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  • Name Máel Coluim I Mac Domnaill 
    Suffix Rí na h'Alba 
    Nickname Máel Colui... 
    Born 900 
    Address:
    Moray, Fordoun
    Moray, Fordoun
    Scotland 
    Christened Isle Of Iona, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Christening Isle Of Iona, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Christening Isle Of Iona, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Christening Isle of Iona, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Christening Isle Of Iona, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Name King Malcolm I of Scotland 
    Name Mael Coluim mac Domnaill 
    Name Malcolm I King of Scotland 
    Name Malcolm Macdomhnull 
    Occupation King of Scotland, King of Scots, King of Alba, Regent 947-954 
    Occupation 937  King of Scots Find all individuals with events at this location 
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    Occupation 942  King of the Scots Find all individuals with events at this location 
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    Occupation 943 
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    Occupation 943 
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    Occupation 954 
    King of Scotland 
    Residence Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Died 954 
    Address:
    Fetteresson
    Fetteresson
    Scotland 
    Buried 954  Saint Orans Chapel Cemetery Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Address:
    Isle of Iona
    Isle of Iona, Scotland
    UK 
    Notes 
    • {geni:about_me} Malcolm (1), the son of Donald ruled for 11 (2) years. With his army Malcolm proceeded to Moray, and slew Cellach. In the seventh year of his rule he raided the English as far as the River Tees (3), and seized a great number of men, and many herds of cattle. The Scots called that 'the plunder of the Albidi or the Nainndisi'. However, others say that Constantine had made that raid, demanding of the king, that is, Malcolm, that he should give command of the army to him for a week, so he could visit the English. For all that, the truth is that it was not Malcolm who made the raid, but Constantine instigated it, as I said. However Constantine died in the tenth year of the rule (of Malcolm) under the crown of repentance in good old age. And men of Mearns killed Malcolm in Fodresach(4), that is in Claideom.
      # Or Máel Coluim
      # The other king lists all say 9 years, but 11 is more likely to be correct.
      # In 945 Edmund of Wessex conquered Strathclyde and handed it over to Malcolm in exchange for an alliance against the Vikings, who at that time ruled Northumbria. These raids may have been connected with this alliance.
      # Fodresach is Fetteresson near Stonehaven. This was in 954. [U954.2]
      http://www.kjhskj75z.talktalk.net/pictish.html#third / Intel rating B1.

      The identity of "Cellach" is unknown, as is whether he was a ruler of Moray or an invader of Moray.

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      '''Máel Coluim mac Domnaill''' (anglicised Malcolm I) (c. 900–954) was King of Scots (from 943 – 954), becoming king when his cousin Causantín mac Áeda abdicated to become a monk. He was the son of Domnall mac Causantín (Donald II, King of Scots).

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_I_of_Scotland

      http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SCOTLAND.htm

      http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/359877/Malcolm-I

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      King Of Scotland; King In Alba between 942 and 951

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      Malcolm I, King of Alba

      From http://thepeerage.com/p10289.htm#i102890

      Malcolm I, King of Alba was born circa 897. He was the son of Donald II, King of Alba. He died in 954, killed in the Battle of Fetterson.1 He was buried at Isle of Iona, Argylshire, Scotland.1

      He was also known as Máel Coluim mac Domnaill. 2 He succeeded to the title of King Malcolm I of Alba in 943.1

      Succeeded Constantine II who was killed in the Mearns (Grampians) by the people of Moray, whom he had forcibly subjugated on his accession in 943. Succeeded by Indulf.


      Children of Malcolm I, King of Alba
      # 1.Kenneth II, King of Alba+ d. 995
      # 2.Duff 'the Black', King of Alba+ b. 930, d. 967



      Citations
      * 1.[S11] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 171. Hereinafter cited as Britain's Royal Families.
      * 2.[S130] Wikipedia, online http;//www.wikipedia.org. Hereinafter cited as Wikipedia.



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      Reigned 889-900


      Notes
      Other parishes in Scotland may boast themselves the birthplace of greater men than can Fordoun, but no district in Scotland has seen the death of so many Sovereigns.
      Donald, King of Alban (889 - 900) was killed in a battle between the Danes and the Scots.
      "Over Fotherdun upon the brink of the waves he lies,
      In the east, in his broad, gory bed"
      says St Berchan.
      Dr Skene identifies this with the parish of Fordoun, although referring to Dun Fother or Dunnottar as the locality. The Kingdom of Alban extended from the Forth to the Spey.
      (http://www.auchenblae.net/strathfinella.htm)

      Sources
      [S327] Lakey - Genealogy, Gilbert Marlow Lakey, (http://members.cox.net/benchrest/Genealogy.html)

      [S370] Kings & Queens, Neil Grant, (pub 2003 by Harper-Collins, Publishers, Hammersmith, London W6 8JB), p8 (Reliability: 3)

      [S410] Pedigrees of the Scottish Clans, John D McLaughlin, (http://members.aol.com/lochlan4/pedigree.htm), Genelaig Albanensium - (Pedigree of the Kings of Scotland) (Reliability: 3)
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      Notes ◦Other parishes in Scotland may boast themselves the birthplace of greater men than can Fordoun, but no district in Scotland has seen the death of so many Sovereigns.

      The Pictish Chronicle, written in the tenth century, records that in 954 Malcolm I, King of Alban, was slain by the "Men of the Mearns" (viri na Moerne) at Fodresach (Fetteresso). Dr Skene, apparently by mistake, supposes his death to have occurred in the parish of Fordoun. St Berchan says:
      Nine years to his reign
      Traversing the Borders,
      On the brink of Dun Fother at last
      Will shout the Gael around his grave
      (http://www.auchenblae.net/strathfinella.htm)




      Sources 1.[S327] Lakey - Genealogy, Gilbert Marlow Lakey, (http://members.cox.net/benchrest/Genealogy.html)


      2.[S370] Kings & Queens, Neil Grant, (pub 2003 by Harper-Collins, Publishers, Hammersmith, London W6 8JB), p8 (Reliability: 3)


      3.[S410] Pedigrees of the Scottish Clans, John D McLaughlin, (http://members.aol.com/lochlan4/pedigree.htm), Genelaig Albanensium - (Pedigree of the Kings of Scotland) (Reliability: 3


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      Máel Coluim mac Domnaill (anglicized Malcolm I) was king of Scots, becoming king when his cousin Causantín mac Áeda abdicated to become a monk. He was the son of Domnaill mac Causantín.

      Since his father was known to have died in the year 900, Malcolm must have been born no later than 901. By the 940s, he was no longer a young man, and may have become impatient in awaiting the throne. Willingly or not—the 11th-century Prophecy of Berchán, a verse history in the form of a supposed prophecy, states that it was not a voluntary decision that Constantine II abdicated in 943 and entered a monastery, leaving the kingdom to Malcolm.

      Seven years later, the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba says:

      [Malcolm I] plundered the English as far as the River Tees, and he seized a multitude of people and many herds of cattle: and the Scots called this the raid of Albidosorum, that is, Nainndisi. But others say that Constantine made this raid, asking of the king, Malcolm, that the kingship should be given to him for a week's time, so that he could visit the English. In fact, it was Malcolm who made the raid, but Constantine incited him, as I have said.

      Woolf suggests that the association of Constantine with the raid is a late addition, one derived from a now-lost saga or poem.

      He died in the shield wall next to his men.

      In 945, Edmund of Wessex, having expelled Amlaíb Cuaran (Olaf Sihtricsson) from Northumbria, devastated Cumbria and blinded two sons of Domnaill mac Eógain, king of Strathclyde. It is said that he then "let" or "commended" Strathclyde to Máel Coluim in return for an alliance. What is to be understood by "let" or "commended" is unclear, but it may well mean that Máel Coluim had been the overlord of Strathclyde and that Edmund recognised this while taking lands in southern Cumbria for himself.

      The Chronicle of the Kings of Alba says that Máel Coluim took an army into Moray "and slew Cellach". Cellach is not named in the surviving genealogies of the rulers of Moray, and his identity is unknown.

      Máel Coluim appears to have kept his agreement with the late English king, which may have been renewed with the new king, Edmund having been murdered in 946 and succeeded by his brother Edred. Eric Bloodaxe took York in 948, before being driven out by Edred, and when Amlaíb Cuaran again took York in 949–950, Máel Coluim raided Northumbria as far south as the Tees taking "a multitude of people and many herds of cattle" according to the Chronicle. The Annals of Ulster for 952 report a battle between "the men of Alba and the Britons [of Strathclyde] and the English" against the foreigners, i.e. the Northmen or the Norse-Gaels. This battle is not reported by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and it is unclear whether it should be related to the expulsion of Amlaíb Cuaran from York or the return of Eric Bloodaxe.

      The Annals of Ulster report that Máel Coluim was killed in 954. Other sources place this most probably in the Mearns, either at Fetteresso following the Chronicle, or at Dunnottar following the Prophecy of Berchán. He was buried on Iona. Máel Coluim's sons Dub and Cináed were later kings.
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      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_I_of_Scotland
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      Máel Coluim mac Domnaill (anglicised Malcolm I) (c. 900–954) was king of Scots (before 943 – 954), becoming king when his cousin Causantín mac Áeda abdicated to become a monk. He was the son of Domnaill mac Causantín (Donald II, King of Scots).

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_I_of_Scotland

      http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SCOTLAND.htm

      http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/359877/Malcolm-I

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      King Of Scotland; King In Alba between 942 and 951

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      Malcolm I, King of Alba

      From http://thepeerage.com/p10289.htm#i102890

      Malcolm I, King of Alba was born circa 897. He was the son of Donald II, King of Alba. He died in 954 killed.1 He was buried at Isle of Iona, Argyllshire, Scotland.1

      He was also known as Máel Coluim mac Domnaill.2 He succeeded to the title of King Malcolm I of Alba in 943.1

      Succeeded Constantine II. Killed in the Mearns (Grampians) by the people of Moray, whom he had forcibly subjugated on his accession in 943. Succeeded by Indulf.

