Name: Sir Kenneth MacKenzie, 10th. Laird of Kintail

Birth: 1514 in Kintail, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland

Married: 1538 in Kintail, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland to Elizabeth Isabel Stewart

Children: (13) Sir Colin Cam, Janet Mary, Elizabeth, Murdoch, Margaret, Dugald, Marjorie, Agnes, Roderick Mor, Catherine, Isabel, Dugald, and Colin MacKenzie

Death: 5 June 1568 in Kintail, Ross-shire, Scotland

Burial: June 1568 in Beauly Priory, Beauly, Highland, Scotland

Kenneth was the only son of John Mackenzie, 9th of Kintail (d.1561) and Elizabeth, the daughter of John Grant of Grant. The Mackenzies were a clan from Ross-shire that had risen to prominence in the 15th century during the disintegration of the Lordship of the Isles. In 1539 he was tenant of Little Skattil and Bawblair and, by a charter dated 24 April 1543, his father resigned to him and his wife part of the lordship of Kintail and the lands of Mekill Braan.
Disputes with the Earl of Huntly
In 1544, Kenneth was commanded by the Earl of Huntly, who held a commission as Lieutenant of the North from the Queen Regent, Mary of Guise, to raise his vassals and lead an expedition against Donald Glas Macdonald of Moidart. Kenneth declined, with the result that the Earl of Huntly ordered his entire army of 3,000 to proceed against both men. Huntly was however unsuccessful and was eventually obliged to retire from the West without achieving any significant victory. Some years later, Kenneth again embarrassed Huntly at a skirmish known as “the affair of Dingwall Bridge”.

A follower of Queen Mary Having succeeded his father in 1561, Kenneth was one of the Highland Chiefs who met Mary, Queen of Scots, at Inverness in 1562 and helped her to obtain possession of Inverness Castle, from which she had been excluded by Alexander Gordon, the governor. Thereafter, he appears to have retired from public life. An Act of the Privy Council of 21 May 1562 records that Kenneth delivered up to the Queen Mary Macleod, the heiress of Harris and Dunvegan, who had somehow found herself in his custody. The Act held him harmless against any proceedings by James Macdonald of Dunnyveg and the Glens, the legal guardian of Mary Macleod, who had previously demanded her return.
Family With his father, Kenneth received a remission in 1551 for the imprisonment of his cousin John Glassich Mackenzie (the son and heir of Hector Roy Mackenzie of Gairloch), who had died in mysterious circumstances in Eilean Donan Castle. It was said that John Glassich had intended to renew his father’s claim to ancestral Mackenzie homelands in Kintail. Kenneth married in 1538 Lady Elizabeth Stewart, daughter of John Stewart, 2nd Earl of Atholl, by Lady Janet Campbell, daughter of the Archibald Campbell, 2nd Earl of Argyll. His own children also made very advantageous marriages:
Colin Cam Mackenzie, who succeeded him, married Barbara Grant, daughter of John Grant of Grant. Roderick Mackenze of Redcastle married Florence, daughter of Robert Mor Munro, 15th Baron of Foulis Janet married, first, Aeneas Macdonald of Glengarry and, secondly, Alexander Chisholm of Chisholm. Catherine married Alexander Ross of Balnagown and died on 12 April 1592. Agnes married (contract 11 May 1567) Lachlan Mor Mackintosh of Mackintosh. Margaret married (contract 24 November 1556) Walter Innes, son and heir of John Innes of Inverbreckie, and died in June 1570. Elizabeth married Walter Urquhart of Cromarty. Marjory married (contract 30 May 1574) Robert Munro, son and heir of Robert Munro of Foulis. Death and burial Kenneth died at Killin on 6 June 1568 and was buried at Beauly Priory.
References Alexander Mackenzie, History of the Mackenzies (Inverness, 1894) , Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage; Volume 7 (1910); Mackenzie, Earl of Seaforth. SOURCE: Master Profile from Geni.com

