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    Bridei son of Beli, died 692 was king of Fortriu and of the Picts from 671 until 692. His reign marks the start of the period known to historians as the...
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  • and his brothers grandsons of Neithan and first cousins of both the later Pictish king Bridei son of Beli and the later king of Altclut Eugein. Talorg's...
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  • were otherwise not politically united. Successor of Drest was the cousin of Ecgfrith Bridei son of Beli, who would eventually defeat and kill Ecgfrith and...
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  • Brittonum says that Bridei was the fratruelis or maternal first cousin of Ecgfrith of Northumbria, indicating that Beli's wife might have been of the Northumbrian...
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  • sister of the earlier Pictish king Bridei son of Beli. Talorcan's father Drestan was probably also a king of Atholl, or at least a member of its royal...
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    Fortriu (redirect from Kingdom of Fortriu)
    of Fortriu as a powerful over-kingdom can be seen from the reign of Bridei son of Beli, who was the first king to be explicitly described as "King of...
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  • Nwython (612–621) Beli I (621–633) Eugein map Beli (633–645) Guret/Gwriad (645–658) Mermin (?–682) Elfin (?–693) Bridei son of Beli I King of the Picts (672–693)...
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  • three-way alliance with Bridei son of Beli, king of Pictish Fortriu, and Bridei's nephew Eugein, who was king of the British kingdom of Alt Clut. This coalition...
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    where he refers in passing and without authority, to "... Bridei, son of Maelgwn, the mighty king of north Wales, ...". Though the book has been a commercial...
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    of Fortriu or king of Alba. The kings listed are thought to represent overkings of the Picts, at least from the time of Bridei son of Maelchon onwards....
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  • Dargart mac Finguine (category Year of birth unknown)
    daughter, or less probably a sister, of King Bridei son of Beli. They had at least two sons, the Pictish kings Bridei, who died c. 706, and Nechtan, who...
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    Picts (redirect from Kingdom of the Picts)
    a statement in Bede's history. The kings of the Picts when Bede was writing were Bridei and Nechtan, sons of Der Ilei, who indeed claimed the throne through...
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    least two sons, Bridei (died 736) and Talorgan (died 782), and two brothers, Talorgan (died 750) and Bridei (died 763). King Nechtan son of Der-Ilei abdicated...
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  • another probable son, Dumnagual, who ruled Alt Clut and died in 694. Eugein was probably the brother or half brother of Bridei III of the Picts, the victor...
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  • daughter, or less probably a sister, of Bridei map Beli, king of the Picts (died 693). There are no explicit mentions of Der-Ilei in the Irish annals or other...
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  • of the kings of Dál Riata, a kingdom of Irish origin which was located in Scotland and Ireland. Most kings of Dál Riata, along with later rulers of Alba...
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    Scotland in the Early Middle Ages (category History of Scotland by period)
    of the Picts to Christianity from 563. In the 7th century, the Picts acquired Bridei map Beli (671–693) as a king, perhaps imposed by the kingdom of Alt...
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  • of Eugein I, one of his predecessors as king, and the father of Beli II, who ruled some time later. Very little is certainly known of him, though he may...
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    the King of the Picts Bridei map Beli, at a battle known as Nechtansmere to the Northumbrians, in Pictish territory north of the Firth of Forth. Bede...
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    of Deda mac Sin, a prehistoric king or deity of the Érainn. By the mid-6th century, the Dál Riata in Scotland came under serious threat from Bridei I...
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  • Cennalath, King (550–555) Bridei I, King (554–584) Gartnait II, King (584–595) Nechtan nepos Uerb, King (595–616) Kingdom of Strathclyde / Alt Clut (complete...
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