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Uilleam II of Ross was the second successor of
Ferchar mac in tSagairt, as
Mormaer of
Ross (
1274-
1323).
At the beginning of the
Wars of Scottish Independence Uilleam was captured fighting against the English at the
Battle of Dunbar (1296). After which, like many Gaelic lords, he became pro-English and one of the most early enemies of
Robert Bruce,
Earl of Carrick. Uilleam had been in English custody, but his wife Euphemia had obtained his release, and Uilleam was appointed
Edward I of England's warden of Scotland north of the
Grampians.
When a band of Bruce supporters, including the
Countess of Atholl, Bruce's wife
Elizabeth de Burgh, his daughter
Marjorie and Robert's brother
Niall took refuge in
St Duthac's chapel in
Tain, Uilleam arrested them and handed them over to the English crown. The men were executed.
This put Uilleam in a dangerous position when the Bruce revival began in the same year,
1306. He found himself being attacked by Bruce in the south, and by
Lachlan MacRuadridh (Lord of the
Isle of Skye), Uilleam's nominal vassal, but Bruce's ally, in the west. When Bruce came north in 1308, Uilleam submitted, receiving his Mormaerdom back from Bruce, along with a pardon and the
burgh of
Dingwall. This bribe and the realities of power kept Uilleam in the Bruce camp. Uilleam was chief of the
Clan Ross who fought on the side of the Bruce against the English at the
Battle of Bannockburn. Uilleam was a signatory of the
Declaration of Arbroath. Uilleam had six children, one of whom,
Aodh, Earl of Ross, succeeded him when he died in
1323.
Bibliography
- Barrow, G.W.S., Robert Bruce and the Community of the Realm of Scotland, (Edinburgh, 1988)
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