Gilliecoluim / Malcolm MacLeod, 3rd Chief

MALCOLM MACLEOD (aka Malcolmi filii Turmodi McLeid)

Malcolm MacLeod is the son of Tormod MacLeod. He had a charter under the Great Seal of Scotland by which David II, King of Scots, confirms that he has given him two parts of Glenelg in return for his homage and service. The MacLeods of Dunvegan: 39

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

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Undated charter which belongs to the reighn of David II, King of Scots, and therefore before 22 February 1371: Carta Malcolmi filii Turmodi McCleid [Malcolmi McCloyd] de terris de Glennelgy [Glenelge]. [Note] Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum. The Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, A.D. 1306-1424. New Edition, to which are added indexes and remains of the Lost Charter Rolls. Edited by John Maitland Thomson, LL.D. (H.M. General Register House, Edinburgh, 1912), Index A, charter number 862 on p.570

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Undated charter which belongs to the reighn of David II, King of Scots, and therefore before 22 February 1371: To Malcolme son to Tormode McCloyde, twa parts of Glenegle, in vicecomitatu de Inuernes. [Note] Ibidem, Index B, charter number (4) on p. 570

Note: Index A gives a brief description of the original lost latin charter. Index B gives a brief description of the same charter in English. The Reverend Canon McLeod gave a fuller version of the same charter charter: "Dilecto et fideli nostro Malcolmo MacLeod, filio Tormodi MacLoud, pro homagio et servitio suo, duas partes tenementi de Glenelg viz octo davatas et quinque denariatas terrae cum pertinentiis, infra vice comitatem de Inverness, faciendo nobis et heredibus nostris predictus Malcolmus et heredes sui servitium unius navis triginti et sex remorum quoties super hoc pro nos feuerunt requeriti." The MacLeods of Dunvegan etc. (Printed for the Clan MacLeod Society, 1927), p. 39

Genealogy

The MacLeods of Dunvegan etc. (Printed for the Clan MacLeod Society, 1927), For an account of Malcolm MacLeod, son of Tormod MacLeod, see pp. 39-50