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      MacAlpin's Treason      

Published here with permission of the author of The Pictish Nation.

The Pictish Nation is the world's first page dedicated to that ancient race, known as the Picts, who once inhabited present day Scotland.  This site, maintained by campello@techplan.com contains information about the history of the Picts which will particularly interest MacGregors.

The following excerpt from The Pictish Nation links the reader to more detailed information about the King of Scotland to whom the MacGregor Clan traces its lineage.

"It was this rare form of succession which in the year 845 A.D.  gave the crown of Alba and the title Rex Pictorum to a Celtic Scot, son of a Pictish princess by the name of Kenneth, Son of Alpin.  This Kenneth MacAlpin, whose father's kingship over the Scots had been earlier taken over by the Pictish King Oengus, who ruled as both king of Picts and Scots, and who possibly harbored a deep ethnic hatred for the Picts, and in the event known as "MacAlpin's Treason" murdered the members of the remaining seven royal houses thus preserving the Scottish line for kingship of Alba and the eventual erasure from history of the Pictish race, culture and history.  (Earlier, in 834 AD, Kenneth MacAlpin's father, known as Alpin, had rebelled against his Pictish King of Scots and Picts.)

"The true mystery in Pictish studies is the extraordinary disappearance of the culture of the tattoed nations of the North.  The fact that within three generations of MacAlpin kings, the Picts were almost held in legendary status as a people of the past must be the real question to be answered, and the historian is consumed by legend, lack of facts and the nagging story of an obscure intrigue leading to genocide of a people, its customs, culture, laws and art."

Note: The tartan show above is that of MacAlpin.  There is no hereditary chief.  Consequently, there is no crest, badge, or motto.  MacAlpin is not the name of any single clan, but rather a name that covers many Scottish clans such as MacGregor, Grant, MacKinnon, Macquarrie, Macnsab, Macduffie, Macphie, and MacAulay.

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