King duncan of scotland biography

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    Duncan inom (a.k.a. Donnchad mac Crínáin) lived from 15 August 1001 to 15 August 1040 and was King of Alba from 25 November 1034 to 15 August 1040. The wider picture in Scotland at the time fryst vatten set out in our Historical Timeline.

    Duncan was the maternal grandson of Malcolm II, who he succeeded to the throne: the first time the Scottish crown had passed down the direct line rather than being distributed around the extended family beneath the lag of tanistry.

    Until Malcolm's rule, the Crown of Alba had passed backwards and forwards between different strands of the House of Alpin beneath the lag of tanistry, under which the extended family elected the successor from candidates across the family. This had ceased simply through Malcolm's move to kill anyone he thought likely to be a utmaning to the efterträdelse eller följd of his own line.

    It would seem that Duncan was neither a very good nor a very popular king

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    Duncan I of Scotland

    King of Alba from 1034 to 1040

    "Duncan I" redirects here. For the later Scottish nobleman, see Donnchad I, Earl of Fife.

    Donnchad mac Crinain (Scottish Gaelic: Donnchadh mac Crìonain;[1]anglicised as Duncan I, and nicknamed An t-Ilgarach, "the Diseased" or "the Sick";[2]c. 1001 – 14 August 1040)[3] was king of Scotland (Alba) from 1034 to 1040. He is the historical basis of the "King Duncan" in Shakespeare's play Macbeth.

    Life

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    The ancestry of King Duncan is not certain. In modern texts, he is the son of Crínán, hereditary lay abbot of Dunkeld, and Bethóc, daughter of King Malcolm II. However, in the late 17th century the historian Frederic Van Bossen, after collecting historical accounts throughout Europe, identified King Duncan as the first son of Abonarhl ap crinan (the grandson of Crinan) and princess Beatrice, the eldest daughter to King Malcom II, and Gunnor who was the daughter of the "2nd Duk

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    King Duncan

    Fictional character in Shakespeare's Macbeth

    This article is about the character in Shakespeare's Macbeth. For other uses, see King Duncan (disambiguation).

    Fictional character

    King Duncan is a fictional character in Shakespeare's Macbeth. He is the father of two youthful sons (Malcolm and Donalbain), and the victim of a well-plotted regicide in a power grab by his trusted captain Macbeth. The origin of the character lies in a narrative of the historical Donnchad mac Crinain, King of Scots, in Raphael Holinshed's 1587 The Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland, a history of Britain familiar to Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Unlike Holinshed's incompetent King Duncan (who is credited in the narrative with a "feeble and slothful administration"), Shakespeare's King Duncan is crafted as a sensitive, insightful, and generous father-figure whose murder grieves Scotland and is accounted the cause of turmoil in the natural world.

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