Donald MacDonald

- Abt 1423

• Name	Donald MacDonald  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate death	Bef Aug 1420  [2]
  Death	Abt 1423	Ardtornish in Morvern, Inverness, Scotland   [3, 4]
  Person ID	I34756	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JMF
  Last Modified	29 Dec 2021

  
  

  Father	John of the Isles   d. 1387, Ardtornish Castle, Argyll, Scotland
  Mother	Margaret Stewart
  Marriage	Abt 18 Jul 1350  [1, 3, 5]
  Notes	Date of contract. The dispensation for their marriage was dated 14 Jun 1350.
  Family ID	F16388	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Leslie   d. Bef Jan 1437
  Marriage	Bef 1388  [3]
  Children	+ 1. Fingula of the Isles
  Family ID	F20434	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 May 2021

  
  

• Notes

  Also called Donald of Ile, Yle, Islay. Lord of the Isles. Earl of Ross. "As Lord of the Isles he dealt as a sovereign power with England, and was reckoned an ally by both England and France. In right of his wife he claimed the Earldom of Ross. The details of his claim are not known; nor is it known whether, in his expedition in 1411, he was invading Scotland as a foreign enemy, or as claimant to the Earldom. When he set out from Inverness in that year, his force was composed of men of the Isles and of Ross (the latter returned to his obedience); and he was undoubtedly in possession of Dingwall Castle, the chief seat of the Earldom. He was defeated at Harlaw in the Garioch, 24 July 1411, in one of Scotland's bloodiest battles. Donald ?ed; the Regent took possession of Dingwall, and in the following year exacted hostages at Polgylbe (Lochgilp) for the keeping of the peace." [Complete Peerage, citation details below]

  
  

• Sources

  [S800] The Scots Peerage, Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland, Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of That Kingdom. Ed. James Balfour Paul. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1904-1914. [S50] Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Second edition, 2011. [S49] Genealogics by Leo Van de Pas, continued by Ian Fettes and Leslie Mahler. [S128] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant ed. Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea. 2nd edition. 14 volumes (1-13, but volume 12 spanned two books), London, The St. Catherine Press, 1910-1959. Volume 14, "Addenda & Corrigenda," ed. Peter W. Hammond, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing, 1998. [S3625] The Peerage of Scotland by Robert Douglas, rev. and ed. John Philip Wood. Volume 2. Edinburgh: George Ramsey, 1813.