The leaders of the Gaelic kindreds in the north and west were summoned by James ostensibly to a sitting of parliament in Inverness. Of those assembled the king arrested around 50 of them including Alexander, the third Lord of the Isles, and his mother, Mariota, Countess of Ross, around 24 August.Brown, James I, pp. 96–97 A few were executed but the remainder, except Alexander and his mother, were quickly released.
The leaders of the Gaelic kindreds in the north and west were summoned by James ostensibly to a sitting of parliament in Inverness. Of those assembled the king arrested around 50 of them including Alexander, the third Lord of the Isles, and his mother, Mariota, Countess of Ross around 24 August.Brown, James I pp 96–97 A few were executed but the remainder, except Alexander and his mother, were quickly released.