Lulach of Scotland “The Fool” MacRory 1st King of Scotland Prince of Moray

• Preferred Name: Lulach of Scotland “The Fool” MacRory 1st King of Scotland Prince of Moray^{[1] [2] [3]}
  
• Alternate Name: Lulach 'Tairbith' "The Simple" Mac Gille Coemgáin, King of Alba
  
• Alternate Name: Lulach "The Simple" Mac Gille Coemgáin, King of Alba
  
• Gender: M
  
• Burial: in Iona, Argyll and Bute, Scotland at LATI: N6.338 LONG: E6.4038
  
• On the death of Macbeth, his followers placed Lulach on the throne, despite strong resistance from t: 1057
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: King of AlbaBET 15 AUG 1057 AND 17 MAR 1058 in Abbey, Renfrewshire, Scotland at LATI: N5.838 LONG: E4.404
  
• Alternate+Coronation+Date: 8 SEP 1057 in Scone, at LATI: N6.4256 LONG: E3.4291
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: King Of Scotland
  
• Birth: BEF 1033 in Morayshire, Scotland at LATI: N7.4167 LONG: E3.25 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• FSID: 9SZ7-ST1
  
• Death: 17 MAR 1058 in Killed In Battle At Strathbogie, Scotland at LATI: N7.4548 LONG: E2.7688 with note: Standard
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Lulach's coronation is the first of a King of Scotland for which recorded details survive.
  
• Nickname:
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Lulach 'the Fool', King of Alba was born circa 1030. He was the son of Gille Coemgain Macrory, Earl of Moray and Gruoch mi Boedhe. He married Finnghuala (?), daughter of Sinill, Mormaer of Angus.1 He died on 17 March 1058 at Essie, Strathbogie, ScotlandG, a blow by King Malcolm III of Scotland.1 He was buried at Isle of Iona, Argyllshire, ScotlandG.1
  He was also known as Lulach mac Gille Coemgain.2 He was crowned King of Scotland on 15 August 1057 at Scone Abbey, Scone, Perthshire, ScotlandG. He succeeded as the King Lulach of Alba on 15 August 1057.1
  Children of Lulach 'the Fool', King of Alba and Finnghuala (?)
  Malsnechtai mac Lulach, Mormaer of Moray1 d. 1085
  unknown daughter mi Lulach+1
  Citations
  [S11] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 183. Hereinafter cited as Britain's Royal Families.
  [S130] Wikipedia, online http;//www.wikipedia.org. Hereinafter cited as Wikipedia.
  
  === Killed by Malcolm III ===
  Killed by Malcolm III
  
  === Note ===
  stepson of king macbeth
  
  === Killed by Malcolm III. ===
  Killed by Malcolm III.
  
  === King: Aug. 15, 1057-1058. He was killed ===
  King: Aug. 15, 1057-1058. He was killed by Malcolm III.
  
  === Lulach's short reign (1057-58) was almos ===
  Lulach's short reign (1057-58) was almost entirely filled with conflict against Malcolm Canmore. The nickname the fool was probably established by chroniclers who believed he acted unwisely in his campaign against Malcolm, making foolish decisions that lost him his life, and lost Scotland its Gaelic inheritance.
  
  === The Fool, King of Scotland. Killed by M ===
  The Fool, King of Scotland. Killed by Malcolm_III.
  
  === FHL - "The Book of McKee," pg 271 - pedi ===
  FHL - "The Book of McKee," pg 271 - pedigree from William Skene, D.C.L., LL.D., Historiographer-Royal of Scotland, in "Celtic Scotland," Edinburgh 1890; he was King of Scotland for only 7 months and was killed; The Kings of Scotland, from O'Flaherty's Ogygia, written in 1684, reprinted in The Book of McKee, pg 409, show Lulach as son of (Lady) Macbeth; The Skene Pedigree gives Lulach as the son of Gillacomgan, Mormaer of Moray Blackcastle Manuscript 1832 quoting Vide Collectanea de Robus Albanicis in Iona Club Transactions, V 1, p 341
  
  === Cause of Death: Battle wounds. ===
  Cause of Death: Battle wounds.
  
  === Mother was Gruoch, wife of King Macbeth ===
  Mother was Gruoch, wife of King Macbeth of Scotland. See her notes.
  
  === Killed by Malcolm Canmore. ===
  Killed by Malcolm Canmore.
  
  === Still Living. ===
  Still Living.
  
  === ?? Line 3217: (New PAF RIN=2401) 1 NAME ===
  ?? Line 3217: (New PAF RIN=2401) 1 NAME Lulach "The Simple" King Of /SCOTLAND/
  
  === Lulach or Lulaigh, son of Gruoch by her ===
  Lulach or Lulaigh, son of Gruoch by her first husband. The annalists style him Lulach the Simple or the Fatuous. His career, however, was very brief, as he was slain 'by stratagem,' it is said, at Essie in Strathbogie, on 17 March 1057-58, and his rival, Molcom, became King of the Scots. [The Scots Peerage VI:283-284}
  
  === King of Scotland. ===
  King of Scotland.
  
