[mairead]

Constantine 1st... ..862-878
Possibly another son of Kenneth 1st. Constantine faced a number of viking invasions and was killed in battle against the Danes.

Aedh....878-879.
Brother of Constantine 1st, he was killed by Giric, a son of Donald 1st.

Eochaid.... 879-880
Grandson of Kenneth 1st (whose daughter had married Run, King of Strathclyde and gave birth to Eochaid), thus extending further, the Kindom of Alba. Eochaid was deposed shortly before his death.

Donald 2nd.... 889-900
Donald was the first Monarch to be called 'Righ Albain' or King of Scotland. He was a son of Constantine 1st and was killed by men from the Mearns near Dunottar and buried on Iona.

Constantine 11nd.....900-942
He was the son of Aedh but after an unsuccessful invasion of Northumbria he had to submit to the Saxon King, Edward the Elder. He was also defeated in a later battle by Athelstan, Edward's son, at Brunanburgh. He later renounced the throne in favour of his cousin Malcolm 1st to become a monk at St. Andrews. He died in 952.

Malcolm 1st....942-954
The son of Donald 11nd, he was killed in battle with the men of Moray and is buried on Iona.

Indulph....954-962
A son of Constantine 2nd. He defeated the Danish King, Eric the Bloody at the Battle of the Bauds on the Muir of Findochy in Banffshire in 961.
Like his father he abdicated and entered monastic life.

Dubh/Duff ....962-966
The son of Malcolm 1st and father of Kenneth 3rd, he died in battle

Culen/Cuilean/Colin....966-971
Another great great grandson of Kenneth 1st and a son of Indulf, he was killed by a treacherous booby trap at Fettercairn which had been set by the Thane of Angus.

Kenneth 11.....971-995
He was the son of Malcolm1st and GG Grandson of Kenneth 1st

Constantine 3rd. ...966-971
Son of King Culen and grandson of Constantine 2nd. He mat have succeed to the throne by killing Kenneth 2nd and may in turn have been murdered by Kenneth 3rd.

Kenneth 3rd.....007-1005
Son of King Dubh, he was nicknamed 'Donn' meaning brown haired. He defeated in battle and killed at Monzievaird by his cousin Malcolm 11. None of his sone became King.

Malcolm 2nd.... 1005-1034
The son of Kenneth 2nd, but due to a disputed succession, he did not come to the throne until ten years after his father' death, having killed his cousin Kennethh3rd. The last of the House of Appin, he had no sons to succeed him so he arranged good marriages for his daugters. His Daughter Bethoc mrried the Abbot of Dunkeld and their son became Duncan1st.
Another daughter married Earl Sigurd of Orkney and their son, Thorfinn brought the lands of Caithness and Sutherland under the control of the King of alba.
Malcolm made an alliance with King Owen, the bald of Strathclyde and together they defeated King Canute at the battle of Carham in 1018.
Malcolm claimed Strathclyde for his grandson, Duncan. His enemies were not pleased with this and murdered him at Glamis in 1034.



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