Talorcan mac Enfret (died 657) was a King of the Picts (653–657). He was the son of Eanfrith of Bernicia, who had fled into exile among the Picts after his father, Æthelfrith of Northumbria, was killed around the year 616. Eanfrith married a Pictish princess, and their son was Talorcan. Events June 2 - Pope Eugene I dies and is subsequently canonized. ... The list of kings of the Picts is based on the Pictish Chronicle which survives in a late copy and did not record the dates the kings reigned. ... A replica of the Hilton of Cadboll Stone. ... Events Pope Martin I arrested Sigeberht II the Good succeeds Sigeberht I the Little as king of Essex Aripert, nephew of Theodelinda, succeeds Rodoald as king of the Lombards Births Deaths Chindaswinth, king of the Visigoths Rodoald, king of the Lombards Abbas, uncle of Muhammad and his chief financial supporter. ... Events June 2 - Pope Eugene I dies and is subsequently canonized. ... Eanfrith of Bernicia - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... Æthelfrith (d. ... Events Eadbald succeeds Ethelbert as king of Kent. ...
Talorcan became king in 653; in the next year, he defeated and killed Dúnchad mac Conaing, king of the Dál Riata Scots, in battle at Strath Ethairt. It has been suggested that this battle may have been part of a traditional "inaugural raid" against hostile neighbors to mark the beginning of a king's rule.[1] Talorcan was the nephew of the powerful Oswiu of Northumbria; Oswiu is reported by Bede to have "for the most part subdued and made tributary" the Picts (along with the Scots)[2], and it is possible that Talorcan was subject to Oswiu. Dúnchad mac Conaing or Dúnchad mac Dubáin (died 654) was king of Dál Riata (modern western Scotland). ... 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. ... This article is about the Scottish as an ethnic group. ... Oswiu (612–February 15, 670), also written as Oswio, Oswy, and Osuiu was an Anglo-Saxon Bretwalda. ...
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^ Ann Williams, Alfred P. Smyth, and D. P. Kirby, A Biographical Dictionary of Dark Age Britain (1997), page 220.
He was the son of Eanfrith of Bernicia, who had fled into exile among the Picts after his father, Aethelfrith, king of Northumbria, was killed around the year 616.
Talorcan became king in 653; in the next year, he defeated and killed Dunchad, king of the DalriadaScots, in battle at Strath Ethairt.
He seems to have been friendly towards Oswiu of Northumbria, and it is possible he was a puppet of Oswiu, the most powerful king of Great Britain at the time.
He succeeded in making the majority of the Britons, Picts and Scots tributary to him.
At Gilling in 651 he caused the murder of Oswine, a relative of Edwin who had become king of Deira, and a few years later took possession of that kingdom.
About this time he is thought by many to have obtained some footing in the kingdom of the Picts through their kingTalorcan, the son of his brother Eanfrith.
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