Badenoch

Badenoch, a Highland district in the south-east part of Inverness-shire, 45 miles long by 19 broad, bounded by Lochaber, Athole, Braemar, and Moray, and traversed by the Spey. It is much covered with forest, and is chiefly composed of gneiss rock, with a little granite. It was a lordship, held from 1230 by the eldest branch of the great house of Comyn, on whose forfeiture in 1306 Bruce bestowed it on his nephew Randolph. In 1371 King Robert II. gave it to his son, 'the Wolf of Badenoch,' on the failure of whose descendants it reverted to the crown, which, in 1452, granted it to the Earl of Huntly.