Áed mac Cináeda ( died 878 ) was a son of Cináed mac Ailpín (" Kenneth MacAlpin ").

A son of Cináed mac Ailpín (" Kenneth MacAlpin "), he succeeded his uncle Domnall mac Ailpín as Pictish king following the latter's death on 13 April 862.

The main local source from the period is the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba, a list of kings from Cináed mac Ailpín ( died 858 ) to Cináed mac Maíl Coluim ( died 995 ).

The earliest genealogical records of the descendants of Cináed mac Ailpín may date from the end of the tenth century, but their value lies more in their context, and the information they provide about the interests of those for whom they were compiled, than in the unreliable claims they contain.

It is unclear whether, if accurate, this woman should be identified as a daughter of Cináed mac Ailpín, and thus Causantín's sister, or as a daughter of Cináed mac Conaing, king of Brega.

Constantine's grandfather Kenneth I of Scotland ( Cináed mac Ailpín, died 858 ) was the first of the family recorded as a king, but as king of the Picts.

The main local source from the period is the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba, a list of kings from Kenneth MacAlpin ( died 858 ) to Kenneth II ( Cináed mac Maíl Coluim, died 995 ).

Islands close to the shores of modern Ayrshire would have remained part of the Kingdom of Strathclyde during this period, whilst the main islands became part of the emerging Kingdom of Alba founded by Kenneth MacAlpin ( Cináed mac Ailpín ).

In the reign of Kenneth II ( Cináed mac Maíl Coluim ), when the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba was compiled, the annalist wrote:

It has been proposed that Gille Coemgáin's death was the doing of Mac Bethad in revenge for his father's death, or of Máel Coluim mac Cináed to rid himself of a rival.

In northern Britain, the violent struggle between the various candidates for power seems to have removed Clann Áeda mac Cináeda from the contest, leaving only Clann Constantín mac Cináeda, in the person of Máel Coluim son of Cináed, to claim the kingship.

It is not clear whether Gruoch's father was a son of King Kenneth II ( Cináed mac Maíl Coluim ) ( d. 995 ) or of King Kenneth III ( Cináed mac Duib ) ( d. 1005 ), either is possible chronologically.

The sophisticated kingdom that had been built fell apart, as did the Pictish leadership, which had been stable for more than a hundred years since the time of Óengus mac Fergusa ( The accession of Cináed mac Ailpín as king of both Picts and Scots can be attributed to the aftermath of this event ).

* Kenneth I ( Cináed mac Ailpín ), King of the Scots, also becomes King of the Picts, thus becoming the first monarch of the new nation of Scotland.

Some scholars have seen no revival of Dál Riata after the long period of foreign domination ( after 637 to around 750 or 760 ), while others have seen a revival of Dál Riata under Áed Find ( 736-778 ), and later Kenneth MacAlpin ( Cináed mac Ailpín, who is claimed in some sources to have taken the kingship there in c. 840 following the disastrous defeat of the Pictish army by the Danes ): some even claim that the kingship of Fortriu was usurped by the Dál Riata several generations before MacAlpin ( 800-858 ).

He was a son of Run, King of Strathclyde, and his mother may have been a daughter of Kenneth MacAlpin ( Cináed mac Ailpín ).

The second is the father of Kenneth MacAlpin ( Cináed mac Ailpín ).

According to later genealogies, Áed was the great-grandfather of Kenneth MacAlpin ( Cináed mac Ailpín ) who is traditionally counted as the first king of Scots.

* After Áedán mac Gabráin, between the main line, called " the sons of Eochaid Buide " and " the children of Cináed mac Ailpín ", and the " sons of Conaing "

Rulers of Scotland from Cináed mac Ailpín until the present time claim descent from Fergus Mór.

Andrew of Wyntoun's early 15th century Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland says that Fergus was the first Scot to rule in Scotland, and that Cináed mac Ailpín was his descendant.

The descendants of Kenneth MacAlpin ( Cináed mac Ailpín ) in the male line lost the kingship between 878 and 889.

