!SOURCE: BURKE''S LANDED GENTRY, Eighteenth Edition, Vol. II, London,
Burke''s Peerage Limited, 1969, pp. 416-417.
"He was excluded from the succession on his father''s forfeiture, and
again in 1511, when the estates were restored to Malcolm, his uncle. He
m. and d.s.p.m. leaving issue, one daughter, Margaret, who married Donald
Gorm, 5th. of Sleat."
!SOURCE: John Burke, Esq., HISTORY OF THE COMMONERS OF GREAT
BRITAIN AND IRELAND, Vol. IV, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co.,
1977, pp. 584-592.
John Mac Torquil, tenth Baron of Lewis, who forcibly obtained
possession of the Lewis, and the command of the Siol torquil, which he
retained during his life, to the exclusion of his cousin, Roderick, the
lawful heir of Malcolm. It is not known to whom he was married, but he
had an only daughter, his heiress, who was married to Donald Gorme of
Sleat, heir male to the lordship of the Isles, after Donald Dubh, who had
for many years been in captivity. John Mac Torquil dying in 1538,
Roderick entered into an agreement with Donald Gorme, by which the
latter agreed to give up all his wife''s claims to the Lewis, and allow
Roderick to take possession of that and the rest of the inheritance
bequeathed him by his father, Malcolm, on condition that he, Roderick,
would assist him against Macleod of Herries and the Siol Tormod, and
also co-operate with him, in his endeavours to obtain the Earldom of
Ross, and the Lordship of the Isles. On these conditions Roderick took
possession of the Lewis in 1538.
!SOURCE: Alick Morrison, THE MACLEODS: THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN,
Section IV, Revised Edition, "The MacLeods of Lewis", Edinburgh,
Associated Clan MacLeod Societies, 1990, pP. 6-7.
JOHN... was excluded fromt the succession of Lewis in 1506 and again
in 1511 when the king granded a charter to his uncle Malcolm. [RMS (IV)
n. 3578.] On Malcolm''s death John recovered possession illegally about
1528 and was able to hold it until his own death in the late 1530''s. The times
were disturbed for him by the three-cornered wrangle over
Trotternish in Skye. In 1498 the office of bailliary and lands in
Trotternish had been confirmed to Alexander MacLeod of Dunvegan, but
within two weeks also granted to John''s father, Torquil. [RMS (II) nos.
2420, 2424.] It is not clear how the king''s revocation of charters
affected these grants. Alexander MacLeod seems to have been in
possession 1528, but was in trouble with Donald Gruamach of Sleat over lands
in Sleat and North Uist as well as Trotternish. Donald Grumach''s
mother had been married to Torquil of Lewis, so that Donald could count
on John''s support in the continuing feud with Alexander of Dunvegan.
These several diversions afforded the undisturbed, if illegal, possession
of the barony of Lewis to John, as various contemporary documents
testify. In 1530 the king commissioned Argyll to put down a rebellion
led by Alexander MacIan of Islay. John was involved, as he was one of
the nine chiefs who successfully sued to the king for peace in 1531. [D.
Gregory (1881/1975) pp. 130-138.] John''s date of birth would be c.
1480. He married with issue.
!SOURCE: Sir Robert Douglas of Glenbervie, Bart., THE PEERAGE OF
SCOTLAND, Vol. 2, Second Edition, John Philip Wood, Esq., Editor,
Edinburgh, 1813, p. 12. Has name as Roderick MacLeod of Lewis, not John.