Born ‎± 930 at Scotland, died ‎ 967 at Forres, Morayshire, Scotland‎, approximately 37 years

Born ‎± 932 at Scotland, died ‎ 995 at Finela's Castle, Fettercairn, Argyllshire, Scotland‎, approximately 63 years, buried ‎ at Isle of Iona, Scotland. Occupation: King of Scotland; King of Alba

Berchan's Prophecy, stanzas 181-182 (as quoted in A.O. Anderson,Early Sources of Scottish History, vol. I, p. 574) says thisabout Malcolm II, son of Kenneth: Son of a woman of Leinster ...A son of the cow that grazes upon the country-side of Liffey,... This seems to indicate that Malcolm II's mother, the queenof Kenneth II, was Irish, and it ought to be possible to connecther to the royal genealogies of Leinster. This is all that isknown of her. There is no contemporary record which names her.She was probably connected with the Leinster royal family, butbecause there were so many branches of it, it is unlikely. Theavailable Scottish and Irish Annals have been researched with afine tooth comb, and no new infomation will be learned unlessnew records are discovered.

According to Mary Elizabeth Cumming Bruce, Family Records of theBruces and the Cumyns (Edinburgh, 1870), pp. 9-10: "Kenneth,brother of Duff, next succeeded [0971]. They were both sons ofMalcolm I. Kenneth . . . did homage to Edgar [King of England]for Cumberland and Westmoreland. He also defeated the Danes.Kenneth married a daughter of William Long-epee, Duke ofNormandy, by whom he had Malcolm II and Dunclina, who marriedKenneth, Thane of Lochaber, and was mother of Bancho. . . .[0994] Kenneth was assassinated at Fettercairn by the LadyFenella, whose son he caused to be put to death." So possiblythe Norman records will yield a name.