| SName | CName | From | To | Mention | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Talorg | 388 | 413 | 0 | Surname is given variously as Mac Keother and Mac Keocher. | |
| Mac Erp | Drust | 413 | 453 | 0 | Surname variants are Yrb and Wirp. |
| Mac Aniel | Talorg | 453 | 456 | 0 |
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| Mac Erp | Nectan Morbet | 456 | 480 | 0 | Younger brother of Drust MacErp. He is called "the Great". His clan-lands were in the region of Tay, embracing parts of Forfarshire, Perthshire, and Fife. Tradition gives that he was a Christian. |
| Guorthinmoc | Drust | 480 | 510 | 0 | During his sovereignty, in AD 498, the Gaidheals or Scots of the Irish Dalriada intruded their colonists into Pictland at Cantyre. Apparently Drust did nothing to stop them, if he even knew. |
| Arilith | Galan | 510 | 522 | 0 |
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| Mac Udrost | Drust | 522 | 527 | 0 | Reigned jointly with Drust MacGyrom. Each would keep his seat in the capital of his clan; but in affairs that concerned all the clans they would lead together. |
| Mac Gyrom | Drust | 522 | 532 | 0 | Reigned jointly with Drust MacUdrost from 522 to 527. Each would keep his seat in the capital of his clan; but in affairs that concerned all the clans they would lead together. From 527 to 532 Drust reigned alone. |
| Mac Gyrom | Gartnaidh | 532 | 539 | 0 | During his reign, in AD 537, the historical Arthur fell at the battle of Camelon in Stirlingshire, on Pictish teritory, in combat with the rebel Medraut, son of Loth or Lew of "Dinas Eiddyn (Edinburgh) in the North." |
| Mac Gyrom | Celtran | 539 | 540 | 0 |
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| Mac Murtholic | Talorg | 540 | 551 | 0 | During his reign "the Yellow Plague" raged throughout the country. |
| Mac Munaith | Drust | 551 | 552 | 0 | Possibly reigned for one year only because of the Yellow Plague. |
| Cennaleph | Galan | 552 | 553 | 0 | Reigned for only one years possibly because of the Yellow Plague. From 553 to 554 he reigned jointly with Brude MacMaelchon. He died in AD 580. |
| Mac Maelchon | Brude | 553 | 584 | 0 | He reigned for the first year jointly with Galan Cennaleph. Brude died in 584. He was a pagan all his life but could tolerate Christians. His home-territories and capital were round Inverness. |
| Mac Domneth | Gartnaidh | 584 | 599 | 0 | Gartnaidh's home-territories and capital were on the east of Alba in the region of the Tay. He was a Christian. |
| MacConnon MocuErp | Nectan | 599 | 621 | 0 | He also was a Christian and his home territories were on the east coast round the Tay, mainly in what is Forfarshire. |
| Mac Luthrenn | Ciniath | 621 | 631 | 0 |
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| Mac Wid | Gartnaidh | 631 | 635 | 0 | Died AD 635. |
| Mac Wid | Brude | 635 | 641 | 0 | Died AD 641. |
| Mac Wid | Talorg | 641 | 653 | 0 | Died AD653. |
| Mac Enfred | Talorgan | 653 | 657 | 0 | Died AD 657. |
| Mac Donnel | Gartnaidh | 657 | 663 | 0 |
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| Mac Donnel | Drust | 663 | 672 | 0 | Deposed and Brude MacBile was appointed. |
| Mac Bile | Brude | 672 | 693 | 0 | Died AD 693. The Pictish Chronicle gives the duration of his reign as 21 years; and Tighernac confirms by giving his death at 693. |
| Mac Entifidich | Taran | 693 | 697 | 0 | He was a weak king and was deposed after ruling for only four years. Two of these years were nominal, the real power during that time being in the hands of Brude, chief of the powerful house of Derelei, who became sovereign. |
| Derelei | Brude | 695 | 706 | 0 | He was effective ruler for the last two years of the reign of Taran MacEntifidich who was deposed in 697. Brude died in AD 706 having "reigned" for 11 years. |
| Derelei | Nechtan | 706 | 724 | 0 | He tried to gain friendship with the English. In AD 711 they showed their feelings and appeared on the Moor of Mannan under Bertfrid, Osred's chief ealdorman. No victory is recorded for either side but both suffered heavily. |
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Alpin | 726 | 728 | 0 |
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| MacFergus | Oengus I | 729 | 761 | 0 | King of Fortrenn. He "enthroned" St Andrew as patron of the Picts instead of St Peter. He won the kingship by force rather than by election. |
| Mac Fergus | Brude | 761 | 763 | 0 |
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| Mac Wredech | Ciniod | 763 | 775 | 0 | (Kenneth MacFeredach) |
| Mac Wroid | Elpin | 775 | 780 | 0 | (Alpin MacFeroid). |
| Mac Talorgen | Drest (Drust) | 0 | 783 | 0 | According to the Annals of Ulster, Dubhtolarg, who died in 782, reigned independently during this sovereign's time over the Picts "citra Monaidh" (Dunottar). |
| Mac Angus | Talorgan | 0 | 785 | 0 |
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| Mac Taidg | Conall | 789 | 790 | 0 | A chief of Dalriada who claimed both crowns and was opposed by Constantine. Defeated by Constantine, dethroned and banished. |
| Mac Fergus | Constantine I | 790 | 820 | 0 | King of Fortrenn from the defeat of Conall until his death in AD 820. King of Dalriada also from 811. |
| Mac Fergus | Angus II | 820 | 834 | 0 | King of Fortrenn & King of Dalriada. |
| Mac Constantine | Drust | 834 | 837 | 0 | Reigned jointly with Talorgan MacWthoil. |
| Mac Wthoil | Talorgan | 834 | 837 | 0 | Reigned jointly with Drust Mac Constantine. |
| Mac Bargoit | Wrad | 839 | 841 | 0 | Reigned jointly with Brude for one year. |
| Mac Dergart | Brude | 841 | 842 | 0 | The last of the line of Pictish Sovereigns listed in the Pictish Chronicle. |
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