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Hamlet 3 - College Essay

Hamlet 3

The MacKenzie's originated from Cailean(Colin) Fitzgerald form the
Norman family of the Earls of Desmond and dukes of Leinster in
Ireland,(McNie,1983). Supposedly he was driven from Ireland to the Court
of Alexander III, of Scotland.(McNie,1988). There he distinguished himself
in the battle of Largs one year later. After that battle he was given the title of Governor of Eileandonan by the King. Eileandonan was a strong castle in
Kintail, by Loch Dunich and Loch Long, today it's one of the most
photographed castles in Scotland.
Soon other titles were given to powerful MacKenzie's. Like Sir George
MacKnezie the first Earl of Cromarty,(McNie,1983), who wrote the charter
of 1266 in his ...

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motto "fide
parta,fide aucta," which has since being changed,(McNie,1983).

A later Earl of Cromarty said that Ceilean Fitzgerald wed a Kenneth
MacMhathoin, the Mathieson chiefs daughter,(McNie,1988). Ceileans wife
gave birth to a baby boy, which was named after the grandfather, Kenneth.
Soon after Ceilean was murdered by his father-in-law, because he was jealous
that a Irish descendant was given a Scottish title. All the later members of the
family took the name of Ceilean's son Kenneth, from there on the family name
was MacKenzie which means son of Kenneth.

The first chief of the MacKenzies was Alexander MacKenzie who held
the lands of Kintail,(McNie,1998). His relative William the Earl of Ross who
was married to Alexander's aunt, demanded that Alexander give the castle to
him. Alexander didn't give it up so he gathered neighboring clans that
included the MacIvers,Macaulay, and other families in Kintail. They managed
to hold of the Earl and they eventually ...

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