!BIOGRAPHY: Sir Robert Douglas of Glenbervie, Baronet, THE BARONAGE
OF SCOTLAND, Edinburgh, 1798, p. 377.
XIII. William Macleod of that ilk, &c.… married Agnes Fraser, daughter
of Hugh fourth lord Lovat; and, upon his father''s resignation, got a
charter under the great seal, Willielmo Macleod, filio et haeredi
apparenti Alexandri Macleod de Dunvegan, et Agnetae Fraser ejus
sponsae, terrarum de Arrecardith, &c. &:c. in the north isles, dated 3d
March 1540.
By the said Agnes Fraser he had only one daughter, Mary, who was
married, 1st, to Duncan Campbell of Castleswyne, younger of
Auchinbrech; and, 2dly, to _____ Macneil of Bara; and had issue to both.
This William dying without issue male, the representation devolved
upon his brother, Donald.
!BIOGRAPHY: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon, MACLEOD CHIEFS OF HARRIS AND
DUNVEGAN, Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod Society, 1969, pp. 15-16. Alick
Morrison, THE CHIEFS OF CLAN MACLEOD, East Kilbride, Scotland, 1986.
William was born about 1505, and married (marr. contr. dated at Lovat,
13th April 1540) Agnes, daughter of Hugh, 3rd Lord Fraser of Lovat, with
issue, an only daughter, Mary. Tradition says that William, who, at an
early period of his married life, realized he would not have an heir-male
of his own body, became obsessed by the fear that the clan would not
accept Mary as chief, and treated his younger brothers, Donald and
Norman, so unkindly that they left home. He entirely alienated himself
from his clansmen and spent the last years of his life shut up in
Dunvegan Castle. He died in September 1551, and was buried in the
Cathedral of St. Clement at Rodel, Harris. he was succeeded by his
daughter. [Agnes Fraser, after william''s death, married (marr. contr.,
dated 2nd May 1562) Alexander Bayne of Tulloch, with issue (THE
SCOTTISH GENEALOGIST, II, No. 1, pp. 3-4). She died on 29th January
1594-5 (Warrand: SOME FRASER PEDIGREES, 1934, p. 7).