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Taran, son of Ainftech was a King of the Picts (692-96)[1] according to the Pictish king-lists. His name is the same as that of the Gaulish thunder-god, Taranis.[2] 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. ...
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His father is just a name, which occurs in various forms, e.g. Entifidich in the Poppleton manuscript,[3] Enfidaig,[4], Amfredech,[5] Anfudeg,[6] and as Amfodech in the French king-list embedded in the Scalacronica.[7] The list in National Library of Scotland MS, Advocates' 34.7.3,[8], seems to say that Taran was the brother of King Nechtan,[9] which could mean that Taran's mother was the Pictish princess Der-Ilei. However, the latter list is problematic and places the reign of King Bruide, Nechtan's brother, after Nechtan; on the other hand, the list is one of the lists which is aware that Bruide was the son of Dargart, indicating access to material not available to some of the other lists.[10] The Poppleton Manuscript is the name given to the fourteenth century codex compiled, probably, by Robert of Poppleton, a Carmelite friar who was the Prior of Hulne, near Alnwick. ...
Scalacronica (1066-1362) is a Scottish chronicle written in Anglo-Norman by the knight Sir Thomas Gray of Heaton in Northumberland, while he was imprisoned by the Scots at Edinburgh after an ambush in 1355. ...
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Nechtan IV (also known as Nechtan mac Derile) was king of the Southern Picts from 706-724, and a member of the Strathclyde Dynasty. ...
Bridei IV (Gaelic: Bridei mac Derile) was king of the Picts from c. ...
Some of the king-lists say he reigned for fourteen years; however, the Poppleton and Lebor Bretnach lists,[11] along with the Scalacronica list, give four years only,[12] so the x may be a mistake. He was almost certainly succeeded by Bruide, the son of Dargart and Der-Ilei, although in what circumstances, it is hard to say.
Notes - ^ The four year reign and the accession in 692 are chosen by Marjorie O. Anderson,, Kings and Kingship in Early Scotland, (Edinburgh, 1973), p. 175.
- ^ op. cit., p. 90.
- ^ op. cit., p. 248.
- ^ op. cit., p. 263.
- ^ op. cit., pp. 266, 272.
- ^ op. cit., p. 280.
- ^ op. cit., p. 297.
- ^ =M.O. Anderson, List D; Skene, no, XXIII.
- ^ It writes frater eius after Taran's listing; see M.O. Anderson, op. cit. p. 266.
- ^ see Thomas Owen Clancy, "Philosopher-King: Nechtan mac Der-Ilei", in the Scottish Historical Review, 83, 2004, pp. 125–149.
- ^ Marjorie Anderson believes these lists to derive from a list kept at Abernethy; she and others believe these lists, marked by "un-gaelicized" name forms, to be more reliable; see M.O. Anderson, op. cit. pp. 77-102.
- ^ 'op. cit., pp. 248, 263, 297.
References - Anderson, Marjorie O., Kings and Kingship in Early Scotland, (Edinburgh, 1973)
- Clancy, Thomas Owen, "Philosopher-King: Nechtan mac Der-Ilei", in the Scottish Historical Review, 83, 2004, pp. 125–149
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