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'''Drest son of Donuel''' ({{lang-sga|Drust mac Domnaill}} or {{lang-sga|Drust mac Dúngail|label=none}}; died 677) was king of the [[Picts]] from {{circa}}663 until 672. Like his brother and predecessor [[Gartnait son of Donuel]], and Gartnait's predecessor [[Talorgan son of Eanfrith]], he reigned as a [[Puppet monarch|puppet king]] under the [[Northumbria|Northumbrian]] king [[Oswiu]].{{sfn|Williams|Smyth|Kirby|1991|p=105}} Gartnait and Drest may have been sons of [[Domnall Brecc]], who was king of [[Dál Riata]] from {{circa}}629 until he was killed in 642.{{sfn|Williams|Smyth|Kirby|1991|p=105}}
The length of Drest's reign is uncertain: the [[Pictish Chronicle|Pictish king lists]] give him a reign of six or seven years, while contemporary Irish annals imply a reign of eight or nine years.{{sfn|Williams|Smyth|Kirby|1991|p=105}} His accession to the kingship may be connected to the [[Battle of Luith Feirn]] recorded in the ''[[Annals of Ulster]]'' as taking place in 664,{{sfn|Fraser|2009|pp=201-202}} or Oswiu may have forced an [[interregnum]] on the kingdom from 663-666,{{sfn|Smyth|1989|p=62}} after the death of Drest's brother Gartnait in 663.{{sfn|Fraser|2009|p=202}} Drest's powerbase was probably as king of the northern Pictish kingdom of [[Fortriu]].{{sfn|Fraser|2009|p=201}}
Drest was expelled from his kingdom in 671, an event normally connected with the failed Pictish revolt against Northumbrian rule that culminated in crushing defeat at the hands of [[Ecgfrith of Northumbria]] at the [[Battle of Two Rivers]].{{sfn|Fraser|2009|p=201}} [[Stephen of Ripon]] records in his ''[[Vita Sancti Wilfrithi|Life of St Wilfrid]]'' that the Picts had "gathered together innumerable nations (''gentes'') from every nook and corner in the north",{{sfn|Fraser|2006|p=23}} suggesting that Drest had joined forces with other territories which were otherwise not politically united.{{sfn|Fraser|2006|pp=23-24}} Drest's successor was Ecgfrith's cousin [[Bridei son of Beli]], who would eventually defeat and kill Ecgfrith and overthrow the Northumbrian hegemony at the [[Battle of Dun Nechtain]] in 685.{{sfn|Fraser|2009|p=202}}
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