- main
controversy concerning the
MacHeths is
their origin. The key
question relates to the
paternity of Máel
Coluim MacHeth, the
first known of the kindred...
- the
MacHeths along with the
MacWilliams
retaliated against the king but were
defeated by Fearchar, Earl of Ross and the
grandson of
Malcolm MacHeth, Kenneth...
- see Meic
Uilleim and
MacHeths. "History",
Dunfermline Abbey Barrow, p. 156. Fordun, V,
xxviii (Skene's edition). Wyntoun, cxxvii.
MacDonald, pp. 23–24, deals...
- from Inverness, Forres,
Elgin and Nairn. This
insurrection failed and
MacHeths was captured,
confined in Roxburgh. In 1153
Malcolm IV, son of
David I...
- One
reading would give his name as Áed
mac Domnaill, and it may be that he
should be
counted among the
MacHeths, the sons of Áed. With the
death of Domnall...
- family. In 1215, the year
after his accession, the
clans Meic
Uilleim and
MacHeths,
inveterate enemies of the
Scottish crown,
broke into revolt, but loyalist...
-
Somhairle Mac Gille Brighdhe,
Fergus of Galloway,
Gille Brigte of
Galloway and
Harald Maddadsson,
along with two kin-groups
known today as the
MacHeths and...
- Fearchar's
ability to
defeat the
proven might of the Meic
Uilleim and
MacHeths together suggests that
Fearchar could command large military resources...
-
Malcolm MacHeth, 1st Earl of Ross, then it
would make
sense for them to be
referred to as an
ancient enemy of the Sutherlands, as the
MacHeths gave trouble...
- the
partitioning of the Isles,
Malcolm IV was
reconciled with
Malcolm MacHeth (d. 1168), and
restored the
latter as Earl of Ross, an
investiture which...
