Sir Lachlan Mòr Mackinnon
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twenty-eighth chief of Clan MacKinnon, active as chief from about 1641 until his death in 1700.
twenty-eighth chief of Clan MacKinnon, active as chief from about 1641 until his death in 1700.
Identity: twenty-eighth chief of Clan MacKinnon, active as chief from about 1641 until his death in 1700.
War activity: his period is the big Stuart royalist phase. The MacKinnons declared for the Crown and fought under Montrose at Inverlochy on February second, 1645, and Auldearn on May fifth, 1645. A clan tradition preserves the figure of Ranald MacKinnon of Mull defending Montrose’s standard party at Auldearn.
Royalist legacy: the chief list connects him with Worcester, 1651, where he was made a Knight Banneret, placing him inside the final military effort of Charles II before the Restoration.
Kinship politics: in 1671, he entered the bond of manrent with James MacGregor, framing the MacKinnons and MacGregors as related Siol Alpin houses obliged to support each other with men, servants and followers.
Family split legacy: he is the hinge father figure. The Gaelic senior line continues through John Og, then Iain Dubh. The Antigua branch is attached in later sources to Donald/Daniel, the son who leaves Scotland and becomes the ancestor of the colonial Mackinnons.