      Children of Malcolm I, King of Alba

      1.Kenneth II, King of Alba+ d. 995
      2.Duff 'the Black', King of Alba+ b. 930, d. 967
      Citations

      1.[S11] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 171. Hereinafter cited as Britain's Royal Families.
      2.[S130] Wikipedia, online http://www.wikipedia.org. Hereinafter cited as Wikipedia.
      -------------------- Reigned 889-900

      Notes Other parishes in Scotland may boast themselves the birthplace of greater men than can Fordoun, but no district in Scotland has seen the death of so many Sovereigns. Donald, King of Alban (889 - 900) was killed in a battle between the Danes and the Scots. "Over Fotherdun upon the brink of the waves he lies, In the east, in his broad, gory bed" says St Berchan. Dr. Skene identifies this with the parish of Fordoun, although referring to Dun Fother or Dunnottar as the locality. The Kingdom of Alban extended from the Forth to the Spey. (http://www.auchenblae.net/strathfinella.htm)

      Sources [S327] Lakey - Genealogy, Gilbert Marlow Lakey, (http://members.cox.net/benchrest/Genealogy.html)

      [S370] Kings & Queens, Neil Grant, (pub 2003 by Harper-Collins, Publishers, Hammersmith, London W6 8JB), p8 (Reliability: 3)

      [S410] Pedigrees of the Scottish Clans, John D McLaughlin, (http://members.aol.com/lochlan4/pedigree.htm), Genelaig Albanensium - (Pedigree of the Kings of Scotland) (Reliability: 3) --------------------

      Notes ◦Other parishes in Scotland may boast themselves the birthplace of greater men than can Fordoun, but no district in Scotland has seen the death of so many Sovereigns.

      The Pictish Chronicle, written in the tenth century, records that in 954 Malcolm I, King of Alban, was slain by the "Men of the Mearns" (viri na Moerne) at Fodresach (Fetteresso). Dr. Skene, apparently by mistake, supposes his death to have occurred in the parish of Fordoun. St. Berchan says: Nine years to his reign Traversing the Borders, On the brink of Dun Fother at last Will shout the Gael around his grave (http://www.auchenblae.net/strathfinella.htm)
      Sources 1.[S327] Lakey - Genealogy, Gilbert Marlow Lakey, (http://members.cox.net/benchrest/Genealogy.html)

      2.[S370] Kings & Queens, Neil Grant, (pub 2003 by Harper-Collins, Publishers, Hammersmith, London W6 8JB), p8 (Reliability: 3)

      3.[S410] Pedigrees of the Scottish Clans, John D McLaughlin, (http://members.aol.com/lochlan4/pedigree.htm), Genelaig Albanensium - (Pedigree of the Kings of Scotland) (Reliability: 3

      -------------------- Máel Coluim mac Domnaill (anglicized Malcolm I) was king of Scots, becoming king when his cousin Causantín mac Áeda abdicated to become a monk. He was the son of Domnaill mac Causantín.

      Since his father was known to have died in the year 900, Malcolm must have been born no later than 901. By the 940s, he was no longer a young man, and may have become impatient in awaiting the throne. Willingly or not—the 11th-century Prophecy of Berchán, a verse history in the form of a supposed prophecy, states that it was not a voluntary decision that Constantine II abdicated in 943 and entered a monastery, leaving the kingdom to Malcolm.

      Seven years later, the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba says:

      [Malcolm I] plundered the English as far as the River Tees, and he seized a multitude of people and many herds of cattle: and the Scots called this the raid of Albidosorum, that is, Nainndisi. But others say that Constantine made this raid, asking of the king, Malcolm, that the kingship should be given to him for a week's time, so that he could visit the English. In fact, it was Malcolm who made the raid, but Constantine incited him, as I have said.

      Woolf suggests that the association of Constantine with the raid is a late addition, one derived from a now-lost saga or poem.

      He died in the shield wall next to his men.

      In 945, Edmund of Wessex, having expelled Amlaíb Cuaran (Olaf Sihtricsson) from Northumbria, devastated Cumbria and blinded two sons of Domnaill mac Eógain, king of Strathclyde. It is said that he then "let" or "commended" Strathclyde to Máel Coluim in return for an alliance. What is to be understood by "let" or "commended" is unclear, but it may well mean that Máel Coluim had been the overlord of Strathclyde and that Edmund recognised this while taking lands in southern Cumbria for himself.

      The Chronicle of the Kings of Alba says that Máel Coluim took an army into Moray "and slew Cellach". Cellach is not named in the surviving genealogies of the rulers of Moray, and his identity is unknown.

      Máel Coluim appears to have kept his agreement with the late English king, which may have been renewed with the new king, Edmund having been murdered in 946 and succeeded by his brother Edred. Eric Bloodaxe took York in 948, before being driven out by Edred, and when Amlaíb Cuaran again took York in 949–950, Máel Coluim raided Northumbria as far south as the Tees taking "a multitude of people and many herds of cattle" according to the Chronicle. The Annals of Ulster for 952 report a battle between "the men of Alba and the Britons [of Strathclyde] and the English" against the foreigners, i.e. the Northmen or the Norse-Gaels. This battle is not reported by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and it is unclear whether it should be related to the expulsion of Amlaíb Cuaran from York or the return of Eric Bloodaxe.

      The Annals of Ulster report that Máel Coluim was killed in 954. Other sources place this most probably in the Mearns, either at Fetteresso following the Chronicle, or at Dunnottar following the Prophecy of Berchán. He was buried on Iona. Máel Coluim's sons Dub and Cináed were later kings. -------------------- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_I_of_Scotland
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      He become king when his cousin Causantín mac Áeda abdicated to become a monk.

      Malcolm I plundered the English as far as the River Tees, and he seized a multitude of people and many herds of cattle: and the Scots called this the raid of Albidosorum, that is, Nainndisi. But others say that Constantine made this raid, asking of the king, Malcolm, that the kingship should be given to him for a week's time, so that he could visit the English. In fact, it was Malcolm who made the raid, but Constantine incited him.

      The Annals of Ulster report that Máel Coluim was killed in 954. Other sources place this most probably in the Mearns, either at Fetteresso following the Chronicle, or at Dunnottar following the Prophecy of Berchán. He was buried on Iona. Máel Coluim's sons Dub and Cináed were later kings.
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      http://www.ourfamtree.org/pedigree.cfm?pid=12247
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      Edgar, the Aetheling, was the son of Prince Edward of the ancient and royal Saxon House of Wessex and his mother, Agatha, was the daughter of Henry II, emperor of Germany.

      Edgar, his mother Agatha, and his two sisters Margaret and Christina, came to England to the court of Edward the Confessor, bringing with them a large number of Hungarian attendants.

      Edgar, the Aetheling, had in his own person the Anglo-Saxon claim to the crown of England, but before he could act, William, Duke of Normandy, landed an army in England, gained the throne, and was crowned in London before the end of the year 1066.

      Edgar abandoned his claim to the throne and swore loyalty to William at Berkhamstead on December 25, 1066. In return, William gave Edgar an earldom with large possessions.

      Edgar later became suspicious of William, and taking his two sisters, his mother Agatha, and their attendants, fled England and sailed for Scotland. High winds drove their ship into the Firth of Forth at St. Margaret's Hope, Queenferry, Scotland. They were received by King Malcolm II, Canmore of Scotland.

      King Malcolm II was the son of King Duncan of Scotland. King Duncan had been killed in a battle with MacBeth. Afterwards, Malcolm II defeated MacBeth and took the Scottish crown as Malcolm II, Canmore.

      Later, King Malcolm offered his hand to Princess Margaret, daughter of Agatha, and sister of Edgar. Margaret accepted and became the Queen of Scotland.

      ======================

      He gained the title of King Kenneth of Alba. He succeeded to the title of King Kenneth II of Scotland.

      He was possbily killed by Finvela, a noblewoman whose son was killed by the king. She is said to have lured Kenneth into her home promising to unmask traiters. In one room, a statue was connected to several hidden crossbows which were set to fire bolts from every side when a golden apple on the statue was lifted. After a great feast, at which wine flowed freely, Finvela took her drunken guest into the fatal room and offered him the golden apple as a gesture of peace. As he lifted the apple, he was struck by a hail of bolts.

      He has an extensive biographical entry in the Dictionary of National Biography
    • Malcolm I King of Scotland
      Reign: 942-954
    • Reigned as King of Scotland from 942-954.[FAVthomas.FTW]

      Malcolm became King of Scots in 943, when his predecessor ConstantineII abdicated and retired to a monastery. Malcolm seems to have enjoyedfriendly relations with his English neighbours. It is recorded that KingEdmund of England granted Strathclyde to Malcolm in 945 after ravagingit, and whatever agreement they entered into was renewed by Edmund'sbrother and successor Eadred in 946. The upshot of this agreement seemsto have been cooperation with the English in wresting Northumbria fromViking rule. Malcolm invaded Northumbria twice; in 950 and 952. Malcolmwas killed by his own subjects in 954, and was succeeded by his secondcousin Indulf.REFN: 1321
    • From THE RUFUS PARKS PEDIGREE by Brian J.L. Berry, chart pg 45.

      Page 44:

      17. Malcolm I MacDonald (Mael-Coluim), perhaps murdered at Blervie Castle,
      near Forres in 954; king from 943. He brought the southward thrust of Alban to a new point 945 with the acquisition of Cumberland and Westmoreland under a treaty with King Edmund I of England. Upon Malcolm's death the rule passed in turn to his cousins Indulph and Cuilean, then to Kenneth II.

      Source: "Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists" by Frederick Lewis Weis.

      Page 145 line (170-16.):

      16. Mael-Coluim (Malcolm), King of Scots, 943, killed by the men of Moray, 954.
    • Malcolm I of Scotland
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      Malcolm I
      (Máel Coluim mac Domnaill)
      King of Scots
      Reign 943–954
      Died 954
      Place of death Fetteresso or Dunnottar
      Buried Iona
      Predecessor Constantine II (Causantín mac Áeda)
      Successor Indulf (Ildulb mac Causantín)
      Offspring Dub;
      Kenneth II (Cináed mac Maíl Choluim)
      Royal House Alpin
      Father Donald II (Domnall mac Causantín)

      Máel Coluim mac Domnaill (Modern Gaelic: Maol Chaluim mac Dhòmhnaill),[1] anglicised as Malcolm I, and nicknamed An Bodhbhdercc, "the Dangerous Red"[2] (before 900 – 954) was king of Scots, becoming king when his cousin Constantine II (Causantín mac Áeda) abdicated to become a monk. He was the son of Donald II (Domnall mac Causantín).

