This article is about the mediaeval scottish family. For the character from the Beggar's Opera, see Captain Macheath.
The MacHeths were a Celtic kindred who raised several rebellions against the kings of Scotland in the 12th and 13th centuries. Their origins have long been debated.
main controversy concerning the MacHeths is their origin. The key question relates to the paternity of Máel Coluim MacHeth, the first known of the kindred...
the MacHeths along with the MacWilliams retaliated against the king but were defeated by Fearchar, Earl of Ross and the grandson of Malcolm MacHeth, Kenneth...
from Inverness, Forres, Elgin and Nairn. This insurrection failed and MacHeths was captured, confined in Roxburgh. In 1153 Malcolm IV, son of David I...
One reading would give his name as Áed mac Domnaill, and it may be that he should be counted among the MacHeths, the sons of Áed. With the death of Domnall...
family. In 1215, the year after his accession, the clans Meic Uilleim and MacHeths, inveterate enemies of the Scottish crown, broke into revolt, but loyalist...
Somhairle Mac Gille Brighdhe, Fergus of Galloway, Gille Brigte of Galloway and Harald Maddadsson, along with two kin-groups known today as the MacHeths and...
the partitioning of the Isles, Malcolm IV was reconciled with Malcolm MacHeth (d. 1168), and restored the latter as Earl of Ross, an investiture which...
disappears from the record ca. 1130. His identification as the ancestor of the MacHeths is uncertain. Conflation with Ethelred of Scotland is spurious, and based...
all of these have male and female forms depending on the bearer, e.g. all Mac- names become Nic- if the person is female. Some of the Scottish Gaelic surnames...
Uilleim in the late 12th Century and early 13th Century The revolts of the Macheths in the late 12th Century and early 13th Century Wars of Scottish Independence...
have been made a separate earldom in the mid 12th century, when Malcolm MacHeth is found designated Earl of Ross. Malcolm had earlier been imprisoned at...
In 1157, it is reported, King Malcolm was reconciled with Máel Coluim MacHeth, who was appointed to the Mormaerdom of Ross, which had probably been held...
Roxburgh, the Meic Uilleim, the descendants of William fitz Duncan, and the MacHeths and dispossessed would-be Mormaers of Ross (who possibly were a branch...
Harald Maddadsson, along with two kin-groups known today as the MacHeths and the MacWilliams. The threat from the latter was so grave that, after their...
substantiated and his claim for the Scottish throne proved unsuccessful. Malcolm MacHeth, who rebelled against David I, but was later made Earl of Ross may have...
101–102; Oram, pp. 183–186. Wimund has also been conflated with Malcolm MacHeth. Richard Oram, The Lordship of Galloway, pp. 164-76. Biography portal Middle...
defeated a larger Confederate force commanded by Brigadier General Henry Heth. Panicked Confederate forces escaped by crossing and burning a bridge across...
historians no longer confuse him with "Malcolm MacHeth", it is clear that nothing more is ever heard of Máel Coluim mac Alaxandair, except perhaps that his sons...
Reay. The following is a list of the chiefs of Clan Mackay. Mackay, Angus. (1906). The Book of MacKay. (St Andrews University). "burkes-peerage.net"....
Earl of Fife 1129 Macduff, Stewart forfeit 1425 Mormaer Earl of Ross 1157 MacHeth extinct 1163 Mormaer Earl of Menteith bef. 1164 Menteith, Stewart extinct...
Galloway may have been descended from Martin who was the third son of Iye MacHeth, 1st chief of the Clan Mackay who lived in the thirteenth century. Angus...
Anderson (ed.) (Stamford, 1991), pp. 158, 166; for confusion with "Malcolm MacHeth", and analysis, see Richard Oram, David: The King Who Made Scotland (Gloucestershire...
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