Gabhran MacDomangart

Gabhran Dal Riata aka Cenel Gabhran (Clan Gabhran)
Son of Domangart I (Erc, Fergus Mor, Domangart I)
Ruled 538-558, King of the Irish Scots in Scotland
Founder of the Gabhran dynasty.
Joining shared throne with brother Comgall, head of the Cenel Comgall clan.
Established strong kingdom in the Argyll and Kintyre area.
Wanted to expand westward into Pict territory, taking advantage of the fighting between the Picts and the British, and the invading Angles.
Established rapport with the northern British enclave Gododdin in Mearns around modern Brechin.
Gowrie, nearby area, is a corruption of Gabhran.
Married Luan, daughter of Brychan of Gododdin, grand daughter of Dumnagual Hen.
His expansion was stopped in 558 when Brude, son of Rhun Hir of Gwynedd was selected as leader of the Picts. He died the same year, unknown reasons.
He was succeeded by his nephew, Conall MacComgall.
Son Aedan MacGabhran

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Son of Gabhran (Erc, Fergus Mor, Domangart I, Gabhran)
Ruled Dal Riata 574 to April 17 608
First significant ruler of the Scots, one of the most powerful leaders in 6th century Britain.
The first Christian king selected and ordained by God.
Conall's son, Donnchad and Aedan's brother Eogana had right more to the throne
Probable that he regained Gowrie territory gained by his father and lost by Conall.
Served as a chief to the Gododdin Britons for a few years prior to 574, commanding lands around Aberfoyle, the region he eventually granted to St Berach for a monastery.
After Conall's death, the fighting for the throne was settled by Columba who preferred the passive Eogana but after a vision of being scourged by an angel, ordained Aedan.
This was believed to be the belief of divine right of kings, the downfall of Charles I.
573 - Probably present at the Battle of Arfderydd
575 - Aed MacAinmerech, Irish high king, called a meeting at Drumceat in Derry to determine the position of the Dal Riata people that still lived in the original homeland of Fergus in Ulster. It was decided while Aedan ruled them, could collect taxes, etc, they were all, including Aedan, still answerable to the Irish king. The King of Ulster, Baetan, was intentionally left out of this authority so that Aedan would answer directly to the Irish king and Aedan held considerable authority.
582 - Records show Aedan may have ejected Baetan from the Isle of Man.
584 - Brude died, his successor was Gartnait, Aedan's son by his marriage to a Pictish princess, giving Aedan authority over northern Picts, but not the southern Maetae Picts.
Columba selected Aedan's almost infant younger son, Eochaid as successor, believing older sons would be killed in battle.
590 - Aedan battled southern Picts, won the war but lost his sons Artuir and Eochaid Find, something predicted by Columba.
Aedan fought Rhydderch Hen in the British kingdom of Alclud and Mynyddog in Gododdin. Athelfrith of the Bernician Angles was seeking their land.
603 - Aedan with an army of Irish and Scots attacked Bernician Angles at Degsastan in Lothian. The Angles won and Aedan lost another son, Domangart.
Aedan may have abdicated and retired to a monastery in Kilkerran at this point, where he died.
He was succeeded by his son, Eochaid Buide
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Domangart I Dal Riata
Son of Fergus Mor (Erc, Fergus Mor)
Ruled Dal Riata 501-507
Married Fedium the Fair, Irish princess
Records indicate he entered the church, uncertain if he actually ruled as King. His father died shortly after arriving in Scotland, and while his brothers actively ruled, his line may not have until his sons, Comgall and Gabhran.
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Son of Bethoc, daughter of Malcolm II

King of Strathclyde 1018-1034

King of Scotland 25 Nov 1034 to 15 Aug 1040

Married to the daughter or sister of Siward, Earl of Northumberland?.

King from 1034 to 1040 when murdered by Macbeth who ruled until 1057.

His wife, Sybil, Sibel, is reported by Weis to be the daughter of Siward Aldred the Danish Earl of Northumberland, while Paget and the royal references report she is Aldred's sister.