      In 945 Edmund the Elder, King of England, having expelled Olaf Sihtricsson (Amlaíb Cuaran) from Northumbria, devastated Cumbria and blinded two sons of Domnall III (Domnall mac Eógain), king of Strathclyde. It is said that he then "let" or "commended" Strathclyde to Malcolm in return for an alliance.[3] What is to be understood by "let" or "commended" is unclear, but it may well mean that Malcolm had been the overlord of Strathclyde and that Edmund recognised this while taking lands in southern Cumbria for himself.[4]

      The Chronicle of the Kings of Alba says that Malcolm took an army into Moray "and slew Cellach". Cellach is not named in the surviving genealogies of the rulers of Moray, and his identity is unknown.[5]

      Malcolm appears to have kept his agreement with the late English king, which may have been renewed with the new king, Edmund having been murdered in 946 and succeeded by his brother Edred. Eric Bloodaxe took York in 948, before being driven out by Edred, and when Olaf Sihtricsson again took York in 949–950, Malcolm raided Northumbria as far south as the Tees taking "a multitude of people and many herds of cattle" according to the Chronicle.[6] The Annals of Ulster for 952 report a battle between "the men of Alba and the Britons [of Strathclyde] and the English" against the foreigners, i.e. the Northmen or the Norse-Gaels. This battle is not reported by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and it is unclear whether it should be related to the expulsion of Olaf Sihtricsson from York or the return of Eric Bloodaxe.[7]

      The Annals of Ulster report that Malcolm was killed in 954. Other sources place this most probably in the Mearns, either at Fetteresso following the Chronicle, or at Dunnottar following the Prophecy of Berchán. He was buried on Iona.[8] Malcolm's sons Dub and Kenneth were later kings.
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    • becoming king when his cousin Constantine II (Causantín mac Áeda) abdicated to become a monk.
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      King of Scots 942-954; killed by the men of Moray, 954.
    • From Genealogical Library book "House of Adam".
    • !SOURCES:
      1. Burke's Peerage 99th Ed (GS #942 D22bup prefix p. 285-86)
      2. Dict of Nat'l Biog (GS #920.042 D561n vol 35 p. 398-99)
      3. A Vindication of Macbeth (GS #929.2706 M288c p. 9, 14)
      4. Encyclopedia Britannica 1964 Ed (GS #032 En19b vol 14 p. 725)
      5. Also searched without positive results: Scots Peerage, The Complete Peerage, Royal Dau of Engl, and Queens of Sctl and English Princes
    • From Genealogical Library book "House of Adam".
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      Death place at London, England
      Srce: Broderbund World Family Tree Vol. II, pedigree # 1822
      Death place at Fordoun, Knvrdn., Scotland
      [Brøderbund WFT Vol. 2, Ed. 1, Tree #1990, Date of Import: 18 Jul 1996]
      Acceded 943-954.
    • Malcolm I (Máel Coluim mac Domnaill, død 954) var konge av Skottland fra 943 til sin død. Han var sønn av Donald II, og overtok tronen etter sin fetter Konstantin da denne abdiserte og gikk i kloster.

      Malcolm viste som prins at han hadde gode lederegenskaper, og hadde en sterk posisjon som konge. Edmund I av England ønsket å alliere seg med ham, og gav fra seg Cumbria, som dengang bestod av Cumberland og deler av Westmorland, i 945. Som motytelse skulle Malcolm forsvare område og bli Edmunds allierte. Dette betydde at Skottland måtte sende militær støtte dersom England ble angrepet av daner fra Northumbria eller nordmenn fra Irland.

      Edred av England, Edmunds bror og etterfølger, ba om og fikk slik støtte mot Anlaf av Northumberland. Skottene og engelskmennene la området øde og tok folk og kveg med seg. Da vikinger invaderte området senere sendte ledet Malcolm i 949 og 951 styrker mot engelskmennene, og i 954 underla Edred seg de nordlige grevskapene.

      I 954 gjorde Cellach av Moray opprør. Malcolm drepte Cellach, men falt selv på stedet hvor Fetteresso Castle ble reist av en av Cellachs følgesvenner. Han ble gravlagt på Iona. En alternativ historie forteller at han døde ved Auldearn i Moray, og en legende forteller at graven hans ble funnet på Fetteresso i 1822. Krypten det er snakk om er en grav fra bronsealderen som slottet ble reist over, så det er ikke hold i legenden.

      Malcolm var gift, men hans hustrus navn er ikke kjent. Hans sønn ble senere konge under navnet Kenneth II.
    • DEATH: Killed by men of Moray
    • OR "MAEL-COLUIM"; KING OF SCOTLAND 942-954; KILLED BY THE MEN OF MORAY
    • 33rd great grandfather
    • Malcolm succeeded to the crown when his cousin Constantine II entered a monastery (943). He annexed Moray to the kingdom for the first time. After driving the Danes from York, the English king Edmund turned Cumbria over to Malcolm, apparently as a fief or seal of alliance. Later, when Norsemen again invaded the land, the Scots sent raids against the English, and in 954 the West Saxon king Eadred reunited the northern counties to his dominions. Malcolm was slain the same year.

      Another name for Malcolm was Malcolm MacDonald.

      Acceded: King of the Picts and Scots (Alba), 943.
    • Malcolm I
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    • King of the Alba (Albany) , modern Scotland North of the Forth & Clyde
      Reigned from 942 to 954 and was succeeded by his cousin Indulph. {Burke�s Peerage} [GADD.GED]
      Slain by Moray men
    • !SOURCES:
      1. Burke's Peerage 99th Ed (GS #942 D22bup prefix p. 285-86)
      2. Dict of Nat'l Biog (GS #920.042 D561n vol 35 p. 398-99)
      3. A Vindication of Macbeth (GS #929.2706 M288c p. 9, 14)
      4. Encyclopedia Britannica 1964 Ed (GS #032 En19b vol 14 p. 725)
      5. Also searched without positive results: Scots Peerage, The Complete Peerage, Royal Dau of Engl, and Queens of Sctl and English Princes
    • DEATH: Killed by men of Moray
    • DEATH: Killed by men of Moray
    • !SOURCES:
      1. Burke's Peerage 99th Ed (GS #942 D22bup prefix p. 285-86)
      2. Dict of Nat'l Biog (GS #920.042 D561n vol 35 p. 398-99)
      3. A Vindication of Macbeth (GS #929.2706 M288c p. 9, 14)
      4. Encyclopedia Britannica 1964 Ed (GS #032 En19b vol 14 p. 725)
      5. Also searched without positive results: Scots Peerage, The Complete Peerage, Royal Dau of Engl, and Queens of Sctl and English Princes
    • Wikipedia EN : Máel Coluim mac Domnaill (anglicised Malcolm I) (before 900 954) was king of Scots, becoming king when his cousin Causantín mac Áeda abdicated to become a monk. He was the son of Domnall mac Causantín. In 945 Edmund of Wessex, having expelled Amlaíb Cuaran (Olaf Sihtricsson) from Northumbria, devastated Cumbria and blinded two sons of Domnall mac Eógain, king of Strathclyde. It is said that he then "let" or "commended" Strathclyde to Máel Coluim in return for an alliance. What is to be understood by "let" or "commended" is unclear, but it may well mean that Máel Coluim had been the overlord of Strathclyde and that Edmund recognised this while taking lands in southern Cumbria for himself.
      The Chronicle of the Kings of Alba says that Máel Coluim took an army into Moray "and slew Cellach". Cellach is not named in the surviving genealogies of the rulers of Moray, and his identity is unknown.
      Máel Coluim appears to have kept his agreement with the late English king, which may have been renewed with the new king, Edmund having been murdered in 946 and succeeded by his brother Edred. Eric Bloodaxe took York in 948, before being driven out by Edred, and when Amlaíb Cuaran again took York in 949 950, Máel Coluim raided Northumbria as far south as the Tees taking "a multitude of people and many herds of cattle" according to the Chronicle. The Annals of Ulster for 952 report a battle between "the men of Alba and the Britons [of Strathclyde] and the English" against the foreigners, i.e. the Northmen or the Norse-Gaels. This battle is not reported by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and it is unclear whether it should be related to the expulsion of Amlaíb Cuaran from York or the return of Eric Bloodaxe.
      The Annals of Ulster report that Máel Coluim was killed in 954. Other sources place this most probably in the Mearns, either at Fetteresso following the Chronicle, or at Dunnottar following the Prophecy of Berchán. He was buried on Iona. Máel Coluim's sons Dub and Cináed were later kings.
    • He ruled from 942 to 954. Malcolm succeeded his father's cousin, Castantin mac Áeda in 943. His reign saw a continuation of the consolidation of Scottish control over the country south of the Forth. However, he faced growing tensions within the ruling kindred, and in 954 was killed in Moray, perhaps at the hands of his mac Áeda relatives. He was succeeded by Castantin mac Aeda's son, Idulb (Indulf).
    • !SOURCES:
      1. Burke's Peerage 99th Ed (GS #942 D22bup prefix p. 285-86)
      2. Dict of Nat'l Biog (GS #920.042 D561n vol 35 p. 398-99)
      3. A Vindication of Macbeth (GS #929.2706 M288c p. 9, 14)
      4. Encyclopedia Britannica 1964 Ed (GS #032 En19b vol 14 p. 725)
      5. Also searched without positive results: Scots Peerage, The Complete Peerage, Royal Dau of Engl, and Queens of Sctl and English Princes
    • He ruled from 942 to 954. Malcolm succeeded his father's cousin, Castantin mac Áeda in 943. His reign saw a continuation of the consolidation of Scottish control over the country south of the Forth. However, he faced growing tensions within the ruling kindred, and in 954 was killed in Moray, perhaps at the hands of his mac Áeda relatives. He was succeeded by Castantin mac Aeda's son, Idulb (Indulf).
    • King of Alba

