Born about in Lewis, Western Isles, Scotland
Ancestors 
Daughter of Torquil Og Macleod
and [mother unknown]
Sister of
Fynvola (Macleod) Mackenzie and Roderick Macleod
Wife of
Angus Mackay
— married
about 1380 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Died about
at about age 50
in Strathnavar, Sutherland, Scotland
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Biography
Sidheag was born about 1360. She was the daughter of Torquil Og Macleod.[1]
In Gaelic she would have been known as Sidheag nighean Torcaill Oig (Sidheag, daughter of Torcail Oig)
She married Angus Mackay, Chief of Clan Mackay. The marriage likely taking place around 1380.
Her father was Torquil Macleod of the Lews (Lewis), who had obtained by charter, during the reign of David II., of four davochs of land and a castle in Assynt, on the west coast of Sutherland.[2] The lands of Assynt bordering the Mackay lands.
After the death of her husband she was abused by his brother, Hustein Du Mackay, tutor to the young Chief of Mackay, her son. Relations becoming so bad that her brother, Malcolm, son of Torquil Macleod of the Lews and Assynt, invaded Strathnaver, about 1406, with a body of men laying waste part of that country as well as Brae-Chat. On his retreat to Assynt the MacLeods were overtaken by the Mackays at Tuiteam Tarvach, in Strathoikel, where the MacLeod was defeated and killed at the Battle called La Tuiteam Tarvach (Day of Great Slaughter).
Footnotes
- ↑ MacLeod family historian, William Matheson
- ↑ The book of Mackay; page 53
Sources
- MacLeod family historian, William Matheson, provides critical research in the family of MacLeod, particularly of Lewis.
- The book of Mackay; Angus Mackay; Edinburgh, 1906, Archive,org
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From the bio-section -- After the death of her husband she was abused by his brother, Hustein Du Mackay, tutor to the young Chief of Mackay, her son. Relations becoming so bad that her brother, Malcolm, son of Torquil Macleod of the Lews and Assynt, invaded Strathnaver, about 1406, with a body of men laying waste part of that country as well as Brae-Chat. On his retreat to Assynt the MacLeods were overtaken by the Mackays at Tuiteam Tarvach, in Strathoikel, where the MacLeod was defeated and killed at the Battle called La Tuiteam Tarvach (Day of Great Slaughter).