Individual Details
Lachlan "1st Laird of Coll" MacLean
(Bef 1380 - Aft 1403)
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[[Category:Lairds of Coll]] [[Category: Battle of Harlaw]]
== Biography ==
Lachlan, third son of Lachlan Lubanach, is the progenitor of the MacLeans of Coll. Shortly after his marriage to Anna MacLeod he began the building of Breacachadh Castle on Coll.(Warriors and Priests p. 33-37)
Lachlan MacLean obtained his land on Coll from Donald, Lord of the Isles, who was his maternal uncle. The previous owners of Coll would not give it up without a fight. They were defeated at the battle of Grimsary Hill before giving up and fleeing to North Uist.
It is not known when the first Laird of Coll died. He may well have been killed in 1411 at the battle of Harlaw. ''(From Clan to Regiment)''
Click here for [http://www.battlefieldstrust.com/resource-centre/medieval/battleview.asp?BattleFieldId=64] more on the Battle of Harlaw.
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== Sources ==
:Alexander Maclean Sinclair, ''The Clan Gillean''. 1899, Haszard and Moore.
:Nicholas MacLean-Bristol, ''Warriors and Priests (The History of the Clan MacLean 1300-1570.'' 1995, Tuckwell Press Ltd., P. 212. ISBN: 1 898410 6203.
:Nicholas MacLean-Bristol, ''From Clan to Regiment (Six hundred years in the Hebrides 1400-2000)''. Pp. xviii, 734. ISBN: 9781844155491. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2007.
[[Category:Lairds of Coll]] [[Category: Battle of Harlaw]]
== Biography ==
Lachlan, third son of Lachlan Lubanach, is the progenitor of the MacLeans of Coll. Shortly after his marriage to Anna MacLeod he began the building of Breacachadh Castle on Coll.(Warriors and Priests p. 33-37)
Lachlan MacLean obtained his land on Coll from Donald, Lord of the Isles, who was his maternal uncle. The previous owners of Coll would not give it up without a fight. They were defeated at the battle of Grimsary Hill before giving up and fleeing to North Uist.
It is not known when the first Laird of Coll died. He may well have been killed in 1411 at the battle of Harlaw. ''(From Clan to Regiment)''
Click here for [http://www.battlefieldstrust.com/resource-centre/medieval/battleview.asp?BattleFieldId=64] more on the Battle of Harlaw.
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== Sources ==
:Alexander Maclean Sinclair, ''The Clan Gillean''. 1899, Haszard and Moore.
:Nicholas MacLean-Bristol, ''Warriors and Priests (The History of the Clan MacLean 1300-1570.'' 1995, Tuckwell Press Ltd., P. 212. ISBN: 1 898410 6203.
:Nicholas MacLean-Bristol, ''From Clan to Regiment (Six hundred years in the Hebrides 1400-2000)''. Pp. xviii, 734. ISBN: 9781844155491. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2007.
Events
| Birth | Bef 1380 | Duart, Isle of Mull, Argyll, Scotland | |||
| Death | Aft 1403 | ||||
| Reference No | 4278915 | ||||
| Reference No | 4368049 | ||||
| Reference No | 60 |
Families
| Father | Lachlan "Lubannach" MacLean (1335 - 1405) |
| Mother | Mary MacDonald (1350 - ) |
| Sibling | Hector "Eachuinn Ruadh" MacLean (1370 - 1411) |