Causantín mac Cináeda rí Alban

   Another name for Causantín was Constantine mac Ailpín I King of Alba (Scotland).

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 8th Edition, 170:14, Slain in battle by the Norse ¹⁶⁰

~Weir's British Royal Familes, pp. 168, 169, son of Kenneth MacAlpin, succeeded his brother in 863, and he was killed in 877 while fighting against Danish invadors at Inverdorat, the Black Cove, Angus. He was buried on the Isle of Iona. ⁸⁸³

  Noted events in his life were:

• Web Reference: The Grave Site of Constantine I of Scotland.

• War of 1812: Undiscovered Scotland - Constantine I.

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Constantine King of Scotland.
The 10th century Pictish Chronicle Cronica de Origine Antiquorum Pictorum records that "Constantinus filius Cinadi" ruled for 16 years [Skene (1867), I, The Pictish Chronicle, Cronica de origine antiquorum Pictorum, p. 8]. The Annals of Ulster record that in 872 "Artgal king of the Britons of Strathclyde was killed at the instigation of Constantine son of Cinaed" [Annals of Ulster, 872.5, p. 330]. The Chronicle of the Scots and Picts dated 1177 records that "Constantinus mac Kynat" reigned for 15 years, was killed "a Noruagiensibus in bello de Merdo fatha" and was buried "in Iona insula" [Skene (1867), XXIII, Chronicle of the Scots and Picts 1177, p. 151].

• Web Reference: Causantín mac Cináeda from Wikipedia.
Causantín mac Cináeda is often known as Constantine I in reference to his place in modern lists of kings of Scots, but contemporary sources described Causantín only as a Pictish king. A son of Cináed mac Ailpín ("Kenneth MacAlpin"), he succeeded his uncle Domnall mac Ailpín as Pictish king following the latter's death on 13 April 862.