Gruoch of Scotland
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Gruoch ingen Boite meic Cináeda was the daughter of Boite son of Cináed mac Duib.[1] The dates of her life are not certainly known.
Before 1032 Gruoch was married to Gille Coemgáin mac Maíl Brigti, Mormaer of Moray, with whom she had at least one son, Lulach mac Gille Coemgáin, later King of Scots. Gille Coemgáin was killed in 1032, burned in a hall with fifty of his men.[2] Gruoch's second marriage was to Mac Bethad mac Findláich, again the date is unrecorded. No children of this marriage are known.
Gruoch is named with Boite and also with Mac Bethad in charters endowing the céli dé monastery at Loch Leven. The date of her death is not known.
The character Lady Macbeth in William Shakespeare's play Macbeth is intended to represent Gruoch.
[edit] Notes
- ^ It is not entirely certain that the Cináed father of Boite was Cináed mac Duib rather than Cináed mac Maíl Coluim. Both possibilities are admitted by Duncan, p. 345, table A, although most sources, e.g. Woolf, favour Cináed mac Duib.
- ^ Annals of Ulster, s.a. 1032.
[edit] References
- Annals of Ulster (translation ) at University College Cork's CELT project.
- Duncan, A.A.M., The Kingship of the Scots 842–1292: Succession and Independence. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2002. ISBN 0-7486-1626-8
- Woolf, Alex, "Macbeth" in Michael Lynch (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Scottish History. Oxford UP, Oxford, 2001. ISBN 0-19-211696-7
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