Galam Cennalath
{{Short description|King of the Picts from 550 to 555}}
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| reign = 550–555
| predecessor = Drest V
| successor = Bridei I
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| death_date = 580
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Galam Cennalath (died 580) was a king of the Picts from 550 to 555.
The Pictish Chronicle king lists have him reign for between two and four years, with one year being jointly with Bridei son of Maelchon according to some versions. Some variants place his reign between Gartnait I and Drest IV which may be a copyist's error, or alternatively, he may have had two reigns. Keith Coleman suggests that he was a king of southern Pictland.Coleman, Keith (2022), Áedán of the Gaels, King of the Scots, Pen & Sword, Yorkshire, pp. 81 - 96, {{isbn|9781526794901}}
The death of "Cennalath, King of the Picts" is reported by the Annals of Ulster and the Annals of Tigernach for 580.
References
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Sources
- Anderson, Alan Orr; Early Sources of Scottish History A.D. 500–1286, volume 1. Reprinted with corrections, Paul Watkins, Stamford, 1990. {{ISBN|1-871615-03-8}}
External links
- [http://celt.ucc.ie/index.html CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts] at University College Cork includes the Annals of Ulster, Tigernach, the Four Masters and Innisfallen, the Chronicon Scotorum, the Lebor Bretnach (which includes the Duan Albanach), Genealogies, and various Saints' Lives. Most are translated into English or translations are in progress.
- [http://www.kjhskj75z.talktalk.net/pictish.html Pictish Chronicle] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140615163653/http://www.kjhskj75z.talktalk.net/pictish.html |date=2014-06-15}}
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Category:6th-century Scottish monarchs
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