King Kenneth II of Scotland 
Kenneth was born about 0932 in Scotland. Kenneth's father was King Malcolm I of Scotland and his mother was Queen Mac Donald of Scotland. His paternal grandparents were King Donald II of Alba and Queen of Scotland; his maternal grandfather was Donald. He had a brother named Duff [Dubh]. He was the younger of the two children. He died in 0995 in Finela's Castle, Fettercairn, Argyllshire, Scotland. He was buried in Isle of Iona, Scotland.General Notes
Berchan's Prophecy, stanzas 181-182 (as quoted in A.O. Anderson,Early Sources of Scottish History, vol. I, p. 574) says thisabout Malcolm II, son of Kenneth: Son of a woman of Leinster ...A son of the cow that grazes upon the country-side of Liffey,... This seems to indicate that Malcolm II's mother, the queenof Kenneth II, was Irish, and it ought to be possible to connecther to the royal genealogies of Leinster. This is all that isknown of her. There is no contemporary record which names her.She was probably connected with the Leinster royal family, butbecause there were so many branches of it, it is unlikely. Theavailable Scottish and Irish Annals have been researched with afine tooth comb, and no new infomation will be learned unlessnew records are discovered.
According to Mary Elizabeth Cumming Bruce, Family Records of theBruces and the Cumyns (Edinburgh, 1870), pp. 9-10: "Kenneth,brother of Duff, next succeeded [0971]. They were both sons ofMalcolm I. Kenneth . . . did homage to Edgar [King of England]for Cumberland and Westmoreland. He also defeated the Danes.Kenneth married a daughter of William Long-epee, Duke ofNormandy, by whom he had Malcolm II and Dunclina, who marriedKenneth, Thane of Lochaber, and was mother of Bancho. . . .[0994] Kenneth was assassinated at Fettercairn by the LadyFenella, whose son he caused to be put to death." So possiblythe Norman records will yield a name.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 0778 in Scotland d.20 Jul 0834 in Galloway, Scotland
- b.0810 in Scotland d.06 Feb 0858 in Forteviot, Perthshire, Scotland
- b.~ 0782 in Scotland, Great Britain
- b.~ 0836 in Scotland d.0877 in Inverdovat (Inverdorat), the Black Cove, Angus, Forgan, Fifeshire, Scotland
- b.~ 0814 in Scotland
- b.~ 0857 in Scotland d.0900 in Dun-fother, Forres, Morayshire, Scotland
- b.~ 0840 in Scotland
- b.~ 0897 in Alba, Scotland d.0954 in Fordoun, Kincardineshire, Scotland
- b.~ 0866 in Scotland
- b.~ 0932 in Scotland d.0995 in Finela's Castle, Fettercairn, Argyllshire, Scotland
- b.~ 0901 in Scotland
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Kenneth and Queen of Scotland were married in a religious ceremony about 0952. They had a son named Malcolm.
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Children
King Malcolm Mac Kenneth II of Scotland
Malcolm was born in 0954 in Scotland. He died at the age of 80 on November 25th, 1034 in Glamis Castle, Angus, Forfarshire, Scotland. He was buried in Isle of Iona, Scotland.
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