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Nechtan Morbet

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Nechtan Morbet

Nechtan son of Erip was a king of the Picts from 456 to 480.

The king lists supply a number of epithets for Nechtan: Morbet and Celchamoth and the Latin Magnus (the Great). He is said to have reigned for twenty-four years.[1] In a rare change from a bald statement of names and years, the king lists provide a tradition linking Nechtan to the foundation of Abernethy:

"So Nectonius the Great, Wirp's son, the king of all the provinces of the Picts, offered to Saint Brigid, to the day of judgement, Abernethy, with its territories ... Now the cause of the offering was this. Nectonius, living in a life of exile, when his brother Drest expelled him to Ireland, begged Saint Brigid to beseech God for him. And she prayed for him, and said: "If thou reach thy country, the Lord will have pity on thee. Thou shalt possess in peace the kingdom of the Picts."[2]

A life of Saint Boite, after whom Monasterboice is named, claims that Boite raised Nechtan from the dead, and associated him with Kirkbuddo in Strathmore.[3]

It has been suggested that these traditions should be associated with a later Pictish king, with the very similar name of Nechtan son of Irb.[4]

Nothing else can be said of Nechtan with any certainty.

Notes

  1. ^ Variants read thirty-four and ten years.
  2. ^ Early Sources, pp. cxx–cxxi, quoting Skene's Chronicles of the Picts & Scots.
  3. ^ Early Sources, pp. cxx–cxxi.
  4. ^ Smyth, p. 82.

References

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  • Evans, Nicholas (2008), "Royal succession and kingship among the Picts", The Innes Review (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press) 59 (1): 1–48,  
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  • Smyth, Alfred P. (1998) [1984], Warlords and Holy Men: Scotland AD 80-1000, The New History of Scotland, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press,  

External links

  • Pictish Chronicle
Regnal titles
Preceded by
Talorc 		King of the Picts
470-480 		Succeeded by
Drest II
Monarchs of the Picts
(traditional)
Monarchs of the Scots
(traditional)
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