William MACLEOD (XIII Chief)

BIRTH: ABT 1560
DEATH: OCT 1590

REFERENCE: 13th Chief

Father: Tormod [Norman] MACLEOD
Mother: Giles Julia MACLEAN

Family 1: Lady_of DINGWALL

Alasdair Avonach MACLEOD

John MACLEOD

                                                                                          _John Iain_Borb MACLEOD _
                                                                  _William Dubh MACLEOD _|_Margaret DOUGLAS _______
                            _Alexander Alisdair_Crotach MACLEOD _|
                           |                                     |                        _John MACLAINE __________
                           |                                     |_[Daughter] MACLAINE __|_________________________
 _Tormod [Norman] MACLEOD _|
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|--William MACLEOD 
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|                           _Hector Mor MACLEAN _________________|
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|_Giles Julia MACLEAN _____|
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Notes

!BIOGRAPHY: Sir Robert Douglas of Glenbervie, Baronet, THE BARONAGE OF SCOTLAND, Edinburgh, 1798, pp. 377, 378. XIV. William Macleod of that ilk, &c. who was served heir to Tormod his father, 31st July 1585; and, in November thereafter, upon a receipt from the chancery, was infeft in the whole estate of the family. He raised his clan and followers, and went to the assistance of Lauchlan Maclean of Dowart (upon an invasion made on him by the MacDonalds of Ilay), in virtue of a commission from the king, dated 8th September 1585. He married Janet, daughter of Lauchlan Macintosh of Macintosh; but dying without issue in October 1590, was succeeded by his brother, Sir Roderick Macleod.

!BIOGRAPHY: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon, and Alick Morrison, MACLEOD CHIEFS OF HARRIS AND DUNVEGAN, Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod Society, 1969, p. 23. Alick Morrison, THE CHIEFS OF CLAN MACLEOD, East Kilbride, Scotland, 1986. Canon Roderick MacLeod writes that 'little is known of William's life and doings'. [THE MACLEODS OF DUNVEGAN, p. 118.] He married Janet, daughter of Lauchlan Mor MacKintosh of MacKintosh, 16th Chief, [MacKintosh: THE MACKINTOSHES AND CLAN CHATTAN (1903), p. 192.] and died in 1590, having had issue, a son, John, who was a minor, when his father died.

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