MACDONNELL, Lord John

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• Name	MACDONNELL, John
  Prefix	Lord
  Birth	1300	Finlaggan Castle, Island Islay, Scotland
  Gender	Male
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  Death	1387	Ardtornish Castle, Scotland
  Burial	1387	Saint Orans Chapel Cemetery, Isle of Iona, Argyllshire, Scotland
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  Person ID	I50057	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
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  Family	STEWART, Princess Marjory ,   b. Abt 1344, Dundonald, Ayrshire, Scotland Dundonald, Ayrshire, Scotlandd. 6 May 1417, Darnaway, Morayshire, Scotland (Age 73 years)
  Marriage	14 Jun 1350	Scotland
  Family ID	F25329	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  Descent of the McDanells- Paul, his son was Hoakon, Earl of the Orkneys; his daughter was Ingibjorg IV who married Olaf Bitling, King of the Southern Isles; his her son Ragnhilda who married Somerharlidh, King of Argyll. about 1157; and their three sons were: Eufgall, Ergus, and Raghnall. Raghnall had a son Donal, and Donal had a son Aenghus Mor MacDomhnaill (circa 1263) and Aenghus had a son by the same name (Aenghus Og who died in 1325; Aenghus Og who died in 1325 had a son Eoin (RIN 98216) who married Margaret, daughter of Robert II of Scotland. Eoin (98216) and Margaret (RIN23517) had four children- 1. Donnel of Isla c. 1411 2. Alastar Carrach 3. Marcus who was the ancestor of the MacDonnells of Knocknacloy of Colttyar?? 4. Eoin Mor md. abt 1400 to Margery Bissett her became the ancestor of the Earls of Antrim (RIN38642) ------------------------ Ref: Pedigree pg. 259- John, known as the "Good John of Isla," because of his gifts to the Church. Died 1386, at Ardtornish, and is buried at Oran in Hy. (Iona was first called simply I, which is Irish for Island, then Hy (so called by the Venerable Bede), Latinized by the Monks into Iona, and also called I-columb-cil (Isle of Columba's cell or Church). Ref: Weaving the Tapestry (pg 2 of 11 continued) John, Lord of the Isles, son of Angus Og, further raised the power of his family by marrying his cousin, Arnie MacRuarie (RIN 27584), heiress of the line of Roderick, Reginald's younger son. By her he got Garmoran and had two sons, Ranald and Godfrey. From the former of these are descended the houses of Glengarry and Clanranald, which to the present day put forward against the MacDonalds of the Isles claims to the supreme chiefship of the great MacDonald Clan. John, Lord of the Isles, however, appears to have repudiated or divorced his first wife, Amie MacRuarie, and to have married, under a dispensation dated 1350, Margaret, daughter of the seventh High Steward, afterwards King Robert II. By her he had three sons, Donald, John, and Alexander, and by reason, it is believed, that they were the King's grandsons, the eldest of the three was preferred to the succession to the Loredship of the Isles. At the same time, by way of compensation, their mother's inheritance, comprising the ancient lordship of Garmoran, was secured to the sons of the first wife. Of the three sons by the second wife, John became ancestor to the Earl of Antrim, and Alexander to the MacDonalds of Keppoch. Meanwhile the old Chief, John of the Isles, had again and again shown his haughty spirit. In 1368 he refused to attend the Scottish Parliament and submit to the laws of the realm, and though he was forced to submit afterwards in person to King David IIhimself at Inverness, this spirit was carried further by his successor. Almost immediately the arbitrary setting aside of the sons of the first marriage of John Lord of the Isles, was to produce results the horror of which Scotland has not yet forgotten. ------------------------------------- The story of Clan Donald is at the centre of the story of Gaeldom. The western mainland and the Isles of Scotland were, for over four hundred years, a flourishing political and