[425]. 820 Custantin mac Fergusa rex Fortren moritur.—An. Ult.
825 Martre Blaimhicc meic Flainn o Gentib in Hi. Coluim Cille.—An. Ult.
[426]. 834 Aengus mac Fergusa rex Fortrenn moritur.—An. Ult.
[427]. Anno ab incarnatione Domini octingentesimo tricesimo quarto congressi sunt Scotti cum Pictis in sollempnitate Paschali. Et plures de nobilioribus Pictorum ceciderunt. Sicque Alpinus Rex Scottorum victor extitit, unde in superbiam elatus ab eis, altero concerto bello, tercio decimo kal. Augusti ejusdem anni a Pictis vincitur atque truncatur.—Chron. Picts and Scots, p. 209.
[428]. War of the Gaedhil with the Gaill, pp. 13, 226. 839 Bellum re genntib for firu Fortrenn (by the Gentiles against the men of Fortrenn) in quo Euganan mac Oengusa et Bran mac Oengusa et Aed mac Boanta et alii pene innumerabiles ceciderunt.—An. Ult. In the Albanic Duan Aedh rules for four years over Dalriada and Eoghanain thirteen, in all seventeen years. But Aengus ruled till 825, and Eoganan is slain in 839, which gives only fourteen years, so that it is plain that Aed, son of Boanta, governed Dalriada during three of the years of Eoganan’s rule, which is exactly the length of his reign over the Picts.
[429]. Cujus filius Kynadius successit in regno patris qui viio regni sui anno, cum piratæ Danorum, occupatis littoribus, Pictos sua defendentes, strage maxima pertrivissent, in reliquos Pictorum terminos transiens, arma vertit et multis occisis fugere compulit, sicque monarchiam totius Albaniæ, quæ nunc Scotia dicitur, primus Scottorum rex conquisivit et in ea primo super Scottos regnavit.—Chron. Picts and Scots, p. 209. The Chronicle of Huntingdon says Kynadius reigned twenty-eight years, and in order to adjust the chronology of his reign it is necessary to ascertain the true year of his death. This we can fortunately do. The Ulster Annals place it in 858, the Annales Cambriæ in 856, but the Pictish Chronicle tells us that he died on the Ides or thirteenth of February, on a Tuesday. Now the thirteenth of February fell on a Tuesday in the year 860, which is the true year of his death. This gives 832 in place of 834 as the commencement of his reign and the year of his father Alpin’s death, and 839 as his seventh year. 832 is also the correct year of the death of Aengus, son of Fergus, for his predecessor Constantin died in 820, and Aengus is said in the Pictish Chronicle to have reigned only twelve years.
[430]. Qui anno xiio regni sui septies in una die cum Pictis congruitur multisque pertritis regnum sibi confirmat et regnavit xxviii. annis.—Chron. Picts and Scots, p. 209. Twelve years and the sixteen of the Pictish Chronicle make it twenty-eight.
[431]. Kinadius igitur filius Alpini, primus Scottorum rexit feliciter istam annis xvi. Pictaviam.... Iste vero biennio antequam veniret Pictaviam, Dalrietæ regnum suscepit.—Chron. Picts and Scots, p. 8.
[432]. Iste occisus est apud Fertheviot, secundum quosdam Sconam, a Scottis.—Chron. Picts and Scots, p. 151.
[433]. Septimo anno regni sui, reliquias Sancti Columbæ transportavit ad ecclesiam quam construxit.—Chron. Picts and Scots, p. 8.