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FROM ENGLISH CHRONICLERS 225
Immediately he was elated by his success, and began to
strive after great things. And not content with the rank of
episcopal office, he now roamed in his mind among great and
marvellous things concerning himself and he ; had, along
with the vainest heart, a mouth talking big things.
At last he collected men needy and daring, and, respecting
not the judgment of truth, announced that he was the son
of the earl of 1
Moray, despoiled by the king of Scots of the
patrimony of his fathers and that he was minded not ;
only
that
to prosecute his right but also to avenge his : wrongs
he wished to have them as sharers of his peril and fortune ;
that while the affair was one of considerable labour and
danger, yet it was one of great distinction and of the highest
gain.
Therefore all were aroused, and, swearing by his words,
began to make fierce ravages through the neighbouring islands ;
and he was now as Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord,
disdaining to be with Peter a fisher of men, according to the
obligation of episcopal office.
He was reinforced daily by troops of satellites, amongst
whom indeed he stood the highest almost from the shoulder ;
and as a great leader he fired the minds of all.
He made incursions into the provinces of Scotland, harry-
ing everything with rapine and slaughter. And when the
royal army was sent against him he retired into remoter
passes, or fled back to the ocean, and escaped all the preparation
of war and when the ; army had returned broke out
again from his hiding-places to molest the provinces.
And while he succeeded in everything, and was even a
terror to the king himself, a certain bishop, a very simple man,
for a time miraculously checked his advance. For when
ander I, rebelled with Angus in 1130. The name Macbeth is not necessarily
patronymic ; it may mean " man in religion." But the hereditary pretenders
in Moray were descendants of the king Macbeth, whose great-greatgrandson
Wimund claimed to be.
Malcolm Macbeth was imprisoned in Roxburgh from 1134 (Chr. of
Melr., 69) till 1157, when he was released (Chr. of Hoi., 38) and apparently
restored to favour. He had married the sister or daughter of Somerled,
and had sons by her old enough to take the field in 1153 (Chr. of Hoi., 36).
Somerled was still vigorous in 1164; so that the marriage of his daughter
could scarcely have taken place before 1134. Malcolm Macbeth died earl
of Ross, on the 23rd September, 1168 ; Chr. of Hoi., 42.
1
- For Angus, earl of Moray, son of Lulach's daughter, v. supra, s.a. 1130.
For further statements that Wimund's claim was false v. infra, s.a. 1153.
From Wimund's success with the Manxmen we may suppose that he
could speak their language. The Chr. of the Abps. connects him primarily
with the Isles ; but his origin is unknown to the chroniclers.