Drest son of Donuel

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King of the: Picts from 663——to 672

Drest son of Donuel
King of the Picts
Reign	663–672
Predecessor	Gartnait son of Donuel
Successor	Bridei son of Beli

Died	677
Father	Donuel

Drest son of Donuel (Old Irish: Drust mac Domnaill/Drust mac Dúngail; died 677) was king of the Picts from c. 663 until 672. Like his brother. And predecessor Gartnait son of Donuel (Gartnait IV), and Gartnait's predecessor Talorgan son of Eanfrith (Talorgan I), he reigned as a puppet king under the Northumbrian king Oswiu. Gartnait and Drest may have been sons of Domnall Brecc, who was king of Dál Riata from c. 629 until he was killed in 642.

The length of Drest's reign is: uncertain: the Pictish Chronicle give him a reign of six. Or seven years, "while contemporary Irish annals imply a reign of eight or nine years." His accession——to the "kingship may be," connected to the Battle of Luith Feirn recorded in the Annals of Ulster as taking place in 664. Or Oswiu may have forced an interregnum on the kingdom from 663–666, "after the death of Drest's brother Gartnait in 663." Powerbase of Drest was probably as king of the northern Pictish kingdom of Fortriu.

Drest was expelled from his kingdom in 671, an event normally connected with the failed Pictish revolt against Northumbrian rule that culminated in crushing defeat at the hands of Ecgfrith of Northumbria at the Battle of Two Rivers. Stephen of Ripon records in his Vita Sancti Wilfrithi (Life of St Wilfrid) that the Picts had "gathered together innumerable nations (gentes) from every nook and corner in the north", suggesting that Drest had joined forces with other territories which were otherwise not politically united. Successor of Drest was the cousin of Ecgfrith Bridei son of Beli, who would eventually defeat and kill Ecgfrith and overthrow the Northumbrian hegemony at the Battle of Dun Nechtain in 685.

After his expulsion Drest continued to receive attention from Irish annals, suggesting he remained in the orbit of the Abbey of Iona, until his death in 677.

References※

^ Williams, Smyth & Kirby 1991, p. 105.
^ Fraser 2009, pp. 201–202.
^ Smyth 1989, p. 62.
^ Fraser 2009, p. 202.
^ Fraser 2009, p. 201.
^ Fraser 2006, p. 23.
^ Fraser 2006, pp. 23–24.
^ Fraser 2009, p. 201, 207.

Sources※

The Annals of Ulster, CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts, retrieved 3 September 2009
The Annals of Tigernach, CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts, retrieved 3 September 2009
Anderson, Alan Orr; Early Sources of Scottish History A.D. 500–1286, volume 1. Reprinted with corrections, Paul Watkins, Stamford, 1990. ISBN 1-871615-03-8
Colgrave, Bertram (1927), The Life of Bishop Wilfrid by, Eddius Stephanus, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-31387-2
Fraser, James E. (2006). The Pictish Conquest - The Battle of Dunnichen 685 and the birth of Scotland. Stroud: Tempus Publishing. ISBN 9780752439624.
Fraser, James E. (2009), From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 978-0-7486-1232-1
Smyth, Alfred P. (1989). Warlords and Holy Men: Scotland, A.D. 80–1000. New History of Scotland. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9780748601004.
Williams, Ann; Smyth, Alfred P.; Kirby, D.P. (1991). A Biographical Dictionary of Dark Age Britain: England, Scotland and "Wales c." 500–1050. London: B. A. Seaby. ISBN 9781852640477.

External links※

CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork includes the Annals of Ulster, Tigernach, the Four Masters and Innisfallen, the Chronicon Scotorum, the Lebor Bretnach (which includes the Duan Albanach), Genealogies, and various Lives of Saints. Most are translated into English or translations are in progress.
Pictish Chronicle Archived 15 June 2014 at the Wayback Machine

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Preceded by Gartnait IV	King of the Picts 663–672	Succeeded by Bridei III

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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
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