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The table provides a chronological list of the sovereigns of Scotland.
name | reign | |
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1Knowledge about the early Scottish kings, until Malcolm II, is slim and is partly based on traditional lists of kings. The dating of reigns is thus inexact. | ||
2Eochaid may have been a minor and Giric his guardian, or Giric may have been a usurper. Both appear in the lists of kings for the period. | ||
3"Stewart" was the original spelling for the Scottish family, but, during the 16th century, French influence led to the adoption of the spelling Stuart (or Steuart), because of the absence of the letter "w" in the French alphabet. | ||
4James VI of Scotland became also James I of England in 1603. Upon accession to the English throne, he styled himself "King of Great Britain" and was so proclaimed. Legally, however, he and his successors held separate English and Scottish kingships until the Act of Union of 1707, when the two kingdoms were united as the Kingdom of Great Britain. | ||
Kenneth I MacAlpin | 843–858 | |
Donald I | 858–862 | |
Constantine I | 862–877 | |
Aed (Aodh) | 877–878 | |
Eochaid (Eocha) and Giric (Ciric)2 | 878–889 | |
Donald II | 889–900 | |
Constantine II | 900–943 | |
Malcolm I | 943–954 | |
Indulf | 954–962 | |
Dub | 962–966 | |
Culen | 966–971 | |
Kenneth II | 971–995 | |
Constantine III | 995–997 | |
Kenneth III | 997–1005 | |
Malcolm II | 1005–34 | |
Duncan I | 1034–40 | |
Macbeth | 1040–57 | |
Lulach | 1057–58 | |
Malcolm III Canmore | 1058–93 | |
Donald Bane (Donalbane) | 1093–94 | |
Duncan II | 1093–94 | |
Donald Bane (restored) | 1094–97 | |
Edgar | 1097–1107 | |
Alexander I | 1107–24 | |
David I | 1124–53 | |
Malcolm IV | 1153–65 | |
William I the Lion | 1165–1214 | |
Alexander II | 1214–49 | |
Alexander III | 1249–86 | |
Margaret, Maid of Norway | 1286–90 | |
Interregnum | 1290–92 | |
John de Balliol | 1292–96 | |
Interregnum | 1296–1306 | |
Robert I the Bruce | 1306–29 | |
David II | 1329–71 | |
House of Stewart (Stuart)3 | ||
Robert II | 1371–90 | |
Robert III | 1390–1406 | |
James I | 1406–37 | |
James II | 1437–60 | |
James III | 1460–88 | |
James IV | 1488–1513 | |
James V | 1513–42 | |
Mary, Queen of Scots | 1542–67 | |
James VI4 | 1567–1625 |