Crínán von Dunkeld

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Crínán von Dunkeld (* probably around 980, † 1045 ) was the hereditary abbot of Dunkeld and perhaps Mormaer of Atholl . Crínán came from the House of the Kings of Ireland and was the progenitor of the House of Dunkeld , the dynasty that would rule Scotland until the late 13th century. He was the son-in-law of one king and the father of another.

family

Crínán had been married to Bethóc since around 1000, daughter of Máel Coluim mac Cináeda (Malcolm II), King of the Scots , who ruled from 1005 to 1034. Since Máel Coluim had no surviving sons, the descendants of Bethócs had the strongest claim to the Scottish throne. Crínáns and Bethóc's eldest son, Donnchad mac Crínán (Duncan I) ruled the country from 1034 to 1040.

It is likely that Crínán had a second son, Maldred, the father of Gospatric, Earl of Northumbria .

Abbot of Dunkeld

The Monastery of St. Columban of Iona was founded in the 6th or early 7th century on the north bank of the River Tay after Columban's Pict mission. It can range from the leadership Cenél Conaill of Donegal got. Iain Moncrieffe argued that Crinán belonged to a Scottish branch of the Irish royal dynasty. Christopher Cairney suggested a descent from the Cenél nEógain .

While the title of hereditary abbot ( coarb in Gaelic ) was a feudal office that was often only exercised in name, Crinán seems to have been responsible for the monastery during his time as lay abbot . He was thus a man of high standing in both spiritual and secular society.

The magnificent, half-destroyed Dunkeld Cathedral , which was built in stages between 1260 and 1501, now stands on the site on which the monastery once stood. The cathedral contains the only surviving remains of the earlier monastic association: a red stone course visible in the east choir wall, possibly reused by an earlier building, and two cross plates from the ninth or tenth century in the cathedral's museum.

In 1045, Crínán von Dunkeld rose against King Macbeth in support of the claim to the throne of his 14-year-old grandson Malcolm III. Malcolm was the older son of Crínán's son, King Duncan, who died in 1040 before his father. However, Crínán, an elderly man, was killed in a battle near Dunkeld.

literature

  • Christopher Cairney (2018), Other Dragons or Dragon Others? A Cultural View of the Loch Ness Monster , in: Monsters of Film, Fiction and Fable , ISBN 9781527510890 .
  • James Knox (1831), The topography of the basin of the Tay , Andrew Shorted, Edinburgh
  • Sir Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk (1982), The Highland Clans . Part 2
  • Detlev Schwennicke , European Family Tables , Volume 2, 1984, Plate 19
  • Alex Woolf (2007), The Problem with Crínán , in: From Pictland to Alba: 789-1070 , Volume 10, Edinburgh University Press, 2007

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Crínán's father Duncan had already been Mormaer of Atholl and Abthane of Dule, whose father of the same name was lay Abbot von Dunkeld, Governor and Earl of Strathclyde and also Abthane of Dule (Schwennicke)
  2. ↑ The Cenél Conaill or "relatives of Conall" are a branch of the northern Uí Néill , who descended from the Irish King Conall Gulban († around 464), supposedly the first Irish nobleman to convert to Christianity.
  3. ↑ Woolf
  4. ↑ Moncreiffe, p. 236, also Schwennicke, plate 88
  5. ↑ Cairney, p. 397; the Cenél nEógain are a branch of the northern Uí Néill , which descends from Eógan mac Néill
  6. ↑ Knox
  7. ↑ Duncan I was probably born in 1001, so Crínán should have been around 70 years old when he died
personal data
SURNAME Crínán von Dunkeld
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lay Abbot of Dunkeld
DATE OF BIRTH around 980
DATE OF DEATH 1045
Place of death at Dunkeld