IONA ABBEY & CLAN DONALD
IAN ROSS MACDONNELL
  • PURPOSE OF SITE
  • 1.] ABBEY: KINGS/LORDS ENDOW-FINANCE & SUPERINTEND-BUILD.
    • 2) "THE McDONALD" ABBEY HEIRS: Feudal tenure -"Functional Reciprosity".
    • 3) ABBEY "COLLAPSED, IMPOVERISHED": Heirs enforce "Conditionality of Endowment". *MACDONALDS raise Cathedral.
  • 1.] OVERVIEW - PAMPHLET
    • (2.) Charts of Kings/Lords of Isles & Iona
    • (3.) Summary of book's findings.
  • BOOK "CLAN DONALD & IONA ABBEY" - FULL CONTENTS LISTED HERE
    • INTRODUCTION
    • 1. Somerled
    • 2. Reginald
    • 3. Rauri
    • 4. Donald - Clan Founder
    • 5. Eirinn, Birthplace of Somereld and Clan Donald.
    • 6. Most Ancient Graveyard in all Scotland
    • EPILOGUE: Purgatory->Indulgences-> Reformation
  • 1.] IONA INTERPRETATION FAULTS
    • (2.) Main issue is with 5th and 8th Earls of Argyll
  • 1.] ST ORAN'S CEMETERY
    • (2.) Teampeall Odhrain. Tumulus Regum Insularum - Tomb of the King of the Isles
    • (3) Secondary burial - "tradition of the country"
  • 1.] KINGS & LORDS OF THE ISLES - GRAVESLAB ATTRIBUTION
    • [2] BURIAL INTERPRETATION, BODY PARTS, MONUMENT LOCATIONS and ATTRIBUTIONS >
      • a. "FULL NOBLE BODY" - "Good John" eviscerated?
    • [3] Other notable Clan Donald inscibed monuments
  • ANGUS OG's GRAVESLAB No. 150 - SAVIOR OF "THE BRUCE"
  • 1.] ECCLESIASTICAL MACALLISTER NOBLEMEN
    • (2.) Their descent from Alaxandair OG (complete Attachment) >
      • Chart A. From Alaxandair OG, k.1299, Undeposed Chief
      • Chart B. Alaster MOR (is NOT their ancestor)
      • Chart C. Abbots of Iona and Saddell
  • 1.] "HAND OF ST COLUMBA" BODY PART RELIQUARY
    • (2.) Golden Chalice, Plunder of Iona - Macleans of Duart & Glengarry
  • 1.] CATHEDRAL OF THE ISLES RAISED BY LORDS OF ISLES
    • (2.) Plaque for Clan Donald's Cathedral of the Isles.
  • 1.] ARGYLL EARLS STRIP, DESTROY AND PLUNDER IONA
    • (2.) 8th Duke of Argyll "Recrudescence of Romanism" >
      • 3. 19th century looting
  • 20th CENTURY IONA ABBEY RESTORATION
  • IONA COMMUNITY
  • HISTORIC SCOTLAND IONA INTERPRETATION RESEARCH CONFERENCE
  • CLAN DONALD SERVICE, MICHAEL CHAPEL
  • 1.] THE BOOK'S DEVELOPMENT & AUTHOR
    • (2.) SUMMARY of book's findings
    • (3.) Comments about book
  • 1.] BIBLIOGRAPHY
    • [2]. FILES OF MINE - LINKS
    • RANALDUS
  • NEWSLETTERS
  • MAPS
  • WEB SITES
  • CONTACT - BUY BOOK
  • BLOG
    • FREDERICK JOHN GRICE; ANZAC-100
  • GLOSSARY
  • Clan Donald Society Genealogy
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“IN GREATER PERFECTION AS BEING COMPLETE AT LAST” ‘PARADISO’; DANTE; 1308.
Abbots formed the bulk of the spiritual peerage. The position held by them throughout every part of the country gave yet a further weight to their great position as noblemen and local magnates. As such they went pari passu with baron or earl of the noblest lineage. The Iona Abbot always served as a Lord Spiritual on the Lordship's Council of the Isles, Finlaggan, Islay.

Iona Abbot John MacAllister was an “Ecclesiastical Nobleman”.  His “Nobleman” brother Angusii had a son Alexander and then his grandson  who were both Abbots of Saddell from 1433 to its closure c.1508.  (Nobleman : "ARGYLL : An Inventory of the Monuments VOL 4, IONA”; Royal Commission on the Ancient & Historical Monuments of  Scotland (RCAHMS); p.274, (n.180);  1982.) 

John's father, Gofaidth (mac) Angusii, who was given the alternate surname MacAlasandair, is the first ever recognizable ‘MacAllister’. John "Goffredi" is also given this surname in the same Papal Indult of 1395  (Dr Nicholls).   [1]
 
[“Iohannes  Goffredi  MacAlasandair",  the Iona Claustral Prior (“tanaise abbad”) from c.1395 and ordained Abbot from 1405 - c.1421.  John, son of Gofaidth [MacAlasandair],  son of Angus, son of Alaxandair Og, son of Angus Mor, son of Donald - facts of descent from Papal indult 1395; Calenders of Papal Letters & Scottish Supplications (SHS); MS 1467;  and near contemporary Irish Manuscripts - An Leabhar Donn, Books of Ballymote and Lecan.  John was previously the "rector of the parish of St Comgan {Kilchoan, Ardamurchan?}, Sodor diocese, in subdeacon's orders" and he was "ensured a share of the fruits of the monastery" -  Reg Aven 296, 52-52v.  He was married with Papal dispensation 1395 to Anna, the daughter of Lachlan McLean 1st of Duart and Mary de Insulis  (MacDonald) -“and that by her inclination of yielding”.  Mary was the  daughter of Lord John (I) de Yle and his first wife Amy MacRuairi.]

Most, if not all, MacAllisters in fact descend from these MacAlaxandair "Noblemen" and not from Alaster Mor, son of  Donald (1).

NB : Alaxandair is the gaelic spelling used in MS ('1450'/1467 [“The most valuable genealogical authority we have - the sheet anchor - the highest authority"; Revs A&A; "CLAN DONALD"; 1896-1904. I use this spelling to differentiate Alaxandair OG from his nebulous uncle, which I spell as Alaster MOR. And, that is exactly how it is spelt in the orthographically correct Annals of Ulster, 1362.8 : "..One who was to be king of Insi-Gall Hebrides, namely, the son of John the Black, son of Alaxandair (OG) MacDomnaill"; and all the other Ulster annals of that period. [Just to confuse matters, W. Skene calls the branch of Alaxandair/Alexander OG in MS 1467, as "obviously the Clan Alasdair" - with a heading of CLAN ALASTAIR; p.468; n.13] 
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Their descent from Alaxandair OG
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