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MacDonald, Iain G., Donald of the Isles and the
Earldom of Ross: West-Highland Perspectives on the Battle of Harlaw (âMacdonald had the victory but the governor had the printerâ) June 2011, published for Harlaw Remembered, commemorating the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Harlaw by The Elphinstone
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and MacLeod kindreds. However, John and the MacKinnons were defeated. The MacKinnon chief was hanged, the MacKinnon abbot was imprisoned for life on Iona. Eventually, John submitted to Donald, who forgave him. John MĂłr had fled to Ulster where he married
Margery Bisset and became the Lord of Dunyvaig
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in 1398) deprived
Alexander of the Justiciarship. The assault on Alexander's position continued into the 1390s. Donald and his brother Alexander of Lochaber were in a perfect position to benefit. In 1394, the latter entered a 17-year agreement with the Earl of Moray, taking over Alexander Stewart's
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Guardian soon turned his hostility against Donald and his family. Alexander of Lochaber had been using his role as "protector" to further his own lordship, including granting episcopal lands to his military followers. In 1398, Robert Stewart (now Duke of Albany) was called upon to take action,
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While it is customary to portray the Lords of the Isles as divorced from the mainstream of
Scottish political life, and as representatives of a brand of lordship distinct from the rest of Scotland, this view obscures the fact that Donald was only one of many magnates who held large lordships with
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With control over the principal seat of the earldom of Ross and support of the exiled heir to the
Scottish throne, in 1411 Donald felt strong enough that he was in pursuit of a noble cause, so he marched an army of 10,000 Islesmen and Ross vassals against Albany's main northern ally,
267:) until Donald produced a son, he only received patches of land in Kintyre and Islay. The rebellion initiated by the MacKinnons, including their chief, Niall and the "Green Abbot" of Iona, started in 1387 and went on into the 1390s. The MacKinnons and John obtained the support of the
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Institute, University of
Aberdeen. See also, Irish Annals of Connacht, where under the year 1411 it states, "Mac Domnaill of Scotland won a great victory over the Galls of Scotland. Mac Gilla Eoin , one of Mac Domnaillâs followers, was killed in the resistance of the vanquished."
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Castle, the chief seat of the earldom and was welcomed to Ross by the people. In the year after the death of the nominal king, Robert III, Donald sent emissaries to
England, to make contact with the heir of the Scottish throne, the captive and, as yet, uncrowned
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Mariota
Macdonald, whose first husband was Gillespie Campbell. They had no known children. Her second husband was Alexander Sutherland of Dunbeath. Their only known child was Marjory.
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Lordship, that is
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589:(reprinted with corrections ed.), Edinburgh: The Scottish Medievalists and Department of Geography, University of Edinburgh,
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but the well-prepared expedition in the end came to nothing. Lochaber continued his activities, and in a raid of 1402 burned the
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