MACETH OR MACKAY, Iye 1st of Strathnaver ¹

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  General Notes:

"It has also to be remembered that MacEth or MacAed is the old form of the Gaelic MacAoidh, now Mackay, and that King Malcolm IV. transported the Moray adherents of MacEth 'extramontanas Scociae' about 1160, for prolonged rebellion against his house. As Ross was then part of the old province of Moray, over the mountains would mean into Sutherland. The first of the family to settle in Strathnaver was Iye MacEth, who became chamberlain to Walter de Baltrodi, a canon, and afterwards confirmed Bishop of Caithness in 1263. By a daughter of said Bishop he had a son Iye Mor ...."

from Scots Peerage (vol 7) ¹

Iye married.