• Kenneth MacAlpin (Medieval Gaelic: Cináed mac Ailpin; Scottish Gaelic: Coinneach mac Ailpein; 810 – 13 February 858) or Kenneth I was King of Dál Riada (841–850)...
  • Kenneth MacAlpin is the 33rd great-grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II.
  • Cinaeth, known to history as Kenneth MacAlpin or Kenneth the Hardy, was born around 810 on the Island of Iona.
  • Cinàed MacAlpin ascended the Throne in 834 as King of Dalriada, which is relatively safe and adopted the christian name Kenneth.
  • Their host was King Kenneth MacAlpin, who did not come from Scone, but Dál Riada far to the west which is now called 'Argyll': 'the coast of the Gael'.
  • The true legacy of Kenneth MacAlpin is that he founded a dynasty that would see the unification of the Pictish and Gaelic kingdoms evolve into a new entity...
  • Kings of Scotland # 1 - Kenneth MacAlpin.
  • Kenneth I was the first king of the united Scots of Dalriada and the Picts and so of Scotland north of a line between the Forth and Clyde rivers.
  • In 841 Kenneth MacAlpin became King of Dalriada. ... MacAlpin's mother was a Pictish princess, so he was able to claim the crown of both Dalriada and Pictland.
  • In this pedigree Alpín's father is Eochaid, an Irish name, yet he becomes the father of Cináed i.e. Kenneth MacAlpin.