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From earliest times, the Clan Brodie were associated with the province of Moray. In the 12th century King Malcolm IV confirmed their possession of land there, and Michael, Thane of Brodie, received a charter from Robert the Bruce two or three years before the battle of Bannockburn. During the 13th 14th and 15th centuries the family name appeared frequently in the charters of the period, and John of Brodie, assisted the MacKenzies against MacDonalds at the famous battle of Blair-na-park in 1466, which contributed to the fall of the ancient Earldom of Ross. In 1550 Alexander Brodie and over a hundred others were denounced rebels for attacking Alexander Cumming of Altyre.
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It is possible to trace the descendancy of this famous clan to Normandy, France in the 11th century. Robert de Brus followed William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy to England in 1066
The foundation of the royal house of Bruce was laid when Robert, 4th Lord of Annandale, married Isobel, niece of William of Lion. Not only did this confirm the regal gesture of the grant of the lands of Annandale, but it was the foundation upon which all future Bruce claims to the crown would be made. On the invitation of The 8th Robert the Bruce (1274 - 1329) John Comyn met him on February 1306 in the church of Minorite Friars at Dumfries. Robert stabbed his rival in the heart, thus emphatically staking his claim to the Crown. He was crowned King at Scone Palace on 27th March 1306. Though he was excommunicated for this act of sacrilege, he continued to show the resolve that had won him the crown in dissuading the sceptics who doubted the validity of his claim and the substance of his leadership. This struggle for Scottish independence culminated in the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 which heralded a period of reconstruction and the successful process of unifying a war-torn nation. Click here to view more information on Clan Bruce
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|  | Prints of Cameron Clan Lands can be found by clicking on your tartan
It is generally believed that the first chief was Donald Dubh, who was descended from the Macgillonies or the mediaeval Camerons of Ballegarno. Donald Dubh, born c1400, helped to establish his fortunes when he married the heiress of the Macmartins of Letterfinlay. He became famous when he gathered tribes together into the confederation of Clan Cameron, a united Clan with a strong leadership. Henceforth the chiefs were called Captains of Clan Cameron until the 16th century when the lands of Lochiel were raised into a Barony.
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The first Cunningham is believed to have been a Flemish man named Wernibald, who took on the placename as his own when he received a grant of Kilmaurs in Cunningham, Ayrshire from Hugo de Morville, the Constable of Scotland, in 1140.
Haakon IV, King of Norway, arrived off the coast of this area to re-assert his rule over Scotland’s Isles in 1263. This led to the sea battle of Largs from which Haakon would never return home. For his part in the battle, Harvey Cunningham of Kilmaurs had his family’s property expanded by Alexander II.
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| |  | Prints of Erskine Clan Lands can be found by clicking on your tartan
The name is derived from the Barony of Erskine on the south of the Clyde in Renfrew which was owned by Henry de Erskine The name itself may be from the ancient British for green rising ground. John de Irskyn appears on the Ragman Roll of Scottish nobles submitting to Edward I of England in 1296.
Sir Robert de Erskine was appointed Lord Great Chamberlain of Scotland and justiciar north of the Forth 1350 - 57 . He was also appointed by David II to be constable and keeper of the strategic castle of Stirling.
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The Fullartons are a sept of the Stuarts of Bute.
The Stewarts descend from the Norman seneschals of Dol in Brittany who came to England with William the Conqueror.
Sir Walter's son and Bruce's grandson, Robert Stewart became Robert II. His son, John, succeeded his father as Robert III, taking the name Robert because John was the name of an English King and of a Scottish claimant to the throne. His son, Robert the Duke of Albany, served as regent during his father s reigns, brother and nephew.
Sir James Stuart of Bute was created a Baronet of Nova Scotia by Charles I in 1627.
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The likely origin of this family is Anglo Norman by the fact that the Manor of Gregham, or Greyhome, is recorded in William the Conqueror s Doomsday Book. When David I claimed the thrown of Scotland, Graham was one of the knights that accompanied him. Sir William de Graham was present at the erection of the Abby of Holyrood and witnessed its founding charter. In 1290 Sir Nicholas de Graham attended the Parliament where the Treaty of Brigham was made for the marriage of the infant heir to the thrown of Scotland, Margaret the Maid of Norway, to Prince Edward of England was agreed.
