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.
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Argent, a triskelion of spirals and an orle azureAwards:
- 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