cases, it is thought that Der-Ilei (Bridei III) was Nechtan's mother. Other brothers and half-brothers of Nechtan and Bridei would include Ciniod or Cináed...

by 724, placing them in the reigns of the sons of Der-Ilei, Bridei and Nechtan. Irish annals (the Annals of Ulster, Annals of Innisfallen) refer to some...

competed for power in Pictland: Drest; Nechtan; Alpín, of whom little is known; and Óengus, who was a partisan of Nechtan, and perhaps his acknowledged heir...

king when Taran was deposed in 697. He was the brother of his successor Nechtan. It has been suggested that Bruide's father was Dargart mac Finguine (d...

Drest was king of the Picts from 724 until 726. He succeeded Nechtan mac Der-Ilei when the latter abdicated and entered a monastery in 724. Neither the...

Chronicle king lists give Alpín and Drest a five-year joint rule. In 724, Nechtan mac Der-Ilei is reported in the Annals of Tigernach to have abdicated in...

Bó 'Cattle-raid' Táin Bó Cúailnge I Táin Bó Cúailnge II Táin Bó Cúailnge III De Faillsigud Tána Bó Cuailnge "On the finding of the Táin Bó Cúailnge" Táin...

Northumbria, as seen in the reign of Nechtan mac Der Ilei. The reported expulsion of Ionan monks and clergy by Nechtan in 717 may have been related to the...

Northumbrian name, the Battle of Nechtansmere, from the Old English for 'Nechtan's lake', following 12th-century English historian Symeon of Durham. The...

to Nechtan mac Der-Ilei (king 706–724 and ?728–729; died 732). The St Andrews Sarcophagus is assumed to have been made for the remains of Nechtan or the...

British kingdom of Altclut, who may, in turn, be the same person as the Nechtan grandson of Uerb recorded as king of the Picts from 595 to around 616....

the god of rivers, springs, and waters; he may parallel the Irish god Nechtan, master of rivers and wells.[citation needed] This is in contrast to Poseidon...

Chronicle king lists, he reigned for 14 or 19 years and was followed by Gartnait III. Calise, J. M. P. (30 August 2002). Pictish Sourcebook: Documents of Medieval...

of Wessex and Ceolred of Mercia clash at Woden's Burg (Wiltshire). King Nechtan mac Der-Ilei invites the Northumbrian clergy to establish Christianity...

the Picts named Nechtan. The legend tells that to stall these unwanted attentions, Triduana tore out her own eyes and gave them to Nechtan. Afterwards, she...

Northumbria, though his grandfather may have been the earlier Pictish king Nechtan nepos Uerb. Bridei's rise to power in Fortriu probably took place under...

kings is not in question. One of the earliest, if not the earliest, was Nechtan mac Derile, the son of a Gaelic lord named Dargart and the Pictish princess...

Pictish Chronicle and links it to Nechtan Morbet. However, it may have been Nechtan nepos Uerb, and the later Nechtan mac Der-Ilei may have been confused...

(approximate date). Nechtan mac Der-Ilei, king of the Picts, expels the monks from the island of Iona (Scotland). Childeric III, king of the Franks (d...

(NxHHT), both of which were names of kings. In fact, the Pictish king Nechtan (d. 732) was said by Bede to have accepted the Christian faith in response...

settlement. According to tradition, in the 8th century AD, the Pictish King Nechtan attempted to seduce a young woman from the island named Triduana, who in...

Fergusa, King (unknown) Picts (complete list) – Bridei IV, King (697–706) Nechtan, King (706–724, 728–729) Drest VII, King (724–726) Alpín I, King (726–728)...

Picts, killed 750 Talorcan son of Drestan, king of Atholl and brother of Nechtan IV of the Picts Talorc V of the Picts (died 837), or Talorcan son of Wthoil...

On Pictish matriliny in general, see Woolf. That the Pictish king Nechtan and Nechtan son of Cano are the same person is questionable: see M.O. Anderson...

Japanese statesman (d. 779) Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, governor of Al-Andalus Nechtan mac Der-Ilei, king of the Picts Romuald II, duke of Benevento (Italy) Rupert...

(complete list) – Nechtan nepos Uerb, King (595–616) Cinioch, King (616–631) Gartnait III, King (631–635) Bridei II, King (635–641) Talorc III, King (641–653)...

Tudwal (559–573) Riderch Hael (fl. (573–612) Constantine (?) Neithon / Nechtan / Nwython (612–621) Beli I (621–633) Eugein map Beli (633–645) Guret/Gwriad...

Chliss, Cú Chulainn's spear that first belonged to Nechtan Scéne, and used to kill the sons of Nechtan Scéne. Formerly the name for the charioteer's goad...

etymologically to other Indo-European deities such as Etruscan Nethuns, Celtic Nechtan and Roman Neptune (see etymology of Neptune). Philibert, Myriam (1997)...

Ref Note Neacal Nicol, Nicholas SG equivalent of En Nicholas. Neachdainn Nechtan Niall Neal, Neale, Neil, Niall Neal, Neale, Neil are Anglicisations. Niallghus...