Ancient history

Strathclyde | historical kingdom, scotland, uk

Strathclyde , in British history, the native British kingdom spanning the River Clyde and adjacent western coastal counties, formerly County Ayr. The capital was Dumbarton , "Fortress of the Britons", then known as Alclut. The name Strathclyde was not used until the 9th or 10th century.

Converted to Christianity in the early 6th century, the men of Strathclyde, in alliance with the Cumbrians, made war later in the century against the still pagan Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Bernicia (later part of the larger kingdom of Northumbria). The King of the 5th Century Coroticus , against whose abuses the Saint Patrick may have been a forerunner of its rulers; The earliest reliably attested kings are Tudwal and his son Rhydderch, who probably lived in the late 5th and early 6th centuries. In the 7th century, however, the Northumbrians established supremacy over all Cumbria , but Strathclyde was not finally defeated until 756. The Vikings overran and destroyed Dumbarton in 870, and in the first half of the 10th century Strathclyde was defeated by the Anglo-Saxon kings of England, one of whom, Edmund I. leased it to in 945 Malcolm I. , the king of Scotland. After that, Strathclyde's fate lay with the Scots. It became a province of Scotland after the death of his king Owain the Bald, who died in 1016 (or possibly 1018) Malcolm II half, defeat the English at Carham.