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Encyclopedia > Gartnait II of the Picts

Gartnait (Gartnait son of Domelch in the Pictish Chronicle king lists) (died 597) was king of the Picts. The Pictish Chronicle is a name often given by (especially older) historians to an pseudo-historical account of the kings of the Picts beginning many thousand years before history was recorded in Pictavia and ending after Pictavia had been enveloped by Scotland. ... The Pictish Strathpeffer eagle stone, Highland, Scotland. ...


The Annals of Tigernach record the death his predecessor, Bridei son of Maelchon in 581, and the death of Gartnaidh king of the Picts in 597. The king lists state that he was followed by Nechtan. The Annals of Tigernach (abbr. ... Bridei (or Brude), called MacMaelchon, was king of the Picts from 556 to 586 after the abdication of his cousin, Galam II. He was baptised by St Columba about 564. ... Nechtan nepos (grandson or nephew) of Irb or Uerb, was king of the Picts from 597 to c. ...


William Forbes Skene, in his notes to John of Fordun's chronicle, notes that Walter Bower associates the legend of Nechtan son of Erip, Saint Brigid and the foundation of the monastery of Abernethy with this king, called "Garnard son of Dompnach".[1] William Forbes Skene (1809–1892), Scottish historian and antiquary, was the second son of Sir Walter Scotts friend, James Skene (1775–1864), of Rubislaw, near Aberdeen, and was born on June 7 1809. ... John of Fordun (d. ... Walter Bower or Bowmaker (1385-1449), Scottish chronicler, was born about 1385 at Haddington, East Lothian. ... Saint Brigid of Ireland (Bridget, Bridgit, Brigit, Bride) (451- 525) was born at Faughart near Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland. ... Monastery of St. ... Abernethy is a village in Perthshire, Scotland, situated eight miles south east of Perth. ...


It has been proposed that Gartnait was the same person as Gartnait, son of Áedán mac Gabráin of Dál Riata and that the Domelch of the king lists was his mother. This rests on the now unpopular idea that Pictish succession was matrilineal. If this is correct, Gartnait may have been the father of Cano mac Gartnáin, the subject of the 9th century tale Scéla Cano meic Gartnáin and may have been the eponymous ancestor of the "genus Gartnáin" of Skye.[2] Satellite image of northern Britain and Ireland showing the approximate area of Dál Riata (shaded). ... Dál Riata (also Dalriada or Dalriata) was a Goidelic kingdom on the western seaboard of Scotland and the northern coasts of Ireland, situated in the traditional Scottish and Northern Irish counties of Argyll, Bute and County Antrim. ... Matrilineality is a system in which one belongs to ones mothers lineage; it may also involve the inheritance of property or titles through the female line. ... An eponym is the name of a person, whether real or fictitious, which has (or is thought to have) given rise to the name of a particular place, tribe, discovery or other item. ... looking towards Quiraing, Skye. ...


The early 8th century figures Talorg mac Congusa, who is reported by the Annals of Ulster in 734 to have handed over his brother to Óengus mac Fergusa to be drowned,[3] and another brother, Cú Bretan, who died in 740, are said to have been descended from Gartnait son of Áedán.[4] The Annals of Ulster are a chronicle of medieval Ireland. ... Óengus I of the Picts, sometimes called Onuist (Hypothetical Pictish form: Unust map Uurguist; O.Ir. ...


Notes

  1. ^ Skene's notes to Fordun, IV, xii.
  2. ^ Bannerman, pp.92–94.
  3. ^ Bannerman, p.109; the same report is found in the Annals of Tigernach and the Annals of Clonmacnoise.
  4. ^ Ancestry, Bannerman, p.66, p.67, note 72; Cú Bretan's death is in the Annals of Ulster, s.a. 740.

The Annals of Tigernach (abbr. ...

References

  • 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
  • Bannerman, John, Studies in the History of Dalriada. Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, 1974. ISBN 0-7011-2040-1
  • John of Fordun, Chronicle of the Scottish Nation, ed. William Forbes Skene, tr. Felix J.H. Skene, 2 vols. Reprinted, Lampeter: Llanerch Press, 1993. ISBN 1-897853-05-X

Alan Orr Anderson (1879-1958) was a Scottish historian and compiler. ... John of Fordun (d. ... William Forbes Skene (1809–1892), Scottish historian and antiquary, was the second son of Sir Walter Scotts friend, James Skene (1775–1864), of Rubislaw, near Aberdeen, and was born on June 7 1809. ...

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.
  • Annals of Clonmacnoise at Cornell
  • Pictish Chronicle
Preceded by:
Bridei I		 King of the Picts
586–597		 Succeeded by:
Nechtan II
Monarchs of Scotland (Alba)
Traditional Kings of Picts: (Legendary Kings) | Drest of the 100 Battles | Talorc I | Nechtan I | Drest II | Galan | Drest III | Drest IV | Gartnait I | Cailtram | Talorc II | Drest V | Galam Cennalath | Bruide I | Gartnait II | Nechtan II | Cinioch | Gartnait III | Bruide II | Talorc III | Talorgan I | Gartnait IV | Drest VI | Bruide III | Taran | Bruide IV | Nechtan IV | Drest VII | Alpín I | Óengus I | Bruide V | Cináed II | Alpín II | Talorgan II | Drest VIII | Conall | Caustantín | Óengus II | Drest IX | Eogán | Ferat | Bruide VI | Cináed II | Bruide VII | Drest X
Traditional Kings of Scots: Cináed I | Domnall I | Causantín I | Áed | Eochaid | Giric | Domnall II | Causantín II | Máel Coluim I | Idulb | Dub | Cuilén | Cináed II | Amlaíb | Cináed II | Causantín III | Cináed III | Máel Coluim II | Donnchad I | Mac Bethad | Lulach | Máel Coluim III | Domnall III Bán | Donnchad II | Domnall III Bán | Edgar | Alexander I | David I | Máel Coluim IV | William I | Alexander II | Alexander III | Margaret | First Interregnum | John | Second Interregnum | Robert I | David II | Edward | David II | Robert II | Robert III | James I | James II | James III | James IV | James V | Mary I | James VI* | Charles I* | The Covenanters | The Protectorate | Charles II* | James VII* | Mary II* | William II* | Anne*
* Also Monarch of Ireland and England

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