John Byset
John Byset the Elder, Lord of the Aird (died 1257) was a Scottish or Scoto-Irish nobleman who is the progenitor of the Bissett family (anglicized McKeon/McKeown) of the Glens of Antrim in Northeast Ireland or Ulster. Born in Scotland, a significant portion of what is known of his life is probably legendary and the certain details are limited. Among these are the date of his death as recorded in the Annals of Ulster,[1] and that his name has the distinction of being the ancestral element in the Gaelic style Mac Eoin (Bissett) of the Glens used by his descendants in Ireland into the 16th century.
According to some sources it was Byset who founded Beauly Priory in the year 1230.[2]
Life
Notes
- ^ AU1257.1(col. 2): John Bisset, destroyer of churches and of Gaidhil, perished by the sudden death.
- ^ Chisholm-Batten, passim
References
- Annals of Ulster, ed. and tr. W.M. Hennessy and B. Mac Carthy (2008) [1895]. Annala Uladh: Annals of Ulster otherwise Annala Senait, Annals of Senat: a Chronicle of Irish Affairs from A.D. 431 to A.D. 1540 (Revised ed.). Dublin: CELT. http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/G100001A (edition for s.a. 1155-1201, 1201-1378, 1379-1588 and translation for s.a. 1155-1201, 1201-1378, 1379-1588).
- Calendar of Documents, Relating to Ireland, 1171-1251.
- Chisholm-Batten, Edmund, The Charters of the Priory of Beauly with Notices of the Priories of Pluscardine and Ardchattan and of the Family of the Founder John Byset. London: Houlston & Sons. 1877. alt
- Duffy, Seán, "The Lords of Galloway, Earls of Carrick, and the Bissets of the Glens: Scottish settlement in medieval Ulster", in David Edwards (ed.), Regions and Rulers in Ireland, 1100-1650. Four Courts. 2003.
- H., J. W., The Earldom and Barons of Ulster, in The Ulster Journal of Archaeology, Vol. I. Belfast: Archer & Sons. 1853. pp. 38–42. alt. JSTOR.
- Hill, George, An Historical Account of the MacDonnells of Antrim: Including Notices of some other Septs, Irish and Scottish. Belfast: Archer & Sons. 1873. alt
- Nicholls, K. W., "Anglo-French Ireland and after", in Peritia 1 (1982): 370-403.
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