Life

Angus Macdonald went to Islay

Islay

-Prehistory:The earliest settlers on Islay were nomadic hunter-gatherers who arrived during the Mesolithic period after the retreat of the Pleistocene ice caps. In 1993 a flint arrowhead was found in a field near Bridgend dating from 10,800 BC, the earliest evidence of a human presence found so far...

 and Kintyre

Kintyre

Kintyre is a peninsula in western Scotland, in the southwest of Argyll and Bute. The region stretches approximately 30 miles , from the Mull of Kintyre in the south, to East Loch Tarbert in the north...

 to renew the conflict with Clan Maclean

Clan MacLean

Clan Maclean is a Highland Scottish clan. They are one of the oldest clans in the Highlands and owned large tracts of land in Argyll as well as the Inner Hebrides. Many early MacLeans became famous for their honour, strength and courage in battle. They were involved in many clan skirmishes with...

. In 1579, upon information of mutual hostilities committed by their followers, the king and council commanded Sir Lachlan Mor Maclean

Sir Lachlan Mor Maclean

Sir Lachlan Mór Maclean or Lachlan the Great, was the 14th Clan Chief of Clan MacLean from late 1573 or early 1574 until 1598.Mór or Mor translates as great in English, or magnus in Latin, when added to a name in Scottish Gaelic....

 and Angus Macdonald of Dunyveg or Isla, to subscribe assurances of indemnity to each other, under the pain of treason, 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 James, who was in dispute with his father, surrounded his father's residence Askomill House

Askomill House

Askomill House, also known as Askomull House, was a fortified house north east of Campbeltown, Kintyre, Argyll and Bute, Scotland.-16th century:...

 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 Smerby Castle.

Andrew Stuart, 3rd Lord Ochiltree led a royal expedition against Angus in 1608, whereupon Angus surrendered the castles of Dunnyveg

Dunyvaig Castle

Dunyvaig Castle, is located on the south side of Islay, on the shore of Lagavulin Bay, from Port Ellen. The castle was once a naval base of the Lord of the Isles, chiefs of Clan Donald. It was held by the chiefs of the Clan MacDonald of Dunnyveg....

 and Lochgorme

Loch Gorm Castle

Loch Gorm Castle is a ruined castle located on the isle of Eilean Mór on Loch Gorm, Islay, Scotland. It was once a stronghold of Clan Macdonald....

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

Blackness Castle

Blackness Castle is a 15th century fortress, near the village of Blackness, Scotland, on the south shore of the Firth of Forth. It was built, probably on the site of an earlier fort, by Sir George Crichton in the 1440s. At this time, Blackness was the main port serving the Royal Burgh of...

. He was released to accompany Andrew Knox, Bishop of the Isles

Bishop of the Isles

The Bishop of the Isles or Bishop of Sodor was the ecclesiastical head of the Diocese of Sodor, one of Scotland's thirteen medieval bishoprics. The bishopric, encompasing both the Hebrides and Mann, probably traces its origins as an ecclesiastical unity to the careers of Olaf, King of the Isles,...

 and was present at Iona when the Statutes of Icolmkill was consented to.

Angus travelled to Edinburgh for an audience with the King and gave sureties for his reappearance before the Privy Council in May 1611.

Angus died at Rothesay on 21 October 1614, and was buried at Saddell Abbey

Saddell Abbey

Saddell Abbey was a Cistercian monastery in Argyll, Scotland, founded in 1207 by Raghnall, son of Somairle mac Gille Brigte. It was established by monks from Mellifont Abbey in Ireland. Very little is known about the abbey and its history. It probably enjoyed several centuries of good monastic...

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Family

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

• James, d. 1626, London, England.
• Angus Og
  Angus Og MacDonald (d.1615)
  Angus Og MacDonald was a son of Angus MacDonald, 8th of Dunnyveg and Mary, daughter of Hector Og Maclean of Duart.He retook Dunyvaig Castle which had been taken by his brother Ranald Og. He tried to negiotiate a lease of crown lands on Islay, the rights to Dunyvaig Castle, and a pardon for all...
  
  , married Katherine, daughter of Duncan Campbell of Danna, had issue.
• Alexander Og
  Alexander Og MacDonald (d.1613)
  Alexander Og MacDonald was a son of Angus MacDonald, 8th of Dunnyveg and Mary, daughter of Hector Og Maclean of Duart. He had a daughter Margaret to an unknown woman. Alexander drowned on 3 October 1613 in Caol Ile . Margaret, married Hector MacAlister of Ardincross in 1626....
  
  , married unknown, had issue, drowned on 3 October 1613.
• Mary, married Sir Donald Macdonald of Clanranald.
• Margaret, who married Ranald Macdonald of Benbecula.
• Annabella, who married Archibald Macdonald of Largie.

He also allegedly fathered three sons:

• Archibald MacDonald of Gigha
  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 hostage for his father and brother in Dumbarton...
  
  
• Alexander
• Ranald Og
  Ranald Og MacDonald
  Ranald Og MacDonald was a son of Angus MacDonald, 8th of Dunnyveg. He captured Dunyvaig Castle in 1614 from the constable Andrew Knox and royal garrison. Dunyvaig was retaken by his brother Angus Og....