!BIOGRAPHY: George Crawfurd, Esq., THE PEERAGE OF SCOTLAND,
Edinburgh, 1716, p. 436.
Alexander Mackenzie of Kintail his Heir and Successor in Descent in the
Reign of King James III. was looked on as a wise and prudent Man. It was
to his Conduct and Courage the reducing that formidable Rebel John Earl
of Ross, was in a great part owing: For which acceptable Service he had
a Grant from the Crown of the Lands of Strachonnan, Stragarvie, and
several other of the Earl''s Lands, by a harter under the Great Seal, 7th.
September 1477. By Agnes his Wife, a Lady of the Mackdougals, he had
Kenneth his Successor, and Two younger Sons, Duncan and Hector; of the
first did the Mackenzies of Logie and Hilton descend, and of the other
sprang the Branch of the Mackenzies of Garloch, all in the County of Ross.
Which Kenneth was slain at the Battle of Flowdoun with King James IV.
the 9th of September 1513, leaving Issue by Agnes his Wife, Daughter of
Hugh Lord Lovat, John his Heir, Alexander, of whom came the Branch of
Davachmaluack, Roderick, the Root of the Mackenzies of Achilty, and
their Descendants, and Kenneth, of whom issued the Families of Suddy,
Ord, and Inveralell, likewise a Daughter Agnes, married to Roderick
Mackleod of Lewis.
!BIOGRAPHY: Sir Robert Douglas of Glenbervie, THE PEERAGE OF
SCOTLAND, Edinburgh, 1813, p. 479.
VII. Alexander MacKenzie of Kintail, who was presented to James I.
when he made an expedition to the north in 1426, and by the King''s
orders was sent for his education to Perth, near the court. He was
instrumental in crushing the rebellion of the Earl of Ross, on which
account he obtained from James III. a grant of Strathconnan,
Strathgarvie, and other lands belonging to the Earl, in 1477, and he died
in 1488. He married, first, Lady Agnes Campbell, sixth daughter of Colin,
first Earl of Argyll, by whom he had a son, Sir Kenneth.
Secondly, Margaret Macdougal, a daughter of the house of Lorn, by whom
he had two sons.