According to "An Appendix To The History Of Scotland", 1721

{With certain annotations drawn from a myriad of sources.}

      The charts that are presented on this page are derived from a treatise titled: The Geneologie Of All The Kings Of Scotland by George Buchanan, the author of the History Of Scotland and An Appendix To The History Of Scotland, in which the aforesaid treatise on genealogy was included.

      No attempt is made to argue for or against this genealogy's accuracy. It is presented here for its own sake, and should be compared to other genealogies by the serious researcher.

      Only a very few annotations have been included, such as the inclusion of siblings from whom kings may not have descended (e.g. the family of Kenneth Mac Alpin). The purpose of such annotations is simply to show the relationships of all of the siblings, whether or not their offspring succeeded to the kingship.

     Eugenius I, son of Fincormachus, was a valiant and just King. According to the "Appendix To The History Of Scotland": "He was slain in battel by the Picts and Romans in the 3d year of his reign, and the whole Scotish nation was utterly expelled the Ile by the Picts and Romans, and remained in exile about the space of 44 years."

     Then: "Fergus the Second, Erthus son’s son to Ethodius, Eugenius the first his brother, returning into Scotland, with the help of the Danes and Gothes, and his own countrymen, who were gathered to him out of all countries where they were dispersed, conquered his kingdom of Scotland again out of the Romans and Picts hands."

     The Irish born son of Erc, Fergus II, included by Buchanan in this genealogy, would correspond to the Fergus Mor Mac Erc included in most other genealogies of the Kings of Scotland.

      Kenneth Mac Alpin is generally given the credit of uniting the Picts and Scots into one nation: Scotland. For that reason, Kenneth is also generally acknowledged to have been the actual first king of Scotland. According to the "Appendix To The History Of Scotland": "Kenneth the second, surnamed the Great, succeeded to his father Alpinus, in the year of the world, 4804. In the year of Christ, 834. A good and valiant Prince. He utterly overthrew the Picts in divers battels, expelled them out of the land, and joined the kingdom of the Picts to the crown of Scotland."

      In 843, Kenneth was crowned king at Scone, upon Moot Hill, a sacred place revered by the Picts, the Celtic tribe from which his mother descended. The new kingdom of the united Scots and Picts was proclaimed as Scotia, but was more commonly known as Alba.

      The numbering of the kings, as devised by Buchanan, will continue in this listing with Kenneth Mac Alpin as the 68th King, despite the fact that he is often considered to actually have been the 1^st true Scottish King.

      The House of Dunkeld commenced as the ruling family of Scotland with the marriage of Beatrix, or Bethoc, a daughter of Malcolm II, to Crinan, the lay Abbot of Dunkeld. The marriage of Malcolm III (son of Duncan I and Sibylla of Northumbria), to Ingibiorg, and then to Margaret, daughter of Edward the Outlaw (and granddaughter of Edward Ironside, King of England) resulted in a line of Kings of Scotland who ruled from 1058 to 1290. Ingibiorg bore Malcolm four children, of whom one ruled as king. Margaret bore Malcolm eight children, of whom four ruled as king. Malcolm II was commonly known as Caenn Mor (i.e. Big Head).

      As noted in the foregoing chart, Buchanan did not acknowledge Margaret as a monarch of Scotland; she was a ruler nontheless. For two years following the death of Queen Margaret (1290 - 1292) no monarch ruled Scotland. That period is known as the Interregnum.

      The "Appendix To The History Of Scotland" denies the succession of Margaret to the throne of Scotland. According to that genealogy: "After the death of Alexander the third, which was in the year of the World, 5255, in the year of Christ, 1285, there were six Regents appointed to rule Scotland: For the South-side of Forth were appointed Robert the Archbishop of Glasgow, John Cummin, and John the Great Steward of Scotland: For the North-side of Forth, Mak-duffe Earl of Fife, John Cummin Earl of Buchan, and William Fraser Archbishop of St. Andrews, who ruled the Land about the space of seven years, until the controversy was decided betwixt John Balliol and Robert Bruyse, grandfather to Robert Bruyse the King of Scotland, who did come of the two eldest daughters of David Earl of Huntingdon; for Henry Hastings, who married the youngest daughter, put not in his suit or claim with the rest, and therefore there is little spoken of him." "John Balliol was preferred before Robert Bruyse to be King of Scotland, by Edward the 1st, surnamed Longshanks, King of England, who was chosen to be the Judge of the controversy; which preferment was upon a condition, that John Balliol should acknowledge King Edward the 1st as superior; which condition, like an unworthy man, he received."

      The House of Stuart began with the union of Marjory, daughter of Robert Bruce, and Walter 'the Steward'. According to the "Appendix To The History Of Scotland": "Robert Bruyse began to reign in the year of the World, 5276, in the year of Christ 1306, a valiant, good and wise King. In the beginning of his reign, he was subject to great misery and affliction, being oppressed by England; but at length, having overcome and vanquished Edward the 2d, King of England, commonly called Edward of Carnarvon, at the field of Bannock-burne, he delivered Scotland from the wars of England, and set it at full liberty, all Englishmen by force being expelled from the Land. He married first Isabel, daughter to the Earl of Mar, who bare unto him Marjory, the wife of Walter, the Great Steward of Scotland; from whom, and the offspring of the Stewards, the King now ruling is descended."

      The genealogy presented in the book, "An Appendeix To The History Of Scotland" ended with James VI. Upon the death of Queen Elizabeth I, King James VI succeeded to the Crown of England as King James I.