Duncan I King of Scots

Duncan I (Donnchad mac Crínáin, r.1034-1040), King of Scots, is the 'gracious Duncan' of Shakespeare's Macbeth; though the historical man was no venerable greybeard but a young king, perhaps in his thirties, whose short reign went badly: a failed siege of Durham, then defeat and death near Elgin in 1040 at the hands of Macbeth of Moray, in battle rather than murdered in his bed. His son Malcolm Canmore recovered the throne seventeen years later; our line runs through him.