this Nechtan the grandson of Gartnait II, who has been suggested as a son of Áedán mac Gabráin of Dál Riata. It is uncertain whether it is this Nechtan or...

Irish annals. Death of Gartnait II is noted in the Annals of Tigernach c. 599 and the king lists have him succeeded by Nechtan nepos Uerb. Some versions of...

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...

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...

Nechtan, son of Erip, was the king of the Picts from 456 to 480. The king lists supply a number of epithets for Nechtan: Morbet and Celchamoth and the...

Patriarch of Alexandria Liu Jingyan, empress of the Chen dynasty (b. 534) Nechtan II, king of the Picts (approximate date) Sæbert, king of Essex (approximate...

Flidhais I "The Cattle Raid of Flidais" I Táin Bó Flidhais II "The Cattle Raid of Flidais" II Tain Bó Fraích "The Raid of Fróech's Cattle" Tain Bó Regamain...

Patriarch of Alexandria Liu Jingyan, empress of the Chen dynasty (b. 534) Nechtan II, king of the Picts (approximate date) Sæbert, king of Essex (approximate...

Regnal titles Preceded by Nechtan II King of the Picts 616–631 Succeeded by Gartnait III...

This well has also been referred to as Nechtan's Well, or the Well of Segais. Some writers conflate both Nechtan's and Connla's well, making it the source...

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...

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...

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

Delbáeth, son of Elada, of the Tuatha Dé Danann. Her husband is variously Nechtan or Elcmar. With her lover the Dagda, she is the mother of Aengus. Her name...

Pictish Chronicle king lists all give him a reign of 30 years between Nechtan and Galan. The meaning of the epithet Gurthinmoch is unknown, but the first...

Brythonic king (approximate date) Julius Nepos, Western Roman Emperor Nechtan I, king of the Picts Tydfil, female saint (approximate date) "Boethius...

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 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...

(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...

that he is Nuada under another name, and he is sometimes confused with Nechtan, Boann's usual husband. At first glance he appears to be associated with...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

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

of Clann Chausantin constantly in conflict with the men of Moray: Donald II is recorded in the Chronicle of Melrose and the Pictish King lists dying at...

Cycle of Irish mythology, the demigod Cúchulainn beheads the three sons of Nechtan and mounting their heads on his chariot. This is believed to have been...

second-longest surviving hotel, is established in Japan (approximate date). Nechtan mac Der-Ilei, king of the Picts, expels the monks from the island of Iona...

bishoprics, whose first recorded bishop is an early 12th-century cleric named Nechtan. It appears that the episcopal seat had previously been at Mortlach (Mòrthlach)...

1499) The Poppleton manuscript preserves a grant supposedly made by King Nechtan to the monastery of St. Brigid at Abernethy, c. early sixth century: Latin:...