betroths his daughter, Margaret, to
Henry, prince of Norway, 124. sends troops under the earl of Carrick
to the Holy Land, 129.
goes with his queen to the coronation
of Edward I., 131. marries a second time, 133.
Alexander, eldest son of Alexander III., marries, III. 133.
Alexander, lord of the Isles, forgiven by James I., but confined in Tantallon, III. 529.
Alkwyne (Alcuin), clerk, one of the em- bassy to Charlemagne, II. 356. Allan, lord of Galloway, constable of Scotland, III. 74.
his bastard son ravages the country, and is discomfited and slain, 98. Allectus, the Roman legate, murders Ca- rentius, king of Britain, and assumes the crown, I. 569.
is slain in battle by Asclepiodotus,
Alnwick, siege of, where Malcolm III.
Alpynus (Alpin), son of Achaius, urged
to deprive Conwallus of the crown, which he refuses to do, II. 371. defeats Feredeth at Restennot, 380. defeated by Brudus, 388.
beheaded, and his head stuck on the
walls of Camelidone, ib.
his head removed and interred in Iona, 392. Amazon, found among the slain of the
duke of Gueldres' army, III. 329. Ambrigillus (Ambirkeleth), succeeds Eu- genius VI., II. 325.
slain dum cacans, 326. Ambrose, St., II. 23. Amphibalus, bishop of Sodor, the first who occupied a see in Scotland, I. 578.
Andrew, St., his arm bone brought to Scotland by Regulus, I. 614. honourably worshipped by Hargustus,
the king of the Picts, 616. appears to Hungus, king of the Picts, and display of his cross in the sky, II. 363.
Androan (Androgen), king of Armorica, sends his son Constantine to assist the British, II. 113.
Androgeus, ambassador from Cassibelan, king of the British, to Ederus, I.
captured in a second engagement by
Angus, the district so named after Angus- tius, an officer of the army of Ken- neth II., II. 415.
Angus, earldom first created, II. 664. Angus, lord of Galloway, rebels, is de- feated by Gilchrist, earl of Angus, takes sanctuary in Whithern, and becomes a canon of Holyrood, III. 12.
Angus of Strathearn and Angus of Mur- ray, great battle and slaughter between them and their retainers, III. 534.
Angustiane (Angusianus), nephew to Carth- lyntus, crowned, I. 599. defeats the Roman legate, 600.
slain in battle with Nectanus, king of the Picts, who is also killed, 607. Anna, eldest sister of Aurelius Ambrosius, marries Lothus, king of the Picts, II. 189.
Annabel, queen of Robert III., dies, III.
Anselm, bishop of Canterbury, flies to Rome from William Rufus, II. 684. Antoneus (Antoninus), son of Severus, appointed general of the army, I.
makes peace with the Scots and Picts,
slays his brother Geta, 503.
Antonius (Lucius), legate in Britain, I.
defeated by Mogallus, 435. Antwerp, a hospital for Scotsmen, founded
there by two knights of Brabant after the battle of Bannockburn, III. 240.
Argadus, lord of Argyll, made governor of Scotland on the deposition of Conarus, I. 451.
marries the daughter of the lord of Otholyn without consent of his nobles, 452.
institutes the court of justiciary, 454. appointed lieutenant of all Scotland
on the accession of Ethodeus to the crown, 455,
represses disturbances in the Isles,
Argyll, Somerled, lord of, defeated by
the earl of Dunbar and March, III. 101. (v. Symmerleid). Armorica (Brittany), subdued, and peo- pled from Britain, by Maximian, II. 68.
Arnaldus, bishop of St. Andrews, urges Malcolm IV. to marry, but in vain, III. 15.
Arthur, begot by Vter upon the wife of
Gothlois, lord of Cornwall, II. 203. crowned king of the British, 222. besieges York, which he captures through treason, 227.
forms alliance with Loth, king of
Picts, and engages that after his death Loth and his descendants shall rule Britain, 229.
defeats Occa, 223, 233.
violates his treaty with Lothus, 251. is slain, 260.
Arthur, prince of Scotland, son of Adamus (Aidan), slain in battle against the Picts, II. 277.
