Document 3/31/1 (Pais. Reg., 126)
- Description
- Donald son of Rognvald son of Somerled, made brother, and his wife a sister, in the chapter of the house of Paisley [Abbey], and in the whole Cluniac order, and he, remaining a true brother and a good friend of the said monks his brothers of Paisley in perpetuity, with his heirs and his men, having acquired the fraternitas of the said house and the participation in prayers and other benefits of the whole Cluniac order from the said monks, has granted them his donation, by the testimony of his seal, eight cows, for the welfare of himself and his wife, from every house from which smoke is expelled, and his donation of 1d. annually, or in any year for the same denarius, eight cows. And because he and his heirs and men are participating, and will be in perpetuity, in all the good things that the house of Paisley and the whole order does and will do in perpetuity, in prayers as well as in divine services, he has given to them and granted, and established by this present script, corroborated with authority of his seal, his firm peace and that of all his heirs and his men, with the maintenance of good fraternity, wherever they or their men may come, with maintenance of the fraternity wherever they or their men may come, on land or on sea, beseeching his friends and instructing all his men that anywhere they may find his brothers the monks, or their men, they should support them, and in their affairs assist them, knowing for certain that by St Columba if any of his men or others do evil, Donald will be able to judge them, on pain of punishment by death.
- Firm date
- 1164 X 1210
- Dating Notes
- Death of Somerled ×
- Source for Data Entry
- Paisley Registrum, 126
- Trad. ID
- Pais. Reg., 126
- Calendar number
- 3/31/1
- Charter type
- Charter
- Language
- Latin
- Notes
- Donald is the progenitor of the MacDonald kindred. Note that this charter has very similar language to 3/30/3 and the same witnesses listed, suggesting that it may have been composed at the same time.