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Iain Fraoch MacDonald

Scottish noble

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 5, 2025
Entity authorityQ5980441 ↗
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Iain Fraoch MacDonald (died 1368) also known as John og of the Heather was a younger son of both Angus Og MacDonald of Islay and a daughter of Dugal MacEanruig, additionally he was also the founder of Clan MacDonald of Glencoe.

"Fraoch" is a nickname which means "the snarling" in the Scottish Gaelic language, although it usually means heather

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References

MacDonald, A (1896). The Clan Donald. Vol. 1. Inverness: The Northern Counties Publishing Company.

Macphail, JRN, ed. (1914). Highland Papers. Publications of the Scottish History Society.

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“Iain Fraoch MacDonald” enters the record as scottish noble. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Iain, Fraoch and MacDonald can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Iain Fraoch MacDonald” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.