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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,
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lay abbot of
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Dunkeld, and became king of the Scots in succession to his maternal grandfather, Malcolm II., in 1034, having previously as rex Cumbrorum ruled in
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Strathclyde . His accession was " the first example of
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inheritance of the Scottish
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throne in the
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direct
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line." Duncan is chiefly known through his connexion with
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Macbeth, which has been immortalized by Shakespeare . The
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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 kings of the Scots .

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