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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 .
Between 1372–1450, Crotach M'Gillie Gorm was the Chief of the Northern Clan Logan. From that date up to 1564, the chiefs were buried in Kilmuir, Western Kirkyard, as is recorded on Thomas Logan's tomb, but time has worn them away, and the names are no longer legible, but other Logans there are readable.
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The first truly Scottish armorial dates only from 1508. [34] [Note 5] Two of the oldest and most important works on the subject of Scottish heraldry are The Science of Herauldry by George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, first published in 1680, and A System of Heraldry by Alexander Nisbet, first published in 1722. [35]
The motto which appears on the crest badge is GENEROSITATE, which translates from Latin either as "by generosity" or "by inheritance", or a combination of the two. The crest itself is a lion issuant Or armed and langued Gules. [7] The heraldic elements with the crest badge are derived from the Arms of Nicolson of that Ilk.
The principal Scottish family of Clan Spens descend from one of the ancient Earls of Fife.John 'Dispensator' or 'Le Dispenser' appeared in a list of the tenants and vassals of Walter fitz Alan Steward of Scotland on the period 1161–1171.
Roger Kirkpatrick was an attendant of Robