Drest X

Drest X
King of the Picts
Reign	845–848
Predecessor	Bridei VII
Successor	Kenneth MacAlpin (Cináed mac Ailpín)
Father	Uurad

Drest (Scottish Gaelic: Drust; Latin: Durst) was king of the Picts from before 845 to 848, a rival of Kenneth MacAlpin (Cináed mac Ailpín). According to the Pictish Chronicle, he was the son of Uurad (also spelled Vurad, Ferant, Ferat).^[1]

Drest was killed at Scone in the event known in history as MacAlpin's Treason. He was the last king of the Picts.^[2]

With such scant information about Drest, this detail is enticing:

In the ancient graveyard of St Vigeans in Forfarshire, within which there exists a large number of most interesting early Celtic monuments, there is to be found one old stone which is possessed of this singularity: that on it there is engraved the only inscription in the ordinary character of the Celtic manuscript which is to be found in Scotland outside the bounds of Iona. That inscription has been thus read by the late Sir James Simpson: “The stone of Drost, son of Voret, of the race of Fergus.” There is considerable probability that the Drost here commemorated is the Drost son of Ferat and king of the Picts referred to above [i.e., Drest son of Uurad].^[3]

Regnal titles
Preceded by Bridei VII	King of the Picts 845-848	Kenneth MacAlpin

References

↑ Skene, William (1867). Chronicles of the Picts and Scots. Edinburgh: H. M. General Register House. p. 151. Retrieved 8 Aug 2016.
↑ Skene, William F. (1867). Chronicles of the Picts and Scots. Edinburgh: H. M. General Register House. p. 202. Retrieved 8 Aug 2016.
↑ Mitchell, Dugald (1900). History of the Highlands and Gaelic Scotland. Paisley: Alexander Gardner. p. 134. Retrieved 9 Aug 2016.

Pictish and Scottish monarchs

Monarchs of the Picts (traditional)	Drest I Talorc I Nechtan I Drest II Galan Erilich Drest III Drest IV Gartnait I Cailtram Talorc II Drest V Galam Cennalath Bridei I Gartnait II Nechtan II Cinioch Gartnait III Bridei II Talorc III Talorgan I Gartnait IV Drest VI Bridei III Taran Bridei IV Nechtan III Drest VII Alpín I Óengus I Bridei V Ciniod I Alpín II Talorgan II Drest VIII Conall Constantine (I) Óengus II Drest IX Uuen Uurad Bridei VI Ciniod II Bridei VII Drest X

Monarchs of the Scots (traditional)	Kenneth I MacAlpin Donald I Constantine I (II) Áed Giric Eochaid (doubtful) Donald II Constantine II (III) Malcolm I Indulf Dub Cuilén Amlaíb Kenneth II Constantine III (IV) Kenneth III Malcolm II Duncan I Macbeth Lulach Malcolm III Canmore Donald III Duncan II Donald III Edgar Alexander I David I Malcolm IV William I the Lion Alexander II Alexander III Margaret First Interregnum John Second Interregnum Robert the Bruce (I) David II Robert II Robert III James I James II James III James IV James V Mary I James VI¹ Charles I¹ Charles II¹ James VII¹ Mary II¹ William II¹ Anne¹

¹ also monarch of England and Ireland.

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