MACDONALD, Reginald 1st of Clanranald and Moidart ¹

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  General Notes:

"The founder of tlie Clanranald branch of the family of Macdonald was Reginald, the eldest son of John, Lord of the Isles, and his wife, Amie MacRuarie of Garmoran. Tlie Clanranald of old included five principal families, descended from the five sons of Reginald. The first of these, styled of Moidart, and descended from Allan, the eldest son of Reginald, is the family mainly whose history we give in this chapter. According to MacVuirich, the family Seanachie, Reginald was already old in the government of the Isles at the time of his father's death. The office which he held was that of High Steward, an office which seems to have been one of the first importance in the Island polity. In his father's lifetime he succeeded, through his mother, to the MacRuarie lands, the great extent of which may be seen from the charters granted to the MacRuarie family by Robert Bruce and his son, David II. And John, whether as Lord of the Isles, or in right of his wife, Amie MacRuarie, or both, granted to Reginald a charter of the same MacRuarie lands in the year 1371, and at the same time added other lands on the Mainland. This charter, which was confirmed in the following year by Robert II., included the lands of Moidart, Arisaig, Morar, and Knoydart, the islands of Eigg, Rum, Uist, and Harris, with all the smaller islands belonging thereto, the three pennylands of Sunart and Letterlochette, the two pennylands of Ardgour, the pennylands of Hawlaste, and sixty merklands in Lochaber, all to be held of the Lord of the Isles and his heirs. Reginald for this extensive principality surrendered all claims to the Lordship of the Isles."

from The Clan Donald ¹

Reginald married.