Culen of Scotland
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Culen of Scotland (Cuilén mac Iduilb) (also called Cuilean, Colin and Culen the Whelp, a tautology since cuilean means "whelp") was king of Alba from 967 to 971. He was the son of Indulf, and the third cousin of both Dub, the previous king, and his successor, Kenneth II.
Culen was the third king in a row to succeed to the throne because his predecessor had been murdered. When Dub's body was discovered under a bridge at Kinloss, near Forres in Moray it was widely assumed that his assassins (who had kidnapped him the day before) were employed by Culen.
Culen had two sons: the future Constantine and Malcolm. Malcolm remains a very obscure figure in Scottish history; it is only known that he was alive in 1002.
Culen was assassinated in Lothian by Amdarch, a sub-king of Strathclyde, in 971. The act was in revenge for Culen's rape of Amdarch's daughter and the murder of his brother during a campaign to re-assert control over Strathclyde. This in turn was part of a wider picture of conflict between Culen's family and the Strathclyde nobles, which saw Culen's brother, Eochaid, die the same year. Thus, Culen became the fourth king of Scotland to be murdered in succession.
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