Alpin mac Echdach King of Dal Riata

• Preferred Name: Alpin mac Echdach King of Dal Riata^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: King of Dál RiataBET 726 AND 733 in Dál Riata, Argyll, Alba at LATI: N6.25 LONG: E5.25 with note: Wikipedia - List of Kings of Dál Riata
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: King of Dál Riata and King of Kintyre
  
• Death: 20 JUL 834 in Galloway, Scotland at LATI: N4.8405 LONG: E4.0466
  
• FSID: 9CXH-XY9
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Cináed and Alpín are the names of Pictish kings in the 8th century: the brothers Ciniod and Elphin who ruled from 763 to 780. Alpín's alleged father Eochaid IV is not mentioned in any contemporary source.763
  
• Birth: ABT 778 in Dunollie Castle, Argyll, Scotland at LATI: N6.4167 LONG: E5.4833 with note: His exact date of birth is not known, only estimated. Find A Grave cannot be relied upon
  
• Affiliation: with note: Description: Founder of the House of Alpin, also known as the Alpínid dynasty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Alpin
  
• Burial: in Dalriada, Argyllshire, Scotland at LATI: N6.25 LONG: E5.25
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Alpín MacEchdach, Gaelic King who ruled the territory of Dalriada which covered modern day Argyll, Kintyre, and various west-coast island. He may have had a Norse wife and ruled for around 3 years. He was killed in AD834 on a raiding mission in Galloway.
  
  Founder of the House of Alpin, his sons Kenneth and Duncan became rulers of the enlarged kingdom of Alba or Scotia from which the kingdom of Scotland grew over the next two centuries.
  
  Name: Alpín MacEchdach
  Father: Echdach
  Mother: unknown
  Relation to Elizabeth II: 34th great-grandfather
  House of: MacAlpin
  Ascended to the throne: 834
  Married: unknown
  Children: Kenneth I and Donald I
  Died: 834, killed fighting the Picts in Galloway
  Buried at: unknown
  Succeeded by: his son Kenneth
  
  information from: https://www.britroyals.com/scots.asp?id=alpin
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  Alpín mac Echdach was a supposed king of Dál Riata included in a pedigree created in the 10th century to connect the kings of Alba to legendary Dál Riatan and Irish ancestors. In this pedigree Alpín's father is Eochaid, an Irish name, yet he becomes the father of Cináed i.e. Kenneth MacAlpin. Cináed and Alpín are the names of Pictish kings in the 8th century: the brothers Ciniod and Elphin who ruled from 763 to 780. Alpín's alleged father Eochaid IV is not mentioned in any contemporary source.[1] Alpín's mother was Fergusa, daughter of Fergus of Dalriada Above states Alpín was the names of a Pictish King. Alpín has name as, “Alpin, King of Kintyre”:
  http://www.mostyn.com/wc10/wc10_139.htm
  http://www.connectedbloodlines.com/getperson.php?personID=I9669&tree=lowell
  http://royalmiddletons.blogspot.co.nz/2011/04/alpin-of-kintyre.html
  
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  Alpín mac Echdach was a supposed king of Dál Riata, an ancient kingdom that included parts of Ireland and Scotland. Alpín was included in a pedigree chart created in the 10th century to connect the kings of Alba (Scotland) to legendary Dál Riatan and Irish ancestors. In this pedigree, Alpín's father is Eochaid, an Irish name, yet he becomes the father of Cináed (Kenneth MacAlpin) and Domnall mac Ailpín. Cináed and Alpín are the names of Pictish kings in the 8th century: the brothers Ciniod and Elphin who ruled from 763 to 780. Alpín's alleged father Eochaid IV is not mentioned in any contemporary source. Weir states that Alpín succeeded his father Eochaid IV as King 'of Scotland' (Dál Riata), and also became King of Kintyre in March/August 834, thus establishing his power over a wide area of Scotland.
  
