Ruler of the Dalriada in western Scotland from 840.
Ruler of the Picts from 842.
Also known as Cináed mac Alpin and Kenneth Macalpine.
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: perhaps 8 February 858.
Place of Death: Forteviot.
The date and place are given by Anderson and Baldwin. Anderson notes that the reading in the Scottish chronicle on which the exact date is based is in doubt. The year is also recorded in The Annals of Ulster s.a. 858.
Relationships
Father: Alpin.
This relationship is given by Anderson and by Baldwin. Some recent historians have expressed some skepticism about Kenneth's pedigree.
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: unknown.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Baldwin.)
Constantine I (died 876), king in Scotland.
Áed (died 878), king in Scotland 876-878.
Máel Muire (died 913) married (1) Áed Findliath, king of Ireland; married (2) Flann Sinna, king of Ireland. [Anderson makes her the wife of a Máel Muire, who died in 913.]
a daughter who married Run map Arthgal, king the Britons of Strathclyde.
References
Anderson, Marjorie O. “Kenneth I (d. 858)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).
The Annals of Ulster (Pádraig Bambury, Stephen Beechinor, compilers) (CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts, University College, Cork, 2000).
Baldwin, Stewart. “Cináed mac Ailpín (Kenneth I)” in The Henry Project.
Broun, Dauvit. “Constantine I (d. 876)”, in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).
The Pictish Chronicle (T.H. Weeks, trans.; A. Weeks commentary).
Woolf, Alex. From Pictland to Alba: 789 - 1070. (Edinburgh University Press, 2007).