Alpin mac Echach, King Of Dál Riata

- Abt 840

• Name	Alpin mac Echach
  Suffix	King Of Dál Riata
  Gender	Male
  Alternate death	Abt 837	Galloway, Perthshire, Scotland   [1]
  Death	Abt 840	Galloway, Perthshire, Scotland   [2]
  Person ID	I517	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	3 Dec 2023

  
  

  Father	Eochu mac Aida Find, King Of Dál Riata   d. Abt 781
  Family ID	F3246	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Children	1. Kenneth MacAlpin, King of the Scots and the Picts   d. 8 Feb 858, Palace of Forteviot, Perthshire, Scotland
  Family ID	F3906	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Apr 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Also called Alpin mac Echdach (with the extra "d" in his patronymic). Stewart Baldwin has noted on SGM (4 Aug 2023) that "there is no good source that Alpin ever even reigned as king (the earliest sources suggesting this being themselves problematic), and there is no reasonable authority for the supposed dates. In the earliest sources, Alpin has no personal history or biography, but is merely Cinaed's patronymic and (in slightly later sources) one of the genealogical links between Cinaed and his great-grandfather Aed mac Echdach."

  
  

• Sources

  [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008. [S91] The Henry Project: The Ancestors of King Henry II of England, by Stewart Baldwin, Todd A. Farmerie, and Peter Stewart.