Iain "Fraoch" MacDonald

Iain 'Fraoch' Macdonald was born probably illegitimately. He is the son of Angus 'Oig' Macdonald, Lord of the Isles and unknown daughter McHenry. He was the ancestor of the Macdonalds of Glencoe. Iain 'Fraoch' Macdonald also went by the nick-name of Iain 'Fraoch' (or in English, 'the Snarling').

Citations: http://www.thepeerage.com/p14693.htm#c146930.1

BP2003 volume 1, page 449 -Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.

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He was one of the Scotch commissioners appointed to treat with the English, anno 1362.

The year thereafter he was named one of the ambassadors extraordinary to treat with the English, and obtained a safe conduct to go up to that court, anno 1363.

John Ross, the direct ancestor of the family of Halkhead or Hacket or Hawket, received a grant of that estate in the Barony of Renfrew in 1367 from Robert, Earl of Strathearn, afterwards King Robert II of Scotland. Although there is no evidence of a connection between the Halkhead family and the ancient Earls of Ross, King Robert, who married as his 2nd wife, Eupheme, daughter of Hugh, 4th Earl of Ross, describes John Ross, both in the charter of 1367 and in another charter of 30 Mar 1390 as "consanguineus noster". It may be noted that the arms of the Lowland family of Ross of Halkhead, which claimed to be akin to the English family of Ros [of Helmesley], so called from the place of that name in Yorkshire, were clearly derived from its arms (gules 3 water-bougets silver), being: Gold a chevron checkered sable and silver between 3 water-bougets sable, whereas those of the ancient Earls of Ross, a Highland family were: Gules, three lions rampant silver