Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 243 pages of information about Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time.

Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 243 pages of information about Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time.
Wardane of
| one quarter by quarter of Scotland,
| grant. | Caithness d. 1338.
| | to Reginald
| | Chen III.
| |
.------+-------. +----.------------------.
| | | |
William Nicolas m.  Mary Marjory
Fifth Earl of of | of m. 1 Sir John
Sutherland, Torboll | Duffus Douglas
1333. | m. 2 Sir John
| | Keith of
| Whence the Inverugie
| Duffus Family |
| and Peerage. |
(For rest of (For rest of pedigree |
pedigree see see Sutherland book.) |
Sutherland Book.) Andrew Keith
of Inverugie.

NOTE.—­William MacFrisgyn is said by Shaw in his History of Moray, 1775 edit., p. 75, to have had several sons, viz.:—­Hugo of Sutherland, (2) Sir John (whence the Atholl family), (3) William of Petty, (4) Sir John of Moray (whence Abercairney), (5) Andrew, Bishop of Moray, (6) Gilbert, Bishop of Caithness, and (7) Richard of Culbin:  sed quaere.

INDEX.

  Aberbrothock.

  Aberdeen;
    bishopric;
    invaded.

  Aberdeenshire;
    why no brochs?

  Achavarn.

  Achness.

  Acre.

  Adam, earl of Angus.

  Adam, bishop of Caithness;
    buried.

  Adamnan.

  Aethelfrith.

  Afreka, dau. of earl of Fife, m.  Earl Harold Maddadson, their children;
    divorced by Harold.

  Agricola, Tacitus.

  Alane, thane of Sutherland.

  Alban;
    its provinces;
    common language;
    ravaged by Irish Danes;
    wars of kings of A. against Northmen;
    Moray stretched across A.;
    Caithness.

  Alcluyd (Dunbarton).

  Alexander I.

  Alexander II cr.  Wm. Freskyn earl of Sutherland;
    punished burners of Bishop Adam;
    confiscated half Caithness;
    grant of earldom of south Caithness to Magnus, earl of Angus;
    Magnus II, or Malcolm witness to charter;
    succession to throne;
    revolt of Donald Ban MacWilliam;
    Argyll conquered;
    Caithness subdued (1222);
    rebellions in Moray and Galloway;
    embassy to Norway;
    open letter for Scone;
    died.

  Alexander III;
    m.  Margaret, dau. of Henry III;
    his only child, Margaret;
    embassy to Norway;
    conquered Isle of Man and Hebrides.

  Altyre, Standing Stane of Duffus removed to.

  America, Norsemen discovered;
    heard of by Jean Cabot in Iceland.

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