Moray, Ulster, and the MacWilliams

Citation

Ross A (2007) Moray, Ulster, and the MacWilliams. In: Duffy Sean S (ed.) The World of the Galloglass: Kings, warlords and warriors in Ireland and Scotland, 1200-1600. Dublin: Four Courts Press, pp. 24-44. http://www.fourcourtspress.ie/product.php?intProductID=484

Abstract
First paragraph: Over the last 300 years historians have been united in agreement that the MacWilliam kindred were of royal descent from William fitz Duncan, son of King Donnchad mac Máel Coluim (Duncan II, 1094). Although various members of this kindred pressed their claim for inauguration as kings of Scotia over a number of decades between c.1180 and 1230, in historiography they have largely become relegated to the position of an annoyance in the inevitable 'progress' of the kingdom of Scotia, probably because they were not descended from St Margaret, but from King Máel Coluim mac Donnchada's (Malcolm III, 1058-93) first wife, Queen Ingebjorg of Orkney.

Keywords
Moray; MacWilliams; Monarchy Scotland History To 1500; MacWilliams family; Moray, Scotland (Province) History

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