3 Celts & Company • "MACKENZIE"Perhaps like the MacKays and MacLeans, one of the old transplanted tribes from Moray, though firmly rooted in Ross-shire ever since, this clan took their name MacKenny or MacKenzie after a 13th-century chief Kenneth, descended from Colin of the Aird who was ancestor also to the Celtic earls of Ross. When that earldom fell by marriage to the Lords of the Isles, the clan followed the MacDonald lead until these lords were suppressed. Independence attained, the MacKenzies became by the 17th century the most powerful clan of the West after the Campbells, and their chief, MacKenzie of Kintail, was raised to Lord Seaforth by James VI. This earldom was forfeited through the clans sharing the Jacobite ventures, but restored in 1778 when the Seaforth Highlanders regiment was founded.
Septs: CHARLES, CHARLESON, CLUNESS, CLUNIES, CROMARTY, IVERACH, IVERSON, IVORY, KENNETH, KENNETHSON, KYNOCH, MACAWEENEY, MACBEOLAIN, MACCONNACH, MACIVER, MACIVOR, MACKENNA, MACKENNEY, MACKERLICH, MACKINNEY, MACMURCHIE, MACMURCHY, MACQUEENIE, MACVANISH, MACVINISH, MACVINNIE, MACWEENY, MACWHINNIE, MURCHIE, MURCHISON, SMART
"MACKENZIE." Scots Kith and Kin and Illustrated Map Revised Second Edition. Edinburgh, SCOT: Clan House, c.1970. p.71. Print.
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