Duncan (Duncan) of Caithness (871 - 925)

Born 0871 in Caithness, Scotland

Descendants

Died 0925 at about age 54 in Caithness, Scotland

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Duncan (Duncan) of Caithness was an inhabitant of Medieval Scotland. Join: Scotland Project Discuss: Scotland

Discrepancy

Parent Discrepancy

• No Familia de Tir Connail located under Kings of Ireland in Medieval Scotland [http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SCOTLAND.htm Medieval Scotland by Charles Cawley,© Charles Cawley & Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, 2000-2015
• No parent relationships located re DUNGAD [Duncan variants] to Kings of Ireland.

Biography

Duncan (Duncan) of Caithness is a member of Duncan Clan.

Caithness, with Sutherland, was one of the original seven provinces of Scotland in the 9th century, but does not appear to have been counted as one of the seven Mormaerships of the kingdom. This is presumably because it fell under the influence of the Norsemen who had colonised Orkney.

Duncan (Dungad) Earl of Caithness (Parents not identified)

Birth: 871 Caithness, Scotland (source needed)

Death: 925 Caithness, Scotland (source needed)

Name Variations

Name: Duncan Donachadh

Name: Duncan Heredity Priest Dull

Name: Duncan Dungad

Name Prefix: Earl of Caithness

Name Prefix: Jarl of Caithness

Name Prefix: Mormaer of Caithness

Marriage and children

Marriage: 898 Sterlingshire, Caithness, Scotland (source needed)

Early 10th century, Donnchad (or Dungadr) of Caithness was married to Groa, daughter of Thorstein Olafsson.^[1][2]

According to MedLands^[3];

Dungad (Duncan), Mormaer of Caithness. married Groa, daughter of Thorstein "the Red" & his wife . Dungad and Groa had one child: Grelad.

Snorre names "Grelad, a daughter of Earl Dungad of Caithness…[and of] Groa, a daughter of Thorstein Raud" as mother of the five sons of Thorfin "Hausakljufer" m (941) THORFINN "Hausakliffer/Skullcleaver" Jarl of Orkney, son of EINAR "Turf-Einar" Jarl of Orkney & his wife --- (-soon after 977). He appears to have become Jarl of Caithness.

Sources

1. ↑ Crawford, Barbara E. (1987), Scandinavian Scotland, page 64, Leicester University Press, ISBN 0-7185-1197-2
2. ↑ Anderson, Joseph; The Orkneyingasaga; (Edmonston and Douglas; Edinburgh; 1873); Pg. xxiii and xxiv
3. ↑ MedLands

See Also;

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormaer_of_Caithness
• The Kings of Scotland by the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
• Chapter 3. Caithness - Jarl of Caithness British Isles; Scotland, Mormaers, Earls, Lords by the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
• A. Norwegian Jarles of Orkney [893]-[1030] – UNCERTAIN EARLY LINEAGE
• Orkneyingasaga: Page 1
• Wikipedia Mormaer of Caithness
• Geni - Gróa Lady Þorsteinsdóttir, of Caithness
• Geni - Grelad
• Geni Medieval Orkney
• Geni Medieval Scotland

Acknowledgements

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