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Scottish Royal Succession |
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Scottish Royal Succession |
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The Scottish royal family can trace an unbroken descent from about 500
AD, when Fergus mac Ercc, leader of a group of Irish from Dál Riata
called the Scots, came across and settled in the Argyllshire area. They
called their kingdom Dál Riata, but the name Scots and Scotland
came into use from them. This Scottish royal family eventually became kings
of the Pictish area through a combination of conquest and intermarriage.
The Pictish
throne was inherited through the female line, and it likely that Alpin
or Kenneth gained a claim to the Pictish throne through a Pictish mother
in about the early ninth century. The areas of Strathclyde and Lothian
were absorbed later.
There was not a strict inheritance by primogeniture (succession of
the eldest son) until the twelfth century. For much of the earlier period,
the succession alternated between two branches of the royal family. Kings
were usually succeeded by brothers or cousins, not sons (who were often
too young).
Rulers of Scotland are always referred to as King/Queen of Scots, not as King/Queen of Scotland.
The dates in the chart refer to reign years, and the dates in the early
part of the chart are all approximate. Scots rulers are shown in bold capitals,
kings of other countries are also in capitals.
?Ercc
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FERGUS MOR Loarn
c500-501 |
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DOMANGART I
c501-507
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COMGALL GABRÁN
c507-538 c538-558
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CONALL I ÁEDÁN
c558-574 c574-606
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EOCHAID I
606-629
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Conne DOMNALL BREAC CONALL II
| 629-642 642-c659
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FERCHAR DOMANGART II DOMNALL II MAEL DUIN
c642-649 c659-673 c689-696 c673-689
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EOCHAID II
c696-697
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EOCHAID III
c721-733
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ÁED FIND FERGUS
748-778 778-781
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Eochaid IV = a Pictish princess
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AILPÍN = ?a Pictish princess
c837-840 |
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KENNETH I mac Alpin DONALD I
834-859 859-863
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CONSTANTINE I AEDH daughter GIRIC I
863-877 877-878 | 878-889
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DONALD II CONSTANTINE II EOCHAID
889-900 900-942 878-889
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MALCOLM I INDULF
942-954 954-962
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DUBH KENNETH II CUILEAN
962-967 971-995 967-971
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KENNETH III MALCOLM II CONSTANTINE III
997-1005 1005-1034 995-997
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GIRIC II Boedhe Bethoc = Crinan of Dunkeld
997-1005 |____ |______
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Gillacomgain = Gruoch = MACBETH DUNCAN I
| 1040-1057 1034-1040
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LULACH 1 = MALCOLM III = St Margaret DONALD III Ban
1057-1058 | 1058-1093 | 1093-94,1094-97
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DUNCAN II EDGAR ALEXANDER I DAVID I Matilda = HENRY I
1094 1097-1107 1107-1124 1124-1153 of England
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Henry, Earl of Huntingdon
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MALCOLM IV WILLIAM I David, Earl of Huntingdon
1153-1165 1165-1214 |
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ALEXANDER II Margaret = Alan of Isabella = Robert
1214-1249 ________| Galloway | Bruce
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ALEXANDER III Devorguilla = John Robert Bruce
1249-1286 ______| Balliol |
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ERIC II = Margaret JOHN BALLIOL Robert Bruce
of Norway | 1292-1296 |
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MARGARET, Maid EDWARD BALLIOL Isobel = ROBERT I = Elizabeth
of Norway 1332-1341 | BRUCE |
1286-1290 | 1306-1329 |
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Walter the Steward = Marjorie DAVID II
| 1329-32,1341-71
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ROBERT II Stewart
1371-1390
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Annabella Drummond = ROBERT III
| 1390-1406
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JAMES I
1406-1437
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JAMES II
1437-1460
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HENRY VII JAMES III
of England 1460-1488
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Archibald (2) = Margaret = (1) JAMES IV
Douglas | Tudor | 1488-1513
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Matthew = Margaret Mary of = JAMES V ~ Margaret Erskine
Stuart | Guise | 1513-1547 :
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Henry Stuart, = MARY James Stewart,
Lord Darnley | 1542-1567 1st Earl of Moray
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JAMES VI Elizabeth = James Stewart,
1567-1625 | 2nd Earl of Moray
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| | James Stewart, 3rd Earl of Moray
Elizabeth CHARLES I
| 1625-1649
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Sophia CHARLES II Mary Anne Hyde = JAMES VII = Mary of Modena
= Ernest 1649-1685 | | 1685-1689 |
of Hanover | ____|________ |________
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GEORGE I WILLIAM II/III = MARY II ANNE James Edward,
1714-1727 1689-1702 1689-1694 1702-1714 'Old Pretender'
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GEORGE II Charles Edward, Henry, Cardinal
1727-1760 'Young Pretender' York
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Frederick, Prince William, Duke
of Wales of Cumberland
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GEORGE III
1760-1820
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GEORGE IV WILLIAM IV Edward, Duke
1820-1830 1830-1837 of Kent
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VICTORIA
1837-1901
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EDWARD VII
1901-1910
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GEORGE V
1910-1936
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EDWARD VIII GEORGE VI
1936 1936-1952
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ELIZABETH II
1952-
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