Causantín mac Cináeda (Constantine I)
Causantín mac Cináeda (Constantine I)Constantine succeeded to the kingship on the death of his uncle Domnall mac Ailpín in 862 [AU]. He was killed by the Norwegians in a battle at Inverdofatha in 876, and was succeeded by his brother Áed mac Cináeda. ["Constantinus macKynat xv a. reg. et interemptus est a Noruagensibus in bello de Merdo fatha et sepultus in Iona insula." Regnal List "D", KKES 267, similarly in List "F" (16 years), ibid., 274, and List "I" (16 years, battle at Inverdufatha)., ibid., 283]
Date of Birth: Unknown.
Place of
Birth: Unknown.
Date of Death: 876.
["Custantin m.
Cinaedha rex Pictorum, ..., moriuntur."
AU, s.a. 876]
Place of
Death: Battle of
Inverdofatha.
Father:
Cináed mac Ailpín
(Kenneth I), d. 858, king of
the Scots, ca. 842-858; king of the Picts, ca. 849-858.
["Máel Coluim mc Cináeda mc
Máel C[h]olum mc Domnaill mc C[h]usantín mc
C[h]ináeda mc Alpín." Genelaig
Albanensium, Bannerman (1974), 66]
Mother: Unknown.
Spouse: Unknown.
Children:
Domnall mac Causantín
(Donald II), d. 900, king of
Scotland (Alba), ca. 889-900.
[See the genealogy quoted above.]
AU = Seán Mac Airt and Gearóid Mac Niocaill, The Annals of Ulster (Dublin, 1983). See also the CELT website.
Bannerman (1974) = John Bannerman, Studies in the History of Dalriada (Edinburgh & London, 1974).
ESSH = Alan Orr Anderson, Early Sources of Scottish History, 2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1922, reprinted Stamford, 1990). [Contains English translations of many of the primary records]
KKES = Marjorie Ogilvy Anderson, Kings and Kingship in Early Scotland (Edinburgh, Totowa, NJ, 1973).
Compiled by Stewart Baldwin
First uploaded 26 April 2007.