      died in battle
    • Name Prefix: King Name Suffix: Of Scotland
    • Malcolm sat on the throne from 943 - 954.
      Malcolm I (943-954)
      King of the Picts and Scots (Alba), also called MALCOLM MACDONALD. Malcolm succeeded to the crown when his cousin Constantine II entered a monastery (943). He annexed Moray to the kingdom for the first time. After driving the Danes from York, the English king Edmund turned Cumbria over to Malcolm, apparently as a fief or seal of alliance. Later, when Norsemen again invaded the land, the Scots sent raids against the English, and in 954 the West Saxon king Eadred reunited the northern counties to his dominions. Malcolm was slain the same year at Fordoun in the Mearns in a breif conflict with his own northern regions.
      General History of the Highlands
      Malcolm I to Malcom II 1020
      http://www.electricscotland.com/history/genhist/hist22.html
      Malcolm I, the son of Donald IV, obtained the abdicated throne. He was a prince of great abilities and prudence, and Edmund of England courted his alliance by ceding Cumbria, the consisting of Cumberland and part of Westmorland, to him, in the year 945, on condition that he would defend that northern county, and become an ally of Edmund. Edred, the brother and successor of Edmund, accordingly applied for, and obtained the aid of Malcolm against Anlaf, king of Northumberland, whose country, according to the barbarous practice of the times, he wasted, and carried off the people with their cattle. Malcolm, after putting down an insurrection of the Moray-men under Cellach, their Maormor, or chief, whom he slew, was sometimes thereafter slain, as is supposed, atUlurn or Auldearn in Moray, by one of these men, in revenge for the death of his chief.
      Indulph, the son of Constantine III, succeeded the murdered monarch in the year 953. He sustained many severe conflicts with the Danes, and ultimately lost his life in 961, after a reign of eight years, in asuccessful action with these pirates, on the moor which lies to the westward of Cullen.
      Duff, the son of Malcolm I, now mounted the throne; but Culen, the son of Indulph, laid claim to the sceptre which his father had wielded.The parties met at Drum Crup (probably Crief), and, after a doubtful struggle, in which Doncha, the Abbot of Dunkeld, and Dubdou, the Maormor of Athole, the partisans of Culen, lost their lives, victory declared for Duff. But this triumph was of short duration, for Duff was afterwards obliged to retreat from Forteviot into the north, and was assassinated at Forres in the year 965, after a bried and unhappy reign of four years and a half.
      Culen, the son of Indulph, succeeded, as a matter of course, to the crown of Duff, which he stained by his vices. He and his brother Eocha were slain in Lothian, in an action with the Britons of Strathclyde in970, after an inglorious reign of four years and a half. During his reign Edinburgh was captured from the English, this being the first known step in the progress of the gradual extension of the Scottish kingdom between the Forth and the Tweed.
      Kenneth III, son of Malcolm I, and brother of Duff, succeeded Culen the same year. He waged a successful war against the Britons of Srathclyde, and annexed their territories to his kingdom. During his reign the Danes meditiated an attack upon Forteviot, or Dunkeld, for the purposes of plunder, and, with this view, they sailed up the Tay with a numerous fleet. Kenneth does not appear to have been fully prepared, being probably not aware of the intentions of the enemy; but collecting as many of his chiefs and their followers as the spur of the occasion would allow, he met the Danes at Luncarty, in the vicinity of Perth. Malcolm, the Tanist, prince of Cumberland, it is said, commanded the right wing of the Scottish army; Duncan, the Maormor of Athole, had the charge of the left; and Kenneth, the king, commanded the centre. The Danes with their battle-exes made dreadful havoc, and compelled the Scottish army to give way; but the latter was rallied by the famous Hay, the traditional ancestor of the Kinnoul family, and finally repulsed the Danes, who, as usual, fled to their ships. Burton thinks the battleof Luncarty "a recent invention".
      The defeat of the Danes enabled Kenneth to turn his attention to the domestic concerns of his kingdom. He appears to have directed his thoughts to bring about a complete change in the mode of succession to thecrown, in order to perppetuate in and confine the crown to his own descendants. This alternation could not be well accomplished as long as Malcolm, the son of Duff, the Tanist of the kingdom, and price of Cumberland, stood in the way; and, accordingly, it has been said that Kenneth was the cause of the untimely death of prince Malcolm, who is stated to have been poisoned. It is said that Kenneth got an act passed, that in future the son, or nearest male heir, of the king, should always succeed to the throne; and that in case that son or heir were not of age at the time of the king's demise, that a person of rank should be chosen Regent of the kingdom, until the minor attained his fourteenth year, when he should assume the reins of government; but whether such a law was really passed on the moot-hill of Scone or not, of which we have no evidence, certain it is that two other prices succeeded to the crown before Malcolm the son of Kenneth. Kenneth, after a reign oftwenty four years, was, it is said, in 994 assassintated at Fettercairn by Finella, the wife of the Maormor of the Mearns, and the daughterof Cunechat, the Maormor of Angus, in revenge for having put her onlyson to death. It has been thought that till this time the Maormorshipof Angus was in some measure independent of the Scottish crown, neverhaving thouroughly yielded to its supremacy, that the death of the young chief took place in course of an effort on the part of Kenneth forits reduction, and that Kenneth himself was on a visit to the quarterat the time of his death, for exacting the usual royal privilges of cain and cuairt, or a certain tax and certain provision for the king, due by the chiefd or landholders of the kingdom.
      Constantine IV, son of Culen, succeeded; but his right ws disputed byKenneth, the Grim, i.e. strong, son of Duff. The dispute was decided at Rathveramon, i.e. the castle at the mouth of the Almond, near Perth, where Constantine lost his life int he year 995.
      Kenneth IV, the son of Duff, now obtained the sceptre which he had coveted; but was distirbed in the possession thereof by Malcolm, the sonof Kenneth III, heir presumptive to the crown. Malcolm took the fieldin 1003, and decided his claim to the crown in a bloody battle at Monivaird, in Strathearn, in which Kenneth, after a noble resistance, received a mortal wound.
      Malcolm II now ascended the vacant throne, but was not destined to enjoy repose. At the very begining of his reign he was defeated at Durham by the army of the Earl of Northumberland, under his son Uchtred, who ordered a selection of good-looing Scotch heads to be stuck on the walls of Durham.
      The Danes, who had now obtained a firm footing in England, directed their attention in an especial manner to Scotland, which they were in hopes of subduing. Sigurd, the Earl of Orkney, carried on a harassing and predatory warfare on the shores of Moray Frith, which he continued even after a matrimonial alliance he formed with Malcolm, by marrying his daughter; but this was no singular trait in the character of a Vikingr, who plundered friends and foes with equal pleasure. The scene ofSigurd's operations was chosen by his brother northmen for making a descent which they effected near Speymouth. They carried fire and swordthrough Moray, and laid siege to the fortress of Nairn, one of the strongest in the north. The Danes wee forced to raise the siege for a time, by Malcolm, who encamped his army in a plain near Kilflos or Kinloss. In this position he was attacked by the invaders, and, after a severe action, was forced to retreat, after being seriously wounded.
      Malcom, in 1010, marched north with his army, and encamped at Mortlach. The Danes advanced to meet the Scots, and a dreadful and fierce conflict ensued, the result of which was long dubious. At length the northmen gave way and victory declared for Malcolm. Had the Danes succeeded they would in all probability have obtained as permanent a footing in North Britain as they did in England; but the Scottish kings were determined, at all hazards, never to suffer them to pollute the soil ofScotland by allowing them even the smallest settlement in their dominions. In gratitude to God for his victory, Malcolm endowed a religioushouse at Mortlach, with its church erected near the scene of the action. Maclauchlan, however, maintains that this church was planted by Malcolm Ceanmore.
      Many other conflicts are narrated with minute detail by later chroniclers as having taken place between Malcolm and the Danes, but it is very doubtful how far these are worthy of credit. That Malcolm had enough to do to prevent the Danes from overrunning Scotland and subduing the inhabitants can readily be believed; but as we have few authentic particulars concerning the conflicts which took place, it would serve no purpose to give the imaginary details invented by comparatively recent historians.
      Some time after this Malcolm was engaged in a war with the Northumbrians, and, having led his army, in 1018, to Carham, near Werk, on the southern bank of the Tweed, where he was met by Uchtred, the Earl of Northumberland, a desperate battle took place, which was contested with great valour on both sides. The success was doubtful on either side, though Uchtred claimed a victory; but he did not long enjoy the fruits of it, as he was soon thereafter assassinated when on his road to pay obeisance to the great Canute. Endulf, the brother and successor of Uchtred, justly dreading the power of the Scots, was induced to cede Lothian to Malcolm for ever, who, on this occasion, gave oblations to thechurches and gifts to the clergy, and they in return transmitted his name to posterity. He was designed, par exellence, by the Latin chroniclers, rex victoriosissumus, by St. Berchan, the Forranach or destroyer.
      The last stuggle with which Malcolm was threatened, was with the celebrated Canute, who, for some cause or other not properly explained, entered Scotland in the year 1031; but these powerful parties appear notto have come to action. Canute's expedition appears, from what followd, to have been fitted out to compel Malcolm to do homage for Cumberland, for it is certain that Malcolm engaged to fulfil the conditions onwhich his predecessors had held that country, and that Canute thereafter returned to England.
      But the reign of Malcolm was not distinguished by foreign wars, but by civil contests between rival chiefs. Finlegh, the Maormor of Ross, and the father of Macbeth, was assassinated in 1020, and about twelve years thereafter, Maolbride, the Maormor of Moray, grandfather of Lulach, was, in revenge for Finlegh's murder, burnt within his castle, with fifty of his men.
      At length, after a splendid reign of thirty years, Malcolm slept withhis fathers, and his body was transferred to Iona, and interred with due solemnity among the remains of his predecessors. By some authorites he is said to have been assassintated at Glammis.
      Malcolm was undoubtedly a prince of great acquirements. He made many changes and some improvements in the internal policy of his kingdom, and in him religion always found a guardian and protector. But althoughMalcolm is justly entitled to this praise, he by no means came up to the standard of perfection assigned him by fiction. In his reign Scotland appears to have reached its present boundary on the south, the Tweed, and Strathclyde was incorporated with the rest of the kingdom. Malcolm was the first who was called Rex Scotia, and might justly claim the be so designated, seeing that he was the first to hold sway over nearly the whole of present Scotland - the only portions where his authority appears to have been seriously disputed being those in which the Danes had established themselves
    • Malcolm sat on the throne from 943 - 954.
      Malcolm I (943-954)
