Editing Áed mac Cináeda

{{Short description|King of the Picts from 877 to 878}}
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{{Infobox royalty
| name            = Áed mac Cináeda
| image           = Aed or Aedh, king of Scots.jpg
| succession      = [[King of the Picts]]
| reign           = 877–878
| predecessor     = [[Constantín mac Cináeda]]
| successor       = [[Giric]] and [[Eochaid, son of Rhun|Eochaid]]
| death_date      = 878
| death_place     = [[Strathallan]]
| issue           = [[Constantín mac Áeda]]
| house           = [[House of Alpin|Alpin]]
| father          = [[Kenneth MacAlpin|Cináed mac Ailpín]] (Kenneth I)
| place of burial = [[Iona]]
}}

'''Áed mac Cináeda''' ([[Modern Scottish Gaelic]]: ''Aodh mac Choinnich''; {{Langx|la|Ethus}}; [[Anglicized]]: Hugh; died 878) was a son of [[Cináed mac Ailpín]] (Kenneth MacAlpin). He became [[king of the Picts]] in 877 when he succeeded his brother [[Constantín mac Cináeda]]. He was nicknamed '''Áed of the White Flowers''', '''the wing-footed''' ({{langx|la|alipes}}) or '''the white-foot''' ({{langx|la|albipes}}).

== Sources ==
The ''[[Chronicle of the Kings of Alba]]'' says of Áed: "Edus [Áed] held the same [''i.e.'', the kingdom] for one year. The shortness of his reign has bequeathed nothing memorable to history. He was slain in the civitas of Nrurim." Nrurim is unidentified.

The [[Annals of Ulster]] says that, in 878, "Áed mac Cináeda, king of the Picts, was killed by his associates."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=iAa6JoLgFRwC&dq=%C3%81ed+mac+Cin%C3%A1eda&pg=PA173 Calise, J. M. P., ''Pictish Sourcebook'', Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002] {{ISBN|9780313322952}}</ref> Tradition, reported by [[George Chalmers (antiquarian)|George Chalmers]] in his ''Caledonia'' (1807), and by the [[New Statistical Account]] (1834–1845), has it that the early-historic mound of the Cunninghillock by [[Inverurie]] is the burial place of Áed. This is based on reading Nrurim as ''Inruriu''.

A longer account is interpolated in [[Andrew of Wyntoun]]'s ''Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland''. This says that Áed reigned for one year and was killed by his successor [[Giric]] in [[Strathallan]] and other king lists have the same report.

It is uncertain which if any, of ''[[The Prophecy of Berchán]]'''s kings should be taken to be Áed. [[William Forbes Skene]] presumed that the following verses referred to Áed:

<blockquote>129. Another king will take [sovereignty]; small is the profit that he does not divide. Alas for Scotland thenceforward. His name will be the Furious.<br />130. He will be but a short time over Scotland. The will be no [word uncertain] unplundered. Alas for Scotland, through the youth; alas for their books, alas for their bequests.<br />131. He will be nine years in the kingdom. I shall tell you – it will be a tale of truth – he dies without bell, with communion, at evening, in a fatal pass.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Graves |first1=Charles |title=An Attempt to Decipher and Explain the Inscriptions on the Newton Stone |journal=Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland |date=1886 |volume=20 |page=312 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kO0RAAAAYAAJ&q=skene&pg=PA312 |access-date=10 August 2016}}</ref></blockquote>

Áed's son, [[Constantín mac Áeda]], became king in 900.

== See also ==
* [[Kingdom of Alba]]

== References ==
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== Sources ==
* [[Alan Orr Anderson|Anderson, Alan Orr]]; ''Early Sources of Scottish History A.D. 500–1286'', volume 1. Reprinted with corrections, Paul Watkins, Stamford, 1990. {{ISBN|1-871615-03-8}}
* [[Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson|Anderson, Marjorie Ogilvie]]; ''Kings and Kingship in Early Scotland'', Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, revised edition 1980. {{ISBN|0-7011-1604-8}}
* [[A. A. M. Duncan|Duncan, A. A. M.]]; ''The Kingship of the Scots 842–1292: Succession and Independence'', Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2002. {{ISBN|0-7486-1626-8}}
* Smyth, Alfred P.; ''Warlords and Holy Men: Scotland A.D. 80–1000'', E.J. Arnold, London, 1984 (reprinted Edinburgh University Press). {{ISBN|0-7486-0100-7}}

== External links ==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070606150144/http://www.arts.ed.ac.uk/scothist/booklets/sh1/documents-alba.html The Chronicle of the Kings of Alba] (CKA)
* [http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/%7estones/picts/inverurie_history.html Friends of Grampian Stones] – history of Inverurie
* [http://stat-acc-scot.edina.ac.uk/link/1834-45/Aberdeen/Inverury/12/681/ Second Statistical Account]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} [vol. XII (County of Aberdeen), p. 681]
* [https://www.royal.uk/aed-r-877-878 Aed] at the official website of the [[British monarchy]]

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