Donnchad mac Crínáin (
Anglicised Duncan) (died
14 August, 1040) was king of
Alba. He was son of
Crínán, hereditary
lay abbot of
Dunkeld, and
Bethóc, daughter of king
Máel Coluim mac Cináeda. Unlike the "King Duncan" of
Shakespeare's Macbeth, the historical Donnchad appears to have been a young man. He followed his grandfather Máel Coluim as king after the latter's death on
25 November, 1034, without apparent opposition. He may have been Máel Coluim's acknowledged successor or
tánaise as the succession appears to have been uneventful. Earlier histories, following
John of Fordun, supposed that Donnchad had been
king of Strathclyde in his grandfather's lifetime, ruling the former
Kingdom of Strathclyde as an
appanage. Modern historians discount this idea.
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