Who Was the First King of Scotland and Great Britain?
Channel: Celtic History Decoded
Date: 2023-05-07

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Who Was the First King of Scotland and Great Britain?

The first King of Scotland was Kenneth I MacAlpin, who conquered the Picts and merged them with the Gaels into one political entity in 843AD, the Kingdom of Alba, the embryonic kingdom that Scotland grew out of. MacAlpin had previously ruled as the King of Dál Riada since 841 AD, a Gaelic kingdom in western Scotland centred on Argyll, the inner Hebridean Islands and parts of Ireland for a period. His rule lasted for 15 years until his death in 858, when he was succeeded by his brother. Kenneth I MacAlpin was nicknamed An Ferbasach ("The Conqueror") after he died.

The first King of Great Britain wasn’t a king at all, but a queen, Queen Anne. She had reigned as the Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland since 1702, but when Scotland and England merged into Great Britain, Queen Anne ruled as the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland until her death in 1714. Anne’s route to the throne resulted from the fact that her sister Mary and Mary’s husband, William of Orange, had no children. When William died in 1702, the throne passed to Anne. 

Although Anne was pregnant 17 or 18 times, Anne had no surviving heir by the time of her death in 1714, and she was succeeded by George I of Great Britain. King George was from the House of Hanover, replacing the rule of House of Stuart on the throne.   

Sources:

Kenneth MacAlpin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_MacAlpin 

Dalriada https://www.britannica.com/place/Dalriada  

Anne, Queen of Great Britain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne,_Queen_of_Great_Britain#Pregnancies_and_issue 

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