NameKenneth II , King Of Scotland
Birthabt 932, Scotland
Death995, Scotland
Spouses
BirthLiffey Plain, Ireland
ChildrenMalcolm II (Melkolf) (~970-1034)
Notes for Kenneth II , King Of Scotland
Kenneth II of Scotland
d. 995, Fettercairn, Scot.king of the united Picts and Scots (from 971), son of Malcolm I.
He began his reign by ravaging the Britons, probably as an act of vengeance, but his name is also included among a group of northern and western kings said to have made submission to the Anglo-Saxon king Edgar in 973, perhaps at Chester; and the chronicler Roger of Wendover (Flores Historiarum, under the year 975) states that shortly afterward Kenneth received from Edgar all the land called Lothian (i.e., between the Tweed and the Forth rivers). This is the first mention of the River Tweed as the recognized border between England and Scotland. Kenneth was slain, apparently by his own subjects, at Fettercairn in the Mearns.
Kenneth was the brother of Dubh. In 973 he acknowledged King Edgar of England as his lord in return for recognition that the Scots now held Lothian, which they had seized from the Angles. In about 994, however, he broke his promise to keep the peace and invaded England. He was defeated, and lost Lothian again. He killed Culen's brother in 977 and was himself killed in 995 in a blood feud at Fettercairn, Kincardineshire by Culen's son, Constantine.


Kenneth II  (971-995) 
Kenneth began his reign by ravaging the Britons, probably as an act of vengeance, but his name is also included among a group of northern and western kings said to have made submission to the Anglo-Saxon king Edgar in 973, perhaps at Chester; and the chronicler Roger of Wendover (Flores Historiarum, under the year 975) states that shortly afterward Kenneth received from Edgar all the land called Lothian (i.e., between the Tweed and the Forth rivers). This is the first mention of the River Tweed as the recognized border between England and Scotland. Kenneth was slain, apparently by his own subjects, at Fettercairn in the Mearns.  
Notes for Mrs. Kenneth (Spouse 1)
leinster (ireland) princess??

Malcolm II was the son of Kenneth II and a Leinster princess from the Liffey Plain in Ireland. He had a daughter who married Sigurd II (the Stout) of Orkney and a daughter Bethoc who married Crinan, Abbot of Dunkeld and was father of Duncan. (??)

Child 1: , Malcolm II of Alba, King of Scotland, b. ABT 954
Child 2: , Dungal d. 999 killed by his cousin Gillacomgain.
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