Isabelle MacLaren of Ardveich

Isabelle MacLaren of Ardveich

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Marriage to: John Stewart, 2nd Lord of Lorn 1463 at Dunstaffnage

Agreeing with MacCombie, the Appin history asserted that the progenitor of the Stewarts of Appin was Dougall, an illegitimate son of John Stewart, lord of Lorn. The tale narrated how, late in life, John Stewart (also known to tradition as John Mourach or Leper John) decided to marry Dougall's mother, a daughter of the MacLaren lord of Ardvech (near Lochearnhead), and retrospectively legitimise their son so that he might succeed to the lordship of Lorn. On the morning of the wedding, as John's bride-to-be and his son approached Dunstaffnage Castle with a MacLaren escort, banners flying and pipes playing, the Lord of Lorn received a fatal wound from an assassin, Allan McDougal. John was made of stern stuff, however, and if there is any substance to his byname he may have been long prepared for his own death and long inured to physical suffering. In a melodramatic conclusion to the tale the old lord, his life ebbing away, ground through the marriage ceremony in order to secure the lordship for his son. After John's death, the Appin history resentfully records the sweeping aside of Dougall's rights by the naked political and military power of his adversaries, notably Colin Campbell, earl of Argyll and his uncle Colin Campbell of Clenorchy, who were married to Dougall's legitimate sisters. (1)

Sources

1. Boardman, Steve. "The Tale of Leper John and the Campbell Acquisition of Lorn." From "Alba: Celtic Scotland in the Middle Ages" by Edward J. Cowan (Editor), R. Andrew McDonald (Editor). Publisher: Tuckwell Press; (April 2001) ISBN: 1862321515. Page 9.

Links

1. http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=maclaren&...