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The car ferry making the five minute journey between Kyleakin and Kyle of Lochalsh was finally made redundant in 1995 with the opening of the Skye Bridge. The reasons for and against a large, modern construction in an area of stunning natural beauty, little changed since King Haakon anchored his ...
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Like many of the early Christian Saints, Æbbe was from royal blood. Æbbe was the daughter of King Æthelfrith the Ravager of Bernicia and his third wife Acha of Deira. She was also related to St. Oswald and St. Edwin, King of Northumbria. Æthelfrith had become the first king of Northumbria when he...
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Cináed mac Duib (Kenneth III) was King of Scots from 997 to 1005. He was the son of Dub mac Maíl Coluim. The only event reported in Cináed's reign is the killing of Dúngal mac Cináeda by Gille Coemgáin mac Cináeda, by the Annals of the Four Masters s.a. 999. It is not certain that this refers to ...
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Causantín mac Cuilén was king of Scots from 995 to 997. He was the son of Cuilén mac Iduilb. Causantín became king upon the death of Cináed mac Maíl Coluim, supposedly killed by Finnguala, daughter of Cuncar, Mormaer of Angus, a killing with which Causantín is associated in several accounts. John...
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Dub mac Maíl Coluim was king of Alba. In older histories his name may be found anglicised as Duff; the modern Gaelic version is Dubh, which has the sense of dark or black. It may be that Dub was an epithet, as the Duan Albanach refers to him as Dubhoda dén, Dubod the vehement or impetuous. He was ...
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Idulb mac Causantín was king of Scots from 954. He was the son of Causantín mac Áeda. Idulb is an Old Irish name derived from either the Old Norse name Hildulfr or the Old English name Eadwulf. Idulb was later rendered Indulf under Old French influence. John of Fordun and others supposed that Id...
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Domnall mac Ailpín (died 862) was king of the Picts from 858 to 862. He followed his brother Cináed to the throne. The Chronicle of the Kings of Alba says that Domnall reigned for four years, matching the notices in the Annals of Ulster of his brother's death in February 858 and his own in April ...
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Margaret, usually known as the Maid of Norway, sometimes known as Margaret of Scotland, was a Norwegian–Scottish princess who is widely considered to have been Queen of Scots from 1286 until her death, although this is disputed. Her death sparked off the disputed succession which led to the Wars o...
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Alexander II was the son of William the Lion and Ermengarde of Beaumont. He was born at Haddington, East Lothian, in 1198, and succeeded to the kingdom on the death of his father on 4 December 1214. The year after his accession Alexander joined the English barons in their struggle against John I ...
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Edgar of Scotland or Étgar mac Maíl Choluim was the son of Máel Coluim mac Donnchada and Queen Margaret (later Saint Margaret). Edgar claimed the kingship in early 1095, following the murder of his half-brother Donnchad mac Maíl Choluim in late 1094 by Máel Petair of Mearns. His older brother Edm...
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Domnall mac Donnchada or Domnall Bán (Donald III) was the second known son of Donnchad mac Crínáin. Domnall's activities during the reign of his elder brother Máel Coluim are not recorded. It appears that he was not his brother's chosen heir, contrary to earlier custom, but that Máel Coluim had d...
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Donnchad mac Maíl Coluim (Duncan II) was son of Máel Coluim mac Donnchada and his first wife Ingibiorg Finnsdottir, widow of Thorfinn Sigurdsson. Donnchad was given into the keeping of William the Conqueror in 1072 as a hostage, and spent many years at court, where he was exposed to the newly arr...
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