Angus de Atholl of Glenerochie

IMPORTANT!

THIS PERSON APPEARS TO BE FICTITOUS as a son of Ewan of Glenerochie, based on current research. Ewan of Glenerochie is only documented to have had daughters, to whom his lands other than those of Glenerochie were transferred.

By process of elimination of those inheriting the male-descent lands of Atholl and adjoining Clunes, Madach de Clunes ("Madith de Clonyn") more likely is the natural father of Andrew de Atholia, 4th of Glenerochie - as yet unproven. (source: Clan Donnachaidh 2007 Annual - Gordon A MacGregor, author and genealogist).

Some accounts state the father is Malcolm De Insulis MacDonald, the Lord of the Isles while other accounts such as the peerage list Angus as the father of Andrew of Atholl, all of which appear faulty in logic (2022)

De Insulis territorial title, The first name in the nature of a surname which can be said to have been indicating chiefs. I was adopted in latter half of twelfth century, the ancestors of this family used de Insulis, a title first used by Somerled's sons, amongst whom the southern half of the "Western Isles of Scotland acquired by Somerled were divided on his death in 1166. Somerled himself and some of his descendants were known as de Ergayl, or Ergadia (Argyll), but this title was hardly in the nature of a surname. The name "de Insulis" was really a kind of territorial title, and was only borne by such of Somerled's descendants as actually inherited some of the Isles, and continued to be used by the senior branch of the family, the Macdonalds, until quite recently.