http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_II_of_ScotlandMáel Coluim mac Cináeda ,
[1] known in modern
anglicized regnal lists as
Malcolm II ,
[2] was
King of the Scots from 1005 until his death.
[3] He was a son of
Kenneth II ; the
Prophecy of Berchán says that his mother was a woman of
Leinster and refers to him as Máel Coluim
Forranach, "the destroyer".
[4]To the
Irish annals which recorded his death, Malcolm was ard rí Alban,
High King of Scotland. In the same way that
Brian Bóruma,
High King of Ireland, was not the only king in
Ireland, Malcolm was one of several kings within the geographical boundaries of modern
Scotland: his fellow kings included the
king of Strathclyde, who ruled much of the south-west, various
Norse-Gael kings of the western coasts and the
Hebrides and, nearest and most dangerous rivals, the Kings or
Mormaers of Moray. To the south, in the
kingdom of England, the Earls of
Bernicia and
Northumbria, whose predecessors as
kings of Northumbria had once ruled most of southern Scotland, still controlled large parts of the south-east.
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