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Angus II young MacDonald (Death in 1490) (Gaelic: Angus young ) Lord of the self -proclaimed islands from 1480 to 1490.

Angus óg MacDonald is the eldest illegitimate son and heir to Jean II Macdonald 4 It is Lord of the islands and 11 It is come the ross.

John II Macdonald must accept the conditions imposed on him by King Jacques III of Scotland during the Royal Parliament of July 1476, he renounces in favor of the Crown to his rights on Count of Ross with the exception of Skye and receives from the King as fiefs Knapdale and Kintyre as well as the hereditary title of Sheriff d’Iverness and Nairin. He thus ceases to be an almost independent prince to become a vassal of the kingdom of Scotland and a lord of the parliament.
In 1480 his illegitimate son and heir Angus Macdonald revolted against this arrangement and usurpe the authority of his father whom he hunts for his residence in Finlaggan on Islay.

At the head of an army of Highlanders he crosses the north of Scotland in order to win back the county of Ross and seizes Inverness where he proclaims himself lord of the islands. This expedition would have been made according to tradition to avenge the honor of his cousin Margaret Macdonald, repudiated by her husband Kenneth Mackenzie because become Borgne, following a brawl between the latter and his brother Alexandre Macdonald de Lochalshsh [ first ] .

John Macdonald remains supported by his vassals Hector Maclean de Duart and Lochbuie, Ewen Maclean d’Ardgour and the MacLeod clan of Harris, Dunvegan and Lewis as well as the Macneil clan of Sleat while his son obtains the support of the Ranald clan and Macdonald de Sleat as well as the majority of the Donald clan.

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An army is sent against Angus II, but she undergoes bloody setbacks and finally only her father John II Macdonald is in front of him when he joins him in the Ardnamurchaan peninsula. The “Battle of Bloody Bay” engages off the coast of the island of Mull just north of Tovermory. John Macdonald is defeated and Angus II declares himself chief of the Macdonald clan and lord of the islands. John withdraws into one of his castles while Angus II assumed power in the areas for the following years.

He must fight against John Suart Comte d’Atholl who takes off his wife to return her to his father Colin Campbell. Angus II Macdonald ravages his domains and captures the count of Atholl although he took refuge in the church of Sainte-Bridget and he encloses him in Islay.

In 1490 when he led an army against Inverness Angus II Macdonald to his throat cut into his bed by an Irish harpist Diarmaid O’Carby or O’Cairbre. According to tradition, Kenneth Mackenzies of Kintail has promised him his daughter’s hand as a reward. However O’Carby did not receive the salary of his crime because he was torn apart by four wild horses [ 2 ] .

Angus II Macdonald had married in 1476 or before Mary Campbell young girl Campbell first is comte d’Argyll dont

  1. ↑ According to John L. Roberts Lost Kingdom p. 213: Margaret known as Finola Macdonald would have been sent back to his brother mounted on a borgne horse and accompanied by a servant and a borgne dog.
  2. ↑ Fitzroy Maclean Higlanders, History of Scotland Clans Gallimard editions, Paris 1995, p. 63
  • (in) Mike Ashley The Mammoth Book of British Kings & Queens Robinson (Londes 1998) (ISBN  184160969 ) « John II, Angus And Donald Black ( The Black ) » p. 539-541 and genealogical table n O 39 p. 537.
  • (in) John L. Roberts « Downfall of Clan Donald », dans Lost Kingdoms, Celtic Scotland and the Middle Ages Edinburgh University Press (Edinburgh 1997) (ISBN  0748609105 ) p. 198-216.
  • (in) Richard Emam, “The Lordhic of The Islescop of The Islees, 1336-1595”, DAFALAL OMAALD AIZEBT OX) The Argyll Book , (Edinburg, 2005), p. 123-39

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