!SOURCE: George Crawfurd, Esq., THE PEERAGE OF SCOTLAND, Edinburgh,
1716, p. 229ff.
Dovenald by Name (In the Mortifications to Paisly he is designed
Dovenaldus filius Reginaldi filii Somerledi.), who imitated the Liberality
of his Father to the Church, particularly the Monks of Paisly shared of
his Munificence right liberally, for to that House he gave in free Gift and
Donation many and very ample Testimonies of his Charity and good will,
on the Condition, Quod ille, uxor sua, haeredes sui & homines sui
participes sint in perpetuum omnium honorum quae in Domo de Paslet &
in toto ordine Cluniacensi sient tam in orrationibus quam in caeteris
divinis servitiis.
This Dovenald left Issue two Sons, AEngus of Isles, and Alexander
who founded another Tribe, called the Macalasters, of whom Loup in
Argyle-shire is reckoned to be the Stem and Chief.
!SOURCE: Sir Robert Douglas of Glenbervie, Esq., THE PEERAGE OF
SCOTLAND, Edinburgh, 1764?, p. 358ff.
!BIOGRAPHY: Sir Robert Douglas of Glenbervie, Bart., THE PEERAGE OF
SCOTLAND, Vol. 2, Second Edition, John Philip Wood, Esq., Editor,
Edinburgh, 1813, pp. 5, 6.
III. Dovenald, or Donald, the second son, appears to have inherited the
Isles, and imitated the liberality of his father to the church, particularly
to the monks of Paisley, to whom he gave ample testimonies of his
charity and goodwill, on this condition, that ille, uxor sua, heredis sui,
et homines sui, participes sint in perpetuum, omnium bonorum quae in
domo de Palet, et in toto ordine Cluniascensi sient, tam in orationibus,
quam in ceteris divinis servitiis. He is therein designed Dovenaldus,
filius Reginaldi, filius Somerledi; and he had two sons,
1. Angus.
2. Alexander [probably the same Alexander de Ergadia, one of the
Scotish nobles who became bound to receive Margaret of Norway as their
sovereign, in the event of the demise of King Alexander III. 1284.
Foeder, II. 266. According to Barbour, III.1. Alexander of Argyll married
a daughter of Red John Cumyn, and was father of John of Lorn. Among the
missing charters of King Robert I., is one to Alexander, younger, lord of
the Isles, of the lands of Ulks and Tyringis, with the Isle of Mull and
other lands. Robertson''s Index, 26. King David II., in 1344, granted a
charter to Alexander Macnauctane, of all the lands quae fuerunt quondam
Joannis, fillii Duncani, fillii Alexandre de Yle. Rec. Parl. 89.] said to be
the ancestor of the Macalisters of Loup, and Alexanders of Menstrie,
Earls of Stirling.