House of Alpin

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Scottish royal house royal dynasty

The House of Alpin was the early medieval royal dynasty that first united much of what became the Kingdom of Scotland under a single line of kings.

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Scottish royal house → royal dynasty →
capital	Forteviot → Scone →
country	Scotland →
dissolutionReason	extinction of male line →
dynasticFounder	Kenneth MacAlpin →
endTime	11th century → c. 1034 →
ethnicGroup	Gaels → Picts →
fieldOfActivity	kingship →
followedBy	House of Dunkeld →
governmentForm	monarchy →
hasTitle	King of Alba → King of Scots → King of the Picts →
inception	9th century →
languageOfName	Scottish Gaelic →
namedAfter	Kenneth MacAlpin →
notableMember	Constantine I of Scotland → Constantine II of Scotland → Constantine III of Scotland → Cuilén of Scotland → Donald I of Scotland → Donald II of Scotland → Dub of Scotland → Eochaid of Scotland → Giric of Scotland → Indulf of Scotland → Kenneth II of Scotland → Kenneth III of Scotland → Kenneth MacAlpin → Malcolm I of Scotland → Malcolm II of Scotland → Áed of Scotland →
partOf	history of Scotland →
precededBy	Kings of Dál Riata → Kings of the Picts →
region	Alba →
religion	Christianity →
significantEvent	unification of Picts and Scots →
startTime	c. 843 →
succeededBy	Malcolm III of Scotland →
territory	Alba → Dál Riata → Pictland →
timePeriod	Early Middle Ages →

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Kenneth MacAlpin → King of Scots →	dynasty
Dunkeld dynasty → House of Dunkeld →	precededBy
Kingdom of Scotland →	hasRoyalHouse