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<\/a><\/figure>\nPitgaveny Port (Artists Impression)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
Moray’s Mormaer<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The most important person in 11th century Moray was the Mormaer himself, who would have lived with an extended family and household comprising, among others, poets and cleric\/administrators. The role of Mormaer may have been a royal appointment in origin, but by Macbeth’s time the Mormaer was largely independent, perhaps a sub-King. Certainly Macbeth as Mormaer was the most important and powerful man in the Province of Moray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Evidence from sculpture suggests that leaders such as Macbeth spent much of their time fighting, hunting or praying but sculpture is unlikely to celebrate their more mundane activities such as dispensing justice and directing the administration of the Province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the move<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Macbeth’s household would have moved around Moray rather than staying in one place. He would have had a number of fortified farmsteads, probably including ones in hill-forts at Inverness and Forres and perhaps near Pitgaveny close to Elgin. By moving from place to place the Mormaer could make himself visible and accessible, and collect tribute\/rent in person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n