DUNCAN, I
1001 - 1040 (39 years)Set As Default Person
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Name DUNCAN, I Birth 1001 Gender Male Differentiator He is the historical basis of the "King Duncan" in Shakespeare's play Macbeth Relation to Me 30 GGF Royalty & Nobility Between 1034 and 1040 King of Scotland Name Donnchad mac Crinain (Modern Gaelic: Donnchadh mac Crìonain;[2] anglicised as Duncan I, and nicknamed An t-Ilgarach, "the Diseased" or "the Sick" Death 14 Aug 1040 Patriarch & Matriarch DUNKELD, Crínán of, b. Abt 975, Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland d. 1045, Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland (Age 70 years) (Father)Person ID I7308 My Genealogy Last Modified 15 Jul 2024
Father DUNKELD, Crínán of, b. Abt 975, Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland d. 1045, Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland (Age 70 years) Relationship natural Mother MACALPIN, Princess Bethóc, b. 973, Perthshire, Scotland d. 15 Sep 1049, Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland (Age 76 years) Relationship natural Marriage Abt 1005 Family ID F1804 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Living Children 1. SCOTLAND, Malcolm III of, b. 26 Mar 1031, Scotland d. 13 Nov 1093, Alnwick, Northumberland, England (Age 62 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] Family ID F1803 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 15 Jul 2024
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Albums Royal Connections (3)
When you find a Gateway Ancestor in your family tree, it is almost impossible not to go down a rabbit hole of ancestry leading to connections with countless ancestors of the royal and noble classes. These lines have been extensively researched and documented by historians, so it is really just a matter of following the line. I've spent countless hours engrossed in the stories these royal lines have uncovered. In this album, I will link to ancestors who were members of the Royal class. Royalty refers to the ruling monarch and their immediate family. This includes kings, queens, princes, and princesses. The monarch is typically the highest authority in the land and has the power to grant titles of nobility.
Keep in mind that it is not necessarily unusual to be descended from royalty. After all, many of these connections go back to my 25th great grandparents and beyond. Theoretically, we have 67,108,864 sets of 25th great grandparents (In reality, due to a phenomenon known as pedigree collapse, where ancestors appear in the family tree multiple times in different generations due to intermarriage within a community, the actual number of unique 25th great-grandparents a person has is likely to be much lower). With this many, it might be more unusual NOT to descend from royalty. However, what makes our ancestry so unique is that we can TRACE it that far back, person to person to person. Since my fascination with our ancestry lies in my curiosity about the stories of the individual people, this is beyond compelling to me. It is like getting lost in a series of medieval novels in which I have an actual connection to the characters. It brings history to life.
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Notes - Unlike the "King Duncan" of Shakespeare's Macbeth, the historical Duncan appears to have been a young man. He followed his grandfather Malcolm as king after the latter's death on 25 November 1034, without apparent opposition. He may have been Malcolm's acknowledged successor or Tànaiste as the succession appears to have been uneventful.