Eochaid III, King of Dalriada

aka Eochaid III of Argyll, Eochaid mac Echdach, or Eugene VII

Gaelic: Heoghan, Eogan, Ewan, Eugen, Owain, Owen

Son of:

Eochaid II "Crooked Nose" King of Dalriada

Born: ca. 695

Married: Year Unknown

Spondan or Spontana

Died: 733

Aedh Finn "Fire White," King of Dalriada

aka Aodh-Fionn, Aed Find, Ethafind, Etfinus.

In Gaelic, Aedh means "fire" and Find means "white."

Son of:

Eochaid III of Argyll, King of Dalriata

Born: ca. 700 A.D.

Christened: 730 A.D.

Married:

Fergina

Died: 761 (771?) A.D. during an invasion of Northumbria.

Eochaid IV "The Venomous," King of Dalriada

aka Eochaid Anguibh "The Poisonous"

Son of:

Aedh Finn, King of Dalriada (730 - 778, reigned 750 - 778)

Fergina

Born: ca. 755

Married: ca. 781

Unknown Person

Ruled: Dalriada (sub-king of Kintyre) 781 - 805?

Died: 819 A.D.

Achaius, Prince of Dalriada

aka Eochaius, Achaias or Achaisas,
Grandson of King Aedh Finn, warlord and sub-king of Dalriada (Kintyre)

According to legend, Achaius established an accord with Charlemagne of the Franks (and thus the origins of the "Auld Alliance") and commemorated the alliance by founding the Noble Order of the Thistle in 809 (See Ashley, p. 206 and Wikipedia "Order of the Thistle.")

Eldest Son of:

King Eochaid IV "The Poisonous" (ca. 755 - 805), r. King of Dalriada ca. 781 - 805?

Born: ca. 782

Married: ca. 805

Fergusia aka "Urgusia" dau of King Angus II of Dalriada (who reigned 821 - 834)

Died: Bef. 834

Sources:

Ashley, Mike. The Mammoth Book of British Kings and Queens (New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1998) p. 206

Moriarty, George Andrews. The Plantagenet Ancestry of King Edward III and Queen Philippa (1960) pp. 29, 278

Paget, Gerald. The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales (Edinburgh: Charles Skilton, 1977) p. 151

Alpin of Kintyre

Red-headed man. Illustration of Celtic Art from The Book of Kells (9th Century)

Alpin of Kintyre, aka Alpin mac Echdach, Alpin mac Eochaid, sub-king of Galloway (Kintyre) and father of Kenneth Mac Alpin, first King of Scots

Son of:

Achaias, Eocha or Eochaid IV "The Poisonous" King of Dalriada (741 - 834)

Fergusia, aka "Urgusia," daughter of Angus II, King of Dalriada (r. 821 - 833)

Born: Year Unknown

Married: Year Unknown

Person Unknown

Died: 20 July 834 at Galloway, Scotland, while fighting Picts

The following note from Burke's Peerage may be of interest:

"The official genealogy of the Kings of Dalriada, declaimed by the royal Sennachie at the Scottish Coronation, traces their succession from Fergus Mor MacErc (circa 496), a scion of the Royal House of the Kings of Ireland, down to the above mentioned.

"The Royal House of Scotland arose from the union in 843 of the Kingdom of the Scots, Dalriada with Caledonia, the kingdom of the Picts, which latter comprised the northern and eastern parts of the country. The Kings of the Picts, Ard Righ Albann, according to their chroniclers, derived from Cruithne, King of the Picts (from whose seven younger sons the original Seven Earls or provincial Kings of Caledonia were deduced) through seventy kings (of whom the 49th, Brude MacMaelcon, 565, and Nectan MacDerili, 596-617, were converted to Christianity), to the 71st, Constantine MacAngus, whose successor, Angus II (821-833) had a son Eoghain MacAngus (73rd) and a daughter, Fergusia, married to Eocha, of the Royal House of Dalriada, and had Alpin, who claimed the Pictish throne on Eoghain's death in 839, and was father of Kenneth MacAlpin, of whom presently as 74th Ard Righ Albann."

Kenneth I MacAlpin

aka King of Galloway (834), King of Dalriada (841), King of Picts (844), King of Scots (846). Legendary founder of the House of Alpin, first King of Scots (Alba).

Called An Ferbasach ("The Conqueror")

Son of:

Alpin of Kintyre, King of Scots (? - 834)

Unknown Person

Born: 810

Married: Year Unknown

Person Unknown

Died: 859 at Forteviot, Perthshire, Scotland

Buried: Isle of Iona, Argyllshire, Scotland

Constantine I, King of Scots

aka Causantin mac Cinaeda, King of Picts, King of Scots

Son of:

Kenneth I MacAlpin, King of Scots and Picts

Unknown Person

Born: 836

Married: Unknown Date

Unknown Person

Died: 877 at Inverdorat, the Black Cove, Angus, Scotland. Killed in battle against Halfdan.

Buried: Isle of Iona, Argyllshire, Scotland