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William I, Earl of Ross

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62:, letters came east from the Hebrides ... and they brought forward much about the dispeace that the Earl of Ross ... and other Scots, had made in the Hebrides, when they went out to Skye, and burned towns and churches, and slew very many men and women ... They said that the Scottish king intended to lay under himself all the Hebrides 48:. He succeeded his father as Earl around 1251. He played a pioneering role in the Scottish reconquest of the Hebrides, which had been under Norwegian control. Indeed, in many ways, he may be regarded as the instigator of Scottish aggression. 153:
McDonald, R. Andrew, "Old and new in the far North: Ferchar Maccintsacairt and the early earls of Ross" in Steve Boardman and Alasdair Ross (eds.)
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after the Scottish reconquest of the Hebrides, a reward secured when the conquests were ratified by the
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William appears as early as 1232, witnessing a charter as the son of
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Uilleam's attacks on Norwegian possessions earned him the ire of
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The Exercise of Power in Medieval Scotland, c.1200-1500
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Scran & The Breve Cronicle of the Erllis of Ross
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Index

Uilleam I, Earl of Ross
Ross
Ferquhard, Earl of Ross
Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar
King Haakon
Skye
Lewis
Treaty of Perth
William, Earl of Buchan
William
Allanfearn
Genealogy Page
The Scots Peerage
Internet Archive
Genealogy Page: Source for Marriage Info
Scran & The Breve Cronicle of the Erllis of Ross
Ferchar mac an tSagairt
Mormaer of Ross
Uilleam II
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Earls
Mormaers of Ross
MacHeth mormaers
Ferchar
William I
William II
Hugh
William III

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