Domnall mac Ailpín ( Modern Gaelic: ''Dòmhnall mac Ailpein''), anglicised sometimes as Donald MacAlpin and known in most modern regnal lists as Donald I (812 – 13 April 862), was

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from 858 to 862. He followed his brother

Kenneth I Kenneth MacAlpin ( mga, Cináed mac Ailpin, label= Medieval Gaelic, gd, Coinneach mac Ailpein, label=Modern Scottish Gaelic; 810 – 13 February 858) or Kenneth I was King of Dál Riada (841–850), King of the Picts (843–858), and the K ...

to the

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throne.

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The

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says that Domnall reigned for four years, matching the notices in the

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of his brother's death in February 858 and his own in April 862. The Chronicle notes: The laws of Áed Find are entirely lost, but it has been assumed that, like the laws attributed to

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 ...

and Constantine II (Causantín mac Áeda), these related to the church and in particular to granting the privileges and immunities common elsewhere. The significance of Forteviot as the site of this law-making, along with Kenneth's death there and Constantine's later gathering at nearby

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, may point to this as being the heartland of the sons of Alpín's support. The

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says of Domnall, "in war he was a vigorous soldier ... he is said to have been assassinated at Scone." No other source reports Domnall's death by violence. The

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may refer to Domnall in stanzas 123–124: Although Domnall is generally supposed to have been childless, it has been suggested that

was a son of Domnall, reading his patronym as ''mac Domnaill'' rather than the commonly supposed ''mac Dúngail''. This, however, is not widely accepted. Domnall died, either at the palace of Cinnbelachoir (location unknown), or at ''Rathinveralmond'' (also unknown, and may be the same place, presumed to be near the junction of the

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and the

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, near Scone).Anderson, ''ESSH'', p. 291; Duncan, pp. 10–11. He was buried on

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References

* Anderson, Alan Orr, ''Early Sources of Scottish History A.D 500–1286'', volume 1. Reprinted with corrections. Paul Watkins, Stamford, 1990. * Duncan, A. A. M., ''The Kingship of the Scots 842–1292: Succession and Independence.'' Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2002. * Smyth, Alfred P., ''Warlords and Holy Men: Scotland AD 80–1000.'' Edinburgh UP, Edinburgh, 1984.

External links

Annals of Ulster, part 1, at CELT

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