Ardneil Huntar (5th Laird)
Clan Chief Ardneil Huntar | |
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| Born | 1220 |
| Died | 1280 (aged 59–60) |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Other names | Ardnell De Huntar |
| Predecessor | John Huntar |
| Successor | Norman Huntar |
| Children | 1 |
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Ardneil Huntar (born 1220) <ref name=":2">Bernard, Burke (1879). A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland. p. 835.</ref><ref name=":0" /> was the 5th chief of Clan Hunter.<ref name=":1">Scottish Clan Family Encyclopedia. Collins. pp. 172–173.</ref> Born in Ayrshire (possibly Hunterston Castle).
There is no records at this time if he was married, however he did have one child.
- Norman Huntar (born 1240) (d. 1280)<ref name=":0">"FamilySearch".</ref>
Ancestral research is still being done by historians on this clan chief.
He was also known as Ardnell De Huntar.<ref name=":0" />
Ardneil Hunter fought in the Battle of Largs<ref>"Transactions of the Glasgow Archaeological Society". The Ancient Accounts of the Battle of Largs. Edinburgh University Press.</ref> and led the clan age after 6 years fighting for King Alexander III.
Nisbet,in treating of the antiquity of the family of Hunter, makes mention of a charter of King Alexander III. ("Quam in Capella nostra irrevocabile fecimus, anno gratias 1271") in which the estate of Manners, resigned by Nicholas Corbet into the hands of the Crown, is conferred upon William Baddebie (or Bakby), with the exception of such lands as had been granted to Norman Hunter by King Malcolm IV.,("Escepta terra quondam Normani Venatoris quod RexMal-colmus frater Regis Wilmi. avi nostri ei dedit,") and this document is likewise referred to in the "Haddington Collections."<ref>Patterson, James (1852). History of the Counties of Ayr and Wigton. pp. 333–334.</ref>
