Álpin mac Uuroid

Álpin mac Uuroid king of Pictes of 775 with 780

The " Picte" chronicle; allot to this king a reign of 3 year 1/2. The Annales of Ulster mentions its death in 780 by naming curiously it Eipin rex Saxonum . This denomination east can be related to the fact that it reigned on a territory of Pictes of the south conquered on the Northumbrie during the reign of Oengus Ier.

Alfred P SMYTH considers that one of his/her sisters would have married the king Fergus mac Echdach of Dalriada and that this couple would be at the origin of the two kings who then reigned on the Pictes and the Scots plain within the framework of the kingdom of Fortriu: Caustantín Ier mac Uurguist and Unuist mac Uurguist.

Sources

Alfred P SMYTH

Warlords and Holy Men. Scotland AD 80~1000 Edinburgh University Close (1984) (ISBN 0748601007)

Anarchist WILLIAMS, Alfred P SMYTH and DP KIRBY

has off bibliographical dictionary Dark Age Britain. SEABY London (1990) (ISBN 1856640472)

Annals of Ulster, first part, in Latin and English.

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