And he maintained the family tradition of safeguarding the relics of St Columba. His son Crinan succeeded him as the Abbot. Columba who claimed descent from Irish royalty. He is described as Archpriest of the Kindred of St. And certainly there is a record of Abbot Duncan of Dunkeld being killed after a battle in 965. Now in those days family names were not so prominently used, but first names were.

The Abbott of Dunkeld was a hereditary position passed through a family which claimed to be among the kin of St Columba. Just over 300 years later, when the Vikings invaded Iona, St ColumbaвЂ™s relics on the island were taken for safekeeping to Dunkeld by his kinfolk. When he died in 597 some of his relics were taken to Ireland and the rest were buried on Iona. He is credited with spreading Christianity throughout Scotland. He was an Irish priest who settled on the Inner Hebridean island of Iona in the year 563. And outwith a few short interruptions, DuncanвЂ™s descendants would rule Scotland and England for the best part of the next seven centuries.Д«ut to fully appreciate the immense role the Duncans played in the early history of Scotland and England we must go back through the mists of time past King MacAlpine to the days of St Columba. When King Duncan I ascended the throne in 1034, he could trace his royal lineage straight back to the countryвЂ™s first ruler, King MacAlpine who by uniting the Scots and the Picts in the middle of the ninth century became known as the founder of Scotland. If one family were born to be ScotlandвЂ™s Royal family, it was this one.

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