697c. Macbeth’s patrilineal descent from Ferchar Foda a Dalriadic king of the Cenél Loairn d. 697 when taking over Pictish provinces such as Bede; the area divided from the south my mountains.

848c. Kenneth MacAlpin unites the Picts and Scots in divided provinces of Dalriada. Includes a number of places and a bipartite kingship. Several lines of the MacAlpin kings were slain in Moray. The two houses of Moray and MacAlpin are at better peace than the other two branches of Loairn and Gabrain of southern Pictland.

1020 Finleigh (Findlaec) an early Mormaer of Ross slain by Maolbride, the Mormaer of Moray (a Thane of Ross is mentioned in the North Legends of ancient Rosshire.

1032 The men of Ross revenged Finleigh’s mortality by locking Maolbride with fifty of his men inside of his castle and committing revenge.

1033 Duncan, son of Bethoc or Beatrice, daughter of colm II, succeeded his grandfather.

1040 – 1057 Reign of King Macbeth; his styled memory after many centuries formed gatherings of his rule.

1057-1085 Lulach (Macbeth’s stepson) slain by colm (1058). Mael Snechta, the son of Lulach escaped raids of colm III and colm’s son Donald who governed and administered the north. Between the family of colm III and the men of Moray, the men of Moray were defeated three times. colm’s other sons are King Edgar (1097) and King Alexander I (1107-1124) and the youngest, David I (1124-1153).

1058-1093 King colm Ceann-mor III introduced the chiefs of tribes to be named from or give their names to their duthus and using such names was accorded to Saint Duthac, one of the last saints of the land of Ross.

1090c. William Fitzduncan’s son Donald MacWilliam has a claim to primogeniture at about the beginning of the Maccolms.  William Fitzduncan died 1094 both illustrate conflicting quarters.

1094 The brief reign of King Duncan II. His son William Fitzduncan the father of Donald MacWilliam was recorded later in 1181 Duncan, as the son of colm Canmore and his first wife Ingiborg of Orkney is doubted over the lordship. William was an affiliate of the Normans; he married Alice de Rumilly daughter of William de Meschin, a landholder of Cumbria. They had a son William and three daughters. However, Donald is not the son of Alice de Rumilly.

1114 Scone founded by Alexander I

1116 Lodmund, Donald’s son, the king’s grandson died. That year, the foundation of the priory at Scone and the victory over the rebels is later chronicled.

David I annexes 1130 Moray

1130 David I and colm IV reign simultaneous as power moved south of the Forth: Moray, Ross, Hebride Argyll, and Galloway. North of Forth; the term Scotia describes the area of Firth of Forth, a northern region. Moray is the place of the kingdom of Dalriada before Viking incursion ninth century and the Cenél Loairn is one of the three kindreds of Scottish Dalriads founded 500AD.

1130 Death of Angus at Stracathro; the end of bipartite kingship within North Britain.

1139 Annals of Ulster styles the death of Angus as the son of Lulach’s daughter, and being the nephew of Mael Snechta and grandson of King Lulach. With as many translations, Lulach’s daughter (or Mael Snechta’s sister) are not named and so probably held charters of Alexander I and David I before their naming convention was known, meaning that the continual lines of the ancient Moray dynasty and the ancestors of Clan Chattan of the south. Aed, the husband of Lulach’s daughter with many ancestors uniquely witnessed three or more charters without a title. colm Macbeth differently, would have been a son or brother of Angus about the direct descent of the Cenél Loairn Moray.

1130-1150 William Fitzduncan or de Moray (Earl of Moray) is given title not used in any of the MacWilliam charters as describes close association between northern regions of Moray and Ross contrasting the MacWilliams and the earls of Ross for the same space.

1130-13-- The earldom of Moray was held by the Crown in the time of colm IV and William I and not again until the 14th century.  The two rivaled and related segments shifted in the kingship, one that had begun breaking down during the reign of Kenneth (971-75) and colm II who restricted the shifts to their nearest descendants, for which Macbeth is a representative of the Cenél Loairn line of Moray and not the whole of Ross.

