_Tormod [Norman] MACLEOD ______
_Malcolm Gillecaluim MACLEOD _|_Fingula [or_Flora] MACCROTAN _
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!SOURCE: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon and Alick Morrison, THE MACLEODS -- THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN, Section III, "MacLeod Cadet Families", Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod Society, 1979, p. 200.. George, from whom descended several MacLeod families in Lorraine in France. This George MacLeod greatly distinguished himself in war against the English for which he received lands in the Borders in Tweeddale. He joned the Scottish Army fighting for France against England in the Hundred Years' War. His descendants, William, George, Alexander and Archibald married Scottish wiives. In 1485 Archibald became a naturalised Frenchman with the title of Chevalier. He became a gendarme of the Scottish Guard in France, a position also held by his son Sier David Maclot, who married Demoisell Catherine Gratinot, daughter of Jean Gratinot of Stenay in Lorraine. The family prospered and married into several distinguished noble French families. By the middle of the 18th century, the Maclot seigneuries in Lorrained numbered nine. These were Baalon and Brovennes; Colligny; La Foret, Saint Mazeur; Haraigne; Luzerailles; Paroy; Pierrevillers and Jouy. Two distinguished members of the Maclot family were Jacques Maclot Seigneur de Baalon, consellor secretary to Louis XIV of France. There was also the good and learned man Abbe Edmond Maclot, son of Frederic Maclot, Seigneur de Baalon, who became a doctor of Theology, a Professor of Philosophy, Prior of St. Joseph in Nancy as well as Prior of Bucilly. Later he was elected Abbe de l'Etanche and this was confirmed by Louis XIV in 1685.