Name: Janet MacKenzie, of Kintail, daughter of Sir Colin Cam MacKenzie and Barbara Grant

Born: 1576 in Kintail, Ross-shire, Scotland

Kintail (Scottish Gaelic: Cinn Tàile) is an area of mountains in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland, located in the Highland Council area. It consists of the mountains to the north of Glen Shiel and the A87 road between the heads of Loch Duich and Loch Cluanie; its boundaries, other than Glen Shiel, are generally taken to be the valleys of Strath Croe and Gleann Gaorsaic to the north and An Caorann Mòr to the east. Although close to the west coast the mountains lie on the main east-west watershed of Scotland, as the northern side of Kintail drains via Glen Affric to the east coast.

Kintail gives its name to the Kintail National Scenic Area, one of the forty national scenic areas in Scotland, which are defined so as to identify areas of exceptional scenery and to ensure its protection from inappropriate development. The designated area includes the mountains of Kintail proper, as well as the southern side of Glen Shiel from the site of the Battle of Glen Shiel west to the shores of Loch Duich, and extends west to as far as Dornie on the north shore of Loch Duich. The designated area covers 17,149 ha in total, of which 16,070 ha is on land, with a further 1079 ha being marine (i.e. below low tide level), consisting of the sea loch of Loch Duich. The area is considered to encapsulate the scenery of the west highlands, being composed of ridges and peaks that rise steeply from narrow glens and the sea.

Married: before 1598 in Argyll, Scotland to Sir Hector Og MacLean, 15th. Clan Chief of Clan MacLean

Children: (2) Hector Mor MacLean, and Sir Lachlan MacLean

Jeannette MacKenzie (c.1576-1630) Marriage: “MacLean’s first marriage was to Janet MacKenzie of Kintail, the second daughter of Colin Cam MacKenzie of Kintail. They had two sons.” (Source: A History of the Clan MacLean from Its First Settlement at Duard Castle, in the Isle of Mull, to the Present Period: Including a Genealogical Account of Some of the Principal Families Together with Their Heraldry, Legends, Superstitions, Etc.; by John Patterson MacLean, published in 1889)

Death: 1630 in Scotland

Buried: 1630 in Scotland

Name: John MacKenzie, 9th. Laird of Kintail, son of Kenneth MacKenzie, 7th. Laird of Kintail and Agnes Fraser, of Lovat

Born: 1483 in Kintail, Ross-shire, Scotland

Married: before 1504 in Kintail, Ross-shire, Scotland to Elizabeth Grant of Freuchie

Children: (7) Janet, Elizabeth, John, Agnes, Mary, Dugall, and Sir Kenneth MacKenzie

Died: 5 June 1561 in Kintail, Ross-shire, Scotland

Buried: June 1561 in Beauly Priory, Beauly, Highlands, Scotland

John was the son of Kenneth MacKenzie, 7th of Kintail (d.1492) by his second wife, or reputed wife, Agnes Fraser but was made legal by the Pope in 1491.
The MacKenzies’ origins lay in the Northwest Highlands, but the centre of their power had by the end of the 15th century shifted to Easter Ross. John succeeded his half-brother, Kenneth (died 1498-99) in the chiefship while still a minor. It is likely that he achieved his majority in 1501, which suggests that he was born in about 1480.

John is said to have been sent to be educated at Court in Edinburgh (pursuant to an Act of 1496, a legal requirement for boys in his station of life). However, the terms of a bond subscribed by him in favour of the Earl of Huntly suggest that he remained illiterate.
His Uncle Hector Roy Mackenzie had command of the clan as guardian to the young chief John. In 1511 a summons was made against Hector for his actions against John, which was to deny John access to Eilean Donan Castle.

