UNKNOWN of the Picts

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1. Eochaid III K of Dalriada

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|--UNKNOWN of the Picts
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|                                                                        _Gwyddno Garanhir K of Strathclyde_|________________________
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                       |                        _Eanfrith K of Bernicia_|
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Notes

Turton's "Plantagenet Ancestry" calls her Spondana, dau. of Garnard, K of

the Picts (-663), son of Domnall and a sister of Talorcan, King of the

Picts. This would make Talorcan's sister a paternal rather than maternal

grandmother.

This is the MATRILINEAL line of Pictish princesses, hence the several

"Unknown of the Picts;" note that this marriage did not permanently

unite the Pictish and Scottish thrones, since a female would inherit the

former and a male the latter.

Jared Olar wrote on 15 Apr 1996:

In Hector Boece's CHRONICLE OF SCOTLAND (written in the 1500's A.D.

and full of a humongous gob of legend and fiction) says that a Scottish

king named "Eugenius" married a Pictish princess named "Spondana,

daughter of Garnardus, King of the Picts." I do not know if any earlier

sources provide the name Spondana or the name of Eochaidh/Eugenius'

father-in-law. I've seen a more recent hypothesis which proposes a

different ancestry for Eochaidh's wife. Whoever her father really

was--and Gartnaich mac Domhnall seems chronologically

acceptable--we know she was Pictish, because she and Eochaidh had a

son named ALPIN, a Pictish name--and this Alpin ruled over both his

father's people (Scots) and his mother's people (Picts).