Alpín mac Echach King of Dalriada (Dál Riata)

   Another name for Alpín was King of Galloway Ailpín mac Echach of Dál Riata.

  General Notes:

~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition,170:12, killed in Galloway, abt. 837 ¹⁶⁰

~Weir's British Royal Familes, p. 166, Alpin died fighting the Picts in Galloway on 20 July or in Aug 834, he was succeded by his son Kenneth. ⁸⁸³

  Noted events in his life were:

• Web Reference: Undiscovered Scotland - Kenneth I.

• Background Information. ¹⁰⁹¹
Ailpín mac Echach was the son of Eochaid, king of Dál Rita. He was the father of the first Baelic king of the united kingdom of the Picts and Scots, Cinaed mac Ailpín, who came to power in 843. Since the name Ailpín is not known in early Ireland, Ailpín may have been of Pictish or Brythonic origin.

~ Celtic Culture, A Historic Encyclopedia, p. 32

• Pedigree. ¹¹²⁴
"Pedigree of the Lords of Tindale," A History of Northumberland, Vol. III, Part II, p. 5

| Alpin, the son of Achaius, King of Scotia, or argyle, after reign of about three years, was taken in battle and beheaded by the Picts in 836 | Kenneth, called the "Great King" of Scotia, began to reign in 836, and in 843 conquered Pictavia of the land of the Picts, and united it to his own. He died at the Pictish capital, Forteviot, in Perthshire on 1 Fec 859 | Constantine succeeded Donald III in 863, and died fighting against the Danes near Crail on the Firth or Forth in 861 | Donal, King after his cousin Eocha, from 893 to 904 when he was slain in a battle with the Danes at Forteviot | Malcolm succeeded his cousin Constantine in 944, but in 953, was treacherously slain in Fettersoe near Stonehaven in Kincardineshire | Kenneth succeed his cousin Culen, son of Indulf, in 970 and annexed Cumbria or Strathclyde to Scotland. He was murdered at Fettercairn or Fordun in Kincardineshire in 997 | Malcolm, made prince of Cumberland by his father, in parliament, at Scone; but deprived of that dignity by Æthelred II of England; began to reign after his cousin Kenneth in 1003 and died at Glamis in 1033. | Beatrice or Bethoc, daughter of Malcolm, married Crinan, abbot of Dunkeld | Duncan, tanist of Scotland & Prince of Cumberland was king after his grandfather Malcolm, in 1033, but was slain Macbeth at Bothganowan near Elgrin in 1039 |