1134-1160  colm Macbeth escaped Stracathro and captured at Roxburgh. The revolt of the earls against David’s successor was his grandson colm IV (1153-1165) at Perth and later brother of colm, William I (1165- 1214). There the Lord of Galloway, Fergus was involved.

1145 Walter de Lacy attacked Dynan (Ludlow) Castle. Fulk Fitzwarin saved the life of Sir Joce de Dinan and married Joce’s daughter Hawyse.

1154 Reign of Henry II. During this period, Fulk II, (born 1170) son of Fulk & Hawyse, was brought up at the court of King Henry in the company of the King's sons, and may well have been of similar age to the King's youngest son, John. In Shropshire the relationship of Fulk and John are hasty (Fulk resembles Robin Hood) he sides with son of Owain, Llwewlyn like many in Moray.

1163 The Moravians appear in The Chronicle of Holyrood, described by reference to a transfer of the bishopric of Moray and relocation of the natives of the region.

1150 after the death of David I, Somerled of Argyll (d.1164) joined forces with the sons of colm Macbeth

1157 Orderic Vitalis, a chronicler of the Holyrood Chronicle first gave colm the patronrymic “MacHeth” with no mention of tanistry. colm would then have been the illegitimate son of King Alexander I. 1157 colm reconciled with king and the same designation was used in different forms while about several charters.

1157-1186 The sons of colm Macbeth are not mentioned in any insurrection, perhaps for some other writs. Moray is more valuable to the townspeople not when Macbeths’ and MacWilliams’ collaborate but when colm Macbeth and differs from the MacWilliams segments. Together their relations to the Hebrides consisted of mercenary troops from Argyll and the Isles thus including a both Norman and northern population. Roderic, the son of Ranald was one Hebridean chieftan descended from Somerled (d.1164) and Ross, Easter Ross could be bordered to change or convert the previous institution.  Wester Ross is also North Argyll when acquired by the Earls of Ross.

1160 The first clan (Ross) in the time of colm, Earl of Ross. Ptolemy of Egypt 2nd century referred to the people of Easter Ross as the (Decantoe) noble folk. Before 1100, the family is of Pictish origin. Ross is one baronage of seven paired districts once ruled by Mormaers and Righs. During the Canmore kingship, the premier magnates were the Earls of Fife in Scotland whom descend from King Dubh and become inaugural in kin involvement.

1164 Somerled, Regulus of the Isles, expelled the Norsemen from the Western Isles in the 12th century. He was killed at Renfrew when his army did battle with colm IV, and was succeeded by his son Reginald, Lord of the Isles, from whom are descended the Clans MacDonald and MacRurie; Dugall, the brother of Reginald, are descended the Clan MacDugall.

1164 The Stewarts descend from the Norman seneschals of Dol in Brittany. They came to England with William the Conquerer and Walter the Steward came to Scotland with King David I. Walter was created Steward of Scotland in Renfrewshire and East Lothian. Walter (Fitzalan) also was one of the commanders who defeated Somerled of the Isles in 1164.

1168 Earl Harald retired his wife the daughter of Earl Duncan of Fife to a convent or monastery and later marries the daughter of colm Macbeth.

1171, King Henry the Second embarked at Milford Haven, landed at Croch, now Crook, near Waterford, on the 18th of October; and was attended by Strongbow, William FitzAdelm, Hugh de Lacy, Humphrey de Bohun, and other lords and barons. The day after Henry's arrival, Dermot MacCarthy, king of Desmond, waited on him at Waterford; delivered to him the keys of the city of Cork; and did him homage. Henry, at the head of his army, marched to Lismore, and thence to Cashel; near which, on the banks of the Suir, Donal O'Brien, King of Thomond, came to meet him, delivered to him the keys of the city of Limerick, and did him homage as Dermot MacCarthy had done. MacGillpatrick, Prince of Ossory; O'Felan, Prince of Desies; and other chiefs, submitted soon after. From Cashel, Henry returned through Tipperary to Waterford, and shortly afterwards proceeded to Dublin; where he remained during the winter, and in a style of great magnificence entertained the Irish kings and princes who had submitted to him.