cultural unity -- the Lordship of the Isles. And Clan Donald was at its head. Tradition marks its beginning in the twelfth century with Somerled, the greatest of the heroes of the Gaels and the progenitor of Clan Donald. But the story begins further back, with the peoples who made Scotland, and ends with the Jacobite Risings and their bitter aftermath. On Skye we tell the story of Clan Donald at its zenith, for 'in their time was great peace and wealth in the Isles thro the ministration of justice.' It is this spirit we celebrate and which lives on as long as there are MacDonalds to remember it. -------------------------------------- His descent is given as follows in O'Hart's "Iriah Pedigrees," 3rd Edition. Coll-Vulas, The One Hunded and Twenty-First Monarch of All Ireland (grand-son of Conn Ceadeath, variously called "enthathach, Constantine Centimachus, and Conn of the Hundred Battles, the one hundred and tenth Monarch of Ireland, A.D., 122-157, killed bhy the King of Ulster, A.D., 157), had: (RIN30438) Bredius, or Gillebreide), Phylarcha, or Chieftain of Clan MacDonnell, a warrior of great renown, lineal ancestor of (RIN30423) Sumerledus MacDonnell (variously called Samlairle, Savary, Somerled and Samuel), the eighth and greatest Thane of Argyle, temp., 1140. Founder of the Kingdom of the Isles; lord of Cantyre: lord of the Hebrides. He m. Sabina, daughter of Olad the Red, King of the Isle of Man, with whom he got the Isles, and Man, and was killed in battle, 1164, having issue by Sabina: Randal (or (Rannald), MacSorley MacDonnell, King of the Isles: lord of Oergeal and Cantyre, founder of the Cistereian Monastery, and benefactor of the Abbey of Paisley, who had: (RIN30425) Aongus (or Aeneas) McDonnell, of the Isles, temp. 1211, who had: Domhnall (or Donald), MacDonnell, Lord of the Isles, who had: Alexander MacDonnell, who had: Domhnall MacDnnell, who had: Aongus (or Aeneas) Mor Macdonnell, lord of the Isles, who had: Aeneas Oge MacDonnell, lord of the Isles, who was in command of 2000 men under Bruce, at the battle of Bannockburn, 1314, who had: Randal (or Reginald) MacDonnell, who had: Shane MacDonnell, who had: Eoin Mor MacDonnell, lord of the Isles, d. 1387, who had, besides Eoin Oge: Alexander MacDonnell progenitor of the MACDONNELLS of KIPPOCH. From this Alexander was lineally descended: 1. Allan MacDonald, of Moidart and Keppock: the last undisputed representative of the Clanranald family. He had: 2. Ivan MacAllen MacDonald, of Keppock, who had: 3. Alexander MacDonald, of Kinloch-Moidaus, called Chief of Clanranald. He removed from Keppock into Ireland. His son: 4. Ranald MacDonald, of Kinloch-Moidart, also called Chief of Clanranald. He had: 5. Donald MacDonald, d. 1746, who was father of 6. Alexander MacDonald, of Baltimore, Maryland. He was the twenty-first and last lineal Chief of Clanranald, of Lochaber, and laird of Keppoch. His 7. Daughter m. Thomas Evans, D.D.S., of Baltimore, Md., and of Paris, France, who was created a Marquis of the Holy Roman Empire. Ref: Americans of Royal Descent 973D2ba pg 146 from RIN23297 Robert II to and through the MacDonalls -------------------------- Descent of the McDanells- Paul, his son was Hoakon, Earl of the Orkneys; his daughter was Ingibjorg IV who married Olaf Bitling, King of the Southern Isles; his her son Ragnhilda who married Somerharlidh, King of Argyll. about 1157; and their three sons were: Eufgall, Ergus, and Raghnall. Raghnall had a son Donal, and Donal had a son Aenghus Mor MacDomhnaill (circa 1263) and Aenghus had a son by the same name (Aenghus Og who died in 1325; Aenghus Og who died in 1325 had a son Eoin (RIN 98216) who married Margaret, daughter of Robert II of Scotland. Eoin (98216) and Margaret (RIN23517) had four children- 1. Donnel of Isla c. 1411 2. Alastar Carrach 3. Marcus who was the ancestor of the MacDonnells of Knocknacloy of Colttyar?? 4. Eoin Mor md. abt 1400 to Margery Bissett her became the ancestor of the Earls of Antrim (RIN38642)