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1038 Attacked by Eadulf of Bernicia in revenge for conquest of Durham by Malcolm. Eadulf driven back only with the help from brother Maldred.
1040 Duncan marched on Durham while his nephew Moddan went north to Caithness, both outnumbered, Duncan turned to confront Thorfinn, Earl of Orkney. Moddan was killed at Thurso, Duncan retreated into Moray (duh!) where Macbeth allied himself with Thornfinn and slaughtered Duncan's army at Pitgaveny, Duncan was kiled in battle and his death was not mourned.
His infant son, Malcolm III was not considered old enough to rule and it took the Scottish counsel but a short time to proclaim Macbeth king, who ruled well and wisely for fourteen years, the last truly Gaelic Scottish king.
Succeeded by Lulach Fatuus "The Fool", son of Gillecomgain, then Malcolm II Canmore
Sources:
Mike Ashley's "British Kings & Queens"

~~~~~Donnchad mac Crínáin (Anglicised Duncan) (died 15 August 1040) was king of Alba. He was son of Crínán, hereditary lay abbot of Dunkeld, and Bethoc, daughter of king Máel Coluim mac Cináeda.

Unlike the "King Duncan" of Shakespeare's Macbeth, the historical Donnchad appears to have been a young man. He followed his grandfather Máel Coluim as king after the latter's death on 25 November 1034, without apparent opposition. He may have been Máel Coluim's acknowledged successor or tánaise as the succession appears to have been uneventful.[1] Earlier histories, following John of Fordun, supposed that Donnchad had been king of Strathclyde in his grandfather's lifetime, ruling the former Kingdom of Strathclyde as an appanage. Modern historians discount this idea.[2]

Another claim by Fordun, that Donnchad married a sister of Earl Siward of Northumbria, appears to be equally unreliable. An earlier source, a variant of the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba (CK-I), gives Donnchad's wife the Gaelic name Suthen.[3] Whatever his wife's name may have been, Donnchad had at least two sons. The eldest, Máel Coluim mac Donnchada was king from 1057 to 1093, the second Domnall Bán was king afterwards. Máel Muire of Atholl is a possible third son of Donnchad, although this is uncertain.[4]

The early period of Donnchad's reign was apparently uneventful, perhaps a consequence of his youth. Mac Bethad mac Findláich is recorded as his dux, literally duke, but in the context — "dukes of Francia" had lately replaced Carolingian kings of the Franks and the over-mighty Godwin of Wessex was called a dux — this suggests that Mac Bethad was the power behind the throne.[5]

In 1039, Donnchad led a large Scots army south to besiege Durham, but the expedition ended in disaster. Donnchad survived, but the following year he led an army north into Moray, traditionally seen as Mac Bethad's domain. There he was killed, at Pitgaveny near Elgin, by his own men led by Mac Bethad, probably on 15 August, 1040.[6]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnchad_I_of_Scotland

aka Ciniod son of Alpin
Lineage questionable, more likely Prince of Gabhran clan
King of the Scots 840-858
King of Alba, Scotland and the Picts 841-859
Established Albin, first united kingdom in Scotland and the first Scottish union.
847 Kenneth had united old kingdoms into single entity calling it Alba, establishing capital at Forteviot, the Pict center, and a spiritual center at Dunkeld with Columba's relics from Iona.
836 Gothfrith MacFergus, a Gaelo Norse half-breed, king of Oriel in northern Ireland visited Kenneth in Argyll to discuss Viking attacks on western Scotland. (Irish annals)
First years full of killing in order to secure his throne? Traditional tale of his invitation to Pictish royality ruled by Drust MacFerrat to a feast where they got so drunk they easily were killed and cast into hidden trenches.
Perhaps the isolation of Scotland from Ireland due to raids caused Scots to unite readily under Kenneth's rule.
Warred with Angles to the south and British of Strathclyde but maintained some assemblance of peace with the Vikings.
Married his daughters into strategic marriages, one to Olaf King of Dublin, one to Aed Findlaith High King of Ireland, one to Rhun Prince of Strathclyde.
Died of illness in his late fourties.
