Aonghas Óg
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Aonghas Óg (died 1490) was a Scottish nobleman who was the last independent Lord of the Isles. Aonghas became a rebel against both his father and the Scottish crown, in a civil clan war which would see the end of the independent Lordship of the Isles.
Biography
Aonghas was born the bastard son of John MacDonald, Earl of Ross a.k.a. (John of Islay, Lord of the Isles). In time, Aonghas would become a rebel against both his father and against the Scottish crown.
In 1476, a secret treaty that was made by Aonghas's father, John MacDonald, with King
Macdonald, his prestige in tatters, was driven from
Rebellion and war
Aonghas gathered his forces and those of his allies against the armies of his father, and a great sea battle took place near
Aonghas had benefitted from political distractions in the south. By 1483 those distractions were over, and the earl of Atholl and
Death and legacy
In 1490 Aonghas had his throat cut while he was sleeping. The murderer was his
References
- MacDougall, Norman, "Achilles' Heel? The Earldom of Ross, the Lordship of the Isles, and the Stewart Kings, 1449-1507", in Edward J. Cowan & R. Andrew McDonald (eds.), Alba: Celtic Scotland in the Medieval Era, (Edinburgh, 2000), pp. 248–75
- Oliver, Neil, A History of Scotland, Phoenix, London (2010) ISBN 0753826631
- Oram, Richard, "The Lordship of the Isles, 1336-1545", in Donald Omand (ed.) The Argyll Book, (Edinburgh, 2005), pp. 123–39