Áed mac Cináeda (
Modern Scottish Gaelic: ''Aodh mac Choinnich''; ;
Anglicized: Hugh; died 878) was a son of
Cináed mac Ailpín
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 King ...
. He became king of the
Picts 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'' 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
The ''Annals of Ulster'' ( ga, Annála Uladh) are annals of medieval Ireland. The entries span the years from 431 AD to 1540 AD. The entries up to 1489 AD were compiled in the late 15th century by the scribe Ruaidhrí Ó Luinín, ...
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 Statistical Accounts of Scotland, New Statistical Account (1834–1845), has it that the early-historic mound of the Cunninghillock by Inverurie 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 in Strathallan and other king lists have the same report.
It is uncertain which, if any, of the ''Prophecy of Bercháns kings should be taken to be Áed. William Forbes Skene presumed that the following verses referred to Áed:
129. Another king will take [sovereignty]; 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 [word uncertain] unplundered. 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, became king in 900.
See also
*Kingdom of Alba
References
Sources
* Alan Orr Anderson, Anderson, Alan Orr, ''Early Sources of Scottish History A.D 500–1286'', volume 1. Reprinted with corrections. Paul Watkins, Stamford, 1990.
* Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson, Anderson, Marjorie Ogilvie, ''Kings and Kingship in Early Scotland.'' Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, revised edition 1980.
* A. A. M. Duncan, 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[vol. 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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