![]() While being an influential family in the Gàeltachd may have helped establish Malcolm’s favor with the Earls of Carrick, it was the sea power commanded by his sons that the Bruce needed and helped accelerate their rise to prominence. 1 Malcolm’s sons used their new influence established control and command of ships and shipping in the region.6 The rise of the House of Bruce put Scotland on a path to the Wars of Scottish Independence a path that would rely heavily on sea-power which the Macleans were ready and eager to provide. 6 This marriage happened at the beginning of the transition of Scotland’s crown from the House of Balliol to the House of Bruce. Malcolm mac Giliosa, third chief, married Rignach, 6 daughter of Gamail, Mormaer (or Earl) of Carrick (a relation of the Bruces 17), established Malcolm in both society and land. 6 Old Dugald’s position and designation as “judex,” along with his frequent change of dwelling coupled with the fact that his great grandson, Cuduiligh,6b born c.1130,14 was a learned Abbot of Lismore would have been common in the context of the Gàeltachd. Beaton alone provides a hereditary line back further naming Gillean’s 34 th great-grandfather as Tuirmhich teainrich righ Eran, a traditional High King of Dálcuinn (ancient Ireland) who presumably lived around 320 B.C.Īlthough best remembered as warriors today, the earliest Macleans would likely have been recognized as one of the hereditary learned families of the Gàeltachd. Beaton, Kennedy and O’Clery, in his Book of Genealogies, 5 carry the genealogy further back to include Erc as Gillean’s 19 th great-grandfather. ![]() Alexander Maclean Sinclair asserts that the books of Ballymote, Leccan, the Skene Manuscript, and MacFirbis’s Genealogies all trace the Maclean’s back to Loarn mac Erc, 2 a king of Dálriada who lived in the 6 th century and for whom the Lorn kindred was named. Matthew Kennedy who wrote the definitive Dissertation on the Royal Line of Steuarts, 3 and a manuscript recognized by the Lord of the Isles listing the pedigrees of the important clans 4 all agree in recognizing Ferghuis Abhraruoidh (or Fergus Mór, a Dálriadic king) as the Gillean’s 16 th great-grandfather. John Beaton, the last official seneachie of the Clan Maclean, 2 Dr. Prior to Old Dugald, the genealogical records are somewhat uncertain, however there are some consistencies in the various genealogical accounts. 1 Born around 1050, during the reign of Macbeth, Dugald of Scone served as a Judex (or Judge) and was believed to be a Councillor to David I, King of Scots. The direct lineage of the Maclean Chiefs can be traced with confidence as far back Gillean’s 5 th great-grandfather, Old Dugald of Scone. ![]()
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