House of McCloud

The House of McCloud, formerly known as McCloud-Scilly and MacLeod-Scilly, is the reigning royal house of Mobius. An Anglo-American family of Scottish origin, the McClouds are a branch of the MacLeod dynasty, the ducal house of Leod, and a branch of Clan MacLeod. Having held the title of Viscount of Scilly since 1138, the McClouds were awarded the title of Duke of Limerick in 1453, eventually holding the throne in Mobius since 1976.

The Scilly MacLeods originated in 1138 when the youngest son of Duke Philip of Leod was made Viscount of Scilly. The house continued for nearly seven centuries as a cadet branch, serving as nobles under the Plantagenet, Tudor, Stuart, and Hanover monarchs.

The senior lines of the House of MacLeod-Scilly became extinct in the male line in 1687 with the death of James IV, Duke of Limerick. This made the junior MacLeod-Plymouth branch the genealogically senior branch of the House of MacLeod-Scilly. In 1836, at the death of Louis VI, Duke of Leod, the House of MacLeod-Lyon became extinct in the male line. Because there were no other living members of the branches of the House of MacLeod-Foix, the head of the house of McCloud-Scilly, as the senior representative of the senior-surviving branch of the MacLeod dynasty and Clan MacLeod, became Duke of Leod as Peter, Duke of Leod as well as the MacLeod clan chief.

In 1976, the heir to the head of the MacLeod dynasty, Myles, was unexpectedly made King of the Mobians after a couple of referendums in 1975 and 1976, and has reigned since then.

All legitimate, living members of the House of McCloud, including its cadet branches, are direct agnatic descendants of Peter, Duke of Leod through his son Edward, Duke of Leod.