father predecessor successor succession house death_date death_place issue article_title name reign
indulf , king of alba dub kenneth ii king of alba alpin 971 abington ? constantine iii , king of alba cuilén
 cuilén 967 & ndash ; 971
cuilén

cuilén mac ildulb -lrb- modern gaelic : `` cailean '' -rrb- , sometimes anglicised as culen or colin , and nicknamed an fionn , `` the white '' -lrb- died 971 -rrb- was king of scotland -lrb- `` alba '' -rrb- from 967 to 971 .
he was one of the three known sons of king indulf -lrb- ildulb mac causantín -rrb- , the others being amlaíb and eochaid .
it is supposed that cuilén was implicated in the death of his predecessor dub -lrb- dub mac maíl coluim -rrb- , who had defeated cuilén in battle in 965 .
the `` chronicle of the kings of alba '' reports several events in the reign of cuilén .
it says that marcan son of breodalach was killed in lothian , that cellach , bishop of cennrígmonaid , and máel brigte , also a bishop , died .
other reported deaths include domnall mac cairill and máel brigte mac dubacain , the identities of whom are unknown , but they must evidently have been important men .
máel brigte might be a son of the dubacan mac indrechtaig , mormaer of angus , who was killed at the battle of brunanburh in 937 .
finally , we are told that leot and sluagadach went to rome , presumably on church business .
in 971 cuilén , along with his brother eochaid , was killed in a hall-burning in lothian by amdarch , a prince of strathclyde .
the killing was said to be revenge for cuilén 's rape of amdarch 's daughter .
the chronicle of the kings of alba does not say that he was buried on iona , but the report of dub 's death makes it clear that this was probably the case .
cuilén was succeeded by dub 's brother kenneth ii -lrb- cináed mac maíl coluim -rrb- , who was driven from the throne for a short time in the later 970s by cuilén 's brother amlaíb .
cuilén 's son constantine iii -lrb- causantín mac cuilén -rrb- was later king .
