Pedigrees, Power and Clanship (eBook)
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Birlinn (Verlag)
978-1-78885-646-1 (ISBN)
David Sellar (1942-2019) taught in the Edinburgh University Law School for some 40 years prior to appointment as Lord Lyon King of Arms in 2008. He maintained a steady stream of significant publications on the medieval history of the Highlands and Islands, with a particular interest not only in what could be learned from clan genealogies of the period, but also in the region's literary culture and material remains such as Sueno's Stone. Retiring as Lyon in 2014, he was awarded Membership of the Royal Victorian Order, a dynastic order of knighthood awarded at the monarch's sole discretion for distinguished personal service.
This book brings together the major writings of David Sellar (1941-2019) on the genealogies (pedigrees) claimed by some of the major clans of medieval Highland and Island Scotland, especially the descendants of their twelfth-century king Somerled. The claimed pedigrees in the medieval Gaelic 1467 manuscript and the Irish genealogies are critically analysed in relation to each other, and their historical authenticity tested against other evidence, including the Gaelic or Norse quality of their recorded names. Contemporary literary material is considered alongside later recorded traditions descending from the seanchaidh, whose work was to hand down to posterity the valorous actions, conquests, battles, skirmishes, marriages and relations of the chiefly ancestors by relating and singing them at births, baptisms, marriages, inaugurations, feasts and funerals. The family pedigrees offer crucial insights into the nature of medieval society, supporting and sometimes explaining a family's socio-political position. As an exercise in propaganda, a pedigree was susceptible to fabrication and not to be trusted uncritically. David Sellar's meticulous analysis reveals the social and political realities of medieval Celtic Scotland, making use of heraldic evidence as well as his legal expertise, in a fluent and reader-friendly style.
List of Abbreviations
| ‘Accompt’ | ‘Ane Accompt of the Genealogie of the Campbells’, in Highland Papers, ii |
| ADA | Acta Dominorum Auditorum: The Acts of the Lords Auditors of Causes and Complaints, ed. T. Thomson (Edinburgh, 1839) |
| ADC | Acta Dominorum Concilii: The Acts of the Lords of Council in Civil Causes, eds T. Thomson and others (Edinburgh, 1839, 1918, 1993) |
| AFM | The Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters, ed. J. O’Donovan (Dublin, 1851) |
| AI | Annals of Inisfallen, ed. C. O’Conor (Rerum Hibernicarum Scriptores, ii, pt 2, Buckingham 1825) Annals of Inisfallen, ed. S. MacAirt (Dublin, 1951) |
| ALC | Annals of Loch Cé, ed. W.M. Hennessy (Rolls Series, 1871) |
| ALI | Acts of the Lords of the Isles, eds Jean and R.W. Munro (SHS, 1986) |
| An Leabhar Donn | RIA MS 23-Q-10 |
| Ann. Clonmacnoise | The Annals of Clonmacnoise, trans. C. Mageoghegan (1627), ed. D. Murphy (Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Dublin, 1896) |
| AConn | Annals of Connacht, ed. A.M. Freeman (Dublin, 1970) |
| APS | Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland, eds T. Thomson and C. Innes (Edinburgh, 1814–75) |
| Arbroath Liber | Liber Sancte Thome de Aberbrothoc (Bannatyne Club, 1848–56) |
| Argyll Transcripts | Argyll Transcripts, made by 10th Duke of Argyll (photostat copies of extracts in the Department of Scottish History, University of Glasgow) |
| AT | ‘The Annals of Tigernach’, ed. W. Stokes, Revue Celtique, 16–18 (= vol. 16 (1895), 374–419; vol. 17 (1896), 6–33, 116–263, 337–420; vol. 18 (1897), 9–59, 150–97, 267–303, 390–1) |
| AU | The Annals of Ulster, eds W.M. Hennessy and B. MacCarthy (Dublin, 1887–1901) [see also Annals of Ulster (to AD 1131), eds Sean MacAirt and Gearoid Mac-Niocaill, pt 1, text and translation (Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies, 1983)] |
| Ballymote | The Book of Ballymote, facsimile, ed. R. Atkinson (Dublin, 1887) |
| Bannerman, Kinship, Church and Culture | J.W.M. Bannerman, Kinship, Church and Culture: Collected Essays and Studies (Edinburgh, 2016) |
| Barbour, Bruce | Barbour’s Bruce, eds M.P. McDiarmid and J.A.C. Stevenson (STS, 1980–5) |
