Kenneth MACALPIN King of Scots

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1 - Kenneth Mac Alpine (died 859 AD) who was King of the Scots and united most of Scotland into one country.

2 - Regarded as the founder of the monarchy. He succeded his father in 834 and after defeating the Picts in 843, united virtually all of Scotland north of the Forth in his kingdom of Alba.

3 - Kenneth Mac Alpine succeded about 840-50 AD to the Pictish throne, in virtue of succession through his mother - succession in the Pictish system being in the female line, that is, a man succeeded to the throne, because his mother was the previous King's sister or daughter. Kenneth thus became lord of the territory between Caithness and Edinburgh.
Under him, the Dalriad Capital was removed from Dun-Add to Scone in Perthshire, the previous Pictish Capital, and the name of the central portion of the country, that north of the Forth and the Clyde, was changed from Pictavia to Albania. Later on, or about the year 1000 AD, this was in turn changed into Scotia, thus perpetuating the name of the Irish warriors, who won it from the Picts. Kenneth died at Forteviot and is buried at Iona.

4 - In AD 843 the King of the Scots, Kenneth MacAlpin, the 36th King of Dalriada, became King of the Scots and the Picts. This gave him greater power than the Britons and the Angles combined. He became determined to defeat the Angles totally, but died after six abortive attempts.
It was another 175 years before the Angles were finally conquered. [1, 4]

Kenneth married.