Angus MacDonald, 8th of Dunnyveg (

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: ''Aonghus Mac Dòmhnuill'', died 21 October 1614) was the

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Clan MacDonald of Dunnyveg Clan MacDonald of Dunnyveg, also known as Clan Donald South, ''Clan Iain Mor, Clan MacDonald of Islay and Kintyre, MacDonalds of the Glens (Antrim)'' and sometimes referred to as ''MacDonnells'', is a Scottish clan and a branch of Clan Donald. T ...

Life

MacDonald was the son of

James MacDonald, 6th of Dunnyveg James MacDonald (Scottish Gaelic: ''Séamus Mac Dhòmhnaill''), alias McDonnell, 6th Chief of Clan MacDonald of Dunnyveg, Scottish-Gaelic lord, died 1565. Biography MacDonald was the son of Alexander MacDonald, lord of Islay and Kintyre (''Can ...

(died 1565) and

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, daughter of

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. He went to

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and

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to renew the conflict with Clan Maclean. In 1579, upon information of mutual hostilities committed by their followers, the king and council commanded

Sir Lachlan Mor Maclean Sir Lachlan Mór Maclean (1558 – 5 August 1598) or Big Lachlan Maclean, was the 14th Clan Chief of Clan MacLean from late 1573 or early 1574 until 1598. Mór or Mor translates as ''big'' in English, or ''magnus'' in Latin, when added to a nam ...

and MacDonald, to subscribe assurances of indemnity to each other, under the pain of

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, and the quarrel was, for the time, patched up by the marriage of MacDonald with MacLean's sister Mary. In 1585, however, the feud came to a height, and after involving nearly the whole of the island clans on one side or the other, and causing its disastrous consequences to be felt throughout the whole extent of the Hebrides, by the mutual ravages of the contending parties, government interfered, and measures were at last adopted for reducing to obedience the turbulent chiefs, who had caused so much bloodshed and distress in the Isles. In 1598, his son

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, who was in dispute with his father, surrounded his father's residence

Askomill House Askomill House, also known as ''Askomull House'', was a fortified house north east of Campbeltown, Kintyre, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. History 16th century Angus MacDonald, 8th of Dunnyveg, while at his Kintyre house in 1598, was surrounded by ...

with between two or three hundred armed men. Angus refused to surrender to his son, with the house being set on fire and Angus being taken prisoner and being held captive at

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led a royal expedition against Angus in 1608, whereupon Angus surrendered the castles of

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and Lochgorme. In May, Angus presented himself to the privy council at Edinburgh were he committed in

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. He was released to accompany Andrew Knox,

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and was present at Iona when the

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was consented to. MacDonald travelled to Edinburgh for an audience with the King and gave sureties for his reappearance before the Privy Council in May 1611. He died at Rothesay on 21 October 1614, and was buried at

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Family

By his wife, Mary, daughter of Hector Og Maclean of Duart, their children were: *

, d. 1626, London, England. * Angus Og, married Katherine, daughter of Duncan Campbell of Danna, had issue. *

Alexander Og MacDonald Alexander Og MacDonald (died 3 October 1613) was a son of Angus MacDonald, 8th of Dunnyveg and Mary, daughter of Hector Og Maclean, 13th Chief, Hector Og Maclean of Duart. He had a daughter Margaret to an unknown woman. Alexander drowned on 3 Oct ...

, married unknown, had issue, drowned on 3 October 1613. *Mary, married

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. *Margaret, who married

Ranald Macdonald of Benbecula Ranald is an English Hanks; Hodges 2006 pp. 407–408; Hanks; Hodges 2003; Hanks; Hodges 1997 pp. 204, 205. and Scots masculine given name. It is an Anglicised form of the Scottish Gaelic name '' Raghnall''. A short form of ''Ranald'' is ' ...

. *Annabella, who married

Archibald Macdonald of Largie Archibald is a masculine given name, composed of the Germanic elements '' erchan'' (with an original meaning of "genuine" or "precious") and '' bald'' meaning "bold". Medieval forms include Old High German and Anglo-Saxon . Erkanbald, bishop o ...

. He also allegedly fathered three sons: *

Archibald MacDonald of Gigha Archibald MacDonald of Gigha, Gilleashuig Dubh, was a son of Angus MacDonald, 8th of Dunnyveg. Archibald was granted lands on Gigha for life in a charter in 1576, which were confirmed in 1582 and by the crown in 1598. Archibald was confined as a h ...

* Alexander MacDonald * Ranald Og

References

*p378, Rev. A. MacDonald & Rev. A. MacDonald; The Clan Donald ;Notes {{DEFAULTSORT:MacDonald, Angus, 8th Of Dunnyveg

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