• Causantín mac Áeda (Modern Gaelic: Còiseam mac Aoidh, anglicised Constantine II; born no later than 879; died 952) was an early King of Scotland...
  • Constantine II (died 952) was one of the greatest of early Scottish kings, his long reign (900–943)...
  • Constantine II was the son of King Aedh of the Picts and Scots, and succeeded to the throne on the death of his cousin, King Donald II.
  • King Constantine II of Scotland, also known as Causantín mac Áeda (Gaelic), reigned from 900 to 943 over the Kingdom of Alba...
  • Constantine’s life was to began in exile alongside his cousin Donald (who was to become Donald II of Scotland).
  • ...Modern Gaelic: Còiseam mac Aoidh, known in most modern regnal lists as Constantine II; died 952) was an early King of Scotland, known then by the Gaelic...
  • His reforms have prompted a number of scholars to argue that Constantine II laid the foundations for Scotland’s political and religious structure for the next five...
  • In 943 AD, after reigning for 43 years, Constantine retired from the kingship and for the final nine years of his life became a monk at St Andrews.