Dunchad
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Dunchad may refer to any of several historical figures, several of them of the Clan Duncan; see Donnchadh:
- Dunchad I of Iona, abbot of Iona 707-717.
- Cellach mac Dunchad, one of the kings of Leinster.
- Dúnchad mac Conaing or Dúnchad mac Dubáin, king of Dál Riata (died 654).
- Duchad of Reims, master of one of the Carolingian Schools important in the Carolingian tenaissance.
- Duchad abbot of Dunkeld, killed in the battle of Dorsum Crup (Duncrub in Perthshire), 965.
- A "Dunchad" was the ninth-century writer of glosses on Martianus Capellas didactic encyclopedia.