Gartnait son of Foith or son of Uuid (died 637) was a king of the Picts

Picts

The Picts were a group of Late Iron Age and Early Mediaeval people living in what is now eastern and northern Scotland. There is an association with the distribution of brochs, place names beginning 'Pit-', for instance Pitlochry, and Pictish stones. They are recorded from before the Roman conquest...

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The Pictish Chronicle

Pictish Chronicle

The Pictish Chronicle is a name often given by historians to a list of the kings of the Picts beginning many thousand years before history was recorded in Pictavia and ending after Pictavia had been enveloped by Scotland...

 king lists give him a reign of four years, corresponding with the Irish annals

Irish annals

A number of Irish annals were compiled up to and shortly after the end of Gaelic Ireland in the 17th century.Annals were originally a means by which monks determined the yearly chronology of feast days...

, although variants say five and eight years.

His death is reported by the Annals of Ulster

Annals of Ulster

The Annals of Ulster are annals of medieval Ireland. The entries span the years between AD 431 to AD 1540. The entries up to AD 1489 were compiled in the late 15th century by the scribe Ruaidhrí Ó Luinín, under his patron Cathal Óg Mac Maghnusa on the island of Belle Isle on Lough Erne in the...

 for 637. He was followed by his brother Bridei son of Uuid

Bridei II of the Picts

Bruide son of Foith or son of Uuid was a king of the Picts.The Pictish Chronicle king give him a reign of five years following his brother Gartnait III.His death is reported by the Annals of Ulster and the Annals of Tigernach...

 according to the king lists. A third brother, Talorc

Talorc III of the Picts

Talorc son of Foith or son of Uuid was a king of the Picts.The Pictish Chronicle king give him a reign of twelve years following his brother Bruide II. A third brother, Gartnait III, was king before Bruide....

, was king after Bruide.

External links

• CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork 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.
• Pictish Chronicle