Kenneth, Founder of the House of Kintail
See The Connection of the Macraes with the House of Kintail:
There do not appear to have been any Macraes settled in Kintail as landholders before this, but it is more than probable that several of them had already been in the service of Mackenzie. It is said that Ellandonan Castle was garrisoned by Macraes and Maclennans during the latter part of the thirteenth century, when it was first taken possession of by Kenneth, the founder of the House of Kintail.1 The newly arrived Macrae of Clunes, however, took precedence of the others, and he and his family gradually assumed a position of great importance in the affairs of Kintail.
See Kenneth, Lord Kintail obtains Crown Charter for Glengarry's Possessions in Lochcarron and Lochalsh