, Electress of Hanover, as the closest Protestant relatives of Anne, became entitled to the throne, and the Royal House name was changed when George, Elector of Hanover became King.
	en-cyclopedia.com /wiki/List_of_British_monarchs (908 words)

	Picts -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Although Picti is usually assumed to mean painted or tattooed (as in (Any dialect of the language of ancient Rome) Latin) it may have a Celtic origin.
		Caustantin put his son on the throne of Dalriada and his brother, son and nephew succeeded him as Kings of Pictland until (Any of the Scandinavian people who raided the coasts of Europe from the 8th to the 11th centuries) Viking invaders defeated the Picts in 839.
		It remains uncertain whether or not we should classify the Picts as (A member of a European people who occupied Britain and Spain and Gaul in pre-Roman times) Celts, although most available placename evidence tends to support the hypothesis that they spoke a Brythonic language.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/P/Pi/Picts.htm (1218 words)

	Pict Resource and References Page
		The earliest record we have of the word "Pict" describing a group of people in Britain comes from a poem by Eumenius dated A.D. 297, which mentions the "Picti" along with the "Hiberni" as enemies of the "Britanni".
		An early 4th century reference notes "the Caledones and other Picts" (although it is technically possible to interpret the Latin as "the Caledones, the Picts, and others"); Ammianus Marcellinus (4th century) describes the Picts as divided into two groups, the "Dicalydones" and "Verturiones".
		Perceptions of the Picts: from Eumenius to John Buchan.
	www.tylwythteg.com /pict1.html (1482 words)

	Picts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		King Nechtan, 'king of the Picts of North Britain', died in 732.
		Following his death, and until the turn of the century, there was considerable fighting between the incoming Scots of Dalriada, the invading Angles and the Pictish tribes.
		In 852 Kenneth MacAlpine, King of Scots, became King of the Picts.
	www.kincraig.com /picts.htm (242 words)

	Picts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		There are plenty of archaeological remains in the form of buildings and jewelry to indicate the society of the Picts but little in the way of writing.
		In the south wars with the Vikings continued until the reign of Constantine II of ScotlandConstantine mac Aeda, grandson of Kenneth I of ScotlandKenneth mac Alpin.
		Following his death the daughters were canonised and their burial place beneath a massive Oak at Abernethy become a place of pilgrimage for thousands of worshipers.
	www.infothis.com /find/Picts (866 words)

	Kings Of The Picts Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Looking For kings of the picts - Find kings of the picts and more at Lycos Search.
		This list of kings of the Picts is based on the Pictish Chronicle, which has survived in a late copy, and did not record the dates the kings reigned.
		Kenneth I of Scotland (Kenneth MacAlpin) became King of the Scots and Picts in 843.
	www.karr.net /encyclopedia/Kings_of_the_Picts (359 words)

	A History of Scotland Presented by Scottish Radiance - Kings, Holy Men and a 'National' Church
		The merging of different peoples under an overking of Picts in the eighth and ninth centuries was accompanied by the cultivation of different traditions of saints as well as the compilation of genealogies of kings by the learned orders.
		In the course of the eighth century, the Church of the Picts in turn adopted a cult of Peter, probably in the reign of Nechtan, and a cult of Andrew, perhaps in the next important reign, of Óengus (729-61).
		In the ninth century Gaelic-named kings of Picts still chose to be buried in the sacred place of Iona.
	www.scottishradiance.com /scothistory/scothistory9909.htm (835 words)

	PICTS
		Picts The inhabitants of Albin, north-east of Scotland.
		The name is usually said to be the Latin picti (painted [or tattooed] with woad), but in the Irish chronicles the Picts are called Pictones, Pictores, Piccardaig, etc. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
		"PICTS" is used about 89 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/english/PI/PICTS.html (663 words)

	Scotish Rulers, 850-1625
		Burke's says that because there was still some obscurity over the succession of kings of the Picts and Dalriadic Scots, he would begin with Kenneth, "a King of Scottish race." However, other books claim that his mother was a princess of the Picts, so he reigned over them in her right.
		EOCHA, son of Run, King of Strathclyde, whose mother was Constantine's sister; CIRIC or Grig, son of Dungail, being associated with him.
		JAMES VI, 1566-1625, son of Mary and Lord Darnley, became King of England on death of Elizabeth in 1603.
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