Áed mac Cináeda (
Modern Scottish Gaelic: ''Aodh mac Choinnich''; ;
Anglicized
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: Hugh; died 878) was a son of
Cináed mac Ailpín. He became king of the
Picts
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in 877, when he succeeded his brother
Constantín mac Cináeda.
He was nicknamed Áed of the White Flowers, the wing-footed ( la, alipes) or the white-foot ( la, albipes).
Sources
The ''
Chronicle of the Kings of Alba
The ''Chronicle of the Kings of Alba'', or ''Scottish Chronicle'', is a short written chronicle of the Kings of Alba, covering the period from the time of Kenneth MacAlpin (Cináed mac Ailpín) (d. 858) until the reign of Kenneth II (Cináed mac ...
'' says of Áed: "Edus
edheld the same
'i.e.'', the kingdomfor one year. The shortness of his reign has bequeathed nothing memorable to history. He was slain in the civitas of Nrurim." Nrurim is unidentified.
The
Annals of Ulster say that, in 878, "Áed mac Cináeda, king of the Picts, was killed by his associates." Tradition, reported by
George Chalmers in his ''Caledonia'' (1807), and by the
New Statistical Account
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The ''Old (or First) Statistical Ac ...
(1834–1845), has it that the early-historic mound of the Cunninghillock by
Inverurie
Inverurie (Scottish Gaelic: ''Inbhir Uraidh'' or ''Inbhir Uaraidh'', 'mouth of the River Ury') is a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland at the confluence of the rivers Ury and Don, about north-west of Aberdeen.
Geography
Inverurie is in the va ...
is the burial place of Áed. This is based on reading Nrurim as ''Inruriu''.
A longer account is interpolated in
Andrew of Wyntoun's ''Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland''. This says that Áed reigned one year and was killed by his successor
Giric
Giric mac Dúngail ( Modern Gaelic: ''Griogair mac Dhunghail''; fl. c. 878–889), known in English simply as Giric and nicknamed Mac Rath ("Son of Fortune"), was a king of the Picts or the king of Alba. The Irish annals record nothing of ...
in
Strathallan
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Strathallan is also the name for one of the ...
and other king lists have the same report.
It is uncertain which, if any, of the ''
Prophecy of Berchán
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s kings should be taken to be Áed.
William Forbes Skene
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He co-founded the Scottish legal firm Skene Edwards which was prominent throughout the 20th century but disappeare ...
presumed that the following verses referred to Áed:
129. Another king will take overeignty small is the profit that he does not divide. Alas for Scotland thenceforward. His name will be the Furious.
130. He will be but a short time over Scotland. The will be no ord uncertainunplundered. Alas for Scotland, through the youth; alas for their books, alas for their bequests.
131. He will be nine years in the kingdom. I shall tell you—it will be a tale of truth—he dies without bell, with communion, at evening, in a fatal pass.
Áed's son,
Constantín mac Áeda
Causantín mac Áeda ( Modern Gaelic: , anglicised Constantine II; born no later than 879; died 952) was an early King of Scotland, known then by the Gaelic name ''Alba''. The Kingdom of Alba, a name which first appears in Constantine's lifeti ...
, became king in 900.
See also
*
Kingdom of Alba
The Kingdom of Alba ( la, Scotia; sga, Alba) was the Kingdom of Scotland between the deaths of Donald II in 900 and of Alexander III in 1286. The latter's death led indirectly to an invasion of Scotland by Edward I of England in 1296 and the ...
References
Sources
*
Anderson, Alan Orr, ''Early Sources of Scottish History A.D 500–1286'', volume 1. Reprinted with corrections. Paul Watkins, Stamford, 1990.
*
Anderson, Marjorie Ogilvie, ''Kings and Kingship in Early Scotland.'' Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, revised edition 1980.
*
Duncan, A. A. M., ''The Kingship of the Scots 842–1292: Succession and Independence.'' Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2002.
* Smyth, Alfred P., ''Warlords and Holy Men: Scotland AD 80–1000.'' E.J. Arnold, London, 1984 (reprinted Edinburgh UP).
External links
The Chronicle of the Kings of Alba(CKA)
- history of Inverurie
Second Statistical Account ol. XII (County of Aberdeen), p. 681
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878 deaths
9th-century Scottish monarchs
Burials at Iona Abbey
House of Alpin
Year of birth unknown
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