Maelmare mac Dhonnachadh was born circa 1035.He was the son of Duncan I 'the Gracious', King of Alba and Suthen.
In 1097 became the forefather of Clan Donnachaidh (‘Sons of Duncan', so called after MAELMARE's f DUNCAN I), for whom his ancestor EDGAR erected their vast ancestral lands in Atholl into an Earldom before 1106. Atholl had in earlier times been a Mormaership.
Melmare was the son of King Duncan the First of Scotland.[1]
Melmare, called by the Norwegian writers "Melkofr" was the younger brother of Malcolm III, king of Scotland.[2]
Melmare was the father of Madach or Madeth, first earl of Atholl, died between 1143 (when he is mentioned in a charter by King David I of Scotland) and 1152 (when his wife Margaret returned to Orkney);[2]
Frakokk said to Ronald Kali's messengers, who had come to her in Sutherland [in 1134]: 'I have now married Margaret, Hakon's daughter, to Matad [Moddani in Orkneyinga Saga (OS); Moddadi in Flateyiarbók (Fl)], the earl of Atholde; who is the noblest of all the Scottish chiefs in lineage. His father Maelmuire [Melmari, OS; Melkólmr, in Fl] was the brother of Malcolm, the Scottish king; the father of David, who is now king of the Scots.'"[3]
Sources
↑ Sir Archibald H Dunbar, Bart, Scottish Kings: A Revised Chronology of Scottish History 1005-1625 with Notices of the Principal Events Tables of Regnal Years, Pedigrees, Calendars, etc., (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1899), 14, Digital Image Internet Archive (https://archive.org/stream/scottishkingsre00dunbuoft#page/14/mode/2up accessed 12 September 2017).
↑ 2.02.1 James Balfour Paul, ed., The Scots Peerage: Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland, containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of that Kingdom, 9 vols (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1907), I:415-6, Digital Image Internet Archive (https://archive.org/stream/scotspeeragefoun01paul#page/4146/mode/2up accessed 12 September 2017).
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Scotland-14 and Dunkeld-100 appear to represent the same person because: Melmare and Maelmuire are the same person. The correct Last Name at Birth is Dunkeld.