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Some pedigree charts list Constantine III as the father of Malcolm I and a son of Donald II. He was a King of Scotland after Donald II and before Malcolm I. In this record, Constantine III is included as an older brother of Malcolm I and a son of Donald II.
Chart - The Royal Line, by New York Stake Genealogical Board, 1936.

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!Burke's Peerage 99th Ed (#942 D22bup prefix pp. 285-6); Dict of Nat'l Biog (#920.042 D561n Vol. 15 p. 208); A Vindication of MacBeth (#929.2706 M288c p. 14); Also searched without positive results: Encyclopedia Britannica, Scots Peerage, The Complete Peerage, Royal Daugthers of Engl, and Queens of Scotland and English Princes.

!Colonial and Revolutionary Lineages of America (973 D2ah) Vol. 2 died while attempting to reduce highland robber tribes. He is described as Donald VI of Scotland in the "Dictionary of National Biography", but this includes early Kings of Dalriada, who ruled there prior to the union of the Picts and Scots under Kenneth I. Dunbar, in his "Scotch Kings", seems more logical in describing him as Donald II, the first Donald being a brother of Kenneth I. The reign of Donald, lasting from 889 to 900, was a perid in which the Danes began to attempt settlements instead of ravaging the coasts. Chronicles and annals which treat early Scottish history give little regarding his reign.

Domnall — Queen/Scotland Unknown. Unknown was born Abt 866, , , Scotland, Great Britain. [Group Sheet]

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!Colonial and Revolutionary Lineages of America (973 D2ah) Vol. 2 King of Scotland or Alba. He began his reign in 863, succeeding his uncle Donald, brother of Kenneth I. The kingdom included the region north of the Fourth and Clyde, which was the country that suffered from attacks by the Norsemen. Olaf the White, Norse King of Dublin, occupied what had been the country of the Picts in 865 and his son Thorstein attacked the northern districts. Further south, Halfdane ravaged the country and still other leaders took their place when they were defeated. Constantine was slain while fighting them in the parish of Forgan in Fife.
Royal Daughters of Eng; Queens of Scotland and English Princes.

Ancestry and Progeny of Captain James Blount - Inmigrant. by Robert Ffafman p. E- 21.

The Descent from Adam, of the Royal Family of England. by O'Keeffe.

Constantín — Unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Title of Nobility: King of the Picts and the Scots MacAlpin
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• Title of Nobility: 842, Iona, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, United Kingdom; King of Scotland
• Death: 6 Feb 860, Fortevoit, Perth, Scotland, Great Britain

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son of Alpin king of Dal Riata

