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3 Celts & Company • "MACBETH"

One of the exceptions among the 'Macs,' the name means not the son of any person 'Beth,' but 'Son of life' or a man of religion. It developed a separate form Macbean (see above), and has also become confused with forms of the Norman name Bethune. Shakespeare, playing his immortal light over the old Celtic throne of Scotland, brings to focus the ruler of Moray who enforced his family claim thereon by the murder of King Duncan in 1040. Macbeths, frequently called Beatons, held high repute and rank from the 14th century to the 17th, as physicians and chancellors to the MacDonalds of Islay and Macleans of Mull, sometimes also to royalty and elsewhere.

Septs: BEATON, BEATTIE, BEATTY, BELTON, BETHUNE, LEITCH, MACBHEATH

"MACBETH." Scots Kith and Kin and Illustrated Map Revised Second Edition. Edinburgh, SCOT: Clan House, c.1970. p.62. Print.

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