The 'New' MacGregors 1066-2002

About the Book

This book is an insight to the Gregarach, or MacGregor Clan. If nothing else, it will be a controversial finding of the origin of the MacGregors. The chroniclers have never before thought of tracing the clan through the Balliols and spent their efforts on trying to connect the clan with King Kenneth I of Scotland. The clue seems to be when John Balliol emerges in 1313 and marries that same year, using his real name. This was a time when it was not safe to use the name, but he prevailed, emerged in the same year of his father’s death, and started the Clan Alpine, living to a ripe old age. He was buried at the High Altar of Dysart, the burial ground of the later chiefs of the MacGregors.

His oldest son, Gregor, was the first chief of the MacGregors, which grew to a great and powerful clan, and became a political threat to the underling Clan Campbell, who were bent on destroying the MacGregors and grasping power and land by doing so.

Although they tried, the Campbells could never take away the royal race of the MacGregors, and this history of the Clan deals with their royalty through the courts of Scotland and England, and back to William the Conqueror.

About the Author

Mrs. Triplett’s novel is a companion in Medieval historical fiction to her first book, “The New MacGregors, 1066-2002.” This book offers the intimate details in the succession of events, in the courts of England and Scotland, which led to the formation of one of Scotland’s leading clans of the Medieval era--the MacGregors.