General Notes

Name Suffix:<NSFX> King Of Scots
Name Suffix:<NSFX> King Of Scotland
Kenneth II (971-995)
Kenneth began his reign by ravaging the Britons, probably as an act of vengeance, but his name is also included among a group of northern and western kings said to have made submission to the Anglo-Saxon king Edgar in 973, perhaps at Chester; and the chronicler Roger of Wendover (Flores Historiarum, under the year 975) states that shortly afterward Kenneth received from Edgar all the land called Lothian (i.e., between the Tweed and the Forth rivers). This is the first mention of the River Tweed as the recognized border between England and Scotland. Kenneth was slain, apparently by his own subjects, at Fettercairn in the Mear.
Kenneth II (d. 995), son of Malcolm I, king of Alban, succeeded Cuilean, son of Indulph, who was slain by the Britons of Strathclyde in 971 in Lothian. Kenneth began his reign by ravaging the British kingdom. Soon afterward he attacked Eadulf, earl of the northern half of Northumbria, and ravaged the whole of his territory. He fortified the fords of the Forth and again invaded Northumbria, carrying off the earl's son. About this time he gave the city of Brechin to the church. In 977 he is said to have slain Amlaiph or Olaf, son of Indulph, king of Alban, perhaps a rival claimant to the throne. According to the English chroniclers, Kenneth paid homage to King Edgar for the cession of Lothian (i.e., between the Tweed and the Forth rivers), but these statements are probably attributable to the controversy as to the position of Scotland as this is the first mention of the River Tweed as the recognized border between England and Scotland.
Kenneth's chiefs were continually engaged in a contest with Sigurd the Norwegian, earl of Orkney, for the possession of Caithness and the district of Scotland north of the Spey, but the Scots attained no permanent success. The central districts of Scotland, however, were consolidated during his reign. In 995 Kenneth was slain treacherously by his own subjects, according to the later chroniclers, at Fettercairn in the Mearns through an intrigue of Fenella, daughter of Cunchar, a mormaor of the earl of Angus. He was buried at Iona. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1961 ed., Vol. 13, p. 324, KENNETH II]