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Nechtan, Nectan or Neithon may refer to:


Kings

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Nechtan Morbet Nechtan, son of Erip, was the king of the Picts from 456 to 480. The king lists supply a number of epithets for Nechtan: Morbet and Celchamoth and the Latin Magnus (the Great). He is said to have reigned for twenty-four years. In a rare change ...
(), king of the Picts *
Nechtan nepos Uerb Nechtan grandson of Uerb, was king of the Picts from 595 to around 616, and may be the same person as the Neithon son of Guipno who ruled the kingdom of Altclut. According to the Pictish Chronicle, Nechtan reigned for 20 or 21 years. While t ...
(), king of the Picts *
Nechtan mac Der-Ilei Naiton son of Der-Ilei (; died 732), also called Naiton son of Dargart (), was king of the Picts between 706–724 and between 728–729. He succeeded his brother Bridei IV in 706. He is associated with significant religious reforms in Pictlan ...
(died 732), king of the Picts *
Neithon of Alt Clut Neithon son of Guipno (died c. 621) was a 7th-century ruler of Alt Clut, a Brittonic kingdom based on Dumbarton Rock. According to the Harleian genealogies, he was the son of Guipno map Dumnagual Hen. Alfred Smyth suggests he is the same man as ...
(), King of Strathclyde


Other people

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Nechtan of Aberdeen Nechtan of Aberdeen is the first Bishop of Aberdeen after the seat of the bishopric had been moved to Aberdeen from Mortlach. The only contemporary sources for Bishop Nechtan are charters; he appears as "Nectan escob Abberdeon" in a Gaelic cha ...
(), bishop of Aberdeen * Saint
Nectan of Hartland Saint Nectan, sometimes styled Saint Nectan of Hartland, was a 5th-century holy man who lived in Stoke, Hartland, in the nowadays English, and at the time Brythonic-speaking, county of Devon, where the prominent St Nectan's Church, Hartland i ...
(), associated with Devon and Cornwall * Saint Nectan, nephew and disciple of
Saint Patrick Saint Patrick (; or ; ) was a fifth-century Romano-British culture, Romano-British Christian missionary and Archbishop of Armagh, bishop in Gaelic Ireland, Ireland. Known as the "Apostle of Ireland", he is the primary patron saint of Irelan ...


Mythology

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Nechtan Scéne The Ulster Cycle (), formerly known as the Red Branch Cycle, is a body of medieval Irish heroic legends and sagas of the Ulaid. It is set far in the past, in what is now eastern Ulster and northern Leinster, particularly counties Armagh, Down ...
, character in the Irish ''Ulster Cycle'' *
Nechtan (mythology) Nechtan is a figure in Irish mythology who is associated with a spring marking the source of the River Boyne, known as Nechtan's Well or the Well of Wisdom. He was the husband of Boann, eponymous goddess of the Boyne. Nechtan is believed to be a ...
, an Irish god *
Nechtan mac Collbran Nechtan, Nectan or Neithon may refer to: Kings * Nechtan Morbet (), king of the Picts * Nechtan nepos Uerb (), king of the Picts * Nechtan mac Der-Ilei (died 732), king of the Picts * Neithon of Alt Clut (), King of Strathclyde Other people * Nech ...
, Irish-mythological character in
the Voyage of Bran The Voyage of Bran ( [], meaning "The Voyage of Bran [son of Febail]") is a medieval seventh- or eighth-century Irish language narrative. Source The date of composition has been assigned to the late 7th or early 8th century, and the text is kn ...
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