!BIOGRAPHY: BURKE''S LANDED GENTRY, Eighteenth Edition, Vol. II, London,
Burke''s Peerage Limited, 1969, pp. 416-417.
!SOURCE: Sir Robert Douglas of Glenbervie, Bart., THE PEERAGE OF
SCOTLAND, Vol. 2, Second Edition, John Philip Wood, Esq., Editor,
Edinburgh, 1813, p. 12.
XIII. Donald, the eldest son, on the death of Donald the bastard, stiling
himself Lord of the Isles, claimed that lordship as lawful heir male of
John, Earl of Ross; but King James V., thinking the suppression of that
title, and the dissolution of the vassalage thereof, the proper means of
effectuating the civilization of the Highlands, refused to grant
possession. Donald, resolving to assert his right by force of arms,
raised a considerable body of men, and laid siege to the castle of
Elendounan [Eilean Donan Castle, Dornie by Kyle], where his Majesty had
placed a garrison. He was shot dead with an arrow from the castle,
1537, leaving, by Margaret, his wife, daughter of Roderick Macleod of the
Lewis, a son.