The lands first acquired by the family appear to have been around Dalkeith in Midlothian. Marrying into the princely family of Strathearn, they attained the lands around Auchterarder which became their principal seat. The clan acquired the lands of Mugdock north of Glasgow, where they built a castle c. 1370.
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The Hays descend from William de la Haye, Butler of Scotland, who was a cadet of the seigneurs de la Haye Hue in Normandy who came to Scotland c. 1160. He married a Celtic heiress and c. 1178 received the Barony of Errol. He was a cup bearer to Malcolm IV and it is thought that he was descended from powerful Norman Princes who followed William the Conqueror to England in 1066. The origin of the name is from the French La Haye, which is a place name in Normandy meaning the stockade.
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|  | Prints of Kennedy Clan Lands can be found by clicking on your tartan
Kennedy comes from the Gaelic word cinneidigh, which in ancient Ireland meant "ugly headed". Crossing the Irish Sea to settle in an area of Dalriada now called Carrick in Ayrshire, they were probably led by Gilbert, whose son Duncan became the 1st Earl of Carrick in the 12th century.
They supported the Bruces before and through the Wars of Independence and were rewarded. Around 1360 John Kennedy became owner of lands at Cassillis and in 1457 his descendant, Gilbert, was created Lord Kennedy. Gilbert's younger brother James was Bishop of St Andrews and founder of Scotland's first university, the University of St Andrews.
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During the reign of Malcolm III there were many new settlers in Scotland including one nobleman, Bartolf who settled in Aberdeenshire. Bartolf is generally considered to be the progenitor of the Leslies and was respected by Malcolm III; being in royal favour allowed him to become the governor of Edinburgh Castle as well as being granted estates in Fife, Angus, the Mearns and Aberdeenshire.
Bartolf established himself in a district of Aberdeen then called Lesselyn where he erected a castle. The name changed its spelling to Lesley and the name still exists in many forms.
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Between the 6th and 9th centuries, Danes lived in one of the little kingdoms of Lincolnshire in England to which, after the Norman Conquest, Baldric of Lindsay came to be tenant of the manors under the Earl of Chester.
The Lindsay name was already well known across England at this time. In 1120 Sir Walter Lindsay was a member of the council of David, Earl of Huntingdon in England, who became King of Scots in 1124. Sir Walter’s successor, either his son or brother William, came to Scotland with the new King.
William Lindsay acquired Crawford in Lanarkshire and gave some of his Ayrshire land to Dryburgh Abbey.
In the following century Sir David Lindsay of Crawford and the Byres supported St Louis, King of France, on a crusade. He died in Egypt. By then the family had expanded prosperously on both sides of the border and the war of independence brought them great dilemmas.
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The Ragman Roll of 1296, states that Maurice de Arncaple, who submitted to Edward I of England, was the ancestor of the Lairds of Ardincaple, which was to become the principal Macaulay seat. In 1587 Sir Aulay Macaulay of Ardincaple was noted as a principal vassal of the Earls of Lennox.
Whether the connection between the Macgregors and the Macaulays was one of descent or not, they became closely connected, and a bond of manrent was entered into on 27 May 1591 between Macgregor of Glen Strae and the Laird of Ardincaple; in it, Macaulay acknowledged the superiority of Macgregor and agreed to pay him tribute in cattle.
The Macaulays of Lewis asserted that they were of Norse descent, their name meaning simply, 'son of Olaf'. One of the chiefs of the Lewis Macaulays in the sixteenth century was known as Donald Camm, meaning Donald One Eye
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The King of Norway, sailed across the North Sea in 1098 to re-establish his country’s power in Celtic lands. He made an agreement with Edgar, King of Scots, that he would settle for all the islands of the west coast he could reach whilst his boat’s rudder was in a fixed position. He then proceeded to have his boat towed around by his men and claimed not only the isles but the peninsula that is Kintyre.
Fifty years later King Somerled took Kintyre and the islands back. When King Somerled was killed fighting Malcolm IV in 1164, he was succeeded by his son Dougall. From Dougall would come the Clan MacDougall and from Dougall’s son Ranald came a grandson Donald, progenitor of the mighty Clan MacDonald.
