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DUNCAN I

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 670 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DUNCAN I  . (d . 1040) was a son of Crinan or Cronan, See also:lay See also:abbot of See also:Dunkeld, and became See also:king of the Scots in See also:succession to his maternal grandfather, See also:Malcolm II., in 1034, having previously as rex Cumbrorum ruled in See also:Strathclyde . His See also:accession was " the first example of See also:inheritance of the Scottish See also:throne in the See also:direct See also:line." See also:Duncan is chiefly known through his connexion with See also:Macbeth, which has been immortalized by See also:Shakespeare . The See also:feud between these two princes originated probably in a dispute over the succession to the throne; its details, however, are obscure, and the only fact which can be ascertained with any certainty is that Duncan was slain by Macbeth in 1040 . Two of Duncan's sons, Malcolm III . Canmore and Donald V . Bane, were afterwards See also:kings of the Scots .

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