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unusual facts about Máel Muire, Earl of Atholl



George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly

He then involved himself in a private war with the Grants and the Mackintoshes, who were assisted by the Earls of Atholl and Moray; and on 8 February 1592 he set fire to Moray's castle of Donibristle in Fife, and stabbed the earl to death with his own hand.

Máel Muire

Máel Muire mac Céilechair (died 1106), Irish cleric and scribe at the monastery of Clonmacnoise

Máel Muire ingen Cináeda (died 913), daughter of Kenneth MacAlpin, king of the Picts, wife of two Irish kings

Máel Muire, Earl of Atholl

A Malmori d' Athótla is mentioned in a charter relating to a year after 1130, contained within the Book of Deer.

Red Bay Castle

The Bissett family were forfeited of their lands in Scotland and fled for their lives to Ireland after Walter de Bisset was accused of the murder of Patrick, Earl of Atholl, at Haddington, East Lothian in 1242.


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