Kenneth I the Hardy (The Conqueror) (c. 810 - 858; Kenneth mac Alpin) succeeded his father, Alpin II, to the throne of Dalriada. He soon obtained the Pictish throne in 843 and became the first king to rule the Picts of Pictavia and the Scots of Dalriada. It is possible that intermarriage with the Picts helped secure Kenneth's throne. The joint kingdom was known as Alba from the Gaelic name for the area. He was the first king of the House of Alpin.
Recalling the peculiarity of a matrilineal succession which governed Pictish crowns, it is evident that Kenneth Mac Alpin grounded his claims to the Pictish crown from his mother's bloodlines. In 839, the Picts suffered a disastrous defeat at the hands of the Vikings. The Norsemen had conquered and settled Shetland, the Outer Hebrides and as far south as the mouth of the Clyde. Caithness, Sutherland and even Dalriada were being attacked and harassed by the long boats. The brutalizing defeat at the hands of the Vikings in 839 killed most of the Pictish nobility, including the King of Picts and Scots Uven Mac Angus II, his brother Bran, and "numberless others". This opened Mac Alpin's claim to the vacant Pictish throne (via his mother who was a Pictish princess). The Pictish kingdoms had been severely weakened by attacks from the Vikings and were in no condition to dispute his claim.
His claim to the crown of Dalriada came from his father, who was a member of clan Gabhran, which had produced most Scottish kings, such as his ancestors King Eachaidh, King Alpin Mac Eachaidh, King Aed, and King Fergus. 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.
The sources for facts of how Kenneth Mac Alpin, the avenging son of the slain Alpin, became King of Picts and Scots are few and suspect. Two such sources, The Prophecy of St. Berchan, and De Instructione Principus note that in 841 Mac Alpin attacked the remnants of the Pictish army and defeated them (he is lauded as "the raven feeder"). 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. Faced with a recently victorious MacAlpin in the south and a devastated army in the north, Drust, as well as all claimants to the Pictish throne from the seven royal houses attend this meeting at Scone. Legend has it that the Scots came secretly armed to Scone, where Drust and the Pictish nobles were killed. This event has come to be known as MacAlpin's Treason.
Although their king and royal houses had been murdered and their armies wiped out in the north by the Vikings and decimated in the south by the Scots, the Picts nonetheless resist Scottish domination and as late as the 12th year of MacAlpin's reign The Chronicle of Huntington tells us that Mac Alpin "fought successfully against the Picts seven times in one day" (perhaps wiping out the last remnants of an independent Pictish armed force).
By the year 843, he had created a semblance of unity among the warring societies of the Picts, Scots, Britons, and Angles after he had defeated the Picts in battle. MacAlpin created his capital at Forteviot, also called Scone, in Pictish territory. He then moved his religious center to Dunkeld on the River Tay in present-day Perthshire, to where he transferred the remains of St. Columba from the Isle of Iona.
At roughly the same time that the people of Wales were separated from the invading Saxons by the artificial boundary of Offa's Dyke, MacAlpin was creating a kingdom of Scotland. MacAlpin's successes in part were due to the threat coming from the raids of the Vikings, many of whom became settlers. The seizure of control over all Norway in 872 by Harald Fairhair caused many of the previously independent Jarls to look for new lands to establish themselves.
One result of the coming of the Norsemen and Danes, with their command of the sea, was that the kingdom of Scotland became surrounded and isolated. The old link with Ireland was broken, the country was now cut off from southern England and the Continent, thus, the kingdom of Alba established by MacAlpin was thrown in upon itself and united against a common foe. According to the Huntingdon Chronicle, he "was the first of the Scots to obtain the monarchy of the whole of Albania, which is now called Scotia."
Kenneth is thought to have died of a tumor after reigning for sixteen years. He died at Forteviot in 858 and was buried on the Isle of Iona. His brother, Donald I, succeeded him, as was the custom.
Throughout this whole period, the dominion of the Scottish kings was essentially limited to Fortrenn, the Mearns and Dalriada, as the rest of the Pictish lands were under the yoke of the Vikings. Nonetheless, within a few generations, the Pictish language is forgotten, the Pictish Church taken over by the Scottish Columban Church and most vestiges of Pictish culture assimilated.
Furthermore, the seat of Kings is eventually moved to Scone, sacred heart of the Pictish land, and the sons of Mac Alpin accept the crown over the land of Picts and Scots seated on a slab of stone which Scottish myth tells us was carried by the Celtic tribes since their origins in Spain, brought to Tara in Ireland, built into the wall of Dunstaffnage Castle and then brought to Scone.

Correct name was Cennth, but aw kown as" Kinneth MacAlpin"or "Kenneth MacAlpine".

!Colonial and Revolutionary Lineages of America (973 D2ah) Vol. 2 Traditionally, the founder and first King of Scotland. About 834 he succeeded his father at first in Galloway as king of the Gaelic Scots and seven years later in a series of battles (841-846) he defeated the Pictish Kingdom. This led to a united kingdom of the Scots and Picts, known as Alban or Scotland since the kingdom is sometimes called Scone, after Kenneth's capital.
His rule over the united kingdom lasted sixteen years, being succeeded by that of his brother Donald, who reigned for three years. Kenneth I moved to the chief seat of the kingdom from Argyll and Dalriada to Scone, while the chief ecclesiastical center was a Dunkeld, where he built a church to which he removed the relics of St. Columba. From these centers the Scottish monarchy gradually expanded. In later years, the king led six invasions of Lothian, southern Scotland, and then part of Saxon Northumbria.

SURNAME: Also shown as MacAlpin

GIVEN NAMES: Also shown as Kenneth I

BIRTH: Also shown as Born , , Scotland, Great Britain.

Cináed married Queen/Scotland Unknown Abt 833, of, , Scotland. Unknown was born Abt 814, , , Scotland, Great Britain. [Group Sheet]

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