Maelduin

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Maelduin ( old Irish Máel Dúin mac Conaill ) († 688 ) was King of the Irish-Scottish Empire Dalriada from 673 to 688 .

Life

Maelduin was the son of King Conall Crandomna and succeeded his successor Domangart mac Domnall as king. At the end of his reign, the Scots and Picts were no longer under the rule of Northumbria . The Picts, under the leadership of their king Bridei mac Bili near Dunnichen, had won a victory over the troops of the Northumbrian king Ecgfrith in the year 685 , in which he was killed.

literature

  • Marjorie O. Anderson: Dál Riata, kings of. in: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, OCLC 4916020693 .
  • Mikael Ashley, Julian Lock: Maelduin Dál Riata, 673-88. in: The mammoth book of British kings & queens. Constable & Robinson, London 2012, ISBN 978-1-472-10113-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kings of Scots - The Kins of Dalriada. ( Memento of the original from August 18, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on britannia.com, accessed September 5, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.itannia.com
  2. ↑ The period of Northumbrian domination, c.660-685. from oxforddnb.com, accessed September 5, 2014.
predecessor Office successor
Domangart II. King of Dalriada
673–688 		Domnall
personal data
SURNAME Maelduin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Máel Dúin mac Conaill
BRIEF DESCRIPTION King of Dalriada
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century or 7th century
DATE OF DEATH 688