      King of the Picts and Scots (Alba), also called MALCOLM MACDONALD. Malcolm succeeded to the crown when his cousin Constantine II entered a monastery (943). He annexed Moray to the kingdom for the first time. After driving the Danes from York, the English king Edmund turned Cumbria over to Malcolm, apparently as a fief or seal of alliance. Later, when Norsemen again invaded the land, the Scots sent raids against the English, and in 954 the West Saxon king Eadred reunited the northern counties to his dominions. Malcolm was slain the same year at Fordoun in the Mearns in a breif conflict with his own northern regions.
      General History of the Highlands
      Malcolm I to Malcom II 1020
      http://www.electricscotland.com/history/genhist/hist22.html
      Malcolm I, the son of Donald IV, obtained the abdicated throne. He was a prince of great abilities and prudence, and Edmund of England courted his alliance by ceding Cumbria, the consisting of Cumberland and part of Westmorland, to him, in the year 945, on condition that he would defend that northern county, and become an ally of Edmund. Edred, the brother and successor of Edmund, accordingly applied for, and obtained the aid of Malcolm against Anlaf, king of Northumberland, whose country, according to the barbarous practice of the times, he wasted, and carried off the people with their cattle. Malcolm, after putting down an insurrection of the Moray-men under Cellach, their Maormor, or chief, whom he slew, was sometimes thereafter slain, as is supposed, atUlurn or Auldearn in Moray, by one of these men, in revenge for the death of his chief.
      Indulph, the son of Constantine III, succeeded the murdered monarch in the year 953. He sustained many severe conflicts with the Danes, and ultimately lost his life in 961, after a reign of eight years, in asuccessful action with these pirates, on the moor which lies to the westward of Cullen.
      Duff, the son of Malcolm I, now mounted the throne; but Culen, the son of Indulph, laid claim to the sceptre which his father had wielded.The parties met at Drum Crup (probably Crief), and, after a doubtful struggle, in which Doncha, the Abbot of Dunkeld, and Dubdou, the Maormor of Athole, the partisans of Culen, lost their lives, victory declared for Duff. But this triumph was of short duration, for Duff was afterwards obliged to retreat from Forteviot into the north, and was assassinated at Forres in the year 965, after a bried and unhappy reign of four years and a half.
      Culen, the son of Indulph, succeeded, as a matter of course, to the crown of Duff, which he stained by his vices. He and his brother Eocha were slain in Lothian, in an action with the Britons of Strathclyde in970, after an inglorious reign of four years and a half. During his reign Edinburgh was captured from the English, this being the first known step in the progress of the gradual extension of the Scottish kingdom between the Forth and the Tweed.
      Kenneth III, son of Malcolm I, and brother of Duff, succeeded Culen the same year. He waged a successful war against the Britons of Srathclyde, and annexed their territories to his kingdom. During his reign the Danes meditiated an attack upon Forteviot, or Dunkeld, for the purposes of plunder, and, with this view, they sailed up the Tay with a numerous fleet. Kenneth does not appear to have been fully prepared, being probably not aware of the intentions of the enemy; but collecting as many of his chiefs and their followers as the spur of the occasion would allow, he met the Danes at Luncarty, in the vicinity of Perth. Malcolm, the Tanist, prince of Cumberland, it is said, commanded the right wing of the Scottish army; Duncan, the Maormor of Athole, had the charge of the left; and Kenneth, the king, commanded the centre. The Danes with their battle-exes made dreadful havoc, and compelled the Scottish army to give way; but the latter was rallied by the famous Hay, the traditional ancestor of the Kinnoul family, and finally repulsed the Danes, who, as usual, fled to their ships. Burton thinks the battleof Luncarty "a recent invention".
      The defeat of the Danes enabled Kenneth to turn his attention to the domestic concerns of his kingdom. He appears to have directed his thoughts to bring about a complete change in the mode of succession to thecrown, in order to perppetuate in and confine the crown to his own descendants. This alternation could not be well accomplished as long as Malcolm, the son of Duff, the Tanist of the kingdom, and price of Cumberland, stood in the way; and, accordingly, it has been said that Kenneth was the cause of the untimely death of prince Malcolm, who is stated to have been poisoned. It is said that Kenneth got an act passed, that in future the son, or nearest male heir, of the king, should always succeed to the throne; and that in case that son or heir were not of age at the time of the king's demise, that a person of rank should be chosen Regent of the kingdom, until the minor attained his fourteenth year, when he should assume the reins of government; but whether such a law was really passed on the moot-hill of Scone or not, of which we have no evidence, certain it is that two other prices succeeded to the crown before Malcolm the son of Kenneth. Kenneth, after a reign oftwenty four years, was, it is said, in 994 assassintated at Fettercairn by Finella, the wife of the Maormor of the Mearns, and the daughterof Cunechat, the Maormor of Angus, in revenge for having put her onlyson to death. It has been thought that till this time the Maormorshipof Angus was in some measure independent of the Scottish crown, neverhaving thouroughly yielded to its supremacy, that the death of the young chief took place in course of an effort on the part of Kenneth forits reduction, and that Kenneth himself was on a visit to the quarterat the time of his death, for exacting the usual royal privilges of cain and cuairt, or a certain tax and certain provision for the king, due by the chiefd or landholders of the kingdom.
      Constantine IV, son of Culen, succeeded; but his right ws disputed byKenneth, the Grim, i.e. strong, son of Duff. The dispute was decided at Rathveramon, i.e. the castle at the mouth of the Almond, near Perth, where Constantine lost his life int he year 995.
      Kenneth IV, the son of Duff, now obtained the sceptre which he had coveted; but was distirbed in the possession thereof by Malcolm, the sonof Kenneth III, heir presumptive to the crown. Malcolm took the fieldin 1003, and decided his claim to the crown in a bloody battle at Monivaird, in Strathearn, in which Kenneth, after a noble resistance, received a mortal wound.
      Malcolm II now ascended the vacant throne, but was not destined to enjoy repose. At the very begining of his reign he was defeated at Durham by the army of the Earl of Northumberland, under his son Uchtred, who ordered a selection of good-looing Scotch heads to be stuck on the walls of Durham.
      The Danes, who had now obtained a firm footing in England, directed their attention in an especial manner to Scotland, which they were in hopes of subduing. Sigurd, the Earl of Orkney, carried on a harassing and predatory warfare on the shores of Moray Frith, which he continued even after a matrimonial alliance he formed with Malcolm, by marrying his daughter; but this was no singular trait in the character of a Vikingr, who plundered friends and foes with equal pleasure. The scene ofSigurd's operations was chosen by his brother northmen for making a descent which they effected near Speymouth. They carried fire and swordthrough Moray, and laid siege to the fortress of Nairn, one of the strongest in the north. The Danes wee forced to raise the siege for a time, by Malcolm, who encamped his army in a plain near Kilflos or Kinloss. In this position he was attacked by the invaders, and, after a severe action, was forced to retreat, after being seriously wounded.
      Malcom, in 1010, marched north with his army, and encamped at Mortlach. The Danes advanced to meet the Scots, and a dreadful and fierce conflict ensued, the result of which was long dubious. At length the northmen gave way and victory declared for Malcolm. Had the Danes succeeded they would in all probability have obtained as permanent a footing in North Britain as they did in England; but the Scottish kings were determined, at all hazards, never to suffer them to pollute the soil ofScotland by allowing them even the smallest settlement in their dominions. In gratitude to God for his victory, Malcolm endowed a religioushouse at Mortlach, with its church erected near the scene of the action. Maclauchlan, however, maintains that this church was planted by Malcolm Ceanmore.
      Many other conflicts are narrated with minute detail by later chroniclers as having taken place between Malcolm and the Danes, but it is very doubtful how far these are worthy of credit. That Malcolm had enough to do to prevent the Danes from overrunning Scotland and subduing the inhabitants can readily be believed; but as we have few authentic particulars concerning the conflicts which took place, it would serve no purpose to give the imaginary details invented by comparatively recent historians.
      Some time after this Malcolm was engaged in a war with the Northumbrians, and, having led his army, in 1018, to Carham, near Werk, on the southern bank of the Tweed, where he was met by Uchtred, the Earl of Northumberland, a desperate battle took place, which was contested with great valour on both sides. The success was doubtful on either side, though Uchtred claimed a victory; but he did not long enjoy the fruits of it, as he was soon thereafter assassinated when on his road to pay obeisance to the great Canute. Endulf, the brother and successor of Uchtred, justly dreading the power of the Scots, was induced to cede Lothian to Malcolm for ever, who, on this occasion, gave oblations to thechurches and gifts to the clergy, and they in return transmitted his name to posterity. He was designed, par exellence, by the Latin chroniclers, rex victoriosissumus, by St. Berchan, the Forranach or destroyer.
      The last stuggle with which Malcolm was threatened, was with the celebrated Canute, who, for some cause or other not properly explained, entered Scotland in the year 1031; but these powerful parties appear notto have come to action. Canute's expedition appears, from what followd, to have been fitted out to compel Malcolm to do homage for Cumberland, for it is certain that Malcolm engaged to fulfil the conditions onwhich his predecessors had held that country, and that Canute thereafter returned to England.
      But the reign of Malcolm was not distinguished by foreign wars, but by civil contests between rival chiefs. Finlegh, the Maormor of Ross, and the father of Macbeth, was assassinated in 1020, and about twelve years thereafter, Maolbride, the Maormor of Moray, grandfather of Lulach, was, in revenge for Finlegh's murder, burnt within his castle, with fifty of his men.
      At length, after a splendid reign of thirty years, Malcolm slept withhis fathers, and his body was transferred to Iona, and interred with due solemnity among the remains of his predecessors. By some authorites he is said to have been assassintated at Glammis.
      Malcolm was undoubtedly a prince of great acquirements. He made many changes and some improvements in the internal policy of his kingdom, and in him religion always found a guardian and protector. But althoughMalcolm is justly entitled to this praise, he by no means came up to the standard of perfection assigned him by fiction. In his reign Scotland appears to have reached its present boundary on the south, the Tweed, and Strathclyde was incorporated with the rest of the kingdom. Malcolm was the first who was called Rex Scotia, and might justly claim the be so designated, seeing that he was the first to hold sway over nearly the whole of present Scotland - the only portions where his authority appears to have been seriously disputed being those in which the Danes had established themselves
    • Malcolm sat on the throne from 943 - 954.
      Malcolm I (943-954)
      King of the Picts and Scots (Alba), also called MALCOLM MACDONALD. Malcolm succeeded to the crown when his cousin Constantine II entered a monastery (943). He annexed Moray to the kingdom for the first time. After driving the Danes from York, the English king Edmund turned Cumbria over to Malcolm, apparently as a fief or seal of alliance. Later, when Norsemen again invaded the land, the Scots sent raids against the English, and in 954 the West Saxon king Eadred reunited the northern counties to his dominions. Malcolm was slain the same year at Fordoun in the Mearns in a breif conflict with his own northern regions.
