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Clan MacDuff or Clan Duff is a Lowland Scottish clan. [5] The clan does not currently have a chief and is therefore considered an armigerous clan , which is registered with the Lyon Court . [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The early chiefs of Clan MacDuff were the original Earls of Fife , although this title went to the Stewarts of Albany in the late fourteenth ...
The current baron is The Much Honoured Eric Cotton Dexter, 9th Baron of MacDuff. [1] The title originates in Macduf contained mostly within the boundaries of the Town of Macduff, in the Banff and Buchan area of Aberdeenshire, Scotland. [2] Clan MacDuff traces origins to the historic, Lowland, Scottish Duff Clan. [3]
This is the most conventional MacDuff tartan used today by the clan. (This particular MacDuff tartan is also among those used by Clan Spens.) It is unclear whether this first appeared in their 1819 Key Pattern Book or in earlier of their records (which survive to the 1780s).
The theory that Clan MacDuff were descendants of Kenneth III was based on their close connection to royalty. Andrew of Wyntoun reported that Malcolm III (reigned 1058–1093) had granted to a "MacDuff, thane of Fife" the privilege of enthroning the kings at their inauguration. John of Fordun has Malcolm III promise this same unnamed MacDuff ...
Pages in category "Clan MacDuff" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The deputy or complementary position to mormaer or earl of Fife was leadership as Chief (ceann) of Clan MacDuff (clann meic Duibh).There is little doubt that the style MacDuib, or Macduff, derives from the name of King Cináed III mac Duib, and ultimately from this man's father, King Dub (d. 966). [1]
Clan MacDuff, a Scottish clan; Macduff of Fife (fl. 1297–1298), figure in the Wars of Scottish Independence; Alistair MacDuff (born 1945), British judge of the High Court of England and Wales; Isabella MacDuff, Countess of Buchan (fl. 1306–1313), figure in the Wars of Scottish Independence; Jack MacDuff (born 1950), Canadian air traffic ...
English: The tartan of Clan MacDuff as recorded (and probably directly invested around 1839) by the "Sobieski Stuarts" in Vestiarium Scoticum (published 1842). This is not the sett that is most often used as MacDuff today (for that, see File:MacDuff tartan (1819, Wilsons), tileable.png).