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Clan Duff originated from the Royal Scoto-Pictish line, of which Queen Gruoch stood as its senior representative. She and her second husband, MacBeth, would be immortalised by William Shakespeare in literature. Her son succeeded the throne but was murdered in 1058, whereby Malcolm Canmore won the throne. His son Aedh, married Margaret of Moray, the granddaughter of Owen Gruoch, and became both the Earl of Fife and the Abbott of Abernethy (the ancient Pictish capital).
He bore on his shield the red lion rampant becoming the undisputed premier subject of the kingdom. After his death in 1128, the men of Moray made a few unsuccessful attempts to claim the throne whilst Clan Duff was to give its allegiances to Queen Margaret.
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The clan claims descent from Griogar, a son of Alpin, king of Dalriada
MacGregors were involved in the killing of John Drummond, the king's forester (after Drummond had hung some MacGregors for poaching) in 1589 and MacGregors took part in the Conflict of Glenfruin in 1603. With encouragement from the Campbells, King James VI and the Privy Council issued an edict banning the use of the name MacGregor. The clan chief was hanged at Edinburgh's Mercat Cross in 1604. Many adopted the name Murray, Graham, Stewart, Grant and even Campbell. The surname was not fully restored until 1774.
Rob Roy MacGregor (he was forced to use his mother's maiden name Campbell due to the proscription of the MacGregor name) was a younger son of MacGregor of Glengyle. He took part in the first Jacobite Uprising in 1715. Afterwards, his raids on Lowland farms and his prowess with the sword earned him a reputation which was considerably enhanced by Sir Walter Scott's romantic tales. Rob Roy died peacefully in 1734 and is buried with his family in the churchyard at Balquhidder. A 20th century addition to his grave is defiantly inscribed "MacGregor Despite Them"!
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The surname MacIver is an Anglicisation of the Gaelic name Mac Íomhair (son of Íomhar). Íomhair is the Gaelic form of the Old Norse personal name Ivarr.
The MacIvers of Argyll are said to have descended from an early Campbell, Iver Crom, while the MacIvers from northern Scotland are thought likely to be of Norse origin.
The northern MacIvers/MacIvors were thought to have been among the ancient inhabitants of Kintail, of these the “MacIvors, MacAulas, MacBollans, and Clan Tarlach” were thought to have descended from Norwegian families.
According to legend, a stronghold of the MacIvers was the ancient fort of Dun Mor (Dunmore), located near Lochgilphead.
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In Gaelic, this name is rendered as Macaoidh meaning son of Hugh, but is thought that the name comes from a branch of the ancient Celtic royal house.
Walter Mackay, chamberlain to Adam, bishop of Caithness, married that prelate's daughter, and had a son, Martin, who received from his maternal grandfather certain church lands in Strathnaver.
Martin had a son, Magnus, who fought at Bannockburn under Bruce, and had two sons, Morgan and Farquhar. From Morgan the clan derived their Gaelic name of Clan wie Worgan, or Morgan.
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|  | Prints of Mackenzie Clan Lands can be found by clicking on your tartan
From the Gaelic "Maccoinneach" meaning "fair, bright one", the MacKenzies are thought to descend from the ancient royal house of Lorn. The clan held lands in Ross-shire, stretching from the Outer Hebrides in the west, to the Black Isle in the east.
The western stronghold of the clan MacKenzie was at Eilean Donan Castle at the mouth of Loch Duich. During the seventeenth century, the MacKenzies installed the clan MacRae as hereditary constables of the castle, and the MacRaes were to remain fiercely loyal to the family for many centuries.
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|  | Prints of MacKinnon Clan Lands can be found by clicking on your tartan
The MacKinnons, one of the branches of the Siol Alpine, claim to be descended from Fingon, a great-grandson of Kenneth MacAlpine. The MacKinnons held lands in Mull and Skye, and from the earliest times appear to have been vassals of the Lord of the Isles, and in 1409 Lachlan MacKinnon witnessed a charter of the Lord of the Isles. Until the forfeiture of the Lordship of the Isles, the history of the MacKinnons is bound up with that important family.
The MacKinnons were intimately connected between the ecclesiastical history of Iona, and the Abbot of that holy island was John MacKinnon, who died in 1550.
