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Aife ingen Echdach

Bantiarna Aífe ingen Echdach

Aífe ingen Echdach was born in Dal Riada in 785 to Echdach Mac Eochaid and his wife, a Pictish princess, the sister of Causantín mac Fergusa, King of the Picts.  Aife was the sister of Alpín mac Echdach and, through him, aunt of Kenneth MacAlpin (Cináed mac Ailpin), who became Kenneth I, King of Alba. Aife was fostered in her uncle Constantín's household, where she spent her youth outside, learning to fight with her cousins Drest and Domnall and caring for the household's animals. She was being sent back to Dal Riada to be married to a chieftain when a Viking raiding party captured her travelling group near Iona. Aife was able to join a Viking settlement in the Western Isles and acted as an intermediary between Viking, Pictish and Dal Riadan groups due to her ties with each.

Device:

Argent, a triskelion of spirals and an orle azure

Awards:

Award of Arms
given by Rowland II & Tailltiu II
on 2021-05-01
Black Feather
given by Agostino and Elizabeth
on 2020-08-29
Order of the Demi-sun
given by Agostino and Elizabeth
on 2024-01-20
Royal Cypher
given by Leofric I and Sabine II
on 2022-05-07
Queens Cypher
given by Ratbot I and katherine I
on 2023-10-28