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Donnchada mac Crinain
(
Modern Gaelic
:
Donnchadh mac Crionain
; 14 June 1001 ? 14 August 1040) often known as
Duncan I
and nicknamed
the Fighter
(Scottish Gaelic:
an Trodaiche
) was the
King of Scotland
from 1035 until he was killed at the
Battle of Pitgaveny
in 1040. He was the son of
Crinan of Dunkeld
and
Bethoc Ingen mac Mail Coluim
, the daughter of
King Malcolm II
.
He succeded his grandfather in 1035 and ruled the kingdom effectively until in 1040 where he was killed by the forces of
Macbeth
, who became king. Duncan left behind three children. His oldest child,
Malcolm
, would kill Macbeth seventeen years later and became
king
as Malcolm III. His second son,
Donald
, would also became king as Donald III.