Malcolm MacGregor of Glenorchy, "The Lame Lord"

He was Lord of MacGregor and Glenurchy (styled "Dominus de MacGregor"). This Malcolm is much celebrated by several Bards. He was a person of great loyalty, strongly attached to Robert the Bruce, whom he is said to have rescued from the Chief of Lorn and mounted on a milk-white steed, after which the king harbored in a cave on MacGregor's land near Craig-Chrostan, which to this day is called "Uamh an Riogh" (The King's Cave). From there he crossed over Loch Lomond and met the Earl of Lennox.

Malcolm fought at the battle of Bannockburn, and is said to have been the one who brought the relics of St. Gillansarum from the country of that name.

He fought under Edward Bruce in Ireland, was wounded at the Battle of Dunkirk, and returned home where he was ever after known as "morfhear bachdach", or the Lame Lord. He died at an advanced age in 1374 during the reign of King Robert Bruce II, leaving his wife Mary, daughter of Malise MacAlpin of Finnick, and two sons.

Malcolm "the Lame Lord" MacGregor, of Glenorchy[1, 2]

1275 - 1374

from http://www.clanmacfarlanegenealogy.info/genealogy/TNGWebsite/getper...

• Suffix of Glenorchy
• Nickname the Lame Lord
• Birth Abt 1275 [1]
• Gender Male
• Name Malcolm Gregorson
• Died 1374 [2]

Person ID I23798 Clan current Last Modified 09 Dec 2011 13:01:00

Father Gregor MacGregor, b. Abt 1250

Family ID F14271 Group Sheet

Family Mary MacAlpin

Married Y [2]

Children

1. Gregor (of Golden Bridles) MacGregor, 1st Chief of Clan Gregor, b. Abt 1305
2. Gilbert Grierson, 1st of Lag, c. 1353, Dumfries-Shire, Scotland

Last Modified 20 Dec 2004 23:19:00 Family ID F14260 Group Sheet

Notes

1 - Malcolm, the chief of the clan in the days of Bruce, fought bravely on the national side at the battle of Bannockburn. He accompanied Edward Bruce to Ireland, and being severely wounded at Dundalk, he was ever afterwards know as "the lame lord".

Dundalk was a battle in Irelandfought on 14 October 1318 between the Scottish forces of Edward Bruce and those of the English in Ireland. Bruce had invaded Ireland at the instructions of his brother Robert,King of Scots, and had had some initial successes, but he and his allies were defeated at Dundalk and Edward Bruce killed. Bruce's invasion had been a disaster for Ireland, and had seen widespread destruction

2 - MALCOLM, born about 1275, was heir to his grandfather at the latter's death in 1285. As "Malcolm, Laird MacGregor of Glenorchy", he was among the numerous chiefs of the Scottish clans who swore fealty to Edward I, King of England, on a roll dated at Berwick 28 August 1296. These allegiances were due to Edward's sudden conquest of Scotland in the spring of 1296, the abdication of King Baliol, and the coronation of Edward at Montrose on 10 July 1296. For nearly a score of years Scotland remained nominally under the crown of England.

Malcolm MacGregor later became an active adherent of Robert Bruce in the latter's efforts to free Scotland from English rule and fought under him at. the great and decisive battle of Bannockburn, 24 June 1314. In this famous conflict Bruce's Scottish Army of about thirty thousand men completely routed an English Army of nearly thrice that size under Edward II, thus completing the liberation of Scotland from England and securing for Bruce the crown of Scotland.

The next year Malcolm accompanied Edward Bruce, younger brother of King Robert Bruce, in an expedition into Ireland; he took part in numerous engagements, including the battle of Dundalk in October 1318 in which Edward Bruce was defeated and slain. In this battle Malcolm MacGregor was wounded so as to be permanently lame, wherefore he was termed "Morair Bachdach" or the Lame Laird. In spite of this disability he survived to advanced age.

Malcolm is the subject of several Gaelic heroic poems; but there are also several documentary evidences preserved about him to establish him as a thoroughly authentic historical character. He married Mary, daughter of Malise MacAlpin. [3]

Sources

[S655] Gregor - Rob Roy tree, (http://hal_macgregor.tripod.com/gregor/tree.html)

[S541] Stirnet Genealogy, Peter Barns-Graham, MacGregor01 (Reliability: 3)

[S655] Gregor - Rob Roy tree, (http://hal_macgregor.tripod.com/gregor/tree.html), 2 - (Reliability: 3)

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