Autumn Clann Ruaidhrí Castle Eilean Tioram Highlands Of Scotland

Tour Scotland Autumn travel video, with Scottish bagpipes music, of the Clann Ruaidhrí castle on Eilean Tioram Island on ancestry visit to the Scottish Highlands. Clann Ruaidhrí was a leading medieval family in the Hebrides and the western seaboard of Scotland] The eponymous ancestor of the family was Ruaidhrí mac Raghnaill, a principal member of Clann Somhairle in the thirteenth century. Members of Clann Ruaidhrí were factors in both the histories of the Kingdom of the Isles and the Kingdom of Scotland in the thirteenth- and fourteenth centuries. The family appears to have held power in Kintyre in the thirteenth century. By the fourteenth century, the family controlled an extensive provincial lordship stretching along north western Scottish coast and into the Hebrides. As a leading force in the Kingdom of the Isles, the family fiercely opposed Scottish authority. With the collapse of Norwegian hegemony in the region, the family nimbly integrated itself into the Kingdom of Scotland. Ruaidhrí Mac Ruaidhrí, died 14 October 1318, was a fourteenth century Scottish magnate and chief of Clann Ruaidhrí. He was an illegitimate son of Ailéan mac Ruaidhrí. Ruaidhrí and he firmly aligned the family with Robert I, King of Scotland. After his death, Ruaidhrí's half sister, Cairistíona, attempted to transfer the Clann Ruaidhrí territories outwith the family. Ruaidhrí was survived by a daughter, Áine, and an illegitimate son, Raghnall. The latter fended off Cairistíona's actions and succeeded to the chiefship of Clann Ruaidhrí. Clann Ruaidhrí was a branch of Clann Somhairle sometimes anglicised as Clan Sorley, Ruaidhrí is an anglicization of the Irish: Ruairí, Ruaidhrí, Ruaidhrígh, Raidhrígh and Scottish Gaelic: Ruairidh, and is common to the Irish, Highland Scots and their diasporas. The meaning of the name is " red-haired king, " from ruadh, meaning red haired or rusty) and rígh meaning king.

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