!MENTION: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon, MACLEOD CHIEFS OF HARRIS AND
DUNVEGAN, Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod Society, 1969, p. 12. Alick
Morrison, THE CHIEFS OF CLAN MACLEOD, East Kilbride, Scotland, 1986.
George,… went to France and settled in Lorraine, where the de Leods
and the Maclots claim him as ancestor.
!SOURCE: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon and Alick Morrison, THE MACLEODS --
THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN, Section III, "MacLeod Cadet Families",
Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod Society, 1979, p. 200..
George, from whom descended several MacLeod families in Lorraine in
France. This George MacLeod greatly distinguished himself in war
against the English for which he received lands in the Borders in
Tweeddale. He joned the Scottish Army fighting for France against
England in the Hundred Years'' War. His descendants, William, George,
Alexander and Archibald married Scottish wiives. In 1485 Archibald
became a naturalised Frenchman with the title of Chevalier. He became
a gendarme of the Scottish Guard in France, a position also held by his
son Sier David Maclot, who married Demoisell Catherine Gratinot,
daughter of Jean Gratinot of Stenay in Lorraine. The family prospered
and married into several distinguished noble French families. By the
middle of the 18th century, the Maclot seigneuries in Lorrained numbered
nine. These were Baalon and Brovennes; Colligny; La Foret, Saint Mazeur;
Haraigne; Luzerailles; Paroy; Pierrevillers and Jouy. Two distinguished
members of the Maclot family were Jacques Maclot Seigneur de Baalon,
consellor secretary to Louis XIV of France. There was also the good and
learned man Abbe Edmond Maclot, son of Frederic Maclot, Seigneur de
Baalon, who became a doctor of Theology, a Professor of Philosophy,
Prior of St. Joseph in Nancy as well as Prior of Bucilly. Later he was
elected Abbe de l''Etanche and this was confirmed by Louis XIV in 1685.