Domnall mac Ailpín ( Modern Gaelic: ''Dòmhnall mac Ailpein''),

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sometimes as Donald MacAlpin and known in most modern regnal lists as Donald I (812 – 13 April 862), was

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from 858 to 862. He followed his brother Kenneth I to the

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throne.

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The

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says that Domnall reigned for four years, matching the notices in the

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of his brother's death in February 858 and his own in April 862. The Chronicle notes: The laws of Áed Find are entirely lost, but it has been assumed that, like the laws attributed to Giric of Scotland and Constantine II (Causantín mac Áeda), these related to the church and in particular to granting the privileges and immunities common elsewhere. The significance of Forteviot as the site of this law-making, along with Kenneth's death there and Constantine's later gathering at nearby

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, may point to this as being the heartland of the sons of Alpín's support. The Chronicle of Melrose says of Domnall, "in war he was a vigorous soldier ... he is said to have been assassinated at Scone." No other source reports Domnall's death by violence. The Prophecy of Berchán may refer to Domnall in stanzas 123–124: Although Domnall is generally supposed to have been childless, it has been suggested that

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was a son of Domnall, reading his patronym as ''mac Domnaill'' rather than the commonly supposed ''mac Dúngail''. This, however, is not widely accepted. Domnall died, either at the palace of Cinnbelachoir (location unknown), or at ''Rathinveralmond'' (also unknown, and maybe the same place, presumed to be near the junction of the

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and the Tay, near Scone).Anderson, ''ESSH'', p. 291; Duncan, pp. 10–11. He was buried on Iona.

References

Sources

* Anderson, Alan Orr; ''Early Sources of Scottish History A.D. 500–1286'', volume 1, Reprinted with corrections, Paul Watkins, Stamford, 1990. * Duncan, A. A. M.; ''The Kingship of the Scots 842–1292: Succession and Independence'', Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2002. * Smyth, Alfred P.; ''Warlords and Holy Men: Scotland A.D. 80–1000'', Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1984.

External links

Annals of Ulster, part 1, at CELT

Donald I
at the official website of the

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