Donnchad mac Maíl Coluim

   Other names for Donnchad were Donnchadh mac Mhaoil Chaluim and Duncan II, King of Scotland.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information:. ⁸⁷¹
Duncan, the second, was born circa 1060. He reigned only six months before being killed 12 Nov 1094. he married Ethelreda of Dunbar and had a son, William Fitz Duncan who married Alice, daughter of Robert de Rumely.

~The Scots Peerage, Vol. I, pp. 3-4

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Duncan II King of Scotland.
The Annals of Inisfallen record that "Domnall son of Donnchadh" killed "Donnchadh son of Mael Coluim king of Alba" in 1094 and "took the kingship of Alba" [Annals of Inisfallen, 1094.4, p. 249]. The Annals of Ulster record that "Donnchad son of Mael Coluim, king of Scotland, was treacherously killed by his own brothers Domnall and Edmond" in 1094 [Annals of Ulster, 1094.7, p. 530]. The Chronicle of John of Fordun records that "Duncan, King Malcolm's illegitimate son" was "slain at Monthechin by the Earl of Mernys…Malpetri, in Scottish, Malpedir, through the wiles of his uncle Donald" as was buried "in the island of Iona" [John of Fordun (Skene), Book V, XXIV, p. 213].

Donnchad married Æthereda, daughter of Gospatic Earl of Northumberland. The Cronicon Cumbriæ records that "Waldevus filius comitis Cospatricii" enfeoffed "Waldeve filio Gileminii" with property and "Ethreda sorore sua" [Dugdale Monasticon III, Wetherall Priory, Cumberland, XVI, Cronicon Cumbriæ, p. 585]. The Cronicon Cumbriæ records that "Ethreda sorore Waldevi patris sui" married "Doncani comes de Murrayse" and that their son "Willielmus" succeeded her nephew "Alanus filius Waldevi" [Dugdale Monasticon III, Wetherall Priory, Cumberland, XVI, Cronicon Cumbriæ, p. 585]. Donnchad and Æthereda had at least one son, William Fitz Duncan Alice de Rumilly.

• Pedigree. ¹¹²⁴
"Pedigree of the Lords of Tindale," A History of Northumberland, Vol. III, Part II, pp. 5-6>

| 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 | Malcolm = Unknow Mistress, Malcolm, Surnamed Canmore, succeeded Lulach in 1057; crowned at Scone 25 Apr 1057; was slain along with his son Edward, before Ainwick, 13 Nov 1093 | Duncan = Etherlreda, Duncan, the bastard son of Malcolm III & by the lady Ethelreda he had a son William Fitz Duncan, who married Alice Romily

Donnchad married Æthelreda of Northumberland, daughter of Gospatrick, Earl of Northumberland Earl of Dunbar and Unknown. (Æthelreda of Northumberland was buried in Dunfermline Abbey, Fife, Scotland.)