Arthur's Hufe, destroyed by Edward I.,
Arveragus, crowned after the death of his brother Guyderus, I. 188.
repudiates his queen Voada, sister to Caractacus, and marries Genissa, a Roman lady, 193.
with Plantius attacks the Tegenians
and Cambrians, 195.
repents, and abandons the Romans cause, 213.
meets Caractacus at York with thirty thousand men, 219. submits to Vespasian, 224. Asclespiadok (Asclepiodotus), sent from Rome against Allectus, I. 569. is slain in battle by Coell, 571. Atholl, earldom first created, IL 664. Atholl, David Cuming, earl of, holds Scot- land for Edward, III. 320.
compelled by John Randolph, earl of Murray, to swear fealty to David,
rebels again, and is defeated and slain by Alexander Gordon, 332. Atholl, Patrick, earl of, murdered by John Bissart, III. 100.
Atholl, Walter Stewart, earl of, causes James I. to be murdered, III. 556. his terrible execution, 561.
Atholus, one of Fergus' nobles, receives the lands named after himself Etholia (Athole), I. 39.
Audreane (Adrian), bishop of St. An- drews, martyred in the Isle of May, II. 449.
Augustine, St., II. 22.
preaches the gospel in England, 293. Augustus Cæsar, sends an ambassador to Kymbalan, king of the British, and to Metellanus, king of the Scots, desiring universal peace, I. 169. is presented with a gold crown by the latter prince, 170.
Aurelius Ambrosius, son of Constantine, comes from Armorica to Wales, where he besieges Vortigern, who with his wife and family are burnt to death, II. 180.
forms alliance with the Scots and
conquers and slays Hengist with his
restores Christianity in Britain, 188. bestows upon the Scots and Picts all the lands between the Humber and the Tweed, 189.
gives his eldest sister, Anna, in mar- riage to Lothus, king of the Picts, and his youngest, Ada, to Conra- nus, prince of Scotland, 189. becomes dangerously ill, 192. nevertheless gives battle to Occa, and
discomfits him, 195.
is poisoned by a monk, 196. Awales (Avalassus, Anlaff), son of Cithri-
cus, defeated by Athelstan, II. 496. with whom he subsequently forms an alliance against the Scots, 499.
Bagy (Beauje), battle of, III. 506. Baldred, St., dies, II. 294.
the competition for his remains by three parishes miraculously settled, ib.
Baliol, Edward, marries the daughter of the earl of Anjou, III. 147. detained as a hostage by Edward I.,
invades Scotland during the minority of David II., and is crowned, 298. defeated at Annan, 299. besieges Lochleven castle, 316. goes to England with Edward III.,
resigns all his rights to Edward, 376. Baliol, John, his contention with Robert Bruce for the crown, III. 140. the question is referred to Edward I., 141.
who decides in favour of Baliol, 144. is crowned, 145.
refuses to join with Edward against France, 146.
sends an embassy to Philip IV., 147. his son Edward marries the daughter of the earl of Anjou, 147.
defeated by Edward and Bruce at Dunbar, 153.
resigns his crown to Edward, who im- prisons him and his son in London, 159.
goes to France, and dies in the castle of Gaillard, 159.
Balloch (Donald), brother of Alexander, lord of the Isles, slays the earl of Caithness, and ravages Lochaber, III. 531.
is defeated by James I., and flees to Ireland, 532.
is slain there by O'Donnell, 533. Balus, king of Orkney, ravages Ross and Caithness, L. 128.
is conquered by Ewenus, and kills himself, 129.
Bannockburn, the battle of, fought, III. 234.
Banquho, ancestor to the royal house of Stuart, assaulted while collecting the king's rents, II. 621.
leads the second division at the battle of Culross, 627.
his pleasant hospitality to the Danes, 630.
with Macbeth defeats the Danes at Kinghorn, 635.
meets the witches with him, 636. is treacherously murdered by Macbeth, 644.
Bar, a valiant officer, leads the vanguard of Kenneth's army against Druskiu, II. 409.
the castle of Dunbar named after him, 415.
Barrie, in Angus; the Danes defeated by king Malcolm there, II. 605.
