* Note:
Kenneth I, called MacAlpin (flourished 832-60), traditionally, the
founder and first king of Scotland. About 834 he succeeded his father,
Alpin (reigned about 832-34), as king of the Gaelic Scots in Galloway. In
a series of battles (841-46) he conquered the Pictish Kingdom and,
uniting it with his own,called his expanded domains Scotland. The
kingdom is sometimes called Scone, after Kenneth's capital. In later
years, the king led six invasions of Lothian, southern Scotland, then
part of Saxon Northumbria.
Source: "Kenneth I," Microsoft(R) Encarta(R) 98 Encyclopedia. (c)