Ii Dunkeld
Malcolm Dunkeld, Male 5 October 958 - 25 November 1034
Born, Fordoun, Kincardineshire, Scotland.
Died, Murdered in Glamis Castle, Glamis, Angus.
Father of (Unknown) Donada and Bethoc Beatrix. Son of Aelgigu Leinster and Cinaed Kenneth.
King of Scots, 25 Mar 1005 to 1034;f, Earl of the Northumbrians, and overcame the Danes, 1017;and roughly corresponding to much of modern Scotland.I, and allegedly secured his territory by defeating a Northumbrian army at the battle of Carham (c. 1016); he not only confirmed the Scottish hold over the land between the rivers Forth and Tweed but also secured Strathclyde about the same time. Eager to secure the royal succession for his daughter's son Duncan, he tried to eliminate possible rival claimants; but Macbeth, with royal connections to both Kenneth II and Kenneth III, survived to challenge the succession.ly for Scotland Malcolm II had more on his mind than blood and war, and by 1034 a true - and well defined Scottish Kingdom had emerged.is predecessors, but in fact he wasn't in his early days. He had gained the throne by murdering Kenneth III and his son in the town of Perth.ut was swiftly defeated and forced to return home. So he turned his attention north and tried his hand at the Scandinavians based in Moray. Again he was unsuccessful.he Scandinavians and at least try and get some kind of foot hold in the north. This was not such a hot idea, and after many 'in-house' fights and battles he once again turned his attentions to the south and Lothian. This time with success.nd south of the Clyde would be his so long as he didn't change the traditions and language of the area. Thus formed the border between Scotland and England again which remains today. As for who was next in line for the crown? Malcolm II sorted that one out for good. He himself had no sons and so he named Duncan - the son of his eldest daughter Bethoc to be king after him, and then proceeded to slaughter the remaining male descendants of Kenneth III.as amazing for a king), Duncan was proclaimed King of Alba and inherited the lands from the Tweed in the south, to Moray in the north - and this is where we leave the unflagging efforts of the 'House of Alpin' and what they managed to achieve.tory, the death of King Duncan at the hands of his kinsman Macbeth.he direct male line to descend from Kenneth MacAlpine, who united the Scots and Picts in 843 A.D. and is considered the founder of Scotland. One of Malcolm's three daughters, Bethoc, married Crinan, the secular hereditary Abbot of Dunkeld. Through her, the Abbot's son [Duncan] was installed by Malcolm as the King of Cumbria in 1018. After Malcolm II's murder by his nobles at Glamis, Duncan killed his opponents and seized the throne as King Duncan I. His first cousins, Macbeth (of Shakespearian fame) and Thorfinn the Raven Feeder, Norwegian Earl of Orkney, united to advance MacBeth's claim to the throne through his mother, another daughter of Malcolm II. Duncan reigned from 1034 until he was defeated in battle by their combined armies and killed by MacBeth in August 1040 at Elgin. Scotland was then ruled by Thorfinn in the northern districts and MacBeth in the southern districts. -- James E. Fargo, FSA Scot., Clan Donnachaidh History.
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