Rotri of Alt Clut

Rotri was a ruler of Alt Clut (modern Dumbarton Rock), the Brythonic kingdom later known as Strathclyde, for a few years in the mid-8th century.^[1] He is known only from the Annales Cambriae, which records his death in the entry for 754.^[2] He does not appear in the Welsh genealogies or the Irish annals, which record many other kings of Alt Clut. Historian Alan MacQuarrie suggests he may have usurped the throne following the death the previous king Teudebur in 752, and then been killed shortly after by Teudebur's son Dumnagual.^[1]

Notes

1 2 MacQuarrie, p. 11.
↑ Annales Cambriae, 754.

References

MacQuarrie, Alan; A. Grant & K. Stringer (editors) (1993). "The Kings of Strathclyde". Medieval Scotland: Crown, Lordship and Community (Edinburgh University Press): 1–19.

Regnal titles
Preceded by Teudebur	King of Alt Clut 752-?754	Succeeded by Dumnagual III

Kings of Alt Clut: the British rulers of Dumbarton

Legendary and semi-historic kings	Ceretic Guletic Cinuit Dumnagual I Hen Clinoch Tutagual Riderch I Hael Neithon Beli I Eugein I

Historic kings	Guret Elfin Dumnagual II Beli II Teudebur Rotri Dumnagual III Eugein II Riderch II Dumnagual IV Artgal Rhun Eochaid (uncertain)

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