      General History of the Highlands
      Malcolm I to Malcom II 1020
      http://www.electricscotland.com/history/genhist/hist22.html
      Malcolm I, the son of Donald IV, obtained the abdicated throne. He was a prince of great abilities and prudence, and Edmund of England courted his alliance by ceding Cumbria, the consisting of Cumberland and part of Westmorland, to him, in the year 945, on condition that he would defend that northern county, and become an ally of Edmund. Edred, the brother and successor of Edmund, accordingly applied for, and obtained the aid of Malcolm against Anlaf, king of Northumberland, whose country, according to the barbarous practice of the times, he wasted, and carried off the people with their cattle. Malcolm, after putting down an insurrection of the Moray-men under Cellach, their Maormor, or chief, whom he slew, was sometimes thereafter slain, as is supposed, atUlurn or Auldearn in Moray, by one of these men, in revenge for the death of his chief.
      Indulph, the son of Constantine III, succeeded the murdered monarch in the year 953. He sustained many severe conflicts with the Danes, and ultimately lost his life in 961, after a reign of eight years, in asuccessful action with these pirates, on the moor which lies to the westward of Cullen.
      Duff, the son of Malcolm I, now mounted the throne; but Culen, the son of Indulph, laid claim to the sceptre which his father had wielded.The parties met at Drum Crup (probably Crief), and, after a doubtful struggle, in which Doncha, the Abbot of Dunkeld, and Dubdou, the Maormor of Athole, the partisans of Culen, lost their lives, victory declared for Duff. But this triumph was of short duration, for Duff was afterwards obliged to retreat from Forteviot into the north, and was assassinated at Forres in the year 965, after a bried and unhappy reign of four years and a half.
      Culen, the son of Indulph, succeeded, as a matter of course, to the crown of Duff, which he stained by his vices. He and his brother Eocha were slain in Lothian, in an action with the Britons of Strathclyde in970, after an inglorious reign of four years and a half. During his reign Edinburgh was captured from the English, this being the first known step in the progress of the gradual extension of the Scottish kingdom between the Forth and the Tweed.
      Kenneth III, son of Malcolm I, and brother of Duff, succeeded Culen the same year. He waged a successful war against the Britons of Srathclyde, and annexed their territories to his kingdom. During his reign the Danes meditiated an attack upon Forteviot, or Dunkeld, for the purposes of plunder, and, with this view, they sailed up the Tay with a numerous fleet. Kenneth does not appear to have been fully prepared, being probably not aware of the intentions of the enemy; but collecting as many of his chiefs and their followers as the spur of the occasion would allow, he met the Danes at Luncarty, in the vicinity of Perth. Malcolm, the Tanist, prince of Cumberland, it is said, commanded the right wing of the Scottish army; Duncan, the Maormor of Athole, had the charge of the left; and Kenneth, the king, commanded the centre. The Danes with their battle-exes made dreadful havoc, and compelled the Scottish army to give way; but the latter was rallied by the famous Hay, the traditional ancestor of the Kinnoul family, and finally repulsed the Danes, who, as usual, fled to their ships. Burton thinks the battleof Luncarty "a recent invention".
      The defeat of the Danes enabled Kenneth to turn his attention to the domestic concerns of his kingdom. He appears to have directed his thoughts to bring about a complete change in the mode of succession to thecrown, in order to perppetuate in and confine the crown to his own descendants. This alternation could not be well accomplished as long as Malcolm, the son of Duff, the Tanist of the kingdom, and price of Cumberland, stood in the way; and, accordingly, it has been said that Kenneth was the cause of the untimely death of prince Malcolm, who is stated to have been poisoned. It is said that Kenneth got an act passed, that in future the son, or nearest male heir, of the king, should always succeed to the throne; and that in case that son or heir were not of age at the time of the king's demise, that a person of rank should be chosen Regent of the kingdom, until the minor attained his fourteenth year, when he should assume the reins of government; but whether such a law was really passed on the moot-hill of Scone or not, of which we have no evidence, certain it is that two other prices succeeded to the crown before Malcolm the son of Kenneth. Kenneth, after a reign oftwenty four years, was, it is said, in 994 assassintated at Fettercairn by Finella, the wife of the Maormor of the Mearns, and the daughterof Cunechat, the Maormor of Angus, in revenge for having put her onlyson to death. It has been thought that till this time the Maormorshipof Angus was in some measure independent of the Scottish crown, neverhaving thouroughly yielded to its supremacy, that the death of the young chief took place in course of an effort on the part of Kenneth forits reduction, and that Kenneth himself was on a visit to the quarterat the time of his death, for exacting the usual royal privilges of cain and cuairt, or a certain tax and certain provision for the king, due by the chiefd or landholders of the kingdom.
      Constantine IV, son of Culen, succeeded; but his right ws disputed byKenneth, the Grim, i.e. strong, son of Duff. The dispute was decided at Rathveramon, i.e. the castle at the mouth of the Almond, near Perth, where Constantine lost his life int he year 995.
      Kenneth IV, the son of Duff, now obtained the sceptre which he had coveted; but was distirbed in the possession thereof by Malcolm, the sonof Kenneth III, heir presumptive to the crown. Malcolm took the fieldin 1003, and decided his claim to the crown in a bloody battle at Monivaird, in Strathearn, in which Kenneth, after a noble resistance, received a mortal wound.
      Malcolm II now ascended the vacant throne, but was not destined to enjoy repose. At the very begining of his reign he was defeated at Durham by the army of the Earl of Northumberland, under his son Uchtred, who ordered a selection of good-looing Scotch heads to be stuck on the walls of Durham.
      The Danes, who had now obtained a firm footing in England, directed their attention in an especial manner to Scotland, which they were in hopes of subduing. Sigurd, the Earl of Orkney, carried on a harassing and predatory warfare on the shores of Moray Frith, which he continued even after a matrimonial alliance he formed with Malcolm, by marrying his daughter; but this was no singular trait in the character of a Vikingr, who plundered friends and foes with equal pleasure. The scene ofSigurd's operations was chosen by his brother northmen for making a descent which they effected near Speymouth. They carried fire and swordthrough Moray, and laid siege to the fortress of Nairn, one of the strongest in the north. The Danes wee forced to raise the siege for a time, by Malcolm, who encamped his army in a plain near Kilflos or Kinloss. In this position he was attacked by the invaders, and, after a severe action, was forced to retreat, after being seriously wounded.
      Malcom, in 1010, marched north with his army, and encamped at Mortlach. The Danes advanced to meet the Scots, and a dreadful and fierce conflict ensued, the result of which was long dubious. At length the northmen gave way and victory declared for Malcolm. Had the Danes succeeded they would in all probability have obtained as permanent a footing in North Britain as they did in England; but the Scottish kings were determined, at all hazards, never to suffer them to pollute the soil ofScotland by allowing them even the smallest settlement in their dominions. In gratitude to God for his victory, Malcolm endowed a religioushouse at Mortlach, with its church erected near the scene of the action. Maclauchlan, however, maintains that this church was planted by Malcolm Ceanmore.
      Many other conflicts are narrated with minute detail by later chroniclers as having taken place between Malcolm and the Danes, but it is very doubtful how far these are worthy of credit. That Malcolm had enough to do to prevent the Danes from overrunning Scotland and subduing the inhabitants can readily be believed; but as we have few authentic particulars concerning the conflicts which took place, it would serve no purpose to give the imaginary details invented by comparatively recent historians.
      Some time after this Malcolm was engaged in a war with the Northumbrians, and, having led his army, in 1018, to Carham, near Werk, on the southern bank of the Tweed, where he was met by Uchtred, the Earl of Northumberland, a desperate battle took place, which was contested with great valour on both sides. The success was doubtful on either side, though Uchtred claimed a victory; but he did not long enjoy the fruits of it, as he was soon thereafter assassinated when on his road to pay obeisance to the great Canute. Endulf, the brother and successor of Uchtred, justly dreading the power of the Scots, was induced to cede Lothian to Malcolm for ever, who, on this occasion, gave oblations to thechurches and gifts to the clergy, and they in return transmitted his name to posterity. He was designed, par exellence, by the Latin chroniclers, rex victoriosissumus, by St. Berchan, the Forranach or destroyer.
      The last stuggle with which Malcolm was threatened, was with the celebrated Canute, who, for some cause or other not properly explained, entered Scotland in the year 1031; but these powerful parties appear notto have come to action. Canute's expedition appears, from what followd, to have been fitted out to compel Malcolm to do homage for Cumberland, for it is certain that Malcolm engaged to fulfil the conditions onwhich his predecessors had held that country, and that Canute thereafter returned to England.
      But the reign of Malcolm was not distinguished by foreign wars, but by civil contests between rival chiefs. Finlegh, the Maormor of Ross, and the father of Macbeth, was assassinated in 1020, and about twelve years thereafter, Maolbride, the Maormor of Moray, grandfather of Lulach, was, in revenge for Finlegh's murder, burnt within his castle, with fifty of his men.
      At length, after a splendid reign of thirty years, Malcolm slept withhis fathers, and his body was transferred to Iona, and interred with due solemnity among the remains of his predecessors. By some authorites he is said to have been assassintated at Glammis.
      Malcolm was undoubtedly a prince of great acquirements. He made many changes and some improvements in the internal policy of his kingdom, and in him religion always found a guardian and protector. But althoughMalcolm is justly entitled to this praise, he by no means came up to the standard of perfection assigned him by fiction. In his reign Scotland appears to have reached its present boundary on the south, the Tweed, and Strathclyde was incorporated with the rest of the kingdom. Malcolm was the first who was called Rex Scotia, and might justly claim the be so designated, seeing that he was the first to hold sway over nearly the whole of present Scotland - the only portions where his authority appears to have been seriously disputed being those in which the Danes had established themselves
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    • Máel Coluim mac Domnaill (anglicised Malcolm I) (before 900–954) was king of Scots, becoming king when his cousin Causantín mac Áeda abdicated to become a monk. He was the son of Domnall mac Causantín. In 945 Edmund of Wessex, having expelled Amlaíb Cuaran (Olaf Sihtricsson) from Northumbria, devastated Cumbria and blinded two sons of Domnall mac Eógain, king of Strathclyde. It is said that he then "let" or "commended" Strathclyde to Máel Coluim in return for an alliance.[1] What is to be understood by "let" or "commended" is unclear, but it may well mean that Máel Coluim had been the overlord of Strathclyde and that Edmund recognised this while taking lands in southern Cumbria for himself.[2]

