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DUNCAN I

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 670 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DUNCAN I . (d. 1040) was a son of Crinan or Cronan, See also:lay See also:abbot of See also:Dunkeld, and became See also:king of the Scots in See also:succession to his maternal grandfather, See also:Malcolm II., in 1034, having previously as rex Cumbrorum ruled in See also:Strathclyde. His See also:accession was " the first example of See also:inheritance of the Scottish See also:throne in the See also:direct See also:line." Duncan is chiefly known through his connexion with See also:Macbeth, which has been immortalized by See also:Shakespeare. The See also:feud between these two princes originated probably in a dispute over the succession to the throne; its details, however, are obscure, and the only fact which can be ascertained with any certainty is that Duncan was slain by Macbeth in 1040. Two of Duncan's sons, Malcolm III. Canmore and Donald V. Bane, were afterwards See also:kings of the Scots.

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