John Mor MacDonald (

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: ''Seán Mór Mac Dhòmhnaill''), fl. 1499, was third lord of Clan Donald.

Biography

John Mor was a son of

Donald Balloch MacDonald Donald Balloch MacDonald (Scottish Gaelic: ''Dòmhnall Ballach Mac Dhòmhnaill'') Scottish-Gaelic lord, died about 1476. Biography MacDonald was a son of John Mór Tanister and Margery Byset, daughter of MacEoin Bisset, Lord of The Glens. He w ...

and Johanna, daughter of Conn O'Neill of Edenduffcarrick. He was the third chief of Clan MacDonald of Dunnyveg. With his father, he signed the Treaty of Ardtornish in October 1461, which proposed that

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be divided between King Edward IV of England and

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.''Foedera'', vol.5 part 1, Hague (1741), p.108 He succeeded to the chieftainship of the clan after his father died at Islay in 1476. In 1493, with

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being required to forfeit his title of ''Lord of the Isles'' and pay homage to King James IV of Scotland, the King garrisoned and provisioned

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and Dunaverty Castle with royal forces in 1494. Sir John MacDonald, whom the king had recently knighted and to whom John had rendered homage, retook Dunaverty Castle just as the King was sailing for

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. The dead body of the castle's governor was hung over the castle walls in sight of the King and his departing entourage. The King, infuriated by Sir John's actions, declared Sir John a traitor and summoned him to

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for treason.. 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

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in 1499. John Cathanach's remaining son, Alexander Carragh, fled to Ireland and became the next chief of the clan and 5th earl of Dunnyveg.

Family

By his wife Sabina (Sarah), daughter of Felim O'Neill of Clandeboy, they had; * John Cathanach, married Sheela (Cecelia) Savage, daughter of Robert Savage, Lord of the Ardes in Ireland. Executed in 1499. *Alistair Carragh

References

* Rev. A. MacDonald & Rev. A. MacDonald, ''The Clan Donald'', pp374–375. {{DEFAULTSORT:MacDonald, John Mor , 3rd Of Dunnyveg 1499 deaths John Mor 15th-century Scottish people Medieval Gaels Medieval Gaels from Scotland