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Subject: [DNA-R1B1C7] One of the sons of O'Neill went to Scotland in theearly 1100s
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:25:42 EDT

_History of the Clan MacLachlan_
(http://www.gilcrist.com/ClanSite/maclachlanhistory.htm)

Tradition states that one of the sons of O'Neill went to Scotland in the
early 1100s and married a princess from Norway. Their first son was named
Lachlan, so the mother could remember her homeland of Norway, the Land of Lochs, or
Lach lan. One of their grandsons, Anrothan, married a Scottish princess from
Cowal, an area in western Scotland. (She was the daughter of either the King
of Scots, or possibly the local King of Argyll, or even the sub-king of
Cowal -- it is not known for certain which.) She supposedly received an
inheritance of Cowal and Knapdale. Chiefs of the clan later claimed their descent from
Anrothan. Medieval Irish and Scottish genealogies tell us that Anrothan was
the ancestor of the MacLachlans of Strathlachlan, along with the MacEwens and
Gilchrists.
There is an old, charming legend that gives the reason why the MacLachlan
Chiefs' coat-of-arms is supported by two roebucks (deer). When King Alexander
II made his great show of strength in Argyll in 1249, he ordered the local
chiefs to send their taxes "by the fastest messenger." Laclan Mor (Mor is the
gaelic word for great or large) tied the moneybags to the horns of a roebuck,
demonstrating both the ingenuity of the early MacLachlan Chief and his
thoughts regarding having to pay taxes even in those days.



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