501. Alpin of Kintyre , King of Scotland
Donald I (858-62)
Donald I succeeded his brother Kenneth I in 858, but little is known about his brief reign.
[http://www.royal.gov.uk/history/scotland]
551. Donald I MacAlpin , King of Scotland
Donald established an ancient corpus of laws and rights known as the laws of Aedh, that apparently included the custom of tanistry. According to this custom, the successor of a king was elected during his lifetime from the eldest and worthiuest of his kin, often a collateral (brother or cousin) in preference to a descendant (son). The next king, Donald's nephew Constantine I, succeeded in accordance with this custom.
[Enc. Brit. 4:171]
(it says Donald's brother)
502. Rhodry Mawr (Roderic the Great) , King of all Wales
By inheritance and marriage reunited the States of North Wales, South Wales and Powis, and became King of all Wales in A. D. 843. Rhodri was 5th in lineal succession to his memorable progenitor, St. Cadwaleder Bendegelig (the Blessed), who was as well saint as monarch, and was crowned King of the Britons, A. D. 676. Cadwaleder's standard displayed the "Red Dragon" transmitted as the distinctive cognizance of his royal race. Rhodri married Ingharad, daughter of Meyrick, in 844 and they had six sons: Cadell, Mervyn, Gurat, Elisse, Anarod and Tudwal, who was called Gloff, or the lame, because of having received a wound in his knee in battle. The whole of Wales acknowledged Roderick the Great as one sovereign, but on his death it was divided between his sons into three principalities
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