THE  DESCENT  OF  CABARFEIDH  CHIEF  OF  CLAN  MACKENZIE
according to some traditional accounts
 
John Ruaridh Blunt Grant Mackenzie, 5th Earl of Cromartie, and “Cabarfeidh”; B: 1948
son of
Roderick Grant Francis Mackenzie MC, 4th Earl of Cromartie – matriculated arms as “Cabarfeidh” in 1980; D: 1990
son of
Sibell Lilian Leveson-Gowar, 3rd Countess of Cromartie and Lt. Col. Edward Blunt, who took additional surname of Mackenzie
daughter of
Francis Leveson-Gowar, Viscount Tarbat (3rd son of Countess of Cromartie & Duke of Sutherland); D: 1893
son of
Anne Hay-Mackenzie, Countess of Cromartie (new creation in 1861) and George G. W. S. Leveson-Gowar, Duke of Sutherland
daughter of
John Hay-Mackenzie of Cromarty; D: 1849
son of
Hon. Maria Murray of Cromarty and Edward Hay of Newhall
daughter of
Isabella Mackenzie of Cromarty (inherited 1796 on death of cousin Capt. Kenneth Mackenzie) and George Murray, Lord Elibank
daughter of
George Mackenzie, 3rd Earl of Cromarty – Jacobite prisoner in 1746 released following entreaties to king by his wife & 10 children
son of
John Mackenzie, 2nd Earl of Cromarty – D: 1731
son of
George Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Cromarty (created 1703) – famous politician (“some do compare him to an eel”); D: 1714
son of
Sir John Mackenzie of Tarbat, Bt. (created 1628) – D: 1654
son of
Sir Roderick Mackenzie of Coigeach (knighted 1609) – “Rory the Tutor”, second son of Colin “the One-Eyed” Mackenzie chief
son of
Colin Cam Mackenzie, laird of Kintail – his eldest son became Kenneth, Lord Kintail, father of Colin Mackenzie 1st Earl of Seaforth, from whom descended the chiefs of Clan MacKenzie until the death in 1815 of Francis Humberstone Mackenzie, Lord Seaforth
son of
Coinneach “na Cuirc” – “Kenneth of the Whittle”; D:1568
son of
John “of Killin” – named for his home near Strathpeffer, but on record in 1501 as John Kenzeoch of Kintail; D:1560/1
son of
Coinneach “a bhlair” – “Kenneth of the Battle” (who defeated the Macdonalds at the Battle of Park in 1488); D: 1492
son of
Alasdair “Ionraic” – Alexander “the Upright”, who died an old man having established the MacKenzies as a power in the Highlands
son of
Murchadh Mackenniche “na Drochaid” – “Murdoch Mackenzie of the Bridge”, so-called for surviving his mother’s fall from bridge
son of
Coinneach “Ach a Cheannthaigh” – his nickname coming from the place where he was raised in Lorn
son of
Eoin mac Choinnich – “Ian mac Kenyie”/“John son of Kenneth” who was fostered by the MacDougalls in Lorn
son of
Coinneach “na Sroine” – “Kenneth of the Nose”, who was executed in 1346 for rebelling with the Lord of Isles
son of
Murchadh mac Choinnich – Murdoch son of Kenneth
son of
Coinneach – D:1304 and buried with the kings of Scots on Iona; married the daughter of Iomhar Crom (from whom the MacIvers)
son of
Mathan mac Cainnigh/Coinneach – from whom the MacMathans or Mathesons
son of
Cainnigh/Coinneach – the first of the three possible name-fathers of the MacKenzies
son of
Aonghus “Crom” – Angus “the Humpbacked”
son of
Gille-Chriosd
son of
Gille-Adamhain
son of
Gille-Eoin “Og” – Gille-Eoin “the Younger”
son of
Gille-Eoin n’h Airde – “The Devotee of Saint John in the Aird” (an area to the west of Inverness) who is said to have been sent to the far west in the late 12th century to fight the Norse, and who may therefore have started the building of Eilean Donan Castle in Kintail.