Research Catalog

Title

The lords of the Isles : the Clan Donald and the early kingdom of the Scots / Ronald Williams.

Author

Williams, Ronald, 1942-

Publication

Colonsay : House of Lochar, 1997.

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Details

Description

xiv, 270 p. : geneal. tables, maps; 22 cm.

Subject

• Donaldson family
• Hebrides (Scotland) > Genealogy
• Scotland > Genealogy

Genre/Form

Genealogy

Note

• Originally published: London : Chatto & Windus, 1984.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I. Dalriada, and the Celtic memory. The Lordship remembered -- Dunadd: the crowning stone -- The Celtic Society of Dalriada -- The kingdoms of Alba -- St. Columba and Aedan of Dalriada -- The Celtic Church of Iona -- The end of Dalriada -- II. The Viking period. Norsemen -- Clontarf (AD 1014) -- Thorfinn the Mighty, Magnus Barelegs and the Kingdom of Man -- III. The Gaelic revival. Somerled -- The sons of Somerled -- Donald of Islay and Angus Mor -- Alasdair and Angus Og: the War of Independence -- IV. The lordship. John of Islay, Lord of the Isles -- Donald of Harlaw, Lord of the Isles -- Alexander, Lord of the Isles and Earl of Ross -- The Lordship -- John, last Lord of the Isles -- The ruin of the Lordship -- Appendices. Kings and Lords of the Isles: origins of the Clan Donald main branches and a chronology of the kings of Scotland and England -- Kings of Scotland 843-1107 -- Kings of Scotland 1107-1542.

ISBN

1899863176 (pbk)

LCCN

gb^97033065^

OCLC

• 45629984
• SCSB-11703859

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library