The Chronicle of the Kings of Alba says of Áed: " Edus held the same the kingdom for one year.

The Céli Dé were subsequently to be entrusted with many monasteries throughout the kingdom of Alba until replaced in the 12th century by new orders imported from France.

When he died as king of the combined kingdom in 900, Domnall II ( Donald II ) was the first man to be called rí Alban ( i. e. King of Alba ).

The larger islands have been continuously inhabited since Neolithic times, were influenced by the emergence of the kingdom of Dál Riata from 500 AD and then absorbed into the emerging Kingdom of Alba under Kenneth MacAlpin.

The legacy of Gaelic as the first national language of Scotland does not obscure the foundational process in the establishment of the Scottish kingdom of Alba.

The origin myth of the kingdom of Alba traced its foundation to the supposed destruction of Pictland by Kenneth MacAlpin, and its kings were chosen from the male line descendants of Kenneth, with the possible exception of the shadowy Eochaid, said to be Kenneth's daughter's son.

It has been proposed that the base of Clann Áeda mac Cináeda's power lay in the north of the kingdom of Alba, beyond the Mounth ( eastern Grampians ) in what had once been Fortriu and which was now called Moray ( in Irish annals of the period, MacBethad is occasionally referred to as King of Fortriu, as well as King / Mormaer of Moray, before his succession to the throne of Alba ).

Pictland, also known as Pictavia, gradually merged with the Gaelic kingdom of Dál Riata to form the Kingdom of Alba ( Scotland ).

Alba expanded, absorbing the Brythonic kingdom of Strathclyde and Bernician Lothian, and by the 11th century the Pictish identity had been subsumed into the " Scots " amalgamation of peoples.

The rise of Cínaed mac Ailpín ( Kenneth MacAlpin ) in the 840s, in the aftermath of this disaster, brought to power the family who would preside over the last days of the Pictish kingdom and found the new kingdom of Alba, although Cínaed himself was never other than king of the Picts.

In the reign of Cínaed's grandson, Caustantín mac Áeda ( 900 – 943 ), the kingdom of the Picts became the kingdom of Alba.

Map showing the approximate areas of the kingdom of Fortriu and neighbours c. 800, and the kingdom of Alba c. 900

During the High Middle Ages, the area was conquered by the kingdom of Alba, becoming part of the new kingdom of Scotland.

Eochaid, the result of this marriage, may have been king of Strathclyde, or of the kingdom of Alba.

From this time forward, and perhaps from much earlier, the kingdom of Strathclyde was subject to periodic domination by the kings of Alba.

According to Dionysius of Halicarnassus, however, Julus was a son of Ascanius who disputed the succession of the kingdom of Alba Longa with Silvius, upon the death of Ascanius.

It may be that Edgar here regulated the frontier between the southern lands of the kingdom of Alba and the northern lands of his English kingdom.

John of Fordun and others supposed that Indulf had been king of Strathclyde in the reign of his predecessor, based on their understanding that the kingdom of Strathclyde had become a part of the kingdom of Alba in the 940s.

Bertha Szold was more like Meg, the eldest March girl, who `` learned that a woman's happiest kingdom is home, her highest honor the art of ruling it, not as a queen, but a wise wife and mother ''.

but naturally, the royal ritual, which provided unusual control over already supremely powerful divine spirits, was held responsible for regulating the universe and insuring the welfare of the kingdom.

The general consensus amongst scholars is that Luwian was spoken — to a greater or lesser degree — across a large area of western Anatolia, including ( possibly ) Wilusa (= Troy ), the Seha River Land ( to be identified with the Hermos and / or Kaikos valley ), and the kingdom of Mira-Kuwaliya with its core territory of the Maeander valley.

The abbot of Loccum, who still carries a pastoral staff, takes precedence over all the clergy of Hanover, and was ex officio a member of the consistory of the kingdom.

The Last Day: Jesus compared the kingdom of heaven, over which He rules, to a net which was thrown into the sea and gathered fish of every kind.

When Alaric II was killed fighting Clovis I, king of the Franks, in the Battle of Vouillé ( 507 ), his kingdom fell into disarray.

His kingdom was faced with a threat from the north from the Franks ; according to Peter Heather, this was his motivation for marrying Chrotilda, the daughter of Clovis.

In 936, Otto I was crowned king of the kingdom in the collegiate church built by Charlemagne.

Akkad is mentioned once in the Tanakh — Book of Genesis 10: 10: And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar ( KJV ).

" The Franks then imprisoned Syagrius, and once his control over Syagrius ' former kingdom was secure Clovis had him beheaded.

As Peter Heather notes, the Visigothic kingdom was thrown into disarray " by the death of its king in battle.

Although Amalaric eventually became king in his own right, the political continuity of the Visigothic kingdom was broken ; " Amalaric's succession was the result of new power structures, not old ones ," as Heather describes it.

Wacho's death in about 540 brought his son Walthari to the throne, but as the latter was still a minor the kingdom was governed in his stead by Alboin's father, Audoin, of the Gausian clan.

The full destruction of the Gepid kingdom was completed by the Avars, who overcame the Gepids in the east.

