Boite mac Cináeda

Boite mac Cináeda ("Boite son of Kenneth"; also, Bodhe, Boedhe, etc.; d. 1058) was a member of the Scottish royal kindred active in the late 10th and early 11th centuries. His patronymic identifies him as the son of a Cináed (Kenneth), though modern historians debate whether this refers to Kenneth II of Scotland (Cináed mac Maíl Coluim) or Kenneth III of Scotland (Cináed mac Duib).

Boite is identified in later genealogical material as the father of Gruoch, who became queen consort following her husband Macbeth's seizure of the Scottish throne in 1040. Through Gruoch, Boite appears to have belonged to a branch of the royal dynasty descended from Cináed mac Maíl Coluim (Kenneth II), and this connection may have strengthened Macbeth’s dynastic position in the contested succession politics of early eleventh-century Alba.

Little contemporary evidence survives concerning Boite’s life. Assertions that he played a direct political role in arranging Gruoch’s marriage to Macbeth or in the accession of his grandson Lulach are not supported by surviving annalistic sources and derive primarily from later historical reconstruction. Modern scholarship treats him as a royal kinsman whose historical significance lies chiefly in his genealogical connection to the ruling house.