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Áed mac Cináeda

King of the Picts
Reign	877–878
Predecessor	Constantín mac Cináeda
Successor	Giric and Eochaid

Died	878 Strathallan
Burial	Iona
Issue	Constantín mac Áeda
House	Alpin
Father	Cináed mac Ailpín (Kenneth I)

Áed mac Cináeda (Modern Scottish Gaelic: Aodh mac Choinnich; Latin: Ethus; Anglicized: Hugh; died 878) was a son of Cináed mac Ailpín (Kenneth MacAlpin). He became king of the Picts in 877 when he succeeded his brother Constantín mac Cináeda. He was nicknamed Áed of the White Flowers, the wing-footed (Latin: alipes) or the white-foot (Latin: albipes).

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The Chronicle of the Kings of Alba says of Áed: "Edus held the same for one year. The shortness of his reign has bequeathed nothing memorable to history. He was slain in the civitas of Nrurim." Nrurim is unidentified.

The Annals of Ulster says that, in 878, "Áed mac Cináeda, king of the Picts, was killed by his associates." Tradition, reported by George Chalmers in his Caledonia (1807), and by the New Statistical Account (1834–1845), has it that the early-historic mound of the Cunninghillock by Inverurie is the burial place of Áed. This is based on reading Nrurim as Inruriu.

A longer account is interpolated in Andrew of Wyntoun's Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland. This says that Áed reigned for one year and was killed by his successor Giric in Strathallan and other king lists have the same report.

It is uncertain which if any, of The Prophecy of Berchán's kings should be taken to be Áed. William Forbes Skene presumed that the following verses referred to Áed:

129. Another king will take ; small is the profit that he does not divide. Alas for Scotland thenceforward. His name will be the Furious.
130. He will be but a short time over Scotland. The will be no unplundered. Alas for Scotland, through the youth; alas for their books, alas for their bequests.
131. He will be nine years in the kingdom. I shall tell you – it will be a tale of truth – he dies without bell, with communion, at evening, in a fatal pass.

Áed's son, Constantín mac Áeda, became king in 900.

References

Calise, J. M. P., Pictish Sourcebook, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002 ISBN 9780313322952
Graves, Charles (1886). "An Attempt to Decipher and Explain the Inscriptions on the Newton Stone". Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. 20: 312. Retrieved 10 August 2016.

Sources

Anderson, Alan Orr; Early Sources of Scottish History A.D. 500–1286, volume 1. Reprinted with corrections, Paul Watkins, Stamford, 1990. ISBN 1-871615-03-8
Anderson, Marjorie Ogilvie; Kings and Kingship in Early Scotland, Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, revised edition 1980. ISBN 0-7011-1604-8
Duncan, A. A. M.; The Kingship of the Scots 842–1292: Succession and Independence, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2002. ISBN 0-7486-1626-8
Smyth, Alfred P.; Warlords and Holy Men: Scotland A.D. 80–1000, E.J. Arnold, London, 1984 (reprinted Edinburgh University Press). ISBN 0-7486-0100-7

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Media related to Áed mac Cinaéda at Wikimedia Commons

The Chronicle of the Kings of Alba (CKA)
Friends of Grampian Stones – history of Inverurie
Second Statistical Account
Aed at the official website of the British monarchy

Regnal titles
Áed mac Cináeda Alpínid dynasty Died: 878
Preceded byConstantín mac Cináeda	King of the Picts 877–878	Succeeded byGiric Eochaid

v t e Pictish and Scottish monarchs
Monarchs of the Picts (traditional)	Drest I Talorc I Nechtan I Drest II Galan Erilich Drest III Drest IV Gartnait I Cailtram Talorc II Drest V Galam Cennalath Bridei I Gartnait II Nechtan II Cinioch Gartnait III Bridei II Talorc III Talorgan I Gartnait IV Drest VI Bridei III Taran Bridei IV Nechtan III Drest VII Alpín I Óengus I Bridei V Ciniod I Alpín II Talorgan II Drest VIII Conall Constantine (I) Óengus II Drest IX Uuen Uurad Bridei VI Ciniod II Bridei VII Drest X
Monarchs of the Scots (traditional)	Kenneth I MacAlpin Donald I Constantine I (II) Áed Giric Eochaid (uncertain) Donald II Constantine II (III) Malcolm I Indulf Dub Cuilén Amlaíb Kenneth II Constantine III (IV) Kenneth III Malcolm II Duncan I Macbeth Lulach Malcolm III Canmore Donald III Duncan II Donald III Edgar Alexander I David I Malcolm IV William I the Lion Alexander II Alexander III Margaret First Interregnum John Second Interregnum Robert I David II Robert II Robert III James I James II James III James IV James V Mary James VI Charles I Charles II James VII Mary II William II Anne
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