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CELTIC KNOT  Mac Corquodale  CELTIC KNOT
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CREST: A stag standing at gaze proper, attired Gules.
MOTTO: Vivat rex.
TRANSLATION: Long life to the King.
PLANT: Unknown.
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The name originates from Old Norse Thorketill (Thor's kettle),The Norse name is clearly descriptive, relating to the god of thunder and storms. According to Anderson, the founder of the clan was one Thorkil who was part of the Scots army of Kenneth, called MacAlpin, who fought against the Picts around 834. The story goes that Alpin, King of the Scots, had been killed in battle prior to Kenneth' s arrival from Ireland. The late king' s head was fixed upon a spike in the midst of the Pictish camp, and Kenneth offered a grant of land to anyone in his army who would recover the head. Thorkil is said to have accomplished this feat and the king, good as his word, rewarded him with a charter of land. There is no record of this grant, but in 1434, Ewan, son of Ewan Makcorquydill, received a grant of lands, and in the charter he is described as "Lord of Maintelan". The author, George Black states that this was properly Phanteland and the Mc Corquodales of Phantelands were to become the most prominent branch of the Mc Corquodale family.
The name is often given as a sept of the MacLeod on no more evidence than that it is derived from 'son of Thorketill, or Torquil', the latter name being that of the progenitor of the MacLeods of Lewis. Such name is of Scandinavian origin meaning "Cauldron of the Thunder Spirit"and undoubtedly would have spread wherever the marauding Norsemen stamped their influence. The traditional account of the MacCorquodales makes them of more ancient origin than the MacLeods, for the lands of Fionnt Eilean comprised, at one time, the northern shore of Loch Awe from Avich to Ard-an-aiseig, and such are said to have been granted to another Torquil, progenitor of the MacCorquodales, by King Kenneth MacAlpin. There is no evidence that this Torquil was of Clan Leod and the name MacCorquodale appears seldom, if ever, in the histories of that clan. It is evident by their Argyllshire habitat and title that the MacCorquodales are a distinct Clan  whose chiefs were the Barons MacCorquodale of Phantelane (The 'White Island' - Eilean-a-Bharain on Loch Tromlee). From their island castle they held Baronial power over the thousands of mountainous acres which have been their domain since at least the 13th century. In 1428 Euan MacCorquodale and the chief of the Campbells were summoned to Court, with their charters in order that adjudication might be made in a land dispute with Scrymgeour, Constable of Dundee, who held the neighbouring lands of Glassary. Such was resolved when Euan's son, Malcolm, married the Constable's daughter in 1436. The Dean of Lismore's book of Gaelic poetry (collected 1514-1551) contains verses by Effric nighean Thorcaidill, poetess of the clan, and in 1542 the MacCorquodale lands were re-incorporated by royal charter as a free barony. In 1612, younger sons of the chief were charged by the Privy Council for consorting with proscribed MacGregors and the clan history and succession in the rest of that century is confused by two step brothers each contested the other's claim. The MacCorquodales supported the Campbells in the Civil Wars and 'Colkitto' MacDonald sacked their island home in 1645. Since the death of the last Baron in the 18th century the chiefship has been uncertain.
There were still Mc Corquodales dwelling on Loch Aweside towards the end of the eighteenth century, claiming direct descent from Torquil (Thorkil), from whom the chiefly line descended. Sir Malcolm Mac Corquodale, who died in 1971, was raised to the peerage as Lord Mac Corquodale of Newton, but this title is now extinct.
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