{{Infobox_Monarch | name =Áed
| title = King of the Picts
| image =
| reign = 877–878
| coronation =
| predecessor = [[Constantine I of Scotland|Constantine I]] (''Causantín mac Cináeda'')
| successor = [[Giric of Scotland|Giric]] (''Giric mac Dúngail'')
| heir =
| consort =
| issue = [[Constantine II of Scotland|Constantine II]] (Causantín mac Áeda)
| royal house = [[House of Alpin|Alpin]]
| royal anthem =
| father = [[Kenneth I of Scotland|Kenneth MacAlpin]] (Cináed mac Ailpín)
| mother =
| date of birth = before 858
| place of birth =
| date of death = 878
| place of death = [[Strathallan]]
| place of burial= [[Iona]]
|}}
'''Áed mac Cináeda''' ([[Scottish Gaelic language|Modern Gaelic]]: ''Aodh mac Choinnich''), <ref> ''Áed mac Cináeda'' is the Mediaeval Gaelic form.</ref> known in English simply as '''Áed''' (d.878) was a son of [[Kenneth I of Scotland|Kenneth MacAlpin]] (Cináed mac Ailpín). He became king of the [[Picts]] in 877 when he succeeded his brother [[Constantine I of Scotland|Constantine I]] (Causantín mac Cináeda). He was nicknamed '''Áed of the White Flowers''', '''the Wing-footed''' ({{lang-la|alipes}}) or '''the white-foot''' ({{lang-la|albipes}}).
The [[Chronicle of the Kings of Alba]] says of Áed: "Edus [Áed] held the same [i.e. the kingdom] for one year. The shortness of his reign has bequeathed nothing memorable to history. He was slain in the civitas of Nrurim." Nrurim is unidentified.
The [[Annals of Ulster]] say that in 878: "Áed mac Cináeda, king of the Picts, was killed by his associates." Tradition, reported by [[George Chalmers]] in his ''Caledonia'' (1807), and by the [[Statistical Accounts of Scotland|New Statistical Account]] (1834–1845), has it that the early-historic mound of the Cunninghillock by [[Inverurie]] is the burial place of Áed. This is based on reading Nrurim as ''Inruriu''.
A longer account is interpolated in [[Andrew of Wyntoun]]'s ''Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland''. This says that Áed reigned one year and was killed by his successor [[Giric of Scotland|Giric]] (Giric mac Dúngail) in [[Strathallan]] and other king lists have the same report.
It is uncertain which, if any, of the [[Prophecy of Berchán]]'s kings should be taken to be Áed. [[William Forbes Skene]] presumed that the following verses referred to Áed:<blockquote>129. Another king will take [sovereignty]; small is the profit that he does not divide. Alas for Scotland thenceforward. His name will be the Furious.<br>130. He will be but a short time over Scotland. The will be no [word uncertain] unplundered. Alas for Scotland, through the youth; alas for their books, alas for their bequests.<br>131. He will be nine years in the kingdom. I shall tell you—it will be a tale of truth—he dies without bell, with communion, at evening, in a fatal pass.</blockquote>
Áed's son, [[Constantine II of Scotland|Constantine II]] (Causantín mac Áeda), became king in 900. The idea that [[Domnall II of Strathclyde]] was a son of Áed, based on a confusing entry in the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba, is contested.
==References==
* [[Alan Orr Anderson|Anderson, Alan Orr]], ''Early Sources of Scottish History A.D 500–1286'', volume 1. Reprinted with corrections. Paul Watkins, Stamford, 1990. ISBN 1-871615-03-8
* [[Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson|Anderson, Marjorie Ogilvie]], ''Kings and Kingship in Early Scotland.'' Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, revised edition 1980. ISBN 0-7011-1604-8
* Duncan, A.A.M., ''The Kingship of the Scots 842–1292: Succession and Independence.'' Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2002. ISBN 0-7486-1626-8
* Smyth, Alfred P., ''Warlords and Holy Men: Scotland AD 80–1000.'' E.J. Arnold, London, 1984 (reprinted Edinburgh UP). ISBN 0-7486-0100-7
==External links==
*[http://www.arts.ed.ac.uk/scothist/booklets/sh1/documents-alba.html The Chronicle of the Kings of Alba] (CKA)
* [http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/%7estones/picts/inverurie_history.html Friends of Grampian Stones] - history of Inverurie
* [http://stat-acc-scot.edina.ac.uk/link/1834-45/Aberdeen/Inverury/12/681/ Second Statistical Account] [vol. XII (County of Aberdeen), p. 681]
== See also ==
*[[Kingdom of Alba]]
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