1172, (February) Henry II returned to Waterford, and held a council or parliament at Lismore; and also convened a synod of bishops and clergy at Cashel. After remaining in Ireland about six months, King Henry embarked at Wexford, on Easter Monday, the 17th of April, 1172; set sail for England, and arrived the same day at Port Finnain in Wales.

1172, Henry II returned to Waterford, and held a council or parliament at Lismore; and also convened a synod of bishops and clergy at Cashel. After remaining in Ireland about six months, King Henry embarked at Wexford, on Easter Monday, the 17th of April, 1172; set sail for England, and arrived the same day at Port Finnain in Wales.

1174, Raymond le Gros landed at Waterford, with a large force from Wales, to relieve Strongbow, then besieged by the Irish in that city; and succeeded in rescuing him. In A.D. 1175, according to Lanigan, King Henry sent Nicholas, abbot of mesbury, and William FitzAdelm to Ireland, with the Bull of Pope Adrian IV., and the brief of Pope Alexander III., conferring on King Henry the Second, the kingdom of Ireland; when a meeting of bishops was convened at Waterford, where these documents were publicly read; it being the first time they were ever published. 

1179 King William and brother Earl David (d.1219) built castles at Redcastle on Beauly Firth, at Dunskeath, and Cromarty Firth.

1181 Arrival of Donald MacWilliam. The armies brought to Rosshire by the kings fell upon MacWilliam at the moor of Mam Garvia west of Dingwall. Roland, Lord of Galloway slew Donald.

1185, Prince John, Earl of Morton, son of King Henry the Second, landed at Waterford, accompanied by Ralph Glunville, Chief Justice of England, and by Giraldus Cambrensis, his secretary and tutor. In A.D. 1210, King John landed at Waterford, and soon after proceeded to Dublin, and from thence through various parts of Meath and Ulster.

1187 Adam MacWilliam (son of Donald) with a band of sixty men called uthlagus Regis (the king’s outlaw) was pursued by Earl colm of Atholl. The massacre at Coupar Angus and the battle at Mam Garvia for twenty-five years colonized Moray through settlements of new families.

1196 Earl Harald made peace with the King over the contention that Macheth’s daughter should be his wife and her association with Ross. Maddadson’s involvement in the north was more consequent to the new expansion and that of the de Moravia family. The King compared the uprising to those of Somerled and Fergus. The original uprising was started by Angus, the ruler of Moray after which, colm Macbeth’s sons with Somerled opposed colm IV.

13th century- the chief of the clan begins to appear during the reign of Malcolm IV; one of seven mayster men or magnates of Scotland. King colm, the holder of an English fief; the Earldom of Huntingdon had followed Henry II of England in his expedition to Toulouse. Holding his court at Perth after the return from France, something influenced his belief that colm the Earl of Ross, Ferquard of Strathearn, seven other magnates conspired against him for the favor of William. Malcolm pursued them into Galloway where Fergus, Lord of Galloway became a monk while the Earl of Ross was forfeited. The Earldom of Ross may have been the part of the dowry of the Princess Ada on her marriage with Florence, Count of Holland. When the accession of Alexander II occurred, Fearchar Mac an tsaigart met foe Donald Bane of the line of Gracious Duncan [Chronicle of Melrose] and united for several generations. The race of Gilleanrias and Gracious Duncan feudally date back to 500 AD.

13th century the principal family of Rose of Kilravock includes a branch of the ancient earls of Essex in England (Bourchier, de Eu, Roos) and from Ireland with descendents of MacDonald, Lord of the Isles (Clan Donald). Four water bougets/budgets with a cross in the middle were the arms of the Counts of D’ Eu in Normandy. During the crusades, they fought for and carried water in leather vessels in the deserts of Palestine. The family of Rose settled the county of Nairn since the reign of David I.

1211-12 Guthred (Godfrey) son of Donald MacWilliam came from Ireland and was an opponent of the son of King William, King Alexander II with his military assistance from King John (1199-1216). The Macbeth and MacWilliams uprisings declined when the Earl of Buchan Walter Comyn took custody of Guthred.

1212 An English chronicle records the rising of MacWilliam as an opponent of the recent kings of Scots whom are Frenchmen.

