General Notes

REFN: 1596AN
Alias:<ALIA> MalColuim I /MacAlpin/
REFN: P1596
Reigned as King of Scotland f rom 942-954.
Malcolm I (Máel Coluim mac Domnaill), the son of Donald I of Scot land,
became the King of Scotland in 942 or 943 after his cousin King
Const antine II of Scotland abdicated and became a monk.
Malcolm was a prince of gre at abilities and prudence, and Edmund I of
England courted his alliance by ce ding Cumbria, the consisting of
Cumberland and part of Westmorland, to him, i n the year 945, on condition
that he would defend that northern county, and b ecome an ally of Edmund.
This, therefore, required Scotland to send military support if England
was attacked by either the Danes of Northumbria or the Nor wegians of
Ireland. The alliance between England and Scotland remained after the
death of both kings.
Edred of England, the brother and successor of Edmu nd, accordingly
applied for, and obtained, the aid of Malcolm against Anlaf, king of
Northumberland, whose country, according to the barbarous practice of the
times, he wasted, and carried off the people with their cattle.
Later, when Norsemen again invaded the land, the Scots sent raids against
the Englis h and, in 954, Edred reunited the northern counties to his
dominions.
In thi s same year, after putting down an insurrection of the Moray-men
under Cellac h, their Maormor (chief), whom he killed, Malcolm was slain,
probably at Ulur n or Auldearn in Moray, by one of these men, in revenge
for the death of his chief. He was buried on the Isle of Iona.
At some point in his life, he marrie d. But as was the case with many
monarchs in this period, the details are no longer known. A son from this
marriage would later succeed to the throne as K enneth II of Scotland.