Name: Elizabeth Grant, daughter of John Grant and Margaret Ogilvy

Born: 1489 in Freuchie, Perth, Scotland

Died: 1570 in Scotland

Married: about 1504 in Scotland

Children: Janet, Elizabeth, John, Agnes, Mary, and Kenneth MacKenzie

Eilean Donan Castle, Scotland….1st castle of the MacKenzie Clan and was in the mov…Eilean Donan Castle, Scotland….1st castle of the MacKenzie Clan and was in the movie “Braveheart”

Lady Isabel Stewart (MacKenzie)

Gender:	Female
Birth:	1513 Kintail, Ross-shire, Scotland
Death:	23 June 1567 (44-52) Kintail, Ross-shire, Scotland
Place of Burial:	1567 Scotland
Immediate Family:	Daughter of John Stewart, 2nd Earl of Atholl and Janet Campbell, Countess of Atholl Wife of William Sutherland, 7th of Duffus; James Murray and Kenneth Mackenzie, 10th of Kintail Mother of Alexander Sutherland; Janet Sutherland; William Sutherland of Evelix; Nicholas Sutherland; Elizabeth Mackenzie and 15 others Sister of Lady Janet Stewart; Lady Helen Stewart; John Stewart, 3rd Earl of Atholl; Christiana Stewart; Margaret Stewart, Lady of Knockie and 2 others
Added by:	Roderick Brown on April 25, 2007
Managed by:	Patricia Norton Chong
Curated by:	Anne Brannen

• http://www.thepeerage.com/p23158.htm#i231579
• ‘Lady Elizabeth Stewart1
• F, #231579
• Last Edited=22 Oct 2010
• Consanguinity Index=0.47%
• ‘Lady Elizabeth Stewart is the daughter of John Stewart, 2nd Earl of Atholl and Lady Janet Campbell.
• 1 She married Kenneth na cuire Mackenzie, 5th of Kintail, son of John Mackenzie of Kintail and Elizabeth Grant.
• ‘Her married name became Mackenzie.
• Children of ‘Lady Elizabeth Stewart and Kenneth na cuire Mackenzie, 5th of Kintail
  • 1.Sir Colin Mackenzie of Kintail+1 d. 19 Jun 1594
  • 2.Janet Mackenzie+1
  • 3.Murdoch Mackenzie1
  • 4.Roderick Mackenzie1
  • 5.Dugald Mackenzie1
  • 6.Agnes Mackenzie+2
• Citations
• 1.[S37] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke’s Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke’s Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 977. Hereinafter cited as Burke’s Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.
• http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2157.htm#i64818
• ‘Elizabeth Stewart1
• F, b. circa 1515
• Father John Stewart, 2nd Earl of Atholl b. c 1465, d. bt 1520 – 1522
• Mother Janet Campbell b. c 1484, d. 1546
• ‘Elizabeth Stewart was born circa 1515. She married Kenneth Mackenzie, son of John Mackenzie and Elizabeth Grant, in 1538 at of Kintail, Ross, Scotland.1
• Family Kenneth Mackenzie b. c 1513, d. 6 Jun 1568
• Child
• ◦Colin ‘one-eyed’ Mackenzie+1 b. c 1556, d. 14 Jun 1594
• Citations
• 1.[S11586] The Scots Peerage, Vol. VII, edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, p. 500.

Name: Gender:	Sir Kenneth MacKenzie Male
Birth:	1513  Kintail, Ross, Scotland
Death:	June 06, 1568 (55)  Kintail, Ross, Scotland
Place of Burial:	Beauly, Inverness, Scotland
Immediate Family:	Son of John Mackenzie, 9th of Kintail and Elisabeth Grant of Freuchie  Husband of Lady Elizabeth ‘Isabel’ Stewart  Father of Elizabeth Mackenzie; Roderick Mackenzie, Baron Redcastle; Marjory Munro; Agnes Mackenzie, of Kintail; Sir Colin “Cam” Mackenzie, 11th of Kintail, Clan Chief and 11 others  Brother of Janet MacKenzie; Agnes Mackenzieand John Mackenzie
Added by:	Roderick Brown on April 25, 2007
Managed by:	Patricia Norton Chong and 52 others
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‘Kenneth na cuire Mackenzie, 5th of Kintail1
M, #219814, d. 6 June 1561
Last Edited=22 Oct 2010
‘Kenneth na cuire Mackenzie, 5th of Kintail was the son of John Mackenzie of Kintail and Elizabeth Grant.

He married Lady Elizabeth Stewart, daughter of John Stewart, 2nd Earl of Atholl and Lady Janet Campbell.

He died on 6 June 1568.

‘Kenneth na cuire Mackenzie, 5th of Kintail also went by the nick-name of ‘na Cuirc’ (or in English, ‘of the whittle’). He had five other daughters.
Children of ‘Kenneth na cuire Mackenzie, 5th of Kintail and Lady Elizabeth Stewart:
1.Sir Colin Mackenzie of Kintail+3 d. 19 Jun 1594
2.Janet Mackenzie+4
3.Murdoch Mackenzie2
4.Roderick Mackenzie2
5.Dugald Mackenzie2
6.Agnes Mackenzie+4
Citations
1. Charles Mosley, editor, Burke’s Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke’s Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 2, page 2513. Hereinafter cited as Burke’s Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.