| Barrow, Bruce | G.W.S. Barrow, Robert Bruce and the Community of the Realm, 4th edn (Edinburgh, 2005) [1st edn (London, 1965); 2nd edn (Edinburgh, 1976); 3rd edn (Edinburgh, 1988)] |
| Barrow, Kingdom | G.W.S. Barrow, The Kingdom of the Scots, 1st edn (London, 1973); 2nd edn (Edinburgh, 2003) |
| Beauly Charters | E.C. Batten, The Charters of Beauly Priory (Grampian Club, London, 1877) |
| Cambuskenneth | Registrum Monasterii Sancte Marie de Cambuskenneth (Grampian Club, 1972) |
| Cawdor Book | The Book of the Thanes of Cawdor, ed. C. Innes (Spalding Club, Edinburgh, 1859) |
| CDS | Calendar of Documents Relating to Scotland, ed. J. Bain (Edinburgh, 1881–8) |
| Chron. Bower | Scotichronicon by Walter Bower, eds D.E.R. Watt and others (Aberdeen and Edinburgh, 1993–8) |
| Chron. Fordun | Johannis de Fordun, Chronica Gentis Scotorum, ed. W.F. Skene (Historians of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1871) |
| Chron. Man | Chronica Regum Manniae et Insularum, ed. P.A. Munch (Christiania, 1860) |
| Chron. Melrose | The Chronicle of Melrose (facsimile edition), eds A.O. Anderson and others (London, 1936) |
| Chron. Wyntoun (Laing) | Wyntoun’s Orygynale Cronykil, ed. David Laing, 3 vols (Historians of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1872) |
| Clan Donald | A. Macdonald and A. Macdonald, The Clan Donald, 3 vols (Inverness, 1896–1904) |
| Clan Nicolson | J.G. Nicolson, The Clan Nicolson (Edinburgh, 1938; 2nd edn, Scotpress, USA, 1988) |
| Clanranald Book | A. Cameron, Reliquiae Celticae, eds A. Macbain and J. Kennedy (Inverness, 1892–4), ii, 138–309. |
| CPL | Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers relating to Great Britain and Ireland: Papal Letters, eds W.H. Bliss and others (London, 1893–) |
| Coll. de Rebus Alban. | Collectanea de Rebus Albanicis (Iona Club, 1847) |
| Complete Peerage | G.E. C[ockayne], The Complete Peerage, vol. XII(1) (London, 1953) |
| Corp. Geneal. Hib. | Corpus Genealogiarum Hiberniae, ed. M.A. O’Brien (Dublin, 1962–) |
| ‘Craignish History’ | A. Campbell, ‘The Manuscript History of Craignish’, ed. H. Campbell, Scottish History Society: Miscellany IV (Edinburgh, 1926), 175–299 |
| Cron. Man | Cronica Regum Mannie & Insularum, ed. George Broderick (Manx Museum and National Trust, 1979) |
| DNB | Dictionary of National Biography (London, 1908–9) |
| Douglas, Baronage | R. Douglas, The Baronage of Scotland, 1st edn (Edinburgh, 1798); 2nd edn, ed. J.P. Wood (Edinburgh, 1813) |
| Duncan, Scotland | A.A.M. Duncan, Scotland: The Making of the Kingdom (Edinburgh, 1975) |
| Duncan and Brown, ‘Argyll and the Isles’ | A.A.M. Duncan and A.L. Brown, ‘Argyll and the Isles in the Earlier Middle Ages’, PSAS, 90 (1956–7), 192–219 |
| EHD | English Historical Documents, i, ed. D. Whitelock (London, 1955) |
| ER | The Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, eds J. Stuart and others (Edinburgh, 1878–1908) |
| ES | Early Sources of Scottish History 500–1286, ed. A.O. Anderson (Edinburgh, 1922) |
| Fasti | Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae Medii Aevi, eds D.E.R. Watt and A.L. Murray (Scottish Record Society, 2003) |
| Foedera | Foedera, Conventiones, Litterae, et Cuiuscunque Generis Acta Publica, ed. T. Rymer (Record Commission, 1816–69) |
| Fraser, Colquhoun | W. Fraser, The Chiefs of Colquhoun and their Country (Edinburgh, 1869) |
| Fraser, Cromartie | W. Fraser, Earls of Cromartie (Edinburgh, 1876) |
| Fraser, Lennox | W. Fraser, The Lennox (Edinburgh, 1874) |
| Fraser, Stirlings of Keir | W. Fraser, Stirlings of Keir (Edinburgh, 1858) |
| Glasgow Reg. | Registrum Episcopatus Glasguensis (Bannatyne and Maitland Clubs, 1843) |
| Grant, Lordship | I.F. Grant, The Lordship of the Isles (Edinburgh, 1935) |
| Haakon’s Saga | The Saga of Hacon, trans. G.W. Dasent (Rolls Series, 1894) |
| HBC | Handbook of... |
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 2.1.2025 |
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| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Schlagworte | academic history • celtic Scotland • Clans • collected essays • Essays • Gaelic • Genealogy • History • Medieval History • medieval politics • Norse • Politics • Scottish History • somerled |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78885-646-5 / 1788856465 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78885-646-1 / 9781788856461 |
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