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His uncle, Hector Roy Mackenzie, attempted to usurp the Mackenzie lands and installed his own constable in Eilean Donan, Malcolm Mac Ian Charrich Macrae. [20] Hector's lawless activities caused the Mackenzies to be branded rebels, and in 1503 the Earl of Huntly offered to deliver Eilean Donan to the king, and to hold it on his behalf.
[8] [9] The chiefs of the Clan Mackenzie are said to have been settled at their great stronghold on Eilean Donan by 1297. [ 7 ] All of the earliest traditional Clan Mackenzie histories claim descent from a Fitzgerald progenitor.
The capture of Eilean Donan was a military action of the 1719 Jacobite Rising, a Spanish-backed attempt to restore James Stuart to the throne of Great Britain. [2] It was led by British Jacobite exiles George Keith, 10th Earl Marischal, the Marquess of Tullibardine and the Earl of Seaforth, chief of Clan Mackenzie.
Clachan Duich Highland Church in ruins and burial ground of Clan Macrae Great War Highlands Monument Clan Macrae Sgùrr Fhuaran seen from Sgùrr na Ciste Dhuibhe. The Macraes are known to have been constant supporters of the Clan Mackenzie in recorded times; in 1520, and for many years onwards, they were constables of Eilean Donan Castle. [8]
The Mackenzie chief was later executed in Inverness in 1346, and his lands of Kinlochewe were granted to his captor Leod Macgilleandrais for his service to the earl. [2] Mackenzie stated that during the time when Kenneth was captured, Eilean Donan Castle was governed by Duncan Macaulay, who possessed the lands of Loch Broom. With the death of ...
On 25 February 1508/9 he had a charter of Kintail, Eilean Donan and other lands, incorporated in a free barony of Eilean Donan. [1] There is plentiful documentary evidence of Mackenzie's success over the years in expanding his estates. In 1526 he was infeft with his wife in the lands of Fothirte, Strathgarvy and Killyn [Killin].
Lieutenant Colonel John MacRae-Gilstrap (31 December 1861 – January 1937) was a British army officer and a senior figure of the Clan Macrae.He contested a rival claim to the chiefship of the clan, and in 1912 he purchased and subsequently restored the Macrae stronghold of Eilean Donan Castle on Loch Duich in the west of Scotland.
The Mathesons then found themselves involved in the feuding between the Clan MacDonald and the Clan Mackenzie. [3] Iain Dubh Matheson was killed defending the Mackenzie stronghold Eilean Donan Castle , of which he had become constable of after marrying the widow of Sir Dugald Mackenzie. [ 3 ]