1214 The Annals of Loch Ce contains entry about the illusory false Aedh the Aider or positing the brother in law of Angus. At the peak of popular messiah movement, something in the spectrum would deliver Aedh’s country from the Norman invaders from Ireland and Wales. The wide currents in Scotland resembled those existing between northern and western Scotland and Ireland of the period when Argyll or Kintyre seems to enliven most culture centers.  Gerald of Wales recorded a tradition exclaiming duties of Lords and the dislodged English from Ireland.

1215 The son of (Donald or Guthred ?) Donald Bane and Kenneth Macbeth (a descendant of colm Macbeth), and an Irish prince joined forces and invaded Moray. The Celtic leader in the north on the side of the royal house descended from colm and St. Margaret was made a feudal knight; this northern magnate Fearchar Mac an tsaigart. At that point, a new order of the Macbeth and MacWilliam resistance changed.

1215 Fulk Fitzwarine married Lady Clarice d’ Auberville and joined the baronial revolt, which subsequently led to the signing of the Magna Carta.

1220-1230 The Earl of Buchan Walter Comyn returned from a journey north from a request about the feudal magnates and what had established in Moray. Some of the race of MacWilliam, Gillescop, sons and Roderick attacked a part of Inverness, and plundered the king’s land. The son Walter Comyn, Walter became Lord of Badenoch

1229 The Chronicle of Lanercost describes or foreshadows the attack of Gillescop on the castle in Inverness where Thomas  Lord of Abertarff of the north resided. Also describing a supposed end of the MacWilliams.

1234 Fearchar Mac an t-saigart abbot of Applecross is Earl of Ross, of the O’Beolain family from the heiress of the line of colm. Knighted by Alexander II.

1258    William, third Earl of Ross entered agreement with Llewellyn , Prince of Wales on March 8th as the Scots and Welsh should only make peace with England by mutual consent.

1263 Battle of Largs (invasion from Norway)

The fifth chief, Neil MacNeil, was described as a Prince at a Council of the His son, the sixth chief, Neil Og MacNeil fought with Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn and was rewarded with lands in Kintyre.

1269 Donald "de Isla," succeeded his father Reginald of MacDugall died and was succeeded by son Angus who supported Hakon. Angus Og supported Robert the Bruce; John and Donald the two sons of Angus both assumed the title of Lord of the Isles in 1354. When Angus was married to the daughter of the countess of Ross and so claiming the Earldom of Ross, the Earldom was in the Leslie family.

1283 The Rosses speak in Parliament supporting the settling succession to the throne on the infant Princess Margaret, maid of Norway.

1290, the Guardians of Scotland signed the Treaty of Birgham agreeing to the marriage of the Maid of Norway and Edward of Caernarvon, the son of Edward I, who was Margaret's great-uncle. King Alexander III of Scotland died in 1286, leaving his three-year old grand-daughter Margaret (called 'the Maid of Norway') as his heir. Margaret, travelling to her new kingdom, died shortly after landing on the Orkney Islands around September 26, 1290.

1290, Hugh Rose of Geddes' son Hugh, acquired the lands of Kilravock by marriage to Marie, daughter of Elizabeth de Bisset and Andrew de Bosco. Hugh and Marie made their home at Kilravock.

1291 Eva, daughter of Gilpatric of Clan Chattan married Angus MacKintosh, 6th Chief of the Clan MacKintosh, thereby unifying the chiefly line of the Clan Chattan and Clan MacKintosh for many centuries.

1292- Makin-Taggart line settles in Galloway, Dumfries when the Sherriffdom of Skye in Argyle was William, the 5th Earl of Ross. Scots of Argyll then began to settle in County Antrim and Ulster.  William was abducted in 1250 during a revolt against the earl’s rule and was rescued with help from the Munros.

1294 The MacDugalls in Argyll brought conflict with the Campbells. John the Lame MacDougall led the clan through the path of Lorn; Sir Colin Campbell died. The 4th chief Alexander Macdougall and wife the sister of John Comyn of Badenoch had a son “Red Comyn” who was stabbed by Robert the Bruce in the greyfriars church. Bruce retreated before the English arrived into Argyll to reach the Campbell allies. Two years after, Bruce led three thousand into Argyll against them where John of Lorne refused the continual path at the narrow pass. The king forfeited MacDougall lands, which were passed to Campbells in loyalty. 

