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'''Áed Find''' (Áed the White), or '''Áed mac Echdach''' (before 732&ndash;778), was king of [[Dál Riata]] (modern western [[Scotland]] and County Antrim, Ireland). Áed was the son of [[Eochaid mac Echdach]], a descendant of [[Domnall Brecc]] in the main line of [[Cenél nGabráin]] kings.{{#tag:ref|Áed is also sometimes known as ''Áed Finn'' and ''Aed Finn''.|group=note}}

According to later genealogies, Áed was the great-grandfather of [[Kenneth I of Scotland|Kenneth MacAlpin]] (Cináed mac Ailpín) who is traditionally counted as the first [[king of Scots]]. This descent ran through Áed's son [[Eochaid mac Áeda Find]] and Eochaid's son [[Alpín mac Echdach]]. The evidence for the existence of Eochaid and Alpín is uncompelling.

The [[Annals of Ulster]] in 768 report "Bellum i Fortrinn iter Aedh & Cinaedh": a battle in [[Fortriu]] between Áed and Cináed. This is usually read as meaning Áed Find and the [[Picts|Pictish]] king [[Ciniod I of the Picts|Ciniod I]], who is called "Cinadhon" in the notice of his death in 775.

Áed's death in 778 is noted by the Annals of Ulster. He appears to have been followed as king by his brother [[Fergus mac Echdach]].

The "Laws of Áed Eochaid's son" are mentioned by the [[Chronicle of the Kings of Alba]] in the reign of Áed's supposed great-grandson [[Donald I of Scotland|Donald MacAlpin]] (Domnall mac Ailpín): "In his time the [[Gaels]] with their king made the rights and laws of the kingdom [that are called the laws] of Áed Eochaid's son, in [[Forteviot]]." What these laws concerned is not known.

==In fiction==
Áed Find is playable in ''[[Crusader Kings II]]'' (under the [[regnal name]] Áed III) in the ''Charlemagne'' [[Downloadable content|DLC]]'s 769 AD start date, and is treated as an independent [[duke]]. His son Eochaid and brother Fergus also exist in his court. Without player intervention his realm is usually quickly conquered by neighboring [[Pictland]].

==Notes==
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==References==
''For primary sources, see also'' '''External links''' ''below''
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* [[Alan Orr Anderson|Anderson, Alan Orr]], ''Early Sources of Scottish History A.D 500&ndash;1286'', volume 1. Reprinted with corrections. Paul Watkins, Stamford, 1990. {{ISBN|1-871615-03-8}}
* [[John Bannerman (historian)|Bannerman, John]], "The Scottish Takeover of Pictland" in [[Dauvit Broun]] & [[Thomas Owen Clancy]] (eds.) ''Spes Scotorum: Hope of Scots. Saint Columba, Iona and Scotland.'' T & T Clark, Edinburgh, 1999. {{ISBN|0-567-08682-8}} 
* [[Dauvit Broun|Broun, Dauvit]], ''The Irish Identity of the Kingdom of the Scots.'' Boydell, Woodbridge, 1999. {{ISBN|0-85115-375-5}}
* Broun, Dauvit, "Pictish Kings 761&ndash;839: Integration with Dál Riata or Separate Development" in Sally M. Foster (ed.), ''The St Andrews Sarcophagus: A Pictish masterpiece and its international connections.'' Four Courts, Dublin, 1998. {{ISBN|1-85182-414-6}}
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==External links==
*[http://celt.ucc.ie/index.html CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts] at [https://www.ucc.ie/ University College Cork]
**The '''Corpus of Electronic Texts''' includes the ''Annals of Ulster'', ''Tigernach'', ''the Four Masters'' and ''Innisfallen'', the ''Chronicon Scotorum'', the ''Lebor Bretnach'' (which includes the ''Duan Albanach''), Genealogies, and various Saints' Lives. Most are translated into English, or translations are in progress
*[https://historical.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/cul.cdl/docviewer?did=cdl360 ''Annals of Clonmacnoise''] at [https://historical.library.cornell.edu/cdl/index.html Cornell]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070606150144/http://www.arts.ed.ac.uk/scothist/booklets/sh1/documents-alba.html The Chronicle of the Kings of Alba]

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