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The Clan Graham fought at the Battle of Dunbar in 1296 where Sir Patrick de Graham of Kincardine was the only man of all the Scots not to retreat and instead fought to the death. [6] Sir John de Graham, was a friend and follower of William Wallace. [7] Sir John de Graham is regarded as hero for rescuing Wallace at Queensbury. [7]
Robert Graham of Fintry, the 12th Laird, sold the estate due to financial difficulties. He was a Commissioner of Excise and had close links with the poet Robert Burns as patron, friend and correspondent. The Family sold the lands around Fintry Castle in the 19th century when they settled in South Africa in Grahamstown.
Graham (/ ˈ ɡ r eɪ ə m, ɡ r æ m /) [1] is a surname of Scottish and English origin. It is typically an Anglo-French form of the name of the town of Grantham, in Lincolnshire, England. [2]
Heraldry was traditionally "a masculine practice" and "there are far more examples of women using their father’s or husband’s arms than being granted their own." [9] These women were known as heraldic heiresses. Matthew died in 1602 in Latton, Essex. [10]
Heraldry developed in the High Middle Ages based on earlier traditions of visual identification by means of seals, field signs, emblems used on coins, etc. Notably, lions that would subsequently appear in 12th-century coats of arms of European nobility have pre-figurations in the animal style of ancient art (specifically the style of Scythian art as it developed from c. the 7th century BC).
English heraldry is the form of coats of arms and other heraldic bearings and insignia used in England.It lies within the so-called Gallo-British tradition.Coats of arms in England are regulated and granted to individuals by the English kings of arms of the College of Arms.