What was the the collective work of the author who wrote "The Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland" commonly known as?
King Duncan:  The origin of the character lies in a narrative of the historical Donnchad mac Crinain, King of Scots, in Raphael Holinshed's 1587 "The Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland," a history of Britain familiar to Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Raphael Holinshed: ) was an English chronicler, whose work, commonly known as "Holinshed's Chronicles", was one of the major sources used by William Shakespeare for a number of his plays.
Holinshed's Chronicles