Mael Muire (Dunkeld) Atholl (1036 - 1128)

Born 1036 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland

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Died 1128 at about age 92 in Cumberland, England

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Biography

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

1. ↑ 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. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} 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).
3. ↑ Alan Orr Anderson, Early Sources of Scottish History AD 500 to 1286, 2 volumes, (Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1922) II:140, Digital Image Internet Archive (https://archive.org/stream/earlysourcesofsc02ande#page/140/mode/2up accessed 12 September 2017).

• 'The Peerage for Maelmare mac Dhonnachadh using these citations:

• 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 3

• http://www.clanmacfarlanegenealogy.info/genealogy/TNGWebsite/getperson.php?personID=I4543&tree=CC

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Máel_Muire,_Earl_of_Atholl