List of Kings of Strathclyde

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The list of the Kings of Strathclyde concerns the kings of Alt Clut, later Strathclyde, a Brythonic kingdom.

The kingdom was ruled from Dumbarton Rock, whence Alt Clut, the Brythonic name of the rock, until around 870 when the rock was captured and sacked by Norse-Gaels from the kingdom of Dublin after a four-month siege. Thereafter the centre of the kingdom moved to Govan, previously a religious centre. The kingdom is also known as Cumbria after 870, and indeed may have ruled parts of the modern English region of Cumbria in the 10th and 11th centuries. In the 11th century the kingdom of Alba conquered Strathclyde. It remained a distinctive area, with different laws, using the Cumbrian language alongside Gaelic, until the 12th century.

[edit] Kings of Alt Clut

• Ceretic Guletic (late 5th century)
• Cinuit
• Dumnagual Hen
• Clinoch
• Tutagual (middle 6th century)
• Riderch Hael (died 612)
• Neithon
• Beli I
• Eugein map Beli (633-645)
• Guret (died 658)
• Elfin (perhaps died 693)
• Dumnagual II (died 694)
• Beli II (died 722)
• Teudebur (722-752)
• Rotri (died c. 754)
• Dumnagual III (754-760)
• Eugein II (760-c.780)
• Riderch II
• Dumnuagal IV
• Artgal (died c. 872)
• Run (872-878)

[edit] Kingdom of Strathclyde or Cumbria

• Eochaid (uncertain, also, uncertainly, king of Alba to c. 889)
• Domnall I (died 908x916)
• Eógan I (probably died 937 in the battle of Brunanburh)
• Domnall III (941x971, died c. 975)
• Amdarch (killed Cuilén mac Iduilb c. 973)
• Máel Coluim I
• Eogan II ("Owen the Bald", died c. 1018)
• Unknown
• Máel Coluim II (c. 1054)
• Unknown status
• David (ascended c. 1113; became King of Scots c. 1124)

Subsequently incorporated into Alba, or Scotland. See List of Monarchs of Scotland