father predecessor successor succession article_title reign
'' domnall mac ailpín , king of the picts uncertain ; probably '' dúngal '' possibly '' Áed donald ii king of the picts giric
 878 & ndash ; 889
giric

giric mac dúngail -lrb- modern gaelic : `` griogair mac dhunghail '' -lrb- born c 832 , scotland -rrb- , known in english simply as giric , and nicknamed mac rath , -lrb- `` son of fortune '' -rrb- ; fl .
c. 878 -- 889 -rrb- was a king of the picts or the king of alba .
the irish annals record nothing of giric 's reign , nor do anglo-saxon writings add anything , and the meagre information which survives is contradictory .
modern historians disagree as to whether giric was sole king , or ruled jointly with eochaid , on his ancestry , and if he should be considered a pictish king , or the first king of alba .
although little is now known of giric , he appears to have been regarded as an important figure in scotland in the high middle ages and the late middle ages .
scots chroniclers such as john of fordun , andrew of wyntoun , hector boece and the humanist scholar george buchanan wrote of giric as `` king gregory the great '' and told how he had conquered half of england and ireland too .
