Duncan Family Tree

King of Scotland Duncan mac Crinain I

Person Chart

Additional Names

Additional Names Name
Stage/Pen Name King Duncan I Maccrinan of Scotland
Stage/Pen Name Donnchad mac Crinain King of Alba
Stage/Pen Name Duncan MacCrinain I, King of Scotland
Stage/Pen Name King of Scotland Duncan I
Stage/Pen Name Donnchad mac Crinain
Stage/Pen Name Duncan the Sick
Stage/Pen Name Donnchad An t-Ilgarach
Stage/Pen Name King Duncan Canmore Mac Crínáin I of Scotland
Stage/Pen Name Duncan the Diseased
Stage/Pen Name Duncan I, King of Alba
Stage/Pen Name Duncan I King of Scots
Stage/Pen Name Donnchad mac Crínáin, Rí na h'Alda
Stage/Pen Name Duncan I, King of Scotland
Nickname The Gracious

Parents

Father Date of Birth Mother Date of Birth
Crínán of Dunkeld 0978
Crínán of Dunkeld 0978 Bethóc ingen Maíl Coluim meic Cináeda (Dunleld) 8/1/0984

Partners

Partner Date of Birth Children
Queen Of The Scots Suthen 1009 King Of Scotland Malcolm III

Person Events

Event Type Date Place Description
Birth 8/15/1001 Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland
Military Service 1038 Duncan responded in 1040 with an attack on Durham after Ealdred invaded Strathclyde. Like his grandfather's attack in 1006, it ended in disaster, with Scottish forces fleeing, and Scottish heads decorating the Durham marketplace. This defeat seems to hae weakened his authority so severely that Macbeth of the Cenel Loairn was able to defeat and kill him in battle near Elgin
Religion Catholic
Nobility Title 1034-1040 King of Scotland
Death 8/14/1040 Elgin, Morayshire, Scotland
Burial 8/20/1040 Isle of Iona, Argyll, Scotland

Notes
King Duncan was of the house of Dunkeld and was a king of Alba (an early name for Scotland) from 1034-1040. He is the same King Duncan written about by William Shakespeare in the play "MacBeth". In real like, MacBeth did kill Duncan, but Duncan's son Malcolm III managed to avenge his father's death and retake the thrown.