Alasdair Mòr

Alasdair Mòr Mac Dòmhnaill (Anglicised: Alexander Mor, son of Donald) was a younger son of Dòmhnall mac Raghnaill—the eponymous ancestor of Clan Donald. He first appears on record in 1253, when it is recorded as witnessing a charter by his brother, Aonghas Mór a Íle, to the Paisley Abbey. According to the 19th century Clan Donald historians Angus and Archibald Macdonald, Alasdair Mòr must have been a prominent man as he is the only recorded brother of the Aonghas Mór a Íle. He is recorded in the Annals of Connacht, in the year 1299, as being a man noted for being a "generous and bounteous man".[1] In that year he was slain in a conflict with Alasdair of Argyll and the MacDougalls.[2] According to the traditional shanachies, Alasdair Mòr married Amie Ergadia and had at least five sons: Dòmhnall, Gòraidh, Donnchadh, Eoin and Eachann. Alasdair Mòr was succeeded in the representation of his clan by Dòmhnall.[3] Today he is considered to be the eponymous ancestor of Clan MacAlister.

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  1. ↑ "Annála Connacht (1299)". Corpus of Electronic Texts. Retrieved 14 September 2010.
  2. ↑ Macdonald, Angus; Macdonald, Archibald (1900). The Clan Donald 2. Inverness: The Northern Counties Publishing Company, Ltd. pp. 27–34.
  3. ↑ Macdonald, Angus; Macdonald, Archibald (1900). The Clan Donald 3. Inverness: The Northern Counties Publishing Company, Ltd. pp. 184–189.