Nechtan Mawr ap Gwyddno King of Alt Clut

• Preferred Name: Nechtan Mawr ap Gwyddno King of Alt Clut^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]}
  
• Alternate Name: Nechtan Mawr ap Gwyddno, King of Alt Clut
  
• Alternate Name: Neithon Ap Guithno
  
• Alternate Name: Nechtan ' The Great ' Mawr King of the Picts
  
• Alternate Name: Neithon King of Alt Clut
  
• Alternate Name: Nechtan Mawr ap Gwyddno
  
• Gender: M
  
• Birth: 505 in Strathclyde, Lanarkshire, Scotland at LATI: N5.8333 LONG: E4.1667
  
• Burial: 621 in Strathclyde, Lanarkshire, Scotland at LATI: N5.8333 LONG: E4.1667
  
• Death: 621 in Strathclyde, Lanarkshire, Scotland at LATI: N5.8333 LONG: E4.1667
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: King of Strathclyde
  
• FSID: GJ4Y-WFB
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: King of Alt Clut with note: standardized
  
• Nickname:
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Neithon (died c. 621) was a 7th-century ruler of Alt Clut, the Brittonic kingdom later known as Strathclyde. According to the Harleian genealogies, he was the son of Guipno map Dumnagual Hen. Alfred Smyth suggests he is the same man as King Nechtan the Great of the Picts, and perhaps the Nechtan son of Canu the Annals of Ulster record as having died in 621. The Senchus fer n-Alban indicate that Gartnait, the son of Áedán mac Gabráin, King of Dál Riata, sired a son named Cano, but unless the Harleian genealogies are to be ignored, this would make Gartnait and Dumnagual Hen the same persons, as the respective fathers of Gartnait and Guipno. However, it is possible that either as an Alt Clut Briton ascending the throne of Pictland, or as a Pict ascending the throne of Alt Clut, his genealogy might have been altered, and it is notable that in the Pictish king-lists he is called "Nechtan, nepos Uerb", suggesting that it was a descent from Uerb that mattered in Pictland, and not his unimportant father Guipno/Canu. Alan Orr Anderson pointed out that Uerb is probably the Pictish form of Ferb (genitive Feirbe), a female name. Alan MacQuarrie suggests that Neithon was indeed the Pictish king Nechtan, but does not take any stance on the Guipno/Canu problem
  
  === Reference 1 ===
  When Nechtan assumed the leadership of the Strathclyde Britons in 612 they were under threat from the Angles of Northumbria to the east and the Scots of Dal Riata to the north. His exact genealogy is disputed. The kingdom of Strathclyde needed a strong leader, and the king lists suggest the name Nechtu, a grandson of Dumnagual and a distant cousin of Rhydderch. It has also been suggested that Nechtan was the grandson of Gartnait mac Domech, a Pictish king and that he extended the Pictish territories into Strathclyde. This latter Nechtan is remembered as a strongly religious king and the first openly Christian king of the Picts.
  
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  === Nechtan "Mawr" mac Gwyddno, Brenin Alt C ===
  Nechtan "Mawr" mac Gwyddno, Brenin Alt Clut
  Also Known As:
  "Nechtan", "Neithon", "Nechtan (Neiton II MAWR) MacERB"
  Birthdate:
  circa 570 (51)
  Birthplace:
  Scotland
  Death:
  621 (47-55)
  Immediate Family:
  Son of Gwyddno ap Dyfnwal Hen
  Father of Beli ap Nechtan, Brenin Alt Clut
  Occupation:
  King of the Picts in Strathclyde 594-641, a Christian

• m. 568 in Strathclyde, Scotland

1. Beli mac Neithon I King of Alt Clut, b. 544 in Bute, Strathclyde, Scotland     d. 677 in Northumbria

1. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Nechtan ap Gwyddno -
   Author: Plantagenet Ancestry of King Edward III and Queen Philippa: George Andrews Moriarity {1985}, Page number: 279
   Note: Source Media Type: Book
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2736742982
   
2. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Nechtan ap Gwyddno -
   Author: Newsgroup: soc.genealogy.medieval, at groups - google.com, Page number: David Hughes, 7 July 2004
   Note: Source Media Type: Book
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2736742371
   
3. Title: Human Family Project
   Author: Mary H. Slawson, Human Family Project - Reconstruction of the Irish Surnames from Milesus to 1600 (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Medieval History Specialist, Ireland 2005).
   
4. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Nechtan ap Gwyddno -
   Author: Royalty for Commoners, 2nd Ed; Roderick W Stuart {1988}, Page number: 341-50
   Note: Source Media Type: Book
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2736742394
   
5. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Nechtan Mawr de Strathclyde II - birth-name: Nechtan Ii
   Author: media.type.Ancestry.com, OneWorldTree
   Note: birth-name: Nechtan Ii aka-name: Nechtan King De Picts aka-name: King Nechtan De Strathclyde aka-name: Nechtan Mac Gwyddno aka-name: N N Of Strathclyde aka-name: Nechtan Of Strathclyde aka-name: Nechtan Of Strathclyde birth: 0568; Scotland birth: 0568; Scotland birth: birth: 0585; Strathclyde, Lanark, Scotland birth: 0585; Strathclyde, Lanark, Scotland birth: death: death: death: ; Scotland birth-name: Nechtan Ii aka-name: Nechtan King De Picts aka-name: King Nechtan De Strathclyde aka-name: Nechtan Mac Gwyddno aka-name: N N Of Strathclyde aka-name: Nechtan Of Strathclyde aka-name: Nechtan Of Strathclyde birth: 0568; Scotland birth: 0568; Scotland birth: birth: 0585; Strathclyde, Lanark, Scotland birth: 0585; Strathclyde, Lanark, Scotland birth: death: death: death: ; Scotland
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:3244467101
   
6. Title: John Pilkington in entry for John Edward Pilkington, "England Marriages, 1538–1973"
   Author: "England Marriages, 1538–1973", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NXDP-HJV : 13 March 2020), John Pilkington in entry for John Edward Pilkington, 1892.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NXDP-HJV;
   Page: same dates, location, and names
   
7. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Nechtan ap Gwyddno -
   Author: Harleian MS 3859
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2737222790