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2o8 THE HIGHLANDERS [part ii Isla and South Kintyre, but even by Murchard, a vassal of the Earl of Menteith, in North Kintyre, who had obtained this district from the baron to whom it had been granted by Alexander II. The result of this enterprise is well known to everyone, and the defeat of the Norwegians by the Scots at Largs, produced a treaty by which the Isles were A.D. 1266. . . ^ , , 1 , 1

CHAP. II] OF SCOTLAND 209 with Reginald, the Norwegian king of Man and the Isles, it is nearly impossible to distinguish between the acts of the two princes. Reginald, however, appears on the death of his brother Dugall, to have been designated " dominus insularum," and sometimes even " rex insularum," and " dominus de Ergile and Kintyre," under which title he grants certain lands to the abbey of Saddell, in Kintyre, which he had founded. These titles, however, did not descend to his children, and he was succeeded in his paternal inheritance by his eldest son, Roderic, who, on the conquest of Argyll by Alexander II., considerably increased his powers by agreeing to hold his lands of the king as crown vassal ; and after this period he is generally styled Dominus de Kintyre. Roderic appears to have adopted the Norwegian habits of piracy in their fullest extent, and to have become, in everything but his birth, one of that race. He was one of the most noted pirates of his day, and the annals of the time are full of the plundering expeditions which he made. In these habits he was not followed by his sons Dugall and Allan. Dugall ruled over his Gaelic possessions in the usual manner of a Celtic chief, and when Ewen had at length agreed, in 1249, to desert the Norwegian interest for that of Scotland, bore the Norwegian title of king of the Isles until his death. On Haco's acquired great expedition to the Western accession to his territories. Isles, king Dugall Few of the Island chiefs had afforded so much assistance to Haco, or taken such an active part in his expedition as Dugall, and Haco therefore bestowed upon him all those parts of Ewen of Lorn's territories which had fallen into his hands. King Dugall appears to have died without descendants, and his brother Allan succeeded to the possessions of this branch of the Siol Cuinn. On the cession of the Isles, .\llan, along with the other Hebridean chiefs, transferred their allegiance to Alexander III. of Scotland ; for his name is found among the barons in the list of those who assembled at Scoon in 1284, to declare Margaret, the maid of Norway, heiress to the crown ; and on that occasion he is designed " Allangus, fiHus Roderici." On this occasion, when Alexander appears to have been willing to purchase the O

2o8 THE HIGHLANDERS [part ii<br />

Isla and South Kintyre, but even by Murchard, a vassal <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Earl <strong>of</strong> Menteith, in North Kintyre, who had obtained this<br />

district from the baron to whom it had been granted by<br />

Alexander II. <strong>The</strong> result <strong>of</strong> this enterprise is well known to<br />

everyone, and the defeat <strong>of</strong> the Norwegians by the Scots at<br />

Largs, produced a treaty by which the Isles were<br />

A.D. 1266. .<br />

.<br />

^ , , 1 , 1

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