Bartha (Perth), inundated by the rivers Almond and Tay in the time of William the Lion, III. 66. called Perth, after Perthus, 67.
is rebuilt on a more secure site, and called St. Johnstoun, ib. Basso (William à Bosco), bishop of Dum- blane, and chancellor of Scotland, III. 74.
Bastoun, a Carmelite friar, and "metrost," is brought by Edward II. to Scot land, for the purpose of recording his victories in verse, III. 224. but instead thereof, has to sing the praises of Bruce, 238. Bawstane (Ball-stone, Testiculorum collis,) Craig; so called from the scrotal deposit made there, III. 95.
Beanus, the first bishop of Mortlach, II. 617.
Beatrix, daughter of Edward, king of England, marries Cithricus, king of the Danes, II. 492.
murdered by her stepsons in a very peculiar way, 494. Beid (the Venerable Bede), referred to, I. 4.
Berigone, city of, founded by Fergus, I. 40.
"Berigonium castellum in Loquha- "bria, Hebridum prospectu, Doun-
stafage, id est, munitioni Stephani "proximum." Boece mistook Ptole- my's Berigonium in Galloway, and places his imaginary city at a spot called Dun-Mac-Sniochain, about six miles from Oban, and two from Dunstaffnage. Vide Pennant's Tour in Scotland, ii., p. 412. battle between Dowalus and Ferqu- hard there, 69.
besieged and taken by the British, 80. Bewfurd, John, duke of Somersyde (Beau- fort, earl of Somerset), his daugh- ter Joanna marries James I., III. 520.
Bissart, John, and his family, banished for the murder of the earl of Atholl III. 100.
Bisset, family come into Scotland, IL. 675. "Black Agnes," gallantly defends the castle of Dunbar, III. 342. Black Cove, the place where king Con- stantine was beheaded, so called, II.
Blasens (Blois), Theobald, earl of, goes with Philip to the Holy Land, III.
Boniface, St., buried in Rosemarky, II. 299.
Boniface VIII., pope, interferes between Edward I. and the Scots, in support of the latter, III. 184. Boris-rink (Boar's-rink), the lands of, be- stowed by Alexander I. on the church of St. Andrews, II. 705. Borthwick, family come into Scotland, II. 675.
Brechin, utterly destroyed by the Danes, II. 602.
Brechin, sir David, nephew to king Robert Bruce, executed, III. 249. Bredus, brother of Gillus, invades Argyll, is routed and slain, I. 132. Bredus (Brudus), crowned king of the Picts after Kenneth, II. 383. defeats and slays Alpin, 388. dies, 391.
Brenna, daughter of Oswyn, king of the West Saxons, revenges the death of her husband, Dorstolog, II. 373. Brennus, Irish chieftain, slain, II. 475. Brenyus, lord of the Isle of Man, slain, II. 287.
Bridus (Brudus), eldest son of Feredeth, king of the Picts, succeeds his fa- ther, II. 381.
and is slain for his pusillanimity, 382. Brigantia, now called Compostella, built by Gathelus, I. 13.
besieged by the Iberiens, 14. who are defeated, 15.
British, the, expel the Scots and Picts ont of their own countries for thirteen years, I. 74.
are conquered by them, II. 96. and become their tributaries, 98.
assisted by James Douglas, 211. defeats the earl of Buchan near Aber-
and Edward at Bannockburn, 235. marries to second wife Elizabeth, daughter to the earl of Hulsister (Ulster), 241.
who dies, 268.
is afflicted with leprosy, 269. dies, 271.
his heart conveyed by Douglas to the Holy Land, 286.
Brudeus, king of the Picts, invites St. Co- lumba to convert his people, II.
defeated by Aidan, 286.
ravages Northumberland, 322. "Brunt Candilmes," III. 378. Bryde (St. Bridget), II. 220. Buchan, earldom of, first created, II. 664. Buchan, Alexander Stewart, earl of, burns the cathedral of Elgin, III. 442. is called the "Wolf of Badenoch," 442. great-great-grandfather of the author,
ib. Buchan, John Cuming, earl of, defeats Gillespie, and beheads him, III. 94. Buchan, John Cuming, earl of, defeated by Bruce near Aberdeen, III. 216. Burgundy, Odo, duke of, goes with Philip to the Holy Land, III. 47.
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