Person:Aonghas Óg of Islay (1)

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Aonghus Óg Mac Domhnaill (died 1314 × 1318/ 1330), or Angus Og MacDonald, was a fourteenth-century Scottish magnate and chief of Clann Domhnaill. He was a younger son of Aonghus Mór mac Domhnaill, Lord of Islay. After the latter's apparent death, the chiefship of the kindred was assumed by Aonghus Óg's elder brother, Alasdair Óg Mac Domhnaill.

Most of the documentation regarding Aonghus Óg's career concerns his support of Edward I, King of England against supporters of John, King of Scotland. The latter's principal adherents on the western seaboard of Scotland were Clann Dubhghaill, regional rivals of Clann Domhnaill. Although there is much uncertainty concerning the Clann Domhnaill chiefship at this period in history, at some point after Alasdair Óg's apparent death at the hands of Clann Dubhghaill in 1299, Aonghus Óg seems to have taken up the chiefship as Lord of Islay.

Pressure from Clann Domhnaill and other supporters of the English Crown evidently compelled Clann Dubhghaill into coming onside with the English in the first years of the fourteenth century. However, when Robert Bruce VII, Earl of Carrick murdered the Scottish claimant John Comyn of Badenoch in 1306, and subsequently made himself King of Scotland (as Robert I), Clann Domhnaill seems to have switched their allegiance to Robert I in an effort to gain leverage against Clann Dubhghaill. Members of Clann Domhnaill almost certainly harboured the latter in 1306, when he was doggedly pursued by adherents of the English Crown.

Following Robert I's successful consolidation of the Scottish kingship, Aonghus Óg and other members of his kindred were rewarded with extensive grants of territories formerly held by their regional opponents. According to the late fourteenth-century Bruce, Aonghus Óg participated in the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, Robert I's greatest victory over the English. It is uncertain when Aonghus Óg died. It could have been before or after the death of an unknown member of the clan at the Battle of Faughart in 1318—a man who seems to have held the chiefship at the time. Certainly, Eóin Mac Domhnaill—Aonghus Óg's lawful son by Áine Ní Chatháin—held the chiefship by the 1330s, and became the first member of Clann Domhnaill to rule as Lord of the Isles.

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-1329 younger son of Angus Mor. After the death of his less loyal elder brother he had been awarded Morvern and Ardnamurchan, the islands of Mull, Coll, Tiree and part of the former Comyn lands in Lochaber being at the same time confirmed in the possession of Islay, Jura, Gigha and Colonsay. Angus Og fought for Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn and thus gained the Lordship of Lorne from MacDougall, including Glencoe. His bastard-son Iain Og nan Fraoch (Young John of the Heather), also called Iain Brach (John of Lochaber), was progenitor of the MacIains, the Macdonalds of Glencoe. His daughter Fingola married John Stewart.

Aonghas Og (Young Angus) of Islay who served with Robert the Bruce, King of Scots, at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 - this being the key victory in the war which Scotland fought with England to establish its independence. Angus was the son of: Aongas Mor (Big Angus

After Robert Bruce and his allies defeated the MacDougall Lord of Lorne in a battle in the Pass of Brander by Lochawe in 1308, he then laid siege to Alasdair Og MacDonald in Castle Sween. Alastair gave himself up and was disinherited by Robert Bruce who then granted Islay to Angus Og. The scant records do not show whether Angus Og and the Campbell knights had been with the Bruce at the battle of the Pass of Brander in 1308, however their presence there as his allies and local nobles seems highly likely. Certainly both Angus Og and his Campbell cousins benefited extensively from the downfall of Clan Dougall following the battle.

With the battle of the Pass of Brander began the rise to power of both Clan Donald and Clan Campbell. Clan Dougall's loss was their gain.

1. ↑ Aonghas Óg of Islay, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.