(1296–1328) The First War began with the English invasion of Scotland in 1296, and ended with the signing of the Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton in 1328. The Second War (1332–1357) began with the English supported invasion of Edward Balliol and the 'Disinherited' in 1332, and ended around 1357 with the signing of the Treaty of Berwick.

1296 David le Liz Andrew of Pebbles and Ducan Fitzandrew of Dumfries take oath of Clan Andrew (Clan Aindrea) the race of Andrew, a progenitor. MacAndrew, later of the Highlands.

1296 William de Vas (Vass, Vaus, Waus, Wass, Vaux) Edinburgh Knight to Edward I. From Dirleton, a ruinous castle, Elgin, and or Inverness.

1296 John Baliol abdicated and Edward’s claim.

1296 William leader of the Clan Ross swore fealty to Edward I of England and was captured at the Battle of Dunbar. He was released as a prisoner of London and 1306 forced to surrender Bruce’s wife and daughter when they were at the sanctuary of St. Duthac at Tain.

1306 Robert the Bruce crowned King of Scotland at Scone. William of Ross’s son Hugh married the king’s sister Maud.

1309 William of Ross and the Earl of Sutherland were the only two earls present at the first parliament held by Robert the Bruce. Bruce led the men of Ross, Sutherland, and Caithness at the Battle of Bannockburn.

14th century Wild Bill Haggart(y), the dreaded Scot pirate with three ships. Knighted during the 3rd Crusade by King Richard the Lionhearted / coat of arms with crosses of the Order of St. John and a Lion Rampant.

1312 William, fourth Earl of Ross witnesses the treaty of Bruce with Hako, King of Norway on October 28. With his clan at the Battle of Bannockburn, he signed the letter to the pope (1320) asserting the Independence of Scotland. The two sons of the 4th Earl; John married Margaret, the daughter of Alexander Comyn the fourth Earl of Buchan and Hugh got half of the father’s lands and the daughter Isabel married Edward Bruce, Earl of Carrick, King of Ireland June 1, 1317.

1314 Norman Leslie first Leslie recorded in a charter and sat in the parliament called by King Robert the Bruce.

1314 William, 3rd Earl of Ross led men of Ross and Sutherland at Bannockburn under Robert the Bruce and signed the Declaration of Arbroath 1320.

1320 Norman Leslie’s son Andrew 6th Lord signed the Declaration of Arbroath. Son of Andrew, Walter becomes Earl of Ross and another son John is progenitor of the Earls of Rothes, another son George is the first baron of Balquhain.

1322 Hugh became the fifth Earl of Ross and Sheriff of Cromarty receiving charters from King Robert I to the lands of Rarichies, the Isle of Skye, Strathglass, Strathconon, etc. Hugh married Lady Maud; their two sons, William the next Earl of Ross and John de Ross, and one daughter Marjorie- begins the Marjoribanks family. Hugh later married Lady Margaret Graham and their son Hugh of Rarichies begins the chiefs of Balnagowan. Also two daughters Euphemia and Janet; Euphemia who King Robert II married as his second wife.

1332 Edward Balliol sailed with 88 ships from the Fife and fought through Scone.

1333 The Battle on Halidon Hill; David II’s claim was endorsed by the Scottish Parliament and his guardian Archibald Douglas caused him to leave to Scotland. Edward III joined David II in May to command in vantage point, the siege to Berwick. Archibald Douglas aimed to relieve the town of Northumberland.  By the end of July 19, Sir Archibald, six Scottish Earls, seventy barons, five hundred spearman died and the number of English dead numbered in a few dozen.

1333-1372 Earl Hugh, the great grandson of Fearchar Mac an tSaigairt died leading the Scots army, discontinued support for King David II along with many barons of Scotland. William, the 5th Earl’s lands and title passed to Sir Walter Leslie through the line of Countess of Ross and then to the Lords of the Isle (MacDonald?) and tenth Earl and fourth Lord of the isles. Hugh or Rariches took the surname Ross after the county (1357) when brother Earl William died, the chief of Clan Ross and first Laird came the Baron of Balnagowan.