Alpín mac Echdach

Alpín mac Echdach (died 834) is the king of Dál Riata remembered as father of Kenneth MacAlpin, founder of the ruling line of Alba. He appears only in later chronicles, which give him a three-year reign from 831, spent warring against the Picts who had overrun his kingdom.

Later accounts tell of an initial victory near Angus, in which the Pictish king fell, followed by Alpín's defeat and death in Galloway in 834, reportedly beheaded after capture. His son Kenneth succeeded him.