Beli I of Alt Clut

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Beli I of Alt Clut was the ruler of Alt Clut (modern Dumbarton Rock in the West of Scotland), probably sometime in the early-to-mid seventh century. According to the Harleian genealogies, he was the son of Neithon, his predecessor as king. We know from this genealogy that he was the father of Eugein (Owain),^[1] and we know from our extensive knowledge of King Bridei III of the Picts, that he was the father of that illustrious Pictish monarch. In the Elegy for Bruide mac Bili attributed to Adomnán of Iona, Bridei is called mac rígh Ala Cluaithe^[2] ("son of the King of Alt Clut").^[3] If the Belin moritur ("death of Beli") in the Annales Cambriae can be taken as a reference to our Beli,^[4] then we have Beli's death date perhaps at 627. He was certainly dead by 642.^[5]

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^ Harleian genealogy of the Kings of Alt Clut, here.
^ Alan MacQuarrie, "The Kings of Strathclyde", in A. Grant & K.Stringer (eds.) Medieval Scotland: Crown, Lordship and Community, Essays Presented to G.W.S. Barrow, (Edinburgh, 1993), p. 9.
^ Thomas Owen Clancy (ed.), The Triumph Tree: Scotland's Earliest Poetry, 550–1350, (Edinburgh, 1998), p. 115
^ AC627?, here
^ Alan MacQuarrie, loc. cit.

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Clancy, Thomas Owen (ed.), The Triumph Tree: Scotland's Earliest Poetry, 550–1350, (Edinburgh, 1998)
MacQuarrie, Alan, "The Kings of Strathclyde", in A. Grant & K.Stringer (eds.) Medieval Scotland: Crown, Lordship and Community, Essays Presented to G.W.S. Barrow, (Edinburgh, 1993), pp. 1-19