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|  | Prints of MacLeod Clan Lands can be found by clicking on your tartan
Descended from the Norse kings of Man and the North Isles, the clan of MacLeod comprised two main branches, the MacLeods of Skye and the MacLeods of Lewis. The MacLeods of Skye established the seat at Dunvegan, which remains the chief's seat to this day.
The name of this branch of the MacLeod clan, "Siol Tormod" from Tormod, grandson of Olaf the Black, who founded the clan. Tormod's son supported Robert the Bruce in the War of Independence but, by and large, the MacLeods retained their own spirit of independence through the tortuous politics of fourteenth and fifteenth century Scotland.
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|  | Prints of MacMillan Clan Lands can be found by clicking on your tartan
The Macmillans can trace their origins to the ancient Celtic past of Scotland; they descend from an old royal house of Scotland as well being the followers of the Celtic church.
The progenitor of the Macmillans was Gillie Chriosd, 'disciple of Christ', who was one of the sons of Dunkeld.
When the mormaership of Moray became extinct under David I, and the area was settled with Normans, the Macmillans settled on the shores of Loch Archaig in Lochaber.
Towards the end of the 13th century, upon the death of the Maid of Norway, at Orkney in 1290, the family were well established on their lands. Robert the Bruce famously settled his personal dispute with John, the Red Comyn, by stabbing him in Greyfriars Church in Dumfries. When the Comyns gathered their allies and rose against the king, Bruce was forced to flee to the Highlands to safety.
Gilbert is thought to be the progenitor of the Macmillans of Brockloch who existed as a large and important branch of the Galloway Macmillans. When Robert II's son, David II, chose to rise against the powerful Lord of the Isles, the Macmillans chose to stand with the Lordship.
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Clan Montgomery is one of the oldest Scottish Clans, and its chronicles are closely interwoven with Scottish history. The progenitors of this Clan were Norman and came from the Castle of Sainte Foy de Montgomery, near Lissieux, Normandy, France. Roger de Montgomery arrived in England with his kinsman, William the Conqueror, in 1066. In 1069 Roger was granted lands on the Welsh border in the County which later took his name, Montgomeryshire. In 1083 he built Shrewsbury Abbey where he is entombed. According to the Doomsday
Book, in 1086 he owned 150 castles and lordships within ten counties of England. Roger's grandson Robert de Montgomery, went to Scotland with Walter FitzAlan, also of the Welsh border country, who became High Steward of Scotland and progenitor of the great Stewart Clan. Robert was granted lands by King David I of Scotland in Renfrewshire, and the manor of Eaglesham became the Clan seat of the Montgomerys for many centuries.
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|  | Prints of Morrison Clan Lands can be found by clicking on your tartan
There is little in the way of historical information on the origins of Clan Morrison. It is generally accepted that the hereditary judges, or brieves, of the Isle of Lewis until that office disappeared in the early 1600's. The seat of the brieves was at Habost in Ness, near the Butt of Lewis. One tradition is that this line of brieves were descended from a Morrison heiress of the original line and a Macdonald of Ardnamurchan who married her in the 1300's. The Morrisons of Harris claim to be of the original line.
The Gaelic name of the Morrisons is Mac Ghille Mhoire, which means "son of the servant of the Virgin Mary." Gille Mhoire was once a common name in Gaelic-speaking areas since it was the practice to name children after Christian saints in this fashion. The choice of the saint's name may have been connected with the name of the local church, and there were more churches named after the Virgin Mary than any other saint.
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The Murrays stand in history as a powerful and influential clan. It has been suggested that the Murrays have their origins in the Pictish kingdom of Moray. Despite this it is now more generally accepted that the progenitor of the clan was Freskin, a Flemish Knight who arrived in England after the Norman Conquest to ensure peace and order. David I of Scotland sought to stabilise and unify his fragmented kingdom and so recruited some of these knights, awarding them with land, to ensure loyal subject in the more turbulent areas of Scotland. Freskin was awarded with lands in Moray; his grandson William held so much land in the region that he was dubbed de Moravia .
Sir Walter s son, Sir William died without the issue of his title which allowed his brother, Sir Andrew, to succeed him. Sir Andrew was famous for being a strong supporter of the cause of Wallace and without his strategic knowledge to help Wallace, the war against the English could have been quickly lost. His son was noted for being the one who sent the letters to the Mayors of Lubreck and Hamburg stating that the Scottish ports were open for trading.