That he was a man of proved valour is fully established by the dis- tinguished part he took in the battles of Flodden and Pinkie. The Earl of Cromarty informs us that, ” in his time he purchased much of the Brae-lands of Ross, and secured both what he acquired and what his predecessors had, by well ordered and legal security, so that it is doubtful whether his predecessors’ courage or his prudence contributed most to the rising of the family.” He was buried in the family aisle at Beauly.

Name: Sir Kenneth MacKenzie, 10th. Laird of Kintail

Birth: 1514 in Kintail, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland

Married: 1538 in Kintail, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland to Elizabeth Isabel Stewart

Children: (13) Sir Colin Cam, Janet Mary, Elizabeth, Murdoch, Margaret, Dugald, Marjorie, Agnes, Roderick Mor, Catherine, Isabel, Dugald, and Colin MacKenzie

Death: 5 June 1568 in Kintail, Ross-shire, Scotland

Burial: June 1568 in Beauly Priory, Beauly, Highland, Scotland

Kenneth was the only son of John Mackenzie, 9th of Kintail (d.1561) and Elizabeth, the daughter of John Grant of Grant. The Mackenzies were a clan from Ross-shire that had risen to prominence in the 15th century during the disintegration of the Lordship of the Isles. In 1539 he was tenant of Little Skattil and Bawblair and, by a charter dated 24 April 1543, his father resigned to him and his wife part of the lordship of Kintail and the lands of Mekill Braan.
Disputes with the Earl of Huntly
In 1544, Kenneth was commanded by the Earl of Huntly, who held a commission as Lieutenant of the North from the Queen Regent, Mary of Guise, to raise his vassals and lead an expedition against Donald Glas Macdonald of Moidart. Kenneth declined, with the result that the Earl of Huntly ordered his entire army of 3,000 to proceed against both men. Huntly was however unsuccessful and was eventually obliged to retire from the West without achieving any significant victory. Some years later, Kenneth again embarrassed Huntly at a skirmish known as “the affair of Dingwall Bridge”.

A follower of Queen Mary Having succeeded his father in 1561, Kenneth was one of the Highland Chiefs who met Mary, Queen of Scots, at Inverness in 1562 and helped her to obtain possession of Inverness Castle, from which she had been excluded by Alexander Gordon, the governor. Thereafter, he appears to have retired from public life. An Act of the Privy Council of 21 May 1562 records that Kenneth delivered up to the Queen Mary Macleod, the heiress of Harris and Dunvegan, who had somehow found herself in his custody. The Act held him harmless against any proceedings by James Macdonald of Dunnyveg and the Glens, the legal guardian of Mary Macleod, who had previously demanded her return.
Family With his father, Kenneth received a remission in 1551 for the imprisonment of his cousin John Glassich Mackenzie (the son and heir of Hector Roy Mackenzie of Gairloch), who had died in mysterious circumstances in Eilean Donan Castle. It was said that John Glassich had intended to renew his father’s claim to ancestral Mackenzie homelands in Kintail. Kenneth married in 1538 Lady Elizabeth Stewart, daughter of John Stewart, 2nd Earl of Atholl, by Lady Janet Campbell, daughter of the Archibald Campbell, 2nd Earl of Argyll. His own children also made very advantageous marriages:
Colin Cam Mackenzie, who succeeded him, married Barbara Grant, daughter of John Grant of Grant. Roderick Mackenze of Redcastle married Florence, daughter of Robert Mor Munro, 15th Baron of Foulis Janet married, first, Aeneas Macdonald of Glengarry and, secondly, Alexander Chisholm of Chisholm. Catherine married Alexander Ross of Balnagown and died on 12 April 1592. Agnes married (contract 11 May 1567) Lachlan Mor Mackintosh of Mackintosh. Margaret married (contract 24 November 1556) Walter Innes, son and heir of John Innes of Inverbreckie, and died in June 1570. Elizabeth married Walter Urquhart of Cromarty. Marjory married (contract 30 May 1574) Robert Munro, son and heir of Robert Munro of Foulis. Death and burial Kenneth died at Killin on 6 June 1568 and was buried at Beauly Priory.
References Alexander Mackenzie, History of the Mackenzies (Inverness, 1894) , Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage; Volume 7 (1910); Mackenzie, Earl of Seaforth. SOURCE: Master Profile from Geni.com

Name: Chief Alexander Alistair “Ionriac” MacKenzie, 6th. Lord of Kintail, son of Murdoch MacKenzie and Fynvola Finguala “Florence” MacLeod.

Born: 1405 in Kintail, Ross-shire, Scotland

Married: about 1430 in Kintail, Ross-shire, Scotland to Anna Margaret MacDougall

Children: Hector Roy, Kenneth, Duncan, Alexander, and Miss MacKenzie

Died: 2 September 1488 in Kinellean, Highlands, Scotland

Buried: September 1488 in Beauly Priory, Beauly, Highlands, Scotland

The name Mackenzie, or MacCoinneach in Gaelic, means literally, “Son of Kenneth”. The original Kenneth, who lived in the 13th Century, was descended from a younger son of Gilleoin of the Aird, from whom can also be traced the once powerful Earls of Ross. Alexander MacKenzie, aka Ionraic MacKenzie or the Upright, so called for his righteousness, 6th. Lord of Kintail. Most prominent supporter of the crown and got his reward in forfeited MacDonald lands. Received royal charters to his lands of Kintail in 1463. Buried at Beauly, Scotland

The MacKenzies were, without doubt, of Celtic stock and were not among the clans that originated from Norman ancestors. We know little about the generations immediately following Gilleoin, but in 1267 Kenneth was living at Eilean Donan, a stronghold at the mouth of Loch Duich. He must have been an important vassal, for the Earl of Ross appears to have married Kenneth’s aunt and thus strengthened the relationship which already existed between the two families. 

Alexander MacKenzie, aka Ionraic MacKenzie or the Upright, so called for his righteousness, 6th. Lord of Kintail. Most prominent supporter of the crown and got his reward in forfeited MacDonald lands. Received royal charters to his lands of Kintail in 1463. Buried at Beauly, Highlands, Scotland.

Alexander was the first of the family who lived on the island in Loch Kinellan, near Strathpeffer, while at the same time he had Brahan as a mains or farm, both of which his successors for a time held from the King at a yearly rent, until they were later feud.

Alexander’s marriages have been the subject of genealogical controversy. The weight of traditional clan history is to the effect that he married, first, Anna, daughter of John Macdougall of Dunollie, and, secondly, Margaret, daughter of Macdonald of Morar (a cadet of Macdonald of Clanranald), but Aonghas MacCoinnich has pointed out the difficulties which Alexander’s supplication for dispensation in 1466 (referred to above) presents for the traditional account. MacCoinnich speculates that Catherine, who was recorded in the supplication as Alexander’s wife, may have been the granddaughter of Ranald, the eponym of Clanranald.

By his first wife, Alexander had Kenneth, his heir and successor, and Duncan, progenitor of the Mackenzies of Hilton. By his second wife (if he had one), he had Hector Roy (or “Eachainn Ruadh”), from whom are descended the Mackenzies of Gairloch, and a daughter who married Allan Macleod, Hector Roy’s predecessor in Gairloch.

He is also said to have had a natural son (or, in some sources, a brother), Dugal, who became a priest and was Superior of Beauly Priory, which he repaired about 1478, and in which he is buried.

The date of Alexander’s death is uncertain, though it is clear that he had died by 1488, since his eldest son was served heir in the lands of Kintail at Dingwall on 2 September 1488. Aonghas MacCoinnich suggests that Alexander may in fact have died by July 1479, as his son was by then already being held responsible for rental payments in the king’s dukedom of Ross.

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This article includes text from Alexander Mackenzie‘s History of the Mackenzies (Inverness, 1894), a work that is no longer in copyright.