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    Aonghus Óg of Islay - Wikipedia

    • Aonghus Óg Mac Domhnaill (died 1314 × 1318/c. 1330), or Angus Og MacDonald, was a fourteenth-century Scottish magnate and chief of Clann Domhnaill. He was a younger son of Aonghus Mór mac Domhnaill, Lord of Islay. After the latter's apparent death, the chiefship of the kindred was assumed by Aonghus Óg's elder brother, Alasdair Óg Mac Do… See more

    Familial background

    Aonghus Óg was a younger son of Aonghus Mór mac Domhnaill, Lord of Islay, chief of Clann Domhnaill. The latter last … See more

    In English service against King John Balliol

    When Alexander III, King of Scotland died in 1286, his acknowledged heir was his granddaughter, Margaret. Although this Norwegian girl was accepted by the magnates of the realm, and betrothed to the heir of … See more

    Died1314 × 1318/c. 1330
    BuriedIona
    Spouse(s)Áine Ní Chatháin
    FatherAonghus Mór mac Domhnaill
    Angus Og MacDonald, savior of The Bruce, his graveslab No.150, Iona
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    Shift of allegiance to the Bruce cause

    In February 1306, Robert the Bruce, a claimant to the Scottish throne, killed his chief rival to the kingship, John Comyn of Badenoch. Although Bruce was crowned King of Scots by March, the English Crown immediatel… See more

    Rewarded service to the Scottish Crown, and a contested chiefship

    In 1307, at about the time of Edward I's death in July, Robert I mounted a remarkable return to power, first striking into Carrick in about February. By 1309, Robert I's opponents had been largely overcome, … See more

    Participation in the Battle of Bannockburn

    In the summer of 1313, Robert I's brother, Sir Edward Bruce, made an agreement with Sir Philip Mowbray, the English commander at Stirling Castle, that gave the English one year to relieve the English garrison or they would surre… See more

    Clann Domhnaill's part in the Bruce campaign in Ireland

    Aonghus Óg—or at least a close relative—may have played a part in the Scottish Crown's later campaigning against the Anglo-Irish in Ireland. In 1315, Robert I's younger brother, Edward Bruce, Earl of Carrick, … See more

    Death and descendants

    Aonghus Óg died at some point after the Battle of Bannockburn—notwithstanding the Hebridean tradition preserved by the eighteenth-century Book of Clanranald and the Sleat History that dates his death to about 1300… See more

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