Nechtan, Nectan or Neithon may refer to:

Kings

Nechtan Morbet Nechtan, son of Erip, was the king of the Picts from 456 to 480. The king lists supply a number of epithets for Nechtan: Morbet and Celchamoth and the Latin Magnus (the Great). He is said to have reigned for twenty-four years. In a rare change fr ...

(), king of the Picts *

Nechtan nepos Uerb Nechtan grandson of Uerb, was king of the Picts from 595 to around 616. It has been suggested that this Nechtan is the same person as the Neithon of Alt Clut, Neithon who ruled the kingdom of Kingdom of Strathclyde, Alt Clut. According to the Pic ...

(), king of the Picts *

Nechtan mac Der-Ilei Nechtan mac Der-Ilei or Nechtan mac Dargarto (Old Irish ''Nechtan mac Der-Ilei'' or ''Nechtan mac Dargarto'') (before 686–732) was king of the Picts 706–724 and 728–729. He succeeded his brother Bridei in 706. He is associated with significa ...

(died 732), king of the Picts * Neithon of Alt Clut (), King of Strathclyde

Other people

Nechtan of Aberdeen Nechtan of Aberdeen is the first Bishop of Aberdeen after the seat of the bishopric had been moved to Aberdeen from Mortlach. The only contemporary sources for Bishop Nechtan are charters; he appears as "Nectan escob Abberdeon" in a Gaelic cha ...

(), bishop of Aberdeen * Saint

Nectan of Hartland Saint Nectan, sometimes styled Saint Nectan of Hartland, was a 5th-century holy man who lived in Stoke, Hartland, in the nowadays English, and at the time brythonic-speaking county of Devon, where the prominent St Nectan's Church, Hartland is d ...

(), associated with Devon and Cornwall * Saint Nectan, nephew and disciple of

Saint Patrick Saint Patrick ( la, Patricius; ga, Pádraig ; cy, Padrig) was a fifth-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland. Known as the "Apostle of Ireland", he is the primary patron saint of Ireland, the other patron saints be ...

Mythology

Nechtan Scéne The Ulster Cycle ( ga, an Rúraíocht), formerly known as the Red Branch Cycle, is a body of medieval Irish heroic legends and sagas of the Ulaid. It is set far in the past, in what is now eastern Ulster and northern Leinster, particularly coun ...

, character in the Irish ''Ulster Cycle'' * Nechtan (mythology), an Irish god *

Nechtan mac Collbran Nechtan, Nectan or Neithon may refer to: Kings * Nechtan Morbet (), king of the Picts * Nechtan nepos Uerb (), king of the Picts * Nechtan mac Der-Ilei (died 732), king of the Picts * Neithon of Alt Clut (), King of Strathclyde Other people * Nech ...

, Irish-mythological character in

the Voyage of Bran The Voyage of Bran ( sga, Immram Brain [], meaning "The Voyage of Bran [son of Febail]") is a medieval seventh- or eighth-century Irish language narrative. Source The date of composition has been assigned to the late 7th or early 8th century, ...

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