Drest MacErp I of Picts

• Preferred Name: Drest MacErp I of Picts
  
• Alternate Name: Drest or Drust , King Of The Picts
  
• Gender: M
  
• Death: Y
  
• FSID: GJ4B-XY3
  
• Birth: 427 in Scotland
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Drest son of Erp
  First king of the Pictish Chronicle lists whose reign includes a synchronism (the coming of Saint Patrick to Ireland; "ruled a hundred years and fought a hundred battles"
  
  Drest or Drust, son of Erp, is a legendary king of the Picts from 412 to 452.
  The Pictish Chronicle tells that Drest reigned for 100 years and triumphed in 100 battles. In the face of encroachment from Angles, Britons, and Scots, he established control over much of Northern Britain after the disruption following the withdrawal of the Romans. It also states that Saint Patrick went to Ireland in the nineteenth year of his reign, which would place it in the middle of the 5th century. The Chronicle claims that he exiled his brother Nechtan to Ireland. John of Fordun claims that Drest reigned for 45 years in the time of Palladius rather than Patrick, and conflates him with his brother Nechtan.
  The king lists record that he was followed by one Talorc son of Aniel.
  Wikipedia
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  Drust mac Erp / Yrb / Wirp
  413 - 453 - King of North Picts and South Picts.
  
  Surviving records show that it is attacks by the Picts and Irish Scotti that prompts the High King of Britain, Vortigern, to hire Jutish and Angle mercenaries to fight them off. The second major attack on Britain by Drust is met by the mercenaries under the command of Hengist on land and at sea and the Pictish tide is repelled. The mercenaries subsequently turn on their masters and begin a conquest of south-eastern Britain, quickly forming a kingdom of their own in Kent.
  
  Drust mac Erp serves to bring the Picts fully out of legend and into history. His title shows a strong ruler who dominates Pictland, but the name itself is a curious one, shown either as 'drust' or 'drest'. Used frequently by a number of Pictish rulers it has to be suspected of being a title or honorific. As with a breakdown of the name Britain (see feature link), going to Latin does the trick with the word 'durus', meaning 'hard, harsh, tough, strong, enduring'. In reconstructed proto-Celtic it would be 'duros', meaning 'hard', along with its apparent extension, 'durno', meaning 'a fist'. Is the '-ust/-est' of 'drust/drest' a suffix? It's hard to say. But there the name is in all its hard, ham-fisted ingloriousness: Drust, meaning 'tough guy'. With him it could be a name, but it quickly turns into a title of sorts for subsequent 'hard men'.
  https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsBritain/GaelsPictland.htm
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1. Erb MacDrust III of Picts, b. 466 in Picts, Argyll, Scotland     d. 529 in Scotland