Son Constantine I
Succeeded by his brother Donald I

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Huntingdon Chronicle

Son of Kenneth II MacAlpin
Subking of Cambria and Strathclyde 990-995, 997-1005
King of Scotland 1005-10034

990 Proclaimed king of Cumbria and Strathclyde by his father in attempt to keep kingship within patrilinear lines, Malcolm MacDonald was still King of Strathclyde, thus dividing the kingdom.
995 Kenneth MacAlpin died, Malcolm was desposed from Strathclyde by rival faction of Constantine III.
997 Malcolm regained Starthclyde at Constantine's death
1005 Killed Giric II and Kenneth III (who took the crown by killing Constantine III) at battle of Monzievaird, which led to the killing of this grandson, Duncan, by Macbeth thirty years later.
1008 Married a daughter to Sigurd II, Norse Earl of Orkney, rec'd help against Morays.
1014 Sigurd killed in battle of Clontarf in Ireland, Malcolm proclaimed five year old grandson Earl of Caithness, temporairily stifling the Moray problem.
1018 Took Bernicia, declared grandson Duncan King of Strathclyde
1031 Canute "invaded" Scotland, thought to be a royal visit perhaps, as Canute had capability of taking Scotland and did not.
1032 Attempting to secure the crown for Duncan, Malcolm tried to slaughter the family of Kenneth III's grand daughter Gruoch by burning their fortress at Atholl. Her husband, Gillecomgain was killed, but she and her son, Lulach escaped. Malcolm then arranged the murder of Kenneth III's great grandson, Malcolm, still an infant.
1034 Malcolm II died, the last remaining male heir of Kenneth MacAlpin.
Succeeded by Duncan I, the son of Malcolm II's daughter, Bethoc
Sources: Mike Ashley's "British Kings & Queens"

Máel Coluim mac Cináeda (anglicised Malcolm II) (c. 980 – 25 November 1034) was King of Scots from 1005 until his death.[1] He was a son of Cináed mac Maíl Coluim; the Prophecy of Berchán says that his mother was a woman of Leinster and refers to him as forranach (the Destroyer or Avenger).[2]

To the Irish annals which recorded his death, Máel Coluim was ard rí Alban, High King of Scotland. In the same way that Brian Bóruma, High King of Ireland, was very far from being the only king in Ireland, Máel Coluim was one of several kings within the geographical boundaries of modern Scotland. His fellow kings included the king of Strathclyde, who ruled much of the south-west, various Norse-Gael kings of the western coasts and the Hebrides and, nearest and most dangerous rivals, the Kings or Mormaers of Moray. To the south, in the kingdom of England, the Earls of Bernicia and Northumbria, whose predecessors as kings of Northumbria had once ruled most of southern Scotland, still controlled large parts of the south-east.[3]

More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1el_Coluim_II_of_Scotland

Established an Irish kingdom of Dalriada in Argyle, Scotland

Ancestry differs here. LDS church reports his father was Muredach, the son of Foghat Owen, the son of Nail of the Nine Hostages, with several more generations of men only.

Weis reports that Fergis is the son of Ercc King of Dalriada, who is the son of Eochaid Muinremur King of Dalriada.

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Mike Ashley's British Kings & Queens:

Son of Erc
Ruled Dal Riata circa 498-501
Fergus = "man of power"
Founder of the Dal Riatan dynasty of Argyll and Kintyre.
Fergus and his brothers Angus and Loarn, all sons of Erc, came from the Dal Riata homeland of Fergus in Ulster, northern Ireland to the western headlands of Scotland and the territories of the native Picts, Irish Gaelic settlers, around 498.
Fergus took Argyll and Kintyre, Loarn took northern area around Loch Linnhe and Glencoe, Angus took island of Islay.
Fergus supposedly brought with him the Stone of Destiny, the stone on which all high kings had been ordained at Tara for centuries.
Annals record his father's death in 474.
St Patrick (died 461) visited Erc's courts and prophesied that Fergus would be the father of a nation.
