Hector, 8th of Lochbuie fought, in behalf of the MacDonalds of Islay, against the Macleans of Duart at the Battle of Benvigory 1598. At no time did any of them (Lochbuie, Kingairloch, Coll) surrender their feudal jurisdiction and property rights to Maclean of Dowart. They owed allegiance to the Scottish monarch, and nobody else. their former possessions were confirmed by Royal Charter, and now, they held directly from the Crown and were independent of any overlord. Scott Keltie says in “History of the Scottish Highlands”, “in 1502, Lachlan Maclean, chief of Dowart and his kinsman, Maclean of Lochbuy, were among the leading men of the Western Isles whom that energetic monarch, James IV, entered into correspondence with.” John Maclean of Lochbuy and other Chiefs submitted to James IV.
If they had ever done such a thing, then Argyll would have made more than a token gesture to seize their estates along with those belonging to Dowart.Īs to the Lochbuies united with Duart under Clan Gillean, there is little substantiating evidence. At no time did they surrender their feudal jurisdiction and property rights to Dowart. In 1542 the lands held by the sixth Lochbuie chief were united into the Barony of Maoidh.”Īt no time did Lochbuie, Kingairloch, Ardgour or Coll acknowledge Dowart as their feudal superior or supreme chief: they owed allegiance to the Scottish monarch and nobody else. Lands were also granted in Duror and Glencoe. the grant included land on Mull, Scarba, Jura, Morvern, Locheil, and the bailliary of the south part of Tiree and of Morvern. Maclean notes, “This Hector was chief of his tribe at the date of the forfeiture of the Lordship of the Isles in 1493 when the Clan Lean was divided.” (People of Mediaeval Scotland)Īs to the greater land issue, in a collection of papers, The 17th Century In The Highlands, edited by Loraine Maclean, Inverness, 1989 ,a detailed comparison of chartered lands the author says that “the statement that Duart originally obtained the greater estate is not entirely convincing.” Hector was granted lands in Mull in the late 1300s by the Lord of the Isles. When, speaking of Hector of Duart, historian, James N.M. A traveller, about 1630, identified these groups as “the Clan Gillean of Lochbuie or Siol Eachainn (the race of Hector) and Clan Gillean of Dowart or Siol Lachlan”. Maclean of Lochbuy is called Seill-Eachin and the Clan Lean of Dowart in the Ile of Mull ar called Seill-Laughlan.”įirst-hand accounts confirm that the Macleans are divided into “two consanguineous but separate groups”.
The Reverend James Gordon of Rothiemay, in 1644, wrote, “The whol Clan Lean ar devyded into two casts or trybs.
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