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Ildulb mac Causantín,
anglicised as
Indulf, nicknamed
An Ionsaighthigh, "the Aggressor" (died 962) was
king of Scots from 954. He was the son of
Constantine II (Causantín mac Áeda); his mother may have been a daughter of Earl
Eadulf I of Bernicia, who was an exile in Scotland.
John of Fordun and others supposed that Indulf had been
king of Strathclyde in the reign of his predecessor, based on their understanding that the
kingdom of Strathclyde had become a part of the
kingdom of Alba in the 940s. This, however, is no longer accepted.
The
Chronicle of the Kings of Alba says: "In his time
oppidum Eden", usually identified as
Edinburgh, "was evacuated, and abandoned to the Scots until the present day." This has been read as indicating that
Lothian or some large part of it, fell to Indulf at this time. However, the conquest of Lothian is likely to have been a process rather than a single event, and the frontier between the lands of the kings of Alba and
Bernicia may have lain south and east of Edinburgh many years before Indulf's reign.
Indulf's death is reported by the
Chronicon Scotorum in 962, the
Chronicle of the Kings of Alba adding that he was killed fighting
Vikings near
Cullen, at the
Battle of Bands. The
Prophecy of Berchán, however, claims that he died "in the house of the same holy apostle, where his father [died]", that's at the
céli dé monastery of
St Andrews. He was buried on
Iona.
Indulf was succeeded by
Dub (Dub mac Maíl Coluim), son of his predecessor. His sons
Cuilén and
Amlaíb were later kings. Eochaid, a third son, was killed with Cuilén by the men of
Strathclyde in 971.
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