Alexander Balas (), ruler of the Greek Seleucid kingdom in 150 – 146 BC, was a native of Smyrna of humble origin, but gave himself out to be the son of Antiochus IV Epiphanes and Laodice IV and heir to the Seleucid throne.

Edgar's will granted David the lands of the former kingdom of Strathclyde or Cumbria, and this was apparently agreed in advance by Edgar, Alexander, David and their brother-in-law Henry I of England.

Alexander's mother also opposed the marriage and was subsequently banished from the kingdom.

At the centre of Alfred's reformed military defence system was a network of fortresses, or burhs, distributed at strategic points throughout the kingdom.

If the Christian faith fell into ruin in his kingdom, if the clergy were too ignorant to understand the Latin words they butchered in their offices and liturgies, if the ancient monasteries and collegiate churches lay deserted out of indifference, he was answerable before God, as Josiah had been.

He also vanquished Alfonso VII of León, came to the rescue of his mother, whose nephew he was, and thus freed the kingdom from political dependence on the crown of his cousin of León.

Finally, in 1143, the Treaty of Zamora established peace between the cousins and the recognition by the Kingdom of León that Portugal was a sovereign kingdom.

With this papal blessing, Portugal was at last secured as a kingdom.

Chapters 24 – 34, while too complex to characterize easily, are primarily concerned with prophecies of a " Messiah ", a person anointed or given power by God, and of the Messiah's kingdom, where justice and righteousness will reign.

This account frequently invokes the slogan of " avenging the blood of Naboth " (, 25, 26 ), whose vineyard Jehoram's father Ahab had taken by force (); this fact suggests that perhaps the burden of making the northern kingdom a regional power had grown too heavy for its citizens, and Jehoram's defeat at Ramoth-Gilead gave them an opportunity to throw this burden off.

Augustus planned in 6 AD to destroy the mighty kingdom of Maroboduus, which he considered to be too dangerous for the Romans.

Eventually the neighbouring Saxons decided that Wermund was too weak to resist their requests for him to surrender his kingdom, and they sent their emissaries to Wermund's court.

However, he too was baptised only a few years later and Wessex became firmly established as a Christian kingdom.

Arthas kills him too, then sets off to Quel ' thalas, kingdom of the high elves.

Traditionally, this has been explained as being due to the southern kingdom being too far away to be involved in the battle, but Israel Finkelstein et al.

As 126 however had indicated that they were against because of the ( by them still considered too limited ) freedom of religion, which was mandatory under the Treaty of Vienna that ordered the union of the Northern and the Southern Netherlands, their votes and those of the men having refused to vote, were added to the minority, and by this infamous " Hollandic Arithmetic " William felt justified to proclaim the new kingdom.

Spain, too, was a client kingdom, following the French invasion of the Iberian Peninsula ; as was Poland, then the Duchy of Warsaw.

Following his father's loss of Armenia, Bahram III was considered too weak to rule the kingdom by much of the nobility and many nobles challenged his succession, instead pledging allegiance too his grand-uncle Narseh of Persia.

Valdemar was far too ambitious a ruler to have his plan to reassemble the Danish kingdom fall into pieces, and so he proceeded to invade Scania in 1360 with his mercenary army.

During a brief respite provided by the civil war between Ashurbanipal and his own brother Shamash-shum-ukin whom their father Esarhaddon had installed as the vassal king of Babylon, the Elamites too indulged in fighting among themselves, so weakening the Elamite kingdom that in 646 BC Ashurbanipal devastated Susiana with ease, and sacked Susa.

Plutarch says that the incident so impressed Philip that he told the boy, " O my son, look thee out a kingdom equal to and worthy of thyself, for Macedonia is too little for thee.

With Princess Isabella Maria dangerously ill, Peter resolved to entrust his brother Miguel with the kingdom, which Miguel was only too eager to accept.

In 1843 Daniel O ' Connell quoted him as saying about the harsh policy adopted by the government in Dublin: " The undue promulgation of that severe determination to extirpate the Irish and papacy out of the kingdom, your Lordship rightly apprehends to be too unseasonably published " in a such sense that he approved of the policy of extirpation.

Male suffrage varied throughout the kingdom, too: in England and Wales, 2 in 3 adult males had the vote ; in Scotland, 3 in 5 did ; and in Ireland, the figure was only 1 in 2.

Camponeschi, who was also Great Chancellor of the kingdom of Naples, became too powerful, and was killed by order of Prince Louis of Taranto.

In 1248, when King Béla ordered stone castles to be built throughout the kingdom, several new castles were constructed in Borsod county too ( Cserépvár, Csorbakő, Dédes, Diósgyőr, Éleskő ), many in places of former, destroyed motte castles.

When Harald died, Gorm took his kingdom too and united Denmark.

As Emperor Shenzong was too young to rule the kingdom, the Empress Dowager Xiao became the regent.

This is because the Dagomba power to the north and Akan power to the south were too powerful thus, the new kingdom rapidly declined in strength.

But they became too proud of themselves and became selfish rulers of their kingdom.