  The Chronicle of the Scottish historian John of Fordun records the succession of "Alpin the son of Achay" in 831, his reign of three years, and his defeat by the Picts "20 July". The 12th century Cronica Regum Scottorum lists "Alpin filius Eochal venenosi iii, Kynedus filius Alpini primus rex Scottorum xvi…" as kings, dated to the 9th century. Alpín's parentage is not stated in any of the earlier chronicles. Alpín's mother was the sister and heiress of Causantín mac Fergusa, King of the Picts. Alpín married a 'Scottish Princess', and fathered two sons.
  
  Alpín is chiefly remembered for his fatal war with the Picts, who had seized upon and arrogated the Kingdom. Alpín resolved to remove the king, and met him with his forces near a village of Angus, where the fight was maintained with great obstinacy, till the Pictish king was slain, whereby the Scots got the victory. However, a new king of "high descent and noble achievements" (possibly Drest) was elected king of the Picts, and turned the scale, and at Galloway defeated and took King Alpín, anno 834, and put him with many of his nobles to death. It is said that Alpín's head was fastened to a pole, and carried about the Pictish army, and at last set up for spectacle in Abernethy, their chief town, which was afterwards severely revenged by the Scots, who called the place where he was slain Bas Alpin. Alpín died on 20 July or in August 834 when he was either killed whilst fighting the Picts in Galloway or beheaded after the battle. His place of burial is not recorded. He was succeeded by his son Kenneth MacAlpin.
  
  Alpin // King of Dalriada
  Alpin died in 837 in a raid on Galloway, Scotland he ruled very briefly after his father's death.
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  Alpin mac Echdach fue el padre de Kenneth I, primer rey de Escocia.
  
  En los anales irlandeses, como los Anales de Ulster y los Anales de Inisfallen
  
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  !The Kings of Scotland, reprinted in The Book of McKee, pg 407; reigned as King 743-748; "Robert the Bruce, King of Scots," by Ronald McNair Scott

1. Kenneth MacAlpin Of the Picts, b. ABT 810 in Iona, Argyll, Scotland     d. 13 FEB 858 in Forteviot, Perthshire, Scotland

1. Title: Eochaid mac Áeda Find From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eochaid_mac_%C3%81eda_Find;
   Note: Eochaid mac Áeda Find is a spurious[citation needed] King of Dál Riata found in some rare High Medieval king-lists and in older history books. Supposedly a son of Áed Find (died 778) and successor to Áed's brother Fergus mac Echdach, Eochaid is now thought to represent a misplacing of the reign of Eochaid mac Echdach. The reigns of Selbach mac Ferchair, Dúngal mac Selbaig and, perhaps, Alpín mac Echdach, are similarly misplaced in the sources which contain this Eochaid. References Broun, Dauvit, The Irish Identity of the Kingdom of the Scots in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries. Boydell, Woodbridge, 1999. ISBN 0-85115-375-5 Broun, Dauvit, "Pictish Kings 761–839: Integration with Dál Riata or Separate Development" in Sally M. Foster (ed.), The St Andrews Sarcophagus: A Pictish masterpiece and its international connections. Four Courts, Dublin, 1998. ISBN 1-85182-414-6
   
2. Title: North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000
   Author: Book Title: Andrew Meade of Ireland and Virginia : his ancestors and some of his descendants and their connections, including sketches of the following families : Meade, Everard, Hardaway, Segar, Pettus and Overton
   Publication: Name: http://search.ancestry.com/collections/61157/records/254010;
   
3. Title: The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe
   Author: Lundy, Darryl, ed. (Wellington, New Zealand; Site updated on 18 Dec 2022. darryl@thepeerage.com: http://www.thepeerage.com/s1.htm.). Ailpín mac Eochaid #102905
   Publication: Name: http://thepeerage.com/p10291.htm#i102905;
   
4. Title: From Pictland to Alba, 789-1070 By Alex Woolf
   Publication: Name: https://books.google.com/books?id=oNWqBgAAQBAJ&q=Alpin#v=snippet&q=Alpin&f=false;
   Note: Information on Alpin, his descendants and ancestry, throughout book