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- 1st Earl of Ross. Also called Ferquhard Macintagart, Fearchar of Ross, Fearchar McTaggart.
"In the early summer of 1215 representatives of the families of Macwilliam and Macheth, claimants respectively, it would appear, to the Scottish throne and the earldom of Ross, invaded northern Scotland from the west and were suppressed by forces led by Farquhar Mactaggart. Suggestions that Farquhar's byname, meaning 'son of the priest', derived from his possession of the former west-coast monastery of Applecross, seem to have originated in nineteenth-century speculation; if he had an ecclesiastical connection it is more likely to have been with the shrine and sanctuary of St Duthac at Tain, on the southern shore of the Dornoch Firth. Probably a native of eastern Ross, he and others of that region would doubtless have regarded invasions from the west with hostility, looking for lordship to Scottish kings who were now increasingly active in the north of their realm, rather than to pretenders with Irish connections. On 15 June 1215 Farquhar presented the young Alexander II with the heads of his enemies, and was rewarded with a knighthood. In 1221 Alexander came to Inverness, and some time between then and 1226 he made Farquhar earl of Ross, the first in what proved a long-lasting dynasty. In July 1235 Farquhar justified his elevation during Alexander's campaign in Galloway, his arrival late in the day turning a desperate fight in the king's favour. He already had links with Galloway and the Western Isles. In the 1220s he founded a Premonstratensian abbey at Fearn with canons from Whithorn, while by 1223 his daughter Christina had married Óláf, afterwards king of Man, and he later assisted his son-in-law against enemies in Skye. He also made appearances at court, witnessing the treaty of York in 1237 and subscribing the copy of the Anglo-Scottish treaty of 1244 which was sent for papal confirmation." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below]
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Nielsen Hayden genealogy
- Abt 1251
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