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Scottish-Gaelic lord

James MacDonald
Séamus Mac Dhòmhnaill
Bornc. 1501
Scotland
Died5 July 1565
near Strabane, Tír Eoghain, Ireland
Title6th Clan Chief
PredecessorAlexander MacDonald, 5th of Dunnyveg
SuccessorArchibald MacDonald, 7th of Dunnyveg
SpouseAgnes Campbell

James MacDonald (Scottish Gaelic: Séamus Mac Dhòmhnaill; c. 1501 – 5 July 1565), 6th Chief of Clan MacDonald of Dunnyveg, was a Scottish-Gaelic lord.

Biography

MacDonald was the son of Alexander MacDonald, lord of Islay and Kintyre (Cantire), and Catherine MacDonald, daughter of the Lord of Ardnamurchan.

His wife was Lady Agnes Campbell, daughter of Colin Campbell, 3rd Earl of Argyll and his wife Lady Jean Gordon. They married in 1545, forming an alliance. The same year, he was elected Lord of the Isles, making MacDonald and Campbell significant figures in Scotland.

To further solidify the bond between the families, the Earl of Argyll granted MacDonald his "four score merklands" of Ardnamurchan, to be held by MacDonald under the Earl and his successors, and with seisin following immediately after. MacDonald had to pay 1000 merks for these lands, which was considerably under their real value.

He organised the release of his brother, Sorley Boy MacDonnell, in 1551, in exchange for George Bustsyde, a prisoner he held after a battle on the island of Reachrainn (now Rathlin Island).

In 1560, James MacDonald and the Earl of Argyll made a bond to resist any French incursions in Ireland, but MacDonald changed his position after Mary, Queen of Scots returned from France to rule Scotland in person, and his wife was received at court.

During the Battle of Glentasie on 2 May 1565, MacDonald and Sorley Boy were captured by Shane O'Neill and imprisoned. MacDonald succumbed to his wounds shortly after being captured, while being imprisoned at Castle Crocke, near Strathbane.

Family

By his wife, Agnes, daughter of Colin Campbell, 3rd Earl of Argyll and Lady Jean Gordon, he was the father of:

Notes

  1. Also anglicised MacDonnell and MacConnel

References

  1. ^ Barry, Judy (October 2009). "MacDonnell, James". Dictionary of Irish Biography. doi:10.3318/dib.005182.v1. Retrieved 1 June 2024.
  2. Joseph Bain, Calendar State Papers Scotland: 1547-1603, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1898), p. 678.
  3. ^ "Annals of the Four Masters, 1551". Retrieved 19 September 2010.
  4. ^ Hill, J. Michael (1993). "The Rift within Clan Ian Mor: The Antrim and Dunyveg MacDonnells, 1590- 1603". The Sixteenth Century Journal. 24 (4). The University of Chicago Press: 865–879. doi:10.2307/2541605.
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  6. ^ Barry, Judy (October 2009). "Campbell, Lady Agnes". Dictionary of Irish Biography. doi:10.3318/dib.006945.v1. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
  7. Macdonald, A. (Angus); Macdonald, Archibald (1896). The clan Donald. National Library of Scotland. Inverness : The Northern Counties Publishing Company, Ltd. pp. 529–530.
  8. Mary Ann Lyons, Franco-Irish Relations, 1500-1610: Politics, Migration and Trade (Boydell, 2003), pp. 122–3.
  9. "Annals of the Four Masters, 1565". Retrieved 19 September 2010.
  10. Hill, J. Michael (1993). "The Rift within Clan Ian Mor: The Antrim and Dunyveg MacDonnells, 1590- 1603". The Sixteenth Century Journal. 24 (4). The University of Chicago Press: 865–879. doi:10.2307/2541605.
  11. ^ Barry, Judy (October 2009). "Campbell, Lady Agnes". Dictionary of Irish Biography. doi:10.3318/dib.006945.v1. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
  12. Newmann, Kate (2024). "Agnes Campbell ( - c.1590):". Dictionary of Ulster Biography. Ulster History Circle. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
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