Máel Coluim mac Cináeda

Máel Coluim mac Cináeda, king of Scotland, the honour of all the west of Europe, died.

– Annals of Tigernach, T1034.1

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Máel Coluim mac Cináeda (Modern Gaelic: Maol Chaluim mac Choinnich, known in modern anglicized regnal lists as Malcolm II; died 25 November 1034), was King of the Scots from 1005 until his death.  He was a son of Cináed mac Maíl Coluim; the Prophecy of Berchán says that his mother was a woman of Leinster and refers to him as Máel Coluim Forranach, “the destroyer”.  He died at Glamis and is buried on Iona.

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