Máel Coluim, Earl of Atholl

Máel Coluim of Atholl was Mormaer of Atholl between 1153/9 and the 1190s.[1]

The Chronicle of Holyrood tells us that in 1186 Máel Coluim had an outlaw called Adam mac Domnaill killed at the altar of a church in Coupar, and burned 58 of his associates inside the church.[2] It is possible that this was a son of Domnall mac Uilleim, who claimed the Scottish throne and was revolting against the French-speaking king William I.[3]

Máel Coluim was a patron of foreign religious orders, and is known to have granted the church of Moulin to the Benedictine monks of Dunfermline Abbey.[4]

He married Hextilda, the daughter of Uchtred Waltheofsson, an Anglo-Saxon baron of Tynedale. He named his son and successor Henry, perhaps in honor of King Henry II of England.[5]

References

  1. ↑ MacDonald, Outlaws, p. 77, n. 75.
  2. ↑ Anderson, Early Sources, p. 311.
  3. ↑ MacDonald, Outlaws, p. 39.
  4. ↑ Anderson, Early Sources, p. 509, n.2.
  5. ↑ Anderson, Early Sources, p. 182, n.5.

Bibliography

Preceded by
Matad		 Mormaer of Atholl
1153/9-1190s 		Succeeded by
Henry


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