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20. DUNCAN I MAC CRINAN, King of Scots, 1034-1040, murdered by Macbeth near Elgin, 14 Aug. 1040; m. a dau. of Siward, Danish Earl of orthumbria. He besieged Durham, 1035. " Now being on solid ground, with the backing of CP and SP, we leave 1034. Duncan, the son of Crinan, abbot of Dunkeld, and Bethoc, daughter of Malcolm, the son of Kenneth, reigned six years." Now being on solid ground, with the backing of CP and SP, we leave Ritson's Annals of the Scots. The above unbroken succession of the kings of the Scots from Fergus to Malcolm II is this soundly and convincingly authenticated. (Dunbar, 12-13, 280; Ritson II: 111-116; CP IV: 504 note b, ix: 704; SP I: 1, III: 240).
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Donnchad mac Crinain (Modern Gaelic: Donnchadh mac Crìonain;[2] anglicised as Duncan I, and nicknamed An t-Ilgarach, "the Diseased" or "the Sick";[3] ca. 1001 – 14 August 1040)[1] was king of Scotland (Alba) from 1034 to 1040. He is the historical basis of the "King Duncan" in Shakespeare's play Macbeth.
Unlike the "King Duncan" of Shakespeare's Macbeth, the historical Duncan appears to have been a young man. He followed his grandfather Malcolm as king after the latter's death on 25 November 1034, without apparent opposition. He may have been Malcolm's acknowledged successor or Tànaiste as the succession appears to have been uneventful.[4] Earlier histories, following John of Fordun, supposed that Duncan had been king of Strathclyde in his grandfather's lifetime, between 1018 and 1034, ruling the former Kingdom of Strathclyde as an appanage. Modern historians discount this idea[5], although it is supported by the ODNB.[6].
1. Broun, "Duncan I (d. 1040)".
2 Donnchad mac Crínáin is the Mediaeval Gaelic form.
3. Skene, Chronicles, p. 101.
4. Duncan, Kingship of the Scots, p. 33.
5. Duncan, Kingship of the Scots, p. 40.
6. Broun, D. 'Duncan I [Donnchad ua Maíl Choluim]', Oxford Dictionay of National Biography, https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/8209