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Fearchar of Ross or Ferchar mac in tSagairt (Fearchar mac an t-sagairt, often anglicized as Farquhar MacTaggart), was the first of the Scottish Ó Beólláin (O’Beolan, Beolan) family who received by Royal Grant the lands and Title of Mormaer or Earl of Ross (1223–1251) we know of from the thirteenth century, whose career brought Ross into the fold of the Scottish kings for the first time ...
William (or Uilleam) III, 5th Earl of Ross (d. 1372) was a fourteenth-century Scottish nobleman. He was the fifth O’Beolan earl of Ross, descending from the founder of the line, Fearchar of Ross (or Fearchar MacTaggart ).
Biography. Euphemia was the elder daughter of Uilleam III, the last O'Beolan Mormaer of Ross. Her first marriage was compelled against the wishes of her father. King David II desired to bestow an earldom on Walter de Leslie, who had distinguished himself in combat in Europe and in Alexandria, Egypt. To give the earldom of Ross to Leslie, he ...
The chiefship of the clan has since passed to various branches of the clan. The current chief is David Campbell Ross who descends from Hugh Ross the 4th of Balnagowan. The following is a list of the chiefs of Clan Ross. Fearchar, Earl of Ross (Fequhard 1st Earl of Ross) (Also known as Ferchar mac in tSagairt).
A romanticised Victorian-era illustration of a Ross clansman by R. R. McIan from The Clans of the Scottish Highlands published in 1845. William III, Earl of Ross (6th Earl of Ross) died without male issue. [6] The earldom of Ross and the chiefship of Clan Ross were then separated. [6] The chiefship of the Clan Ross passed to Earl William's ...
Biography. Hugh de Ross was the eldest son and heir of William II, Earl of Ross by his wife Euphemia de Berkeley, or Barclay. Hugh was a favorite of King Robert I of Scotland, who endowed him with many lands. Hugh even married Robert's sister, Matilda/Maud Bruce (c. 1287 - aft. September 1323), in 1308 in the Orkney Isles.
The Macdonalds of Sleat descend from Ùisdean, son of Alasdair of Islay, Lord of the Isles, and the daughter of Ó Beólláin (O'Beolan), lay Abbot of Applecross. Hugh was born in the first quarter of the 15th century and his father, Alexander, Lord of the Isles and later Earl of Ross, gave him the Sleat lands on the Isle of Skye.
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