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Although apparently the legitimate heir to Moray, Domnall did not receive the rule of the province from David on his father's death. The suggested reason is that
Domnall would have been a child, and no suitable ruler for such a fractious and distant province. Domnall does not certainly appear in the
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It had been supposed that
William's son Domnall mac Uilleim was illegitimate, but more recent histories accept that Domnall was a legitimate son of the prince, although not by Alice de Rumilly. The continuing support for the Meic Uilleim in Moray, together with their obviously Gaelic background, can
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The failure of the 1215 invasion and the death of
Domnall Bán in no way ended the efforts of the MacWilliams to prosecute their claims to Moray and to the throne of Scotland. Gille Escoib (or Gillescop) Meic Uilleim and his sons were actively in rebellion in the 1220s. Gille Escoib's descent is
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rather than defeated outright, and was later captured, castrated and blinded by
Cumbrians unhappy with his rule. Wimund, although now accepted to be a son of William fitz Duncan, is not counted among the Meic Uilleim.
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there having been betrayed and destroyed respectively. An attempt by a royal army to deal with
Domnall in 1187 appears to have been a failure, perhaps a farce, with the leaders quarreling among themselves because, as
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would have to be the son of Máel Coluim mac Áeda (MacHeth), rather than the son of Máel Coluim mac
Alasdair, natural son of Alexander I. This assumption is far from universally accepted, see Duncan, p. 67; Oram, p.
194:, and the church burnt with 58 of Adam's associates within. It may be that this Adam mac Domnaill was a son of Domnall mac Uilleim. If this is so, then the presence of his son in Cupar, south of the
142:, likely to deal with some threat from Domnall, or from Domnall and supporters. Two years later, Domnall was reported in Scotland with a large army. The focus of royal activity at this time was in
198:, reinforces the conviction that Domnall fought, not for the Mormaerdom of Moray, but for the kingship of Scotland. However, his identification is not certain. One reading would give his name as
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best be explained by the assumption that
Domnall's mother was a daughter of Óengus of Moray. Following modern historians, the Meic Uilleim were thus descended from Scots kings.
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to Ross, and raised a rebellion. King
William led a great army north, but failed to bring Gofraid to decisive battle. Late in the year King William returned south, leaving
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William died in 1214, and was succeeded by Alexander. The new chief of the Meic Uilleim, Domnall Bán, brother of Gofraid, in company with Cináed, the chief of the
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Gofraid's revolt is said to have been a bloody affair, and although it was ended relatively quickly, it was, nonetheless, a serious threat to the aged King
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Gille Escoib's revolt, which probably began in 1228, ended in 1229, perhaps as Gofraid's had — in betrayal and execution — or perhaps defeated by
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may be incorrect in dating Gille Escoib's rebellion to 1223, and it is more probably in the period around 1228 that his activities should be placed.
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was brought to an agreement with King William, by diplomacy rather than military success, that affairs in Moray and Ross could be settled.
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record of events until the late 1170s, although it may be that he should be linked to disorders in Moray in the 1160s in the reign of
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he same Mac-William's daughter, who had not long left her mother's womb, innocent as she was, was put to death, in the burgh of
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