Name: William Mackintosh, 7th. Chief of Clan Mackintosh, 8th. Chief of Clan Chattan
Born: 1297 in Rothimurcus, Inverness-shire, Scotland
Buried: 1386 in Island, Loch Arkaig, Scotland
NOTE: Malcolm Beg Mackintosh, 10th. of Mackintosh was the son of William Mackintosh, 7th of Mackintosh and his second wife late in life, Margaret MacLeod.
Death: 1386 in Connage, Lochaber, Inverness, Scotland
Buried: 1386 on Island, Loch Arkaig, Scotland
Immediate Family: Son of Angus Mackintosh of that Ilk, 6th. Chief and Eva Gillipatrick, heiress of Clan Chattan
William’s chiefship was signalised by the commencement of a long and bloody feud with the Camerons. The removal of his parents from their lands in Lochaber … [was followed by the possession of the lands being] assumed by the Camerons, who for some years occupied them without disturbance; that William, on attaining manhood, demanded the restoration of his inheritance, but that his claim was denied and his demand refused by the Camerons, on the ground that the lands had been deserted, and now of right belonged to themselves, who had been the first to seize and occupy them.
William is said to have then endeavoured to substantiate his claim by force of arms; the Kinrara MS. mentions a battle at Drumlui in Which William was victorious over Donald Alin vic Ewin vic Ian; and thus commenced the feud between the two clans which was not finally extinguished till near the close of the 17th century. Whatever the amount of truth contained in this record of tradition, there seems little reason to doubt that in 1336, during his father’s lifetime, William Mackintosh obtained from John of Isla, afterwards Lord of the Isles, a right to the old clan Chattan lands of Glenlui and Loch Arkaig —
John having received the lordship of Lochaber, with other territories, from Edward Baliol in 1335. On the fall of Baliol from his brief elevation, and on his resigning the kingdom and crown to the King of England in 1356-7, Mackintosh, judging probably that a title so acquired would be insufficient under the new order of things, obtained from David II a confirmation, dated at Scone the last day of February 1359, of the grant made by the Lord of Isla.
William had thus a legal right to the lands, but in his time, legal right was often of only secondary importance, so that not being able to dislodge the Camerons, and the law being powerless in these remote districts, he was compelled, however unwillingly, to behold this portion of his inheritance in the hands of strangers. …
The MS. also states that William obtained a new lease of Rothimurcus from the Bishop of Moray, John Pilmore, dated 19 March 1347-8. Although apparently somewhat of a man of business … this chief was not behind his predessors in war-like exploits. While yet a young man, and during his father’s lifetime, he had engaged on the side of David II in the second war of independence, and some years later he took part in that King’s expedition into England, which terminated in the disastrous battle of Durham, or Nevill’s Cross, fought 17 Oct. 1346, when the Scots suffered a signal defeat and their king was taken prisoner.
Mackintosh’s feudal superior, John Earl of Moray, whom he may be assumed to have followed in the expedition, was among those killed on the field. William was twice married; by his first wife, Florence Campbell, daughter of the thane of Calder, he had one son [Lachlan], who succeeded him, and a daughter said to have married Ruari mac Alan mhic Ranald of Moydart;
by his second wife, Margaret MacLeod, daughter of Ruary Mor Macleod, of the Lewes, whom he married late in life, he had, with four daughters, a son, Malcolm, who eventually acquired the chiefship. He had also a natural son, Adam, from whom sprang the Mackintoshes of Glenshee and Glenisla, … William died at Connage in 1386, and in accordance with his wish, was buried in the island in Loch Arkaig. Lachlan his eldest son, was at the head of the clan …
Source: THE MACKINTOSHES AND CLAN CHATTAN, by A.M. Mackintosh, Edinburgh, 1903, p. 38-41 ------------------------------
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