Editing Kenneth MacAlpin (section)

{{Short description|King of the Picts from 848 to 858}}
{{About|the medieval Scottish king|the racing driver|Kenneth McAlpine|the cricket player and administrator|Kenneth McAlpine (cricketer)}}
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{{Infobox royalty
| name               = Kenneth MacAlpin<br>''Cináed mac Ailpin''
| succession         = [[King of the Picts]]
| image              = File:CináedmacAilpín.JPG
| caption            = Frieze from the National Portrait Gallery, Scotland
| reign              = {{nowrap|848 – 13 February 858}}
| predecessor1       = [[Drest X]]
| successor1         = [[Donald I]]
| succession2        = [[King of Dál Riada]]
| reign2             = {{nowrap|841–850}}
| predecessor2       = [[Alpín mac Echdach]]
| successor2         = Title disestablished
| succession3        = 
| reign3             = 
| predecessor3       = 
| successor3         = 
| birth_date         = 810
| birth_place        = [[Iona]]
| death_date         = 13 February 858 (aged 47)
| death_place        = [[Forteviot]], [[Perthshire]], [[Scotland]]
| burial_place       = [[Iona Abbey]]
| issue              = {{Plainlist|
* [[Causantín mac Cináeda]]
* [[Áed mac Cináeda]]
* [[Máel Muire ingen Cináeda]]
* Unknown daughter
}}
| regnal name        = Kenneth I
| posthumous name    = An Ferbasach
| native_lang1       = [[Medieval Gaelic]]
| native_lang1_name1 = Cináed mac Ailpin
| house              = [[House of Alpin|Alpín]]
| father             = [[Alpín mac Echdach]]
| religion           = 
}}

'''Kenneth MacAlpin''' ({{langx|mga|Cináed mac Ailpin|label=[[Medieval Gaelic]]}}; {{langx|gd|Coinneach mac Ailpein|label=[[Scottish Gaelic]]}};{{efn|{{lang|gd|Cináed mac Ailpín}} is the Mediaeval Gaelic form. A more accurate rendering in modern Gaelic would be {{lang|gd|Cionaodh mac Ailpein}} since {{lang|gd|Coinneach}} is historically a separate name. In the modern language, however, both names have converged.}} 810 – 13 February 858) or '''Kenneth I''' was [[King of Dál Riada]] (841–850), and [[King of the Picts]] (848–858), of likely Gaelic origin. According to the traditional account, he inherited the throne of [[Dál Riada]] from his father [[Alpín mac Echdach]], founder of the [[Alpínid dynasty]]. Kenneth I conquered the kingdom of the [[Picts]] in 843–850 and began a campaign to seize [[Kingdom of Scotland#Origins: 400–943|all of Scotland]] and assimilate the Picts, for which he was posthumously nicknamed ''[[An Ferbasach]]'' ("The Conqueror").{{Sfn|Skene|1867|p=83}} He fought the [[Celtic Britons|Britons]] of the [[Kingdom of Strathclyde]] and the invading [[Scandinavian Scotland|Vikings from Scandinavia]]. [[Forteviot]] became the capital of his kingdom and Kenneth relocated relics, including the [[Stone of Scone]] from an [[Iona Abbey|abandoned abbey]] on [[Iona]], to his new domain.

Kenneth I is traditionally considered the founder of Scotland, which was then known as [[Alba]] in Gaelic, although like his immediate successors, he bore the title of King of the Picts. It was [[Donald II]] that first bore the title of [[King of Alba]] as recorded by the [[Annals of Ulster]] and the [[Chronicon Scotorum]]. One chronicle calls Kenneth the first Scottish lawgiver but there is no information about the laws he passed.