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Albany was driven back by John Mor. MacDonald was attacked and murdered by James Campbell, agent for King James, after a scheduled meeting at Ard-du, Islay in 1427. He was buried on the Isle of Iona in Reilig Odhrain (St. Oran's cemetery) where the "great men of the royal blood of Clan Donald" were buried per Dean Munro, 1549, on the Council of ...
Sir John Macdonald ignored the summons and continued to reside at Islay. He and his sons were captured through the treachery of his kinsman John MacIan of Ardnamurchan. Sir John, his son John Cathanach and John Cathanach's sons John Mor, John Og and Donald Balloch were tried, convicted of treason and hung on the Burgh Muir in 1499.
The MacDonnells of Antrim are descended from John Mor MacDonald, chief of the Clan MacDonald of Dunnyveg.John Mor MacDonald was the second son of Good John of Islay, Lord of the Isles, 6th chief of Clan Donald, through John of Islays second marriage to Princess Margaret Stewart, daughter of King Robert II of Scotland.
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The third Chief, Sir John Mor with his heir John Cathanach and three grandsons were apprehended through the treachery of MacIain of Ardnamurchan and were executed in Edinburgh for treason. However, MacIain of Ardnamurchan, who had also betrayed Alexander MacDonald of Lochalsh , was himself killed in 1518 by those whom he had betrayed.
John Mor the seventh chief was renowned as an excellent swordsman and when an Italian master-at-arms challenged the Scottish nobles to meet him in a duel, John Mor accepted the challenge. [5] John Mor fought and killed the Italian in the presence of the king and court. [ 5 ]
Known as a military leader, at 18 years of age, Donald Balloch was chosen to lead Clan Donald in their revenge for the King's treachery and the humiliation of their chief, Alexander Macdonald, Lord of the Isles, aka Alexander of Islay, Earl of Ross when he surrendered to the king at Holyrood in 1429. The whole strength of Clan Donald was ...
Margery Byset (Bisset, Bissett; also Marjery, Margaret, Marie) was an Irish noblewoman belonging to the Bissett family whose marriage to John Mór Tanister MacDonnell in 1399 laid the basis for the Clan Donald claim to the Glens of Antrim, the lordship of which her family had established in the 13th century.