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The name of Napier has a long and ancient history, being descended from the Celtic royal families of Scotland and Ireland. It has been suggested that the name derives from the "naperer" the officer of the royal household in charge of linen. However, another, and more romantic, origin suggests that a young knight of the Earl of Lennox was honoured for his valour by William the Lion, who described him as having "nae peer".
The earliest recorded reference to the name of Napier is in a charter of the Earl of Lennox in 1280, granting lands in Dunbartonshire to John de Naper. These lands were to be held for eighteen generations of Napiers, before being sold in 1820.
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The lands of Ogilvy are in Angus. The name derives from the old British, Ocel fa or high plain .
Angus was a kingdom in Pictish times ruled by a mormaer, one of the ancient Celtic nobles of Scotland who became the first earls. The title of Mormaer of Angus became Earl of Angus. Gillebride, Earl of Angus, gave the lands of Ogilvy to his son, Gilbert, some time before 1177. Patrick de Ogilvy appears on the Ragman Roll of nobles swearing fealty to Edward I of England in 1296.
The Ogilvys became hereditary sheriffs of Angus in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
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Although tradition claims that clan Donnachie descends from the Macdonalds, the Robertsons probably descend from Crinan, Lord of Atholl and hereditary Lay Abbot of Dunkeld. From Crinan sprang the royal house of Duncan I, King of Scots.
The Robertsons are more properly called Clan Donnachaidh, from Duncan, fifth in descent from Conan of Glenerochie. Duncan supported Robert the Bruce and his clan fought at Bannockburn.
In 1437 the chief, Robert, arrested and delivered to the government Sir Robert Graham and the Master of Athole, two of James I 's murderers, for which he was rewarded with a crown charter, in 1451. His grandsons became progenitors of various families of Robertsons.
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The Stewarts are one of the most famous families in Scotland, existing, at one time, as Scotland's monarchs. The clan is thought to have descended from the seneschals of Dol, Brittany; they settled in England around the time of the Norman Conquest. During this time David I, King of Scotland, was trying to unify his fragmented kingdom and usurp the powerful Somerled, Lord of the Isles. To establish his control David recruited new, loyal subjects to his country by rewarding them with lands. Walter Fladd was created as the 1st High Stewart of Scotland, holding lands in Renfrewshire and Lothian, hence the Stewarts became established in Scotland.
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The Stewarts descend from the Norman seneschals of Dol in Brittany who came to England with William the Conqueror.
Sir Walter's son and Bruce's grandson, Robert Stewart became Robert II. His son, John, succeeded his father as Robert III, taking the name Robert because John was the name of an English King and of a
Scottish claimant to the throne. His son, Robert the Duke of Albany, served as regent during his father s reigns, brother and nephew.
Sir James Stuart of Bute was created a Baronet of Nova Scotia by Charles I in 1627.
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The family are probably of Flemish origin, descended from Freskin, whose grandson, Hugh, was granted land in Moray around the year 1130 by David I.
Kenneth, fourth Earl of Sutherland, was killed with the regent of Scotland and three other earls while fighting against the English in 1333 at the Battle of Halidon Hill.
William, the fifth Earl, was married first to Princess Margaret, daughter of Robert the Bruce and sister of David II. He was murdered in 1370 by the Mackays in a feud which was to last for at least the next four centuries
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In old Latin documents the term Walensis is used to designate the Welsh, but in Scotland is more commonly used as a native name meaning a Strathclyde Briton and not, as is often thought, a Welshman coming in the train of the Norman French. It is from this Walensis that the name Wallace is derived.
The name of the clan Wallace is first found in records in the twelfth century as holding extensive lands around Ayrshire and Renfrewshire. Richard Walensis of Riccarton is hailed as the founder of the Wallace family.
The motto of the Wallace clan is "Pro Libertate - for liberty" and no member of the family encompasses that ideal more than the great Scottish patriot, Sir William Wallace of Elderslie. The Wallace clan had refused to submit to Edward I, and William led his family and fellow patriots in what was to be one of the earliest guerrilla campaigns in military history.
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