Source:Chronicle of the Scottish Nation (Annals XXXII)

"Annals XXXII" Chronicle of the Scottish Nation

XXXII.

The five years' interdict came to an end, throughout all England, about the 1st of July, in the year King William died. But, for this release from the interdict, John, king of England, put the kingdom of England, as also himself, under subjection to our lord the Pope for ever; and, in witness of this subjection, he himself, and the magnates of his territory, promised, with their hands on a shrine, that he and all his heirs would furnish to God, and to the sovereign pontiff and all his successors, an annual rent — of one thousand merks of silver, to wit — from his own treasury ; and he gave his golden charter thereto. “Now, the year before, a certain English ploughman, named Peter, who — through what spirit I know not — foretold things to come, had been, from day to day, rebuking the very king of England, John himself, for his cruelty towards the Church ; and for ever shouting out fearlessly before his face that he would shortly lose the honour of the throne and the name of king, and that he would reign but for a year. The following year, however, the king, seeing he had escaped the day appointed for him by Peter, as stated above, had this Peter hanged upon a gallows-tree. But Peter asserted that he was unjustly being put to death ; for that he had foretold the truth, as he maintained that the king was already not reigning, since he had put under another's sway the sovereignty of the kingdom. The following year, the king of Scotland's enemies — namely, Dovenald Bane, son of Macwilliam, Kennach MacAth, and the son of a certain king of Ireland — entered Moray, with a numerous crowd of miscreants. These foes of the king's were attacked by Makentagart and mightily overthrown ; and the latter, having cut off their heads, presented them as new gifts to the new king, Alexander, and was therefor graced, by the king, with the honour of knighthood.

NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. XXXII. The last passage in this chapter is taken from the Chronicle of Melrose, but the persons there named "Douenaldus Ban filius Makwillehni et Kennuah Macaht" are here more correctly called Dovenaldus Bane filius Macwilliam et Kennach mac Ath. The first was probably son of the previous Donald Bane, called Macwilliam, and the second was probably a descendant of Malcolm Macheth, the two families of disturbers of the peace of Scotland, who seem both to have had the united support of the people of Moray and Ross. Makentagart, that is, Macant-sagart means the son of the priest. His name appears to have been Ferchard, and he was, for his services in suppressing these rebellions, afterwards made Earl of Ross. From him descend the subsequent Earls of Ross. Notwithstanding his name, he was in reality a powerful Highland chief, possessing a large tract of country on the west coast of Ross-shire. Early in the eighth century the church of Applecross was founded by Saint Maelruba, an Irish missionary, of Scottish descent by the paternal, and of Pictish by the maternal line. The possessions of this church were very large, extending along the west coast of Ross-shire from Loch Carron to Loch Broom. As was the case in other richly endowed churches, these possessions became hereditary in the family holding for the time the office of herenach or farmer of the abbey lands, originally an office of a clerico-secular character, but which became eventually entirely secular, and they were married. This office, with the possession of the lands, became hereditary in a family called O'Beollan, and Ferchard Macant-sagart, or the priest's son, was the head of this family, and, in point of fact, regular lord of the whole of the extensive districts belonging to the church of Maelruba. — (Proceedings of Society of Ant., vol. iii. p. 275.)

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• circa 1364 - Gesta Annalia records, “The following year,” meaning 1215, “the king of Scotland's enemies — namely, Dovenald Bane, son of Macwilliam, Kennach MacAth, and the son of a certain king of Ireland — entered Moray, with a numerous crowd of miscreants. These foes of the king's were attacked by Makentagart and mightily overthrown ; and the latter, having cut off their heads, presented them as new gifts to the new king, Alexander, and was therefor graced, by the king, with the honour of knighthood.” This passage is taken from the Chronicle of Melrose, but the persons there named "Douenaldus Ban filius Makwillehni et Kennuah Macaht" are called here Dovenaldus Bane filius Macwilliam et Kennach mac Ath.
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• Fordun, John de (1872) [c. 1360]. Skene, William F. (ed.). John of Fordun's Chronicle of the Scottish Nation. The Historians of Scotland. Translated by Skene, Felix J. H. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas. hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t6251p286. OCLC 9891882. OL 24871442M.