The House of Alpin is the name given to the kin-group which ruled in Pictland and then the kingdom of Alba from the advent of Cináed mac Ailpín in the 840s until the death of Máel Coluim mac Cináeda in 1034.

Kings traced their descent from Cináed mac Ailpín, and not from his father, and Irish genealogies in the Book of Ballymote and the Book of Lecan refer to the kindred as Clann Cináeda meic Ailpín, prioritising descent from Cináed.

Cináed mac Maíl Coluim ( Modern Gaelic: Coinneach mac Mhaoil Chaluim anglicised as Kenneth II, and nicknamed An Fionnghalach, " The Fratricide "; before 954 – 995 ) was King of Scots ( Alba ).

Cináed mac Duib ( Modern Gaelic: Coinneach mac Dhuibh ) anglicised as Kenneth III, and nicknamed An Donn, " the Chief " or " the Brown ", ( before 967 – 25 March 1005 ) was King of Scots from 997 to 1005.

Since there is no known and relevant Cináed alive at that time ( Cináed mac Maíl Coluim having died in 995 ), it is considered an error for either Cináed mac Duib, who succeeded Causantín, or, possibly, Máel Coluim himself, the son of Cináed II.

Cuilén was succeeded by Dub's brother Kenneth II ( Cináed mac Maíl Coluim ), who was driven from the throne for a short time in the later 970s by Cuilén's brother Amlaíb.

It is an anglicized ( Scots ) form of either the Pictish name Ciniod or the Goidelic name Cináed, often thought to mean " fire-head " or " born of fire " ( see Áed ), but ultimately derives from a shared prototype with Kennedy ; Cunedagius, originally Cornish ( then indistinct from other Brythonic languages )-- after which was carried north to Valentia and borne by Cunedda ( Latin Cunetacius ), founder of Gwynedd.

Dinnshenchas Érenn, probably composed by Cináed Ua Hartacáin ( d. 975 ), also selected the nearby Cnoch Liamhna for mention as one of the “ assemblies and noted places in Ireland ”, an indication of the strength of the local ruling family, the Uí Dúnchada branch of the Uí Dúnlainge who supplied ten kings of Leinster from their base on nearby Lyons Hill between 750 and 1050.

One hypothesis is that the figures depicted in the battle, parade and decapitation scenes is the army of Kenneth MacAlpin ( Cináed mac Ailpín ), the scene being the representation of Kenneth's demonstration of his military and legal authority over northern Pictland.

According to a poem by Cináed ua hArtacáin ( d. 975 ), the Connacht champion Mac Cécht used it to slay Cúscraid Menn, son of Conchobor mac Nessa.

The manuscript provides the following ancestry for Kenneth :... Cináed son of Alpín son of Eochaid son of Áed Find son of Domangart son of Domnall Brecc son of Eochaid Buide son of Áedán son of Gabrán son of Domangart son of Fergus Mór ...

It has been suggested that Sueno's Stone, near Forres, may be a monument to Dub, erected by his brother Kenneth II ( Cináed mac Maíl Coluim ).

Dub left at least one son, Kenneth III ( Cináed mac Dub ).

; d. 1058 ) was a Scottish prince, son of King Kenneth III ( Cináed mac Duib ).

His third known wife was Máel Muire, probably the daughter of Cináed mac Ailpín, the king of the Picts in Britain.

He was grandson of Malcolm I of Scotland. In 997, the killer of Causantín mac Cuilén is credited as being Cináed mac Maíl Coluim.

Late sources of uncertain reliability state that Auisle was killed by Amlaíb in 867 in a dispute over Amlaíb's wife, the daughter of Cináed.

Although his descendants did not compete successfully for the kingship of Alba after Cináed was killed in 1005, they did hold the mormaerdom of Fife.

He was a son of Cináed mac Maíl Coluim ; the Prophecy of Berchán says that his mother was a woman of Leinster and refers to him as Máel Coluim Forranach, " the destroyer ".

Máel Coluim was followed as king or mormaer by his brother Gille Coemgáin, husband of Gruoch, a granddaughter of King Cináed III.

The descendants of Cináed were ousted in 878 when Áed mac Cináeda was killed by Giric mac Dúngail.