Son Domangart I

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From http://www.mathematical.com/earcafergus480.ht
Sources:
"Biographical Encyclopedia of the Kings & Queens of Great Britain" by Mike Ashley
Before Mogallus the list is of the Ancient Kings of Scotland via Boece in 1527. No other substantion exists.
Also via ancestry.com (Malcolm MacHeth #11)

In 498 A.D., with five of his brothers, he went into Scotland with a complete army to assist his grandfather *Eóghanr (Loarn or Owen) Find macNéill King of Dalraide, in overcoming his enemies, the Picts. Upon the King's death, Fergus was unanimously elected king, and became the first absolute king of Scotland, of the Milesian race.

This sounds like a Victorian romance however and it is more likely according to "Biographical Encyclopedia of the Kings & Queens of Great Britain" by Mike Ashley that his father was Earc of Dalriada. His name (MacEarc) indicates this as well.

Line #1:
Earc MacEochaid King of Dalriada
Eochaid Munrever (Mun-reanhar) King of Dalriada
Angus (Angusiane) "Feartas" (the Fortunate) King of Dalriada b 336
Fedelmid Aislingich King of Ancient Scotland
Angus Buiding King of Ancient Scotland
Fedelmid Ruamach King of Ancient Scotland
Finchormac (Senchormaich) King of Ancient Scotland
Cruinluithe (Craithelint) King of Ancient Scotland
Finn Fiacc MacAchir O'Conaire King of Ancient Scotland
Achir Cirre (Athirco) King of Ancient Scotland
Ethodius II King of Ancient Scotland c 100 OR Eochaid MacCorbred see below
Fiachra Cathmail MacEochaid O'Conaire
Ethodius I Riata King of Ancient Scotland
Conaire King of Ireland CXI
Mug Lama (Mogallus) King of Ancient Scotland
Lugtak King of Ancient Scotland circa 0004 BC.

Eochaid MacCorbred circa 100
Corbred O'Conaire
Conaire King of Ireland CXI
Mug Lama (Mogallus) King of Ancient Scotland
Lugtak King of Ancient Scotland circa 0004 BC.

Line #2:
Earc MacEochaid King of Dalriada
Eochaid Munrever (Mun-reanhar) King of Dalriada
Angus (Angusiane) "Feartas" (the Fortunate) King of Dalriada b 336
Fergus "Uallach" Chief of Dalriada
Eochaid "Fortamal" Chief of Dalraida
Angus (Angusiane) "Feartas" (the Fortunate) King of Dalriada
See line #1

http://www.ancientmanuscripts.com/frameset.htm / research pages list:
Fergus Mor Mac as the son of Earca, the son of Murireadhach, the son of Eogan, the son of Nail of the Nine Hostages, all the way back to King David and Adam.

Son of Domnall Brecc (Erc, Fergus Mor, Domangart I, Gabhran, Aedan, Eochaid Buide, Domnall Brecc)
Ruled Dal Riata 660-673
First sole leader of the Scots after the kingdom divided at his father's disastrous defeat at Mag Rath.
Made advances to the Picts at Western Isles and the highlands, particularly Skye.
673 - Irish missionary Maelrubai established a monastery at Applecross, Pictish territory.
Succeeded by his cousin, Maelduin, son of Conall Crandomna.
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Questionable, presumed to be a sub king of Galloway, part of Strathclyde kingdom
His existence may be invention to grant Kenneth Mac Alpin a pedigree.
Supposedly killed fighting the Picts.
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King of the Picts and Scots 863-877
Son of Kenneth MacAlpin, successor to Donald I
Warred against Vikings settled in Ireland
866 Major Viking raid under King Olaf reached Forteviot, taking of hostages and massive plunder, Olaf may have demanded homage from Constantine and stayed in Pictland.
870 Constantine may have been allied wiht Olaf as Olaf married Constantine's sister. Constantine, Olaf and Ivarr the Boneless attacked Strathclyde.
872 Constantine betrayed exiled Strathclyde king Artgal who was killed and defeated by Vikings.
875 Constantine defeated by a Viking army led by Ivarr's brother, Halfdan Ivarsson.
877 Ivarr killed Constantine at battle of Crail as they returned from York to Dublin.
Constantine was buried on Iona.
