Walter Bailloch, also known as Walter Bailloch Stewart, was distinguished by the sobriquet Bailloch or Balloch, a Gaelic nickname roughly translated as "the freckled". He was the Earl of Menteith jure uxoris.
The effigy of Walter and his wife, Mary I, Countess of Menteith.
View of the Chapter House of Inchmahome Priory; effigies on the right represent the Countess Mary and Walter, Earl of Menteith.
Dubhghall mac Suibhne was a Scottish landholder in Argyll, and a leading member of Clann Suibhne. He was a son of Suibhne mac Duinn ShlÊibhe, and appears to have held lordship of Knapdale from at least the 1240s to the 1260s, and may have initiated the construction of Skipness Castle and Lochranza Castle.
Now-ruinous Skipness Castle may have been constructed by Dubhghall. From this site, the castle's occupants would have had a clear view across the Kilbrannan Sound to Arran. The castle is first attested in 1261 by a charter which describes Dubhghall as its lord.
Now-ruinous Lochranza Castle may have been built by Dubhghall. The visible tower house is what remains of a late mediaeval redevelopment of a thirteenth-century hall house.
Ruinous Castle Sween, one of Scotland's oldest standing stone castles, seems to have been built by Dubhghall's father, eponym of both Clann Suibhne and the castle itself.
Coat of arms of Alexander II as it appears on folio 146v of British Library Royal 14 C VII (Historia Anglorum). The inverted shield represents the king's death in 1249.
