Dufenal III Scotta Cyning

Dufenal III (Scyttisc: Domnall mac Donnchada) se bār þone binaman "Dufenal se Hƿīta" oððe "Domnall Bán" in his agansprǣce, ƿæs Scotta Cyning fram 1093 oþ 1094 and æfter he eftnām þone cynedōm fram 1094 oþ his dēaþ in 1097. Ær Dufenales rīce ricsode Melcolm his brodor.

Dufenal III
Cynedom	1093–1094, 1094-1097
Foregenga	Melcolm III Cyning
Æftergenga	Dunecan II Cyning Ēdgar Cyning
Bearn	Bethóc; Ladhmann?
Hus	Dunkeld Hūs
Fæder	Dunecan I Scotta Cyning
Modor	Suþen
Geboren	1033
Deaþ	1099
Byrgen	Dunfermline Minster, þan Īi

Līf

Dufenal ƿæs geboren in 1033, þan ƿæs his fædres fæder cyning, se ƿæs Mælcolm II Scotta Cyning. He ƿæs Dunecanes Æþelinges ōðer sunu, þærof ƿæs Melcolm se ieldra. In 1040 þan Dufenal ƿæs cnapa, ofslōg Macbeoþen Þegn hiera fæder and afeng þone cynedōm. Melcolm and Dufenal fliemedon: Dufenal fōr to Īrlande and Melcome cƿōm on Engle. Þan Melcolm ƿeax to duguþe, aƿearp he Macbeoþen and fang to rīce.

Mælcolm forþferde on his fare on Norþanhymbrum in Blōtmōnaþe 1093 and Dufenal onsƿōg Scotland mid his ƿerod and onsætt Edinburg þærin ƿunedon ƿiþ Melcolmes sunan. Fordun secgþ þe Ēadgar Æðeling bār his nefan to Englalande.^[1]

Eald bēc secgaþ þe in 1093 gecuron ða Scottas þa Dufenal to cynge Melcolmes broðer 7 ealle þa Englisce ut adræfdon. þe ær mid þam cynge Melcolme ƿæron.^[2]

In Þrimilcemōnaþ 1094 onsƿōg Dufenales nefa Dunecan þæt rīce and þes Dunecan ƿæs Melcolmes sunu be his forma cƿēne Ingibiorg Finnsdottir and his fultum ƿæs Ēadmund his brōðor and Norþanhymbrum and Gospatric Norþhymbra Eorl. Dunecan adrāf Dufenal and fang to rīce ac Dunecan Cyning ƿæs geslean on 12 Blōtmōnaþ 1094 be Petre þæm Bescornan, Ealdorman of Mærne.^[3]

Ēadgar, se ƿæs Melcolm Cyninges ieldsta sunu libbend mid his cƿēne Margaritan, geƿonne fultium of Ƿillelm II Engla Cyning and uppon sancte Michaeles mæssan ferde Ēadgar æþeling mid fyrde þurh þæs cynges fultum into Scotlande and þet land mid stranglicum feohte geƿann and þone cyng Dufenal ut adræfde 7 his mæg Ēadgar se ƿæs Melcolmes sunu cynges.

Scacaspere

Dufenal is in Ƿillelmes Scacasperes pleg‚ Macbeoþen be naman 'Donalbain'.