      The Chronicle of the Kings of Alba says that Máel Coluim took an army into Moray "and slew Cellach". Cellach is not named in the surviving genealogies of the rulers of Moray, and his identity is unknown.[3]

      Máel Coluim appears to have kept his agreement with the late English king, which may have been renewed with the new king, Edmund having been murdered in 946 and succeeded by his brother Edred. Eric Bloodaxe took York in 948, before being driven out by Edred, and when Amlaíb Cuaran again took York in 949–950, Máel Coluim raided Northumbria as far south as the Tees taking "a multitude of people and many herds of cattle" according to the Chronicle.[4] The Annals of Ulster for 952 report a battle between "the men of Alba and the Britons [of Strathclyde] and the English" against the foreigners, i.e. the Northmen or the Norse-Gaels. This battle is not reported by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and it is unclear whether it should be related to the expulsion of Amlaíb Cuaran from York or the return of Eric Bloodaxe.[5]

      The Annals of Ulster report that Máel Coluim was killed in 954. Other sources place this most probably in the Mearns, either at Fetteresso following the Chronicle, or at Dunnottar following the Prophecy of Berchán. He was buried on Iona.[6] Máel Coluim's sons Dub and Cináed were later kings.
    • He was given Cumbria by the west saxon king Edmund I in 945, but lost
      Northumbria in 954, as well as his life.
    • Malcolm I of Scotland
      From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

      Malcolm I
      (Máel Coluim mac Domnaill)
      King of Scots

      Reign 943–954
      Died 954
      Fetteresso or Dunnottar
      Buried Iona
      Predecessor Constantine II (Causantín mac Áeda)
      Successor Indulf (Ildulb mac Causantín)
      Issue Dub;
      Kenneth II (Cináed mac Maíl Choluim)
      Royal House Alpin
      Father Donald II (Domnall mac Causantín)

      Máel Coluim mac Domnaill (Modern Gaelic: Maol Chaluim mac Dhòmhnaill),[1] anglicised as Malcolm I, and nicknamed An Bodhbhdercc, "the Dangerous Red"[2] (before 900 – 954) was king of Scots, becoming king when his cousin Constantine II (Causantín mac Áeda) abdicated to become a monk. He was the son of Donald II (Domnall mac Causantín).

      In 945 Edmund the Elder, King of England, having expelled Olaf Sihtricsson (Amlaíb Cuaran) from Northumbria, devastated Cumbria and blinded two sons of Domnall III (Domnall mac Eógain), king of Strathclyde. It is said that he then "let" or "commended" Strathclyde to Malcolm in return for an alliance.[3] What is to be understood by "let" or "commended" is unclear, but it may well mean that Malcolm had been the overlord of Strathclyde and that Edmund recognised this while taking lands in southern Cumbria for himself.[4]

      The Chronicle of the Kings of Alba says that Malcolm took an army into Moray "and slew Cellach". Cellach is not named in the surviving genealogies of the rulers of Moray, and his identity is unknown.[5]

      Malcolm appears to have kept his agreement with the late English king, which may have been renewed with the new king, Edmund having been murdered in 946 and succeeded by his brother Edred. Eric Bloodaxe took York in 948, before being driven out by Edred, and when Olaf Sihtricsson again took York in 949–950, Malcolm raided Northumbria as far south as the Tees taking "a multitude of people and many herds of cattle" according to the Chronicle.[6] The Annals of Ulster for 952 report a battle between "the men of Alba and the Britons [of Strathclyde] and the English" against the foreigners, i.e. the Northmen or the Norse-Gaels. This battle is not reported by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and it is unclear whether it should be related to the expulsion of Olaf Sihtricsson from York or the return of Eric Bloodaxe.[7]

      The Annals of Ulster report that Malcolm was killed in 954. Other sources place this most probably in the Mearns, either at Fetteresso following the Chronicle, or at Dunnottar following the Prophecy of Berchán. He was buried on Iona.[8] Malcolm's sons Dub and Kenneth were later kings.


      [edit] Notes
      ^ Máel Coluim mac Domnaill is the Mediaeval Gaelic form.
      ^ Skene, Chronicles, p. 93.
      ^ Early Sources, pp. 449–450.
      ^ ASC Ms. A, s.a. 946; Duncan, pp. 23–24; but see also Smyth, pp. 222–223 for an alternative reading.
      ^ It may be that Cellach was related to Cuncar, Mormaer of Angus, and that this event is connected with the apparent feud that led to the death of Malcolm's son Kenneth II (Cináed) in 977.
      ^ Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Ms. D, s.a. 948, Ms. B, s.a. 946; Duncan, p. 2
      ^ Early Sources, p. 451. The corresponding entry in the Annals of the Four Masters, s.a. 950, states that the Northmen were the victors, which would suggest that it should be associated with Eric.
      ^ Early Sources, pp. 452–454. Some versions of the Chronicle, and the Chronicle of Melrose, are read as placing Malcolm's death at Blervie, near Forres.

      [edit] References
      For primary sources see also External links below.

      Anderson, Alan Orr, Early Sources of Scottish History A.D 500–1286, volume 1. Reprinted with corrections. Paul Watkins, Stamford, 1990. ISBN 1-871615-03-8
      Duncan, A.A.M., The Kingship of the Scots 842–1292: Succession and Independence. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2002. ISBN 0-7486-1626-8
      Smyth, Alfred P. Warlords and Holy Men: Scotland AD 80-1000. Reprinted, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1998. ISBN 0-7486-0100-7

      [edit] External links
      CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork includes the Annals of Ulster, Tigernach, the Four Masters and Innisfallen, the Chronicon Scotorum, the Lebor Bretnach (which includes the Duan Albanach), Genealogies, and various Saints' Lives. Most are translated into English, or translations are in progress.
      (CKA) The Chronicle of the Kings of Alba
      The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle XML Edition by Tony Jebson and translated at the OMACL
      Preceded by
      Constantine (Causantín) II King of Scots
      943–954 Succeeded by
      Indulf (Ildulb)
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      Máel Coluim mac Domnaill (Modern Gaelic: Maol Chaluim mac Dhòmhnaill), anglicised as Malcolm I, and nicknamed An Bodhbhdercc, "the Dangerous Red" (before 900 - 954) was king of Scots, becoming king when his cousin Constantine II (Causantín mac Áeda) abdicated to become a monk. He was the son of Donald II (Domnall mac Causantín).

      In 945 Edmund the Elder, King of England, having expelled Olaf Sihtricsson (Amlaíb Cuaran) from Northumbria, devastated Cumbria and blinded two sons of Domnall III (Domnall mac Eógain), king of Strathclyde. It is said that he then "let" or "commended" Strathclyde to Malcolm in return for an alliance.[3] What is to be understood by "let" or "commended" is unclear, but it may well mean that Malcolm had been the overlord of Strathclyde and that Edmund recognised this while taking lands in southern Cumbria for himself.

      The Chronicle of the Kings of Alba says that Malcolm took an army into Moray "and slew Cellach". Cellach is not named in the surviving genealogies of the rulers of Moray, and his identity is unknown.

      Malcolm appears to have kept his agreement with the late English king, which may have been renewed with the new king, Edmund having been murdered in 946 and succeeded by his brother Edred. Eric Bloodaxe took York in 948, before being driven out by Edred, and when Olaf Sihtricsson again took York in 949-950, Malcolm raided Northumbria as far south as the Tees taking "a multitude of people and many herds of cattle" according to the Chronicle. The Annals of Ulster for 952 report a battle between "the men of Alba and the Britons [of Strathclyde] and the English" against the foreigners, i.e. the Northmen or the Norse-Gaels. This battle is not reported by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and it is unclear whether it should be related to the expulsion of Olaf Sihtricsson from York or the return of Eric Bloodaxe.

      The Annals of Ulster report that Malcolm was killed in 954. Other sources place this most probably in the Mearns, either at Fetteresso following the Chronicle, or at Dunnottar following the Prophecy of Berchán. He was buried on Iona. Malcolm's sons Dub and Kenneth were later kings.

      <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_I_of_Scotland>
    • He was given Cumbria by the west saxon king Edmund I in 945, but lost
      Northumbria in 954, as well as his life.
    • He was given Cumbria by the west saxon king Edmund I in 945, but lost
      Northumbria in 954, as well as his life.
    • He was given Cumbria by the west saxon king Edmund I in 945, but lost
      Northumbria in 954, as well as his life.
    • (Medical):by the men of Moray, Fordoun, Kincardine, Scotland
    • ["The British Monarchy"]
      He may have supported the establishment of a Danish kingdom of York in the 940s, and he harried the north of England. He was killed in battle, possibly at Fetteresso, Kincardineshire by rebels from Moray.

      [From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_I_of_Scotland]
      Malcolm I (Máel Coluim mac Domnaill), the son of Donald II of Scotland, became the King of Scotland in 943 after his cousin King Constantine II of Scotland abdicated and became a monk.

      Malcolm I was a prince of great abilities and prudence, and Edmund I of England (939?946) courted his alliance by ceding Cumbria, then consisting of Cumberland and part of Westmorland, to him, in the year 945, on condition that he would defend that northern county, and become an ally of Edmund I. This, therefore, required Scotland to send military support if England was attacked by either the Danes of Northumbria or the Norwegians of Ireland. The alliance between England and Scotland remained after the death of both Kings.

      Edred of England, the brother and successor of Edmund I, accordingly applied for, and obtained, the aid of Malcolm I against Amlaíb Cuaran, King of Northumberland, whose country, according to the barbarous practice of the times, he wasted, and carried off the people with their cattle.

      Later, when Norsemen again invaded the land, the Scots sent raids led by Malcolm I in 949 and 951 against the English; moreover, in 954, Edred reunited the northern counties to his dominions.

      In this same year, after putting down an insurrection of the Moray-men under Cellach, their Maormor (chief), whom he killed, Malcolm I was slain at the site of Fetteresso Castle by one of these men, in revenge for the death of his chief. He was buried on the Isle of Iona. Alternative sites for his death have been given as Ulurn or Auldearn in Moray. There is another legend that the grave of Malcolm I was discovered at Fetteresso; the crypt discovered in 1822 was even given the name Malcolm's Mount, but the type of crypt is decidedly Bronze Age and hence could not be Malcolm I's.

