Máel Coluim I of Strathclyde was ruler of the Kingdom of Strathclyde, the probable son of one of his predecessor King Dyfnwal III of Strathclyde; he was brother of Amdarch, who possibly held the throne in 971.
Máel Coluim was king of the Cumbrians by 973, the year for which Florence of Worcester related the Strathclyde king had met King Edgar of England at Chester. Máel Coluim was one of eight kings who allegedly met Edgar and rowed his boat on the River Dee (Afon Dyfrdwy). Another of the kings supposedly present was king Kenneth II of Scotland, and a "Maccus, king of very many islands"; (Maccus mac Arailt) of the eight kings listed, only these three Scotland-related kings have their kingdoms named.
Máel Coluim I's existence is confirmed by one other source. The Irish annals give Máel Coluim's father as Dyfnwal, and a death date of 997. The Annals of Ulster reported his obituary as Mael Coluim m. Domnaill, ri Bretan Tuaiscirt, moritur (i.e. "Máel Coluim, son of Dyfnwal, King of the Britons of the North, dies"). The father is presumed to be King Dyfnwal III of Strathclyde, making Amdarch of Strathclyde his brother.
Malcolm, Malcom, Máel Coluim, or Maol Choluim may refer to:
Strathclyde (Srath Chluaidh in Gaelic, meaning "valley of the River Clyde", pronounced [s̪t̪ra xɫ̪ɯi]) was one of nine former local government regions of Scotland created by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 and abolished in 1996 by the Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994. The Strathclyde region had 19 districts.
The area was on the west coast of Scotland and stretched from the Highlands in the north to the Southern Uplands in the south. As a local government region, its population, in excess of 2.5 million, was the largest of the regions. The Region was responsible for education (from nursery to colleges); social work; police; fire; sewage; strategic planning; roads; transport - and, therefore, employed almost 100,000 public servants (almost half were teachers, lecturers and others in the education service).
The regional administrative headquarters was in the City of Glasgow and politics were by and large dominated by the Labour Party. The first regional council convener was the Reverend Geoff Shaw, who died in 1978. It was largely due to his leadership that the Region forged its innovative strategy on multiple deprivation, which remained its central commitment to the end of the Region's life through "Social Strategy for the Eighties" (1982) and "SS for the 90s".
Strathclyde may refer to:
Other things in Scotland with Strathclyde in their names include:
People bearing the name Strathclyde include: