With the death of Malcolm II in AD1034, the reign of the House of Alpin came to an end. Malcolm had died without any living sons, so the kingship passed through his daughter Bethóc, who had married Crínán, the hereditary abbot of Dunkeld, and had given birth to a son. That son was now Duncan I, King of Alba, and was the first monarch of the House of Dunkeld.
DUNCAN I
Duncan ascended the throne in AD1034 and today is best known as a character in Shakespeare’s . The states that he was killed by his own subjects ‘at an immature age’, which contradicts Shakespeare’s portrayal of him as an old man. Duncan married Suthen, the daughter of Siward, a Bernician over-lord. Henry of Huntingdon (a 12th-century historian) described Siward
