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- Fifth Chief
- Known as Lachlan the Cunning
- The first recorded mention of the Macleans of Duart is in a papal dispensation of 1367 which allowed their Chief Lachlan Lubanach Maclean to marry the daughter of the Lord of the Isles, Mary Macdonald. (Marry was also the granddaughter of Robert II, King of the Scots) This it is said, was a love match, and her father was persuaded to to allow it only after he had been kidnapped by Lachlan (an incident in which the Chief of the Mackinnons was killed). Thus the Macleans came to own much of Mull , the Mackinnon lands being granted to them by the Macdonalds as a dowry.
- This marriage made Lachlan Lubanach the son-in-law to his overlord where he was eventually appointed chamberlain to the Household of MacDonald (the second highest position in the feudal system). It also made him grandson by marriage to Robert II, King of the Scots
- His marriage and political positioning made him the most powerful MacLean at the time; and also earned him his nick name was Lachlan Lubanach or Lachlan the crafty
- built a four story keep outside, but against the north side of the curtain wall and a deep ditch was cut from the rock on the landward side
- Since his time, the House of Duart has been officially recognized as the chiefly line
- Died About 1405
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