      At some point in his life, he married. But as was the case with many monarchs in this period, the details are no longer known. A son from this marriage would later succeed to the throne as Kenneth II of Scotland (971?995).
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    • Alias: Malcolm I of Alba/, Milcolumbus
      Cause of Death:
      Some sources list his death in 958.

      [Sargent.FTW]

      Malcolm I (ruled 943-954). Malcolm I succeeded his second cousin Constantine II, who abdicated to enter a monastery. In 954 Malcolm captured Moray, a kingdom to the north, and killed its king. He also made a pact to assist England against the Scandinavians, but he later turned against his allies and captured territory in northern England. Malcolm was killed while trying to put down a rebellion in Moray. Constantine II named his second cousin Malcolm as successor. In those days, in order to stamp your authority as a King, you were expected to wage war and claim your prizes as any strong, worthwhile King would--and Malcolm was good at this part of the job. Cleverly allied with the English now, Malcolm and his new found friends marched on to stamp out the Scandinavian threat from Ireland. But in 950, with a little pushing from Monk Constantine, Malcolm moved into England and started taking the northern territories there.

      However, on his return from his crusade in 954, Malcolm had now found that his own northerly regions had revolted and in a brief conflict with them they killed him at Fordoun in the Mearns.

      http://www.highlanderweb.co.uk/monarch2.htm

      King of Scots 943. Killed by the men of Moray 954.
    • Alias: Malcolm I of Alba/, Milcolumbus
      Cause of Death:
      Some sources list his death in 958.

      [Sargent.FTW]

      Malcolm I (ruled 943-954). Malcolm I succeeded his second cousin Constantine II, who abdicated to enter a monastery. In 954 Malcolm captured Moray, a kingdom to the north, and killed its king. He also made a pact to assist England against the Scandinavians, but he later turned against his allies and captured territory in northern England. Malcolm was killed while trying to put down a rebellion in Moray. Constantine II named his second cousin Malcolm as successor. In those days, in order to stamp your authority as a King, you were expected to wage war and claim your prizes as any strong, worthwhile King would--and Malcolm was good at this part of the job. Cleverly allied with the English now, Malcolm and his new found friends marched on to stamp out the Scandinavian threat from Ireland. But in 950, with a little pushing from Monk Constantine, Malcolm moved into England and started taking the northern territories there.

      However, on his return from his crusade in 954, Malcolm had now found that his own northerly regions had revolted and in a brief conflict with them they killed him at Fordoun in the Mearns.

      http://www.highlanderweb.co.uk/monarch2.htm

      King of Scots 943. Killed by the men of Moray 954.
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      He died 954 in battle. He acceded to the throne 943. He was also King ofAlba. "Malcolm succe eded to the crown when his cousin Constantine IIentered a monastery (943). He annexed Moray t o the kingdom for the firsttime. After driving the Danes from York, the English king Edmund t urnedCumbria over to Malcolm, apparently as a fief or seal of alliance. Later,when Norsemen a gain invaded the land, the Scots sent raids against theEnglish, and in 954 the West Saxon kin g Eadred reunited the northerncounties to his dominions. Malcolm was slain the same year" Bri tannicaOnline
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      [SPARKMAN DATABASE.FTW]

      He died 954 in battle. He acceded to the throne 943. He was also King ofAlba. "Malcolm succe eded to the crown when his cousin Constantine IIentered a monastery (943). He annexed Moray t o the kingdom for the firsttime. After driving the Danes from York, the English king Edmund t urnedCumbria over to Malcolm, apparently as a fief or seal of alliance. Later,when Norsemen a gain invaded the land, the Scots sent raids against theEnglish, and in 954 the West Saxon kin g Eadred reunited the northerncounties to his dominions. Malcolm was slain the same year" Bri tannicaOnline
    • The name "Malcolm" is an honorable one in Scotttish history, Shubeal Douglas Malcolm ,who long made a study of the derivation of names, asserts the name is derived from Mael-Columbia, meaning follower and servant of Columbia 521-597, missionary to the Iona.
      There were four Malcolms, Kings of Scotland in early history. The Malcolm clan were Highlanders. They were strenous fighters and the story is told of that the Clan was so reduced in numbers and power they were forced to seek alliance with their neighbors the Campbells of Argyllshire. At one time, through continual warfare with neighbors and quarrels amongst themselves, the Malcolms were reduced to only Laird and two sons. Fearing total extinction the Laird ordered his two sons to mount their horses, and giving each a pannier sent them off in opposite directions with orders to continue riding until the panniers dropped form their horses and at that spot they were to abide, which they did. Years later, both families decided to visit the old home. The two groups of about thirty men each met at a river crossing and joined in battle. Only two survivors, one of each family, were left. Taking a much needed rest before continuing the battle, they then discovered they were both Malcolms.
      The Malcolms evidently not only loved a good battle, but were often times on the wrong side. In 1745, the Young Pretender, Bonnie Prince Charles Stuart, in an effort to place his father, the pretender James III on the British throne, came to Scotland from France to raise an army to invade England. After not finding the support from the countryside he had expected, Charles turned back at Derby, but was pursued by the forces of the Duke of Cumberland, son of King George II. They engaged in a great battle at Culloden Moor (5 miles east of Inverness, northern Scotland.) The Duke's forces numbered 8811 including 1100 cavalry and 18 guns. Stuart forces numbered about 7000. This battle fought April 16, 1746 was the last land battle to be fought in Great Btitian. Stuart's army was destroyed, and because of the ferocity with which the Duke of Cumberland executed the wounded, he was given the nickname "the Butcher."
      Some escaped. Stuart wandered in the Highlands as a refugee until he left for France in September. Some escaped to Ulster and some to the American Colonies.

      Our emigrant ancestor, Duncan Malcolm was one of these refugees to the American Colonies. He had joined his fortune with that of Charles Stuart, grandson of Charles I of England and great grandson of Mary Queen of Scots. The battle fought at Culloden Moors shattered the hopes of Prince Charles and the fortunes of Duncan Malcolm.


      Source: History and Genealogy of the Malcolm Family of the United States and Canada by John Karl Malcolm, Ann Arbor, MI 1950
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    • becoming king when his cousin Causantín mac Áeda abdicated to become a monk. He was the son of Domnall mac Causantín. In 945 Edmund of Wessex, having expelled (Olaf Sihtricsson) from Northumbria, devastated Cumbria and blinded two sons of Domnall mac Eógain, king of Strathclyde. It is said that he then "let" or "commended" Strathclyde to Máel Coluim in return for an alliance.[1] What is to be understood by "let" or "commended" is unclear, but it may well mean that Máel Coluim had been the overlord of Strathclyde and that Edmund recognised this while taking lands in southern Cumbria for himself.[2] The Chronicle of the Kings of Alba says that Máel Coluim took an army into Moray "and slew Cellach". Cellach is not named in the surviving genealogies of the rulers of Moray, and his identity is unknown.[3] Máel Coluim appears to have kept his agreement with the late English king, which may have been renewed with the new king, Edmund having been murdered in 946 and succeeded by his brother Edred. Eric Bloodaxe took York in 948, before being driven out by Edred, and when Amlaíb Cuaran again took York in 949–950, Máel Coluim raided Northumbria as far south as the Tees taking "a multitude of people and many herds of cattle" according to the Chronicle.[4] The Annals of Ulster for 952 report a battle between "the men of Alba and the Britons [of Strathclyde] and the English" against the foreigners, i.e. the Northmen or the Norse-Gaels. This battle is not reported by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and it is unclear whether it should be related to the expulsion of Amlaíb Cuaran from York or the return of Eric Bloodaxe.[5]Malcolm I succeeded to the crown when his cousin Constantine II entered a monastery in 943. He annexed Moray to the kingdom for the first time. After driving the Danes from York, the English king Edmund turned Cumbria over to Malcolm, apparently as a fief or seal of alliance. Later, when Norsemen again invaded the land, the Scots sent raids against the English, and in 954 the West Saxon king Eadred reunited the northern counties to his dominions. Malcolm was slain the same year. Malcolm I. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved June 25, 2003, from Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service.
    • King of Scotland 942 or 943 to 954

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      Malcolm I (M?el Coluim mac Domnaill), the son of Donald I of Scotland, became the King of Scotland in 942 or 943 after his cousin King Constantine II of Scotland abdicated and became a monk.

      Malcolm was a prince of great abilities and prudence, and Edmund I of England courted his alliance by ceding Cumbria, the consisting of Cumberland and part of Westmorland, to him, in the year 945, on condition that he would defend that northern county, and become an ally of Edmund. This, therefore, required Scotland to send military support if England was attacked by either the Danes of Northumbria or the Norwegians of Ireland. The alliance between England and Scotland remained after the death of both kings.

      Edred of England, the brother and successor of Edmund, accordingly applied for, and obtained, the aid of Malcolm against Anlaf, king of Northumberland, whose country, according to the barbarous practice of the times, he wasted, and carried off the people with their cattle.

      Later, when Norsemen again invaded the land, the Scots sent raids against the English and, in 954, Edred reunited the northern counties to his dominions.

      In this same year, after putting down an insurrection of the Moray-men under Cellach, their Maormor (chief), whom he killed, Malcolm was slain, probably at Ulurn or Auldearn in Moray, by one of these men, in revenge for the death of his chief. He was buried on the Isle of Iona.
      (from http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Malcolm-I-of-Scotland)
    • Malcolm I (943-54)
      Malcolm was the son of Donald II. He may have supported the establishment of a Danish kingdom of York in the 940s, and he harried the north of England. He was killed in battle, possibly at Fetteresso, Kincardineshire by rebels from Moray.

      Source: Official Website of the British Government
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    • King of Scots 942-954 Received Cumberland and Westmorland from King Edmund I of England "944. Malcolm the son of Donald, reigned eleven years. 955. The men of Moerne slew Malcolm."
    • Slain by men of Morne; lost Northumbria. Made a treaty with Eadmund, King of West Saxons, to be "fellow-worker by sea and land"
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    Father Domnall mac Causantín, Rí na h'Alba,   b. Abt 862,   d. 900  (Age 38 years) 
    Married 897  Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location 
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    Married 931 
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    Children 
     1. Cináed II mac Maíl Coluim, Rí na h'Alba,   b. 932, Iona Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 995  (Age 63 years)
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