Donald Bane

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	<div class="pi-data-value pi-font"><i>Donald Ban</i><br /><small>(original French name)</small></div>
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	<div class="pi-data-value pi-font">[[Anthropomorphic Duck]]</div>
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	<div class="pi-data-value pi-font">[[Scotland]]</div>
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	<div class="pi-data-value pi-font">[[Duncan I]]</div>
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	<div class="pi-data-value pi-font">[[Malcolm Ceann Mor]]</div>
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	<div class="pi-data-value pi-font">July the 20th, 1975</div>
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	<div class="pi-data-value pi-font"><i>[[The Famous Donalds]]</i></div>
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&#x200b;</div><b>Donald Bane</b> (<i><b>Donald Ban</b></i> in the original French) was a male <a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22internal%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22anthropomorphic%20duck%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22Anthropomorphic%20Duck%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Afalse%2C%22noforce%22%3Atrue%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5BAnthropomorphic%20Duck%7Canthropomorphic%20duck%5D%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="1292451-8919054345f0a541e3c0c7" href="/wiki/Anthropomorphic_Duck" title="Anthropomorphic Duck">anthropomorphic duck</a>.           
<h2>Description</h2>
<p data-rte-fromparser="true">The son of the King of <a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22internal%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22Scotland%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22Scotland%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Atrue%2C%22noforce%22%3Atrue%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5BScotland%5D%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="1292451-8919054345f0a541e3c0c7" href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a>, <a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22internal%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22Duncan%20I%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22Duncan%20I%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Atrue%2C%22noforce%22%3Atrue%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5BDuncan%20I%5D%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="1292451-8919054345f0a541e3c0c7" href="/wiki/Duncan_I" title="Duncan I">Duncan I</a>, this Donald (a namesake and possible ancestor of the modern-day <a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22internal%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22Donald%20Duck%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22Donald%20Duck%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Atrue%2C%22noforce%22%3Atrue%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5BDonald%20Duck%5D%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="1292451-8919054345f0a541e3c0c7" href="/wiki/Donald_Duck" title="Donald Duck">Donald Duck</a>) stayed quiet for most of his life only to take over <a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22internal%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22Scotland%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22Scotland%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Atrue%2C%22noforce%22%3Atrue%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5BScotland%5D%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="1292451-8919054345f0a541e3c0c7" href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a> in his old age, hence the nickname of "Donald Bane", which meant "Donald the White" in Gaelic and referred to his distinctive white hair.
</p><p data-rte-fromparser="true" data-rte-empty-lines-before="1">Donald Bane took the crown by having his nephew <a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22internal%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22Duncan%20II%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22Duncan%20II%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Atrue%2C%22noforce%22%3Atrue%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5BDuncan%20II%5D%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="1292451-8919054345f0a541e3c0c7" href="/wiki/Duncan_II" title="Duncan II">Duncan II</a> assassinated; his ill-acquired reign did not last long, as Duncan's brother <a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22internal%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22Edgar%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22Edgar%20%28King%20of%20Scotland%29%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Afalse%2C%22noforce%22%3Atrue%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5BEdgar%20%28King%20of%20Scotland%29%7CEdgar%5D%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="1292451-8919054345f0a541e3c0c7" href="/wiki/Edgar_(King_of_Scotland)" title="Edgar (King of Scotland)">Edgar</a>, with the help of the English, soon deposed him and took the crown for himself. Not showing himself a particularly merciful monarch, Edgar had his treacherous uncle blinded and imprisoned for life.
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<h2>Behind the scenes</h2>
<p data-rte-fromparser="true">Donald Bane appears in the 1975 story <i><a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22internal%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22The%20Famous%20Donalds%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22The%20Famous%20Donalds%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Atrue%2C%22noforce%22%3Atrue%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5BThe%20Famous%20Donalds%5D%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="1292451-8919054345f0a541e3c0c7" href="/wiki/The_Famous_Donalds" title="The Famous Donalds">The Famous Donalds</a></i>.
</p><p data-rte-fromparser="true" data-rte-empty-lines-before="1">He is based on the historical <a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22internal%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22King%20Donald%20III%20of%20Scotland%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22wikipedia%3ADonald%20III%20of%20Scotland%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Afalse%2C%22noforce%22%3Atrue%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5Bwikipedia%3ADonald%20III%20of%20Scotland%7CKing%20Donald%20III%20of%20Scotland%5D%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="1292451-8919054345f0a541e3c0c7" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_III_of_Scotland" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Donald III of Scotland">King Donald III of Scotland</a>, nicknamed "Donald Bane" or "Donald Bain" and who appears in William Shakespeare's <i>Macbeth</i> under the name of Donalbain.
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