  === !FHL - "The Book of McKee," pg 271 - ped ===
  !FHL - "The Book of McKee," pg 271 - pedigree from William Skene, D.C.L., LL.D., Historiographer-Royal of Scotland, in "Celtic Scotland," Edinburgh 1890; he was King of Scotland for only 7 months and was killed; The Kings of Scotland, from O'Flaherty's Ogygia, written in 1684, reprinted in The Book of McKee, pg 409, show Lulach as son of Macbeth; The Skene Pedigree gives Lulach as the son of Gillacomgan, Mormaer of Moray
  
  === !#6-1986 ed-v7-p608; !#93-v34-p368; !#15 ===
  !#6-1986 ed-v7-p608; !#93-v34-p368; !#150-99th ed-p285-6; !#552-v2-t88; !#828-p22-23;
  
  === Father ===
  I believe his father to be Gilla Coemgáin or Gillecomgan, king of Mormaer

1. Tul MacLulach, Princess of Scotland, b. 1058 in Morayshire, Scotland     d. DECEASED

1. Tul or Olith Moray Heiress Clan Duff, b. 1058 in Morayshire, Scotland     d. in Methil, Fife, Scotland

1. Title: Cenél Loairn Relatives of Lulach, "Loarn mac Eirc, Wikipedia"
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loarn_mac_Eirc;
   Note: Cenél Loairn The descendants of Loarn, the Cenél Loairn, controlled parts of northern Argyll around the Firth of Lorne, most probably centred in Lorne but perhaps including the islands of Mull and Colonsay, Morvern and Ardnamurchan. The boundary to the east was the Druim Alban mountain ridge that separated Dál Riata from Pictland. The chief places of the kingdom appears to have been at Dun Ollaigh, near Oban and Dunadd near Crinan.[2] The chief religious site may have been on Lismore, later the seat of the High Medieval bishop of Argyll. Descendants of Loarn Several kings of Dál Riata were members of the Cenél Loairn, and thus claimed descent from Loarn : Ferchar Fota Ainbcellach mac Ferchair Selbach mac Ferchair Dúngal mac Selbaig Muiredach mac Ainbcellaig In High Medieval times the Mormaers of Moray claimed descent from Loarn:[3] Findláech mac Ruaidrí Máel Coluim mac Máil Brigti Gille Coemgáin mac Máil Brigti Mac Bethad mac Findláich (also king of Alba) Lulach mac Gille Coemgáin (also king of Alba) Máel Snechtai mac Lulaich Óengus Notes J. M. P. Calise, Pictish sourcebook, Greenwood Press, 2002. Bannerman, John "The Scots of Dalriada" in Menzies (1971). p. 68 Chadwick, Hector Munro (2013). Early Scotland: The Picts, the Scots and the Welsh of Southern Scotland. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. p. 96. ISBN 978-1107693913. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
   Page: A few generations of relatives back and then some earlier with spaces between. Note: They went from the male to the female line at least twice here...That was the Pictish mode. Might not be a straight line.
   
2. Title: Lulach of Moray, King of Scots, "Lulach, Wikipedia"
   Note: "Lulach King of Alba Reign 15 August 1057 – 17 March 1058 Coronation 8 September 1057, Scone Predecessor Macbeth Successor Malcolm III Born before 1033 Moray, Scotland Died 17 March 1058 Essie, in Strathbogie Burial Iona Issue Máel Snechtai of Moray House Moray Father Gille Coemgáin of Moray Mother Gruoch of Scotland Lulach mac Gille Coemgáin (Modern Gaelic: Lughlagh mac Gille Chomghain,[1] known in English simply as Lulach, and nicknamed Tairbith, "the Unfortunate"[2] and Fatuus, "the Simple-minded" or "the Foolish";[3] before 1033 – 17 March 1058) was King of Scots between 15 August 1057 and 17 March 1058. Lulach was the son of Gruoch of Scotland, from her first marriage to Gille Coemgáin, Mormaer of Moray, and thus the stepson of Macbeth (Mac Bethad mac Findlaích). Following the death of Macbeth at the Battle of Lumphanan on 15 August 1057, the king's followers placed Lulach on the throne. He has the distinction of being the first king of Scotland of whom there are coronation details available: he was crowned, probably on 8 September 1057 at Scone. Lulach appears to have been a weak king, as his nicknames suggest, and ruled only for a few months before being assassinated and usurped by Malcolm III. Lulach's son Máel Snechtai was Mormaer of Moray, while Óengus of Moray was the son of Lulach's daughter."
   
3. Title: Lulach MacGille, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVV9-1X5Y : 16 December 2020), The Simple, ; Burial, Isle of Iona, , Argyll and Bute, Scotland, St. Oran's Chapel Cemetery-the Reilig Ourain; citing record ID 8111237, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVV9-1X5Y;