King Duncan is a fictional character in Shakespeare's Macbeth. He is the father of two youthful sons (Malcolm and Donalbain), and the victim of a well-plotted...
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Crìonain; anglicised as Duncan I, and nicknamed An t-Ilgarach, "the Diseased" or "the Sick"; c. 1001 – 14 August 1040) was king of Scotland (Alba) from...
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Gruoch. In 1040, Duncan I launched an attack into Moray and was killed in action by Macbeth's troops. Macbeth succeeded him as King of Alba, apparently...
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Gaelic: Donnchadh mac Mhaoil Chaluim; anglicised as Duncan II; c. 1060 – 12 November 1094) was King of Alba. He was son of Malcolm III (Máel Coluim mac...
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King Duncan is a character in William Shakespeare's play Macbeth. King Duncan may also refer to: Duncan I of Scotland (died 1040), king of Alba, on whom...
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one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the Scottish throne...
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Malcolm II of Scotland (redirect from Máel Coluim II, King of Scots)
grandfather of his successor Duncan I of Scotland, through his daughter Bethóc, and according to some sources, of Macbeth, King of Scotland, (about whom William...
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Donald III of Scotland (redirect from Domnall III, King of Scots)
father became king. King Duncan I however, perished in 1040 when Donald was still a boy, killed by Mormaer Macbeth, yet another grandson of King Malcolm II...
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Macbeth, Thane of Glamis, and Banquo, Thane of Lochaber, having led King Duncan's army to victory over the traitorous Thane of Cawdor, are approached...
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Lantern (2011); he had the voice role of Benjamin King in the video game Saints Row (2006). Duncan was born in Chicago and raised in a single-parent household...
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Regicide (redirect from King assassination)
media and the arts through pieces like Macbeth (Macbeth's killing of King Duncan). In Western Christianity, regicide was far more common prior to 1200/1300...
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the play, most notably in the first two acts. Following the murder of King Duncan, however, her role in the plot diminishes. She becomes an uninvolved...
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David I of Scotland (redirect from King David I)
of King Malcolm III, and certainly the sixth and youngest borne by Malcolm's second wife, Margaret of Wessex. He was the grandson of King Duncan I. In...
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Thane of Glamis (which he inherited from his father Sinel) serving under King Duncan, who gives a colourful and extensive exaltation of Macbeth's prowess...
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on whose narratives of King Duff and King Duncan Shakespeare in part based Macbeth. Historically, Duff was a 10th century King of Alba. In John of Fordun's...
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Roy in Ek Doctor Ki Maut (1991) and Abba ji, (based on Shakespeare's King Duncan) in Vishal Bhardwaj's adaptation of Macbeth; Maqbool (2004). In the 1980s...
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recital at the age of five. Duncan started her entertainment career at age 12, working in a local production of The King and I for $150 a week. In the...
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caused the destruction. Gilan travels to Araluen to report to the king (King Duncan). Meanwhile, Will, Horace, and Evanlyn come across an army of Wargals...
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William Shakespeare's Macbeth (c. 1603–1607). He is the younger son of King Duncan and brother to Malcolm, the heir to the throne. Donalbain flees to Ireland...
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Lindsay Vere Duncan CBE (born 7 November 1950) is a Scottish actress. She is the recipient of three BAFTA nominations and one Scottish BAFTA nomination...
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Holinshed's Chronicles (1587), a history of Britain. He is the elder son of King Duncan, the heir to the throne, and brother to Donalbain. In the end, he regains...
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aircraft carrier. As the air operations officer to Admiral Ernest J. King, Duncan assisted with the planning for the Doolittle Raid, and was the one who...
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Middle Irish Uilleam mac Donnchada) was a Scottish prince, the son of King Duncan II of Scotland by his wife Ethelreda of Dunbar. He was a territorial...
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Duncan is an Anglicised form of Irish Donnchadh. One of the first people to bear the name was king of Dál Riata Dúnchad mac Dubáin, who was possibly the...
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William the Lion (redirect from William the Lion, king of Scotland)
A further rising in 1181 involved Donald Meic Uilleim, descendant of King Duncan II. Donald briefly took over Ross; not until his death in 1187 was William...
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theatre companies, including her role as King Duncan in Macbeth for the Sydney Theatre Company and Cordelia in King Lear for Round Earth. She also appeared...
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Malcolm III of Scotland (redirect from King Malcolm III)
father Duncan I became king in late 1034, on the death of Malcolm II, Duncan's maternal grandfather and Malcolm's great-grandfather. One Scottish king-list...
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depicted as a good ruler, a king who was fair and just for 17 years. The plot displays King Duncan as a minor character and a weak king. It is possible that...
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Thane of Cawdor was captured and executed for treason against King Duncan. The historical King Macbeth fought a Thane of Cawdor who died in battle, but he...
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Clan Robertson (redirect from Clan Robertson–Donnachaidh–Duncan)
lineal descendants of the Celtic Earls of Atholl, whose progenitor was King Duncan I (Donnchadh in Scottish Gaelic). The Collins Scottish Clan & Family...
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