Son Donald II
Succeeded by his brother Aed, then Giric I, Eochaid Rhun and Donald II
Sources: Mike Ashley's "British Kings & Queens"

Son of Constantine I.
Ruled Scotland 889-900

Usurped power by desposing of his cousins, Girlic and Eochaid. His kingdom extended from the north at Britain to Bernicia and Strathclyde, fairly well enough modern day Scotland.
First ruler to be termed "Ri Alban" or King of Scotland
Lost some territory to the Norse living in the Western Isles.
Earldom of Orkney created at this time
Donald died in battle at Forres and was buried on Iona.
Son Malcolm I
Succeeded by his cousin, Constantine II
Sources: Mike Ashley's "British Kings & Queens"

Son of Donald II
Ruled Scotland 943-954

Inherited the throne after the abdication of Constantine II
943 Norse king of York, Olaf Sitricson had been driven out of York by English Edmund of Wessex, Olaf sought refuge with Malcolm
945 Edmund persued Olaf by invading Cumbria and Strathclyde, driving out Olaf and desposing the sons of Donald, gave Cumbria to Malcolm on the condition of his support against the Vikings.
948 Malcolm led army into York against new ruler Eric Bloodaxe and York returned to Olaf.
Malcolm's reign experienced trouble with Erik Bloodaxe's family who re-established themselves in Orkney, and the Loarn clan family now the Earls of Moray.
954 Malcolm slain at the battle of Fetteresso near Dunnottar against the Moray men, buried on Iona.
Son Kenneth II
Succeeded by his second cousin, Indulf, then Duff, Cuilean ring and Kenneth II.
Sources: Mike Ashley's "British Kings & Queens"

Son of Malcolm I
Ruled Scotland 971-975
Other contestants for the throne England did not recognize.
973 Kenneth attended the convention in Chester and swore loyalty to Edgar, King of England who confirmed Kenneth and granted him the rights to Lothian (captured by Indulf King of Scotland 954-962 twenty years ago).greatly defining the state of Scotland.
Kenneth fought to retain c kingship.
Son Malcolm II MacKenneth
Succeeded by Olaf, son of Indulf, then Constantine III, son of Cuilean, Kenneth III son of Duff, Girlic II and Malcolm III.
Sources: Mike Ashley's "British Kings & Queens"

Son of Eochaid Buide (Erc, Fergus Mor, Domangart I, Gabhran, Aedan, Eochaid Buide)
Ruled Dal Riata 629-642

His reign saw the loss of what was gained by Aedan.
Heavily involved fighting in Ireland alongside the Irish high king, also called Domnall
629 - Alliance with Ulster, open conflict between southern Dal Riata and the O'Neills
637 - Domnall's total defeat in Battle of Mag Rath, lost his authority in Ireland and much of Scotland as predicted by Columba fourty years before if they did not remain allied with the kings of O'Neill. Domnall was forced to rule jointly with nephew Ferchar, son of Connadd Cerr (through Comgall.)
642 - Domnall killed in battle at Strathcarron near Falkirk by Owen Bili of the Strathclyde Britons.
Succeeded by Ferchar I, son of Connadd Cerr, (Erc, Fergus, Comgall, Conall, Connadd Cerr)
Son Domangart II
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Bethóc ingen Maíl Coluim meic Cináeda was the eldest daughter of King Máel Coluim mac Cináeda, King of Scots, who had no known sons.

The strongest hereditary claim of succession to the Scottish throne therefore passed through Bethóc. Approximately 1000, Princess Bethóc married Crínán, Abbot of Dunkeld. The first son of this marriage was Donnchad I, who ascended to the throne of Scotland in 1034. Early writers have asserted that Máel Coluim also designated Donnchad as his successor under the rules of tanistry because there were other possible claimants to the throne.

It is possible that Bethóc had previously been married to Jarl Sigurd the Stout of Orkney, and to Findláech, the Mormaer of Moireabh.

She is not to be confused with Bethóc ingen Domnaill Bain meic Donnchada.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beth%C3%B3c