King of Kintyre, Alpin of Kintyre

Birth Name King of Kintyre, Alpin of Kintyre 1a 2a 3a
Also Known As King of Scots, Alpin of Argyll 3b
Gramps ID I2225
Gender male
Age at Death 56 years, 6 months, 19 days

Events

Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Birth [E3035] 778 Scotland  
4 3c
Death [E3036] 834-07-20 Galloway, Scotland  
4a 1b 2b 3d

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father King of Argyll, Eochaid IV the Venomous [I2226]747819
Mother Pss Royal of Picts, Unuisticc of Fortrenn [I2779]755
         King of Kintyre, Alpin of Kintyre [I2225] 778 834-07-20

Families

    Family of King of Kintyre, Alpin of Kintyre [F1717]
  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
King of Alba, Kenneth I MacAlpin (Cinaed) [I2224]810

Narrative

[SUSANNA KEENE.FTW]

Slain in Galloway.

REF: Scottish History website:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/3145/index.html: In
839, an interesting battle took place. Some Picts were fighting
the rebellious Scots under Alpin of Gabhran's house, a large
army of Norsemen came upon their rear. Though Alpin was killed,
and his head impaled by the Picts -- the Pictish army now
turned to face the Norsemen and were destroyed in a wild
pitched battle. The Picts not only lost to the Norsemen, they
were "destroyed almost to their very number". Eoghann, the last
King of Picts, died with them and now there was no Pictish
leader to oppose the Scots. Why the Norsemen took part in a
battle between Picts and Scots, that did not involve the
Norsemen, is really easily explained. The Norsemen believed to
die in battle was a sure way of entering Vahala, the great
warriors reward in "Asgaard", and because of this pagan belief,
the Vikings showed or had no fear of dying in combat. They
happened upon the battle between the Picts and Scots, which the
Scots were losing, and promptly attacked the winners -- the
Picts. Besides the last of the Pictish Kings dying in the
battle, so did Scots King Alpin.

Narrative

Records not imported into INDI (individual) Gramps ID I2225:

Line ignored as not understood Line 51084: 2 SOUR @S085410@
Skipped subordinate line Line 51085: 3 DATA
Skipped subordinate line Line 51086: 4 TEXT Date of Import: Aug 7, 2000

 

Attributes

Type Value Notes Sources
REFN 2727
 

Pedigree

  1. King of Argyll, Eochaid IV the Venomous [I2226]
    1. Pss Royal of Picts, Unuisticc of Fortrenn [I2779]
      1. King of Kintyre, Alpin of Kintyre
          1. King of Alba, Kenneth I MacAlpin (Cinaed) [I2224]

Ancestors

Source References

  1. Royal Genealogies DB [S12628]
      • Page: Alpin K of Scotland
      • Page: d 834 in Scotland
  2. Frederick Lewis Weis: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to [S10400]
      • Page: line 170 p 146, son of Eochaid the Poisonous, no mother
      • Page: line 170 p 146, slain abt 837 in Galloway
  3. SUSANNA KEENE.FTW [S85410]
      • Source text:

        Date of Import: Aug 7, 2000

      • Source text:

        Date of Import: Aug 7, 2000

      • Source text:

        Date of Import: Aug 7, 2000

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        Date of Import: Aug 7, 2000

  4. World Family Tree Volume 2 Tree # 1822 [S13485]
      • Page: died in Scotland