The Mackenzies exploited the forfeiture of the Earldom of Ross in 1476 to seize Dingwall, the principal town and castle of Easter Ross. Control of Dingwall gave the Mackenzies command of the Cromarty Firth and the eastern approaches to their heartland territory. The seizure of Dingwall was the most important single step in Mackenzie expansion from a western Highland clan to a power spanning all of Ross-shire.
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