Eoghan de Ergadia, Laird of Latharna

Who is Eoghan de Ergadia, Laird of Latharna?

Eoghan mac Eoinn, lord of Latharna was a 14th-century Scottish Highland magnate.

Eoghan was the grandson of Ailean mac Eoin, a cadet of the exiled House of Ergadia who was in English service in the 1320s, and son of Eoin mac Ailein, known as 'Gallda' who styled himself 'Lord of Argyll', who made a return to Scotland, to claim or hold some of their ancestral estates.

It is not known whether it was his father, or only Eoghan himself, who made a reconciliation with the kings of the Bruce dynasty, but in mid-14th century, such a reconciliation occurred.

There are records which show that their family, in the 1350s, also made some agreement with their agnatic kinsman, the Lord of the Isles, whose lineage had received a lot of the old Ergadia-family lands from the victorious Bruce.

Eoghan married Janet Isaac, a granddaughter of Robert the Bruce, which signals of a reconciliation, even some favour, from the king David II, heir of the Bruce, and uncle of Janet.

In 1357 Eoghan had a grant of all the lands that had belonged to his great-great-grandfather Alasdair of Latharna in Lorne.