History of the clan Mackenzie. With genealogies of the principal families of the name (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

PREFACE.WHILE submitting to the Subscribers the HISTORY AND Genealogies of the Mackenzies, I feel fully alive to its literary demerits, but I am, at the same time, sensible of having done some little service to my Clan and to the Literature of the Highlands; and it is no small pleasure to find that this has been already acknowledged in the most tangible and gratifying form—evidenced by the large and high-class List of Subscribers printed herewith.The amount of labour and research involved in the pro-duction of such a work is at once obvious.For generous and effectual aid to increase the number of my patrons, and for valuable genealogical notes, I am specially indebted to Major Thomas Mackenzie of the 78th Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs). For Mackenzie family MSS., and other valuable documents and information, I have to express my obligations to James F. Mackenzie, Esq. of Allangrange, Chief of the Clan ; to Sir Kenneth S. Mackenzie of Gairloch, Baronet, my own immediate Chief; to Major JAMES D. MACKENZIE of Findon; to Captain MacRa ClilSHOLM, Glassburn; and to Mr DUNCAN A. Macrae, Monar. For the free use of an extensive and rare library, I have to express my gratitude to Charles Fraser-Mackintosh, Esq. of Drummond, M.P., F.S.A., Scot., and to his obliging Secretary, Mr Alexander Fraser, our best known and most distinguished local Antiquarian ; as also to Bailie J. Noble, Bookseller, Inverness, who always granted me free access to the many curious and valuable historical and antiquarian books in his large stock.The Genealogies of the various families will be found inthe order in which they branched off from the main stem ofKintail and Seaforth.--HISTORY OF THE MACKENZIES;WITHGENEALOGIES. OF THE PRINCIPAL FAMILIES.The Clan Mackenzie, at one time one of-the most powerful in the Highlands, and still one of the most numerous and influential, claims a very ancient descent. It has been long maintained that the family is descended from an Irish nobleman named Colin or Cailean Fitzgerald. The authorities who maintain this Irish origin of the Clan inform us, that a certain Otho, who came to England with William the Conqueror, and fought with him at the Battle of Hastings, was created Castellan and Baron of Windsor, and that he was the common progenitor of the Fitzgeralds, of the Windsors and Earls of Plymouth. Most authorities concur in holding that this Otho was succeeded by his son, surnamed Fitz-Otho, who, we find, was Castellan of Windsor in 1078, and married a daughter of Olady, of Ry G wallah ap Comryn, Prince of North Wales, by whom he had three sons, Gerald, Robert, and William. Robert, who was afterwards Castellan of Windsor, appears as a witness to a royal charter, granted in favour of the Monks of Durham, in 1082, and had extensive possessions in several English counties.Gerald or Gerard (for the two names are synonymous), under the patronymic of Fitz-Walter, in 1112, married Nesta, daughter of Rees ap Teudor Griffin, Prince of South Wales, by whom he had three sons, (1) Maurice, (2) William, of whom are said to be descended the Earls of Kerry, and (3) David, Bishop of St David's, uncle to the celebrated Ger-aldus Cambrensis, whom he afterwards appointed to the Arch-Deanery of that See.Maurice, the eldest son, succeeded his father, and was one of those who accompanied Richard Strongbow, Earl of Striguel, to Ireland, about 1170, where, after many distinguished and signal services in the subjection of that country, he was created Baron of Wicklow, and Naas Offelim of the territories of the Macleans, by Henry II., who, on his return to England, in 1172, left Maurice in the joint-Government. He had married Alicia, daughter of Amulphade Montgomery, brother of Robert, Earl of Shrewsbury, who bore him four sons, Gerald, William, Alexander, and Maurice.Gerald Fitz-Maurice succeeded his father,and was created Lord Offally. By his wife Catherine, daughter of Hanno de Valois, Lord Chief-Justice of Ireland,