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It is catalogued under topics including 810 births, 858 deaths and 9th-century births.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Kenneth
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Scotland
- Place of birth
- Iona
- Place of death
- Forteviot
- Father
- Alpín mac Echdach
- Sibling
- Domnall mac Ailpín
- Occupation
- monarch
- Position held
- list of kings of the Picts
- Family
- House of Alpin
- Image
- Kenneth MacAlpin of Scotland - the first.jpg
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- date of death
- 0858-02-08
- date of birth
- 0810-00-00
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- Commons category
- Kenneth I of Scotland
- place of burial
- Iona Abbey
- name in native language
- Kenneth I
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Encyclopedic overview
Medieval GaelicCináed mac Ailpín HouseAlpín FatherAlpín mac Echdach ReligionCatholic
Kenneth MacAlpin (c. 810 – 8 February 858) or Kenneth I was King of Dál Riada (841–850), and King of the Picts (848–858), of likely Gaelic origin. According to the traditional account, he inherited the throne of Dál Riada from his father Alpín mac Echdach, founder of the Alpínid dynasty. Kenneth I conquered the kingdom of the Picts in 843–850 and began a campaign to seize all of Scotland and assimilate the Picts, for which he was posthumously given the epithet An Ferbasach ("The Conqueror"). He fought the Britons of the Kingdom of Strathclyde and the invading Vikings from Scandinavia. Forteviot became the capital of his kingdom and Kenneth relocated relics, including the Stone of Scone from the abandoned abbey on Iona, to his new domain.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kenneth MacAlpin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.