Kenneth MacAlpin

Kenneth MacAlpin I. ( Cinead mac Alpin ( Old Gaelic ), Coinneach MacAilpein (new ) * 810, † 859 ) was the first Scottish king. He followed his father Alpin 841 II as king of Dalriada. In the year 843 he was crowned on the Stone of Scone joint king of the Picts and Scots. The newly created kingdom was known by the Gaelic name Alba. Kenneth founded the house of skiing.

In the 9th century existed in the far north of the British Isles four independent kingdoms in the north- east settled in a very large area of ​​the Picts, the oldest tribe in this region. In the southeast of the kingdom of Bernicia was the relatively late migrant fishing. In the southwest there was the kingdom of Strathclyde, whose population mainly consisted of Romanised Britons. In the northwest finally lived the immigrant from Ireland Scots in the kingdom of Dalriada. These four kingdoms experienced another phase of peace, but also frequent armed conflicts. Together these was the Christian faith, a late heir to the Roman occupying power, which was spread extensively by the early Christianized Irish.

Kenneth I., whose newly painted Empire in the relatively reliable Irish historiography was referred to the 10th century as " Piktenreich ", moved the capital from the skotischen Dunadd to Dalriada into Pictish Scone, which was also previously ruler 's seat, and sat there crown. It is also known that he had to spend the relics of the saint St. Columban from the island of Iona to Dunkeld.

The kingdom of Alba, founded by the Scots Kenneth from the clan of MacAlpins was the nucleus of the later of Scotland, and he himself became the progenitor of the royal family MacAlpin, which ended only in 1058 with King Lulach. Kenneth was buried on the island of Iona. His brother Donald I. succeeded him to the throne, according to the old Tanistry custom.

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