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http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2687.htm#i80761
‘Kenneth Mackenzie
M, b. circa 1513, d. 6 June 1568
Father John Mackenzie b. c 1483, d. 1561
Mother Elizabeth Grant b. c 1485
‘Kenneth Mackenzie was born circa 1513 at of Kintail, Ross, Scotland.1 He married Elizabeth Stewart, daughter of John Stewart, 2nd Earl of Atholl and Janet Campbell, in 1538 at of Kintail, Ross, Scotland.4 Kenneth Mackenzie died on 6 June 1568 at of Ross, Scotland.
Family Elizabeth Stewart b. c 1515
Child
Colin ‘one-eyed’ Mackenzie+1 b. c 1556, d. 14 Jun 1594
Citations
The Scots Peerage, Vol. VII, edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, p. 499-500.

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Kenneth MacKenzie, tenth Baron of Kintail, who died in 1568

Kenneth MacKenzie (died 6 June 1568), traditionally reckoned 10th of Kintail and nicknamed Coinneach na Cuirc (or “Kenneth of the Whittle”), was a Highland chief, head of the Clan MacKenzie, who flourished in the turbulent Scottish politics of the mid-16th century.
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.

Kenneth MacKenzie (died 6 June 1568), traditionally reckoned 10th of Kintail and nicknamed Coinneach na Cuirc (or “Kenneth of the Whittle”), was a Highland chief, head of the Clan MacKenzie, who flourished in the turbulent Scottish politics of the mid-16th century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Mackenzie,_10th_ofKintail

Highland chief, head of Clan MacKenzie
Kenneth MacKenzie, 10th of Kintail From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kenneth MacKenzie (died 6 June 1568), was the 10th laird of Kintail and he was nicknamed Coinneach na Cuirc in Scottish Gaelic (or “Kenneth of the Whittle”), was a Highland chief, head of the Clan Mackenzie, who flourished in the turbulent Scottish politics of the mid-16th century.

Origins:

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 MacKenzie 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) ^ Jump up to: a b Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage; Volume 7 (1910); Mackenzie, Earl of Seaforth

Beginnings

The longstanding tradition of the earliest family historians in the 16^th century is that this very ancient family descended from a member of the Norman Irish House of Geraldine (whence sprang the noble families of the Earls of Leinster and Desmond). This Colin Fitzgerald was supposed to have settled in Scotland in the 1260s and to have so powerfully aided King Alexander III at the Battle of Largs in repelling the invasion of Haco, King of Norway, that he was rewarded by a grant of the lands of Kintail, in the County of Ross. The name of Colin’s purported grandson, the 3^rd Baron of Kintail, who in Gaelic was called Coinneach MacCoinneach (Kenneth son of Kenneth), became corrupted in English into Mackenzie (pronounced: MacKenny) and from him it was believed all the families of Mackenzie in Scotland arose. The name Mackenzie therefore derives from the Gaelic: MacCoinneach, meaning: “Son of the Fair One”.

Following the discovery in the 19^th century by the Celtic scholar, William Forbes Skene, of an ancient genealogical manuscript, known as MS 1467, it has since been widely accepted that an 11^th century Celtic chieftain known as Gilleoin na h’Airde was the original progenitor of the Mackenzies (as well as the Mathesons), they being a branch of the Royal Scottish House of Dalriada, descended in the direct male line from the ancient High Kings of Ireland. This is further borne out by recent DNA analysis.

The Clan Mackenzie

The MacKenzies as a clan first came to prominence under Alexander Ionraic (‘The Upright’), the 7th Baron of Kintail, who died in 1488. He rose in power as a supporter of the Crown against the all-powerful MacDonald Lords of the Isles and was rewarded by a grant from the Crown of some of their forfeited lands. From their original patrimony in Kintail, around Loch Duich with Eilean Donan Castle as their picturesque stronghold, the Mackenzies came to dominate the whole of Ross-shire. The Mackenzie chiefs established seats further east in the 16^th century at Kinellan and Castle Leod near Strathpeffer, and then in the 17^th century set up court in the castles of Chanonry and Brahan on the Black Isle.

Alexander’s son was known as “Kenneth of the Battle” for his taking up arms against the MacDonalds. He died in 1492 and his life-size stone effigy can still be seen at Beauly Priory where he was buried. John, his son, played a distinguished role in the battles of Flodden and Pinkie, and under John’s grandson, Colin Cam (‘Crooked’ because one-eyed) the Mackenzies continued their rise to power by supporting first Mary, Queen of Scots, and, then following her deposition, her son, James VI. In 1609, the chief was made Lord Mackenzie of Kintail, and in 1623 his eldest son became Earl of Seaforth, named after the great sea loch on this Chief’s recently acquired island principality of Lewis. The 2nd Earl played a prominent role in national politics throughout the Civil Wars, becoming Charles II’s Secretary of State for Scotland during Cromwell’s Interregnum. Another branch of the Mackenzies became the Earls of Cromartie, the first Earl, George Mackenzie, being Queen Anne’s Secretary of State. He was a man of astute wit and political ability who played a significant part in bringing about the Union of Scotland and England in 1705.

In the Romantic spirit of the age, Scott’s friend and Lord Seaforth’s daughter, Mary, attempted to take up the mantle of chief. Her son, the representative of the Stewart-MacKenzies of Seaforth, however, sold up the remaining estates except for Brahan and a small part of the Clan Heartland. Her grandson was made Lord Seaforth of Brahan in 1921, but he too died without male heirs, and Brahan Castle was demolished in 1951. The much reduced estate of the Mackenzies of Cromartie and the estates of the Mackenzies of Gairloch at Flowerdale in the west and Conan in the east are now all that remains in inheritance of the once vast landholdings of ClanKenzie in Ross-shire. http://clanmackenziesociety.co.uk/clan-mackenzie/

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