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The following is a list of Scottish clans (with and without chiefs) – including, when known, their heraldic crest badges, tartans, mottoes, and other information. The crest badges used by members of Scottish clans are based upon armorial bearings recorded by the Lord Lyon King of Arms in the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland .
Clan Sutherland also known as House of Sutherland is a Highland Scottish clan whose traditional territory is the shire of Sutherland in the far north of Scotland.The chief of the clan was also the powerful Earl of Sutherland; however, in the early 16th century, this title passed through marriage to a younger son of the chief of Clan Gordon. [7]
The crest badge of Clan Macfie contains as a crest: a demi lion rampant, proper. [34] The motto which encircles the crest is: pro rege, which translated from Latin means "for the king". [34] Although today crest badges are more commonly used by clan members, the original badges worn by clansmen were plant badges or clan badges.
The Royal Arms of Scotland [2] is a coat of arms symbolising Scotland and the Scottish monarchs.The blazon, or technical description, is "Or, a lion rampant Gules armed and langued Azure within a double tressure flory counter-flory of the second", meaning a red lion with blue tongue and claws on a yellow field and surrounded by a red double royal tressure flory counter-flory device.
In 1463 Branxholme became a free barony on the annual payment of a red rose to the Crown on the feast day of St John the Baptist. [ 3 ] The Scotts had become one of the most powerful of all the Border clans by the end of the fifteenth century and the chief could call upon a thousand spears to support him. [ 3 ]
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A Scottish crest badge is a heraldic badge worn to show allegiance to an individual or membership in a specific Scottish clan. [1] Crest badges are commonly called "clan crests", but this is a misnomer; there is no such thing as a collective clan crest, just as there is no such thing as a clan coat of arms. Crest badges consist of a heraldic ...
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