Dal Riada

The Dal Riada (Irish name old: Dál Riata ) was a kingdom located on the North-eastern coast of the Ireland and the west coast of the Scotland.

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The most widespread tradition wants that it was founded towards the end of the 5th century by legendary king Fergus the Large one, considered to be the ancestor of kings d' Écosse. The second tradition, defended by Bède Worthy the, speaks about a king Reuda (from where its name which can mean " people of Reuda") who, to the 3rd century, gave his name to this kingdom. As for the presence in Dal Riada of two areas so moved away, the archeologists do not find the obviousness of such a conquest, and one imagines rather than these two areas were dependant since the age of iron.

As of the 6th century, Dal Riada is present in the written sources, of which life of Saint Colomba d' Iona by the Saint Adamnan, written with Iona towards the end of the 8th century, and who seems to be most reliable. With Iona, since its foundation by Saint-Colomba, the monks wrote a chronicle, used by the Irish chroniclers of the Early middle ages and whose traces survive, especially in the Annales of Ulster and Tigernach.

In connection with kings de Dal Riada

In Dalriada there were some kings, and one of them was principal king. It is not always easy to include/understand if the Irish chroniclers speak about a small unspecified king, or of the principal king. Moreover, there was a nearby kingdom the Dál nAraidi which was called (in Latinized form) Dalaradia. One can see that the copyists who worked in Latin could easily write Dalriada in the place of Dalaradia. The third problem is that the kings Scot of the Early middle ages claimed to be descent of kings de Dalriada. If it is true or not, it is always possible that the documents which remain us can be fictions which one wrote to flatter a king of antan. It is certain that king Selbach, whose fact that he was a king during twenty years cannot be questioned, was not included in a genealogy (the Duan Albanach ) of the king Malcolm III of Scotland.

Kings de Dalriada bore names gaelic, whose most widespread form and most known is Domangart mac Fergusa , “Dongard wire of Fergus”. Less often one sees names like Fiannamail ua Dúnchada , “Fiannamail grandson of Duncan”. One sees also nicknames, Eochaid Buide , “Eochaid the fair one”, and less often the two forms are together, like Fergus Mòr mac Earca , “Fergus the large one, wire of Erc”. In Ireland at that time, one finds also names of clan as Uí Néill which does not want to say “grandson of Niall”, but “of the descent of Neill”. In Scotland, the only known form is Cenél Comgaill which wants to say “descent of Congall Ier”. The word Síl , which with the same significance, is used in Ireland too. As one sees here, Irish is a language, like Latin, where the names are declined. It is not rare to read the names with the name of the father to the personal case. And as in French, Irish of the first millenium does not resemble the current language.

List kings de Dal Riada

The names between brackets are those of the names of the sovereign of Scotland fictitious listed by the former chroniclers and who correspond to certain authentic kings of Dalriada. The historian and humanistic Georges Buchanan in XVIe century did not count less than 68 kings before Kenneth mac Alpin starting from a mythical king of the Scots Fergus Ier mac Feradach who would have reigned of 330 with 305 before J.C!

See also: List of the legendary kings of Scotland

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See also: List of the kings d' Écosse

See too

Sources

  • W.F. Skene
Chronicles Off The Picts, Chronicles Off The scots And Other Early Memorials Off Scottich History General H.M. Register House Edinburgh (1867), reprint Kessinger Publishing' S (2007) Warlords and Holy Men. Scotland AD 80~1000 Edinburgh University Close (1984) has off bibliographical dictionary Dark Age Britain . SEABY London (1990)

Internal bonds

  • Pictes | Scots

  • List of the legendary kings of Scotland

External bonds

  • lines of kings of Dal Riada
  • Bonds with University Cork College & Annals of Ulster, Tigernach and Inisfallen as well as Duan Albanach and Genelach Rig N-Alban in the Genealogies according to Rawlinson B 502
  • Rerum Scoticarum Historia, George Buchanan

Category: Monarch of Scotland

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