Généalogie and Heritage

Source: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy: ARGYLL

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Type	Valeur
Titre	Foundation for Medieval Genealogy: ARGYLL

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LOARN MacEarc King of Dal Riata
King ERC of Dal Riata DR01
King of Dal Riata FERGUS Mac Briuin DR01

Notes


Chapter 9. ARGYLL Arregaithel or Argyll was previously the kingdom of Dalriada in the west of Scotland. It was added as a province in the 10th century and at that time covered the whole western coast of Scotland as far north as Caithness. It is unclear whether the rulersof the province originally used the title Mormaer or were throughout referred to as "Lord." A manuscript dated 1450 claims that Fergus Mor, son of Erc and one of three brothers who founded the Scottish kingdom of Dalriada in the 6th century, was fourth in descent from Colla Uais, a High King of Ireland, that Fergus’s older son Domnagart was ancestor of Kenneth MacAlpin and succeeding Scottish kings, and that his younger son Godfrey was ancestor of the Clan Donald and known in his day as "Toshach of the Isles." An ancient Irish poem entitled Baile, Suthain Sith Eamhna, relating to the kingdom of the Isles, recounts that Reginald son of Somerled (see below) was a descendant of Godfrey, Fergus and Conn. The different versions of the alleged ancestry of Somerled are reviewed by Sellar. Following the defeat of Somerled Lord of Argyll in 1164, it was nearly three centuries before James II King of Scotland created the earldom of Argyll, with Colin Campbell Lord Campbell as Earl of Argyll, in 1457. He and his descendants are outside the scope of this work.

Chapter 9. ARGYLL

Arregaithel or Argyll was previously the kingdom of Dalriada in the west of Scotland. It was added as a province in the 10th century and at that time covered the whole western coast of Scotland as far north as Caithness. It is unclear whether the rulersof the province originally used the title Mormaer or were throughout referred to as "Lord." A manuscript dated 1450 claims that Fergus Mor, son of Erc and one of three brothers who founded the Scottish kingdom of Dalriada in the 6th century, was fourth in descent from Colla Uais, a High King of Ireland, that Fergus’s older son Domnagart was ancestor of Kenneth MacAlpin and succeeding Scottish kings, and that his younger son Godfrey was ancestor of the Clan Donald and known in his day as "Toshach of the Isles." An ancient Irish poem entitled Baile, Suthain Sith Eamhna, relating to the kingdom of the Isles, recounts that Reginald son of Somerled (see below) was a descendant of Godfrey, Fergus and Conn. The different versions of the alleged ancestry of Somerled are reviewed by Sellar. Following the defeat of Somerled Lord of Argyll in 1164, it was nearly three centuries before James II King of Scotland created the earldom of Argyll, with Colin Campbell Lord Campbell as Earl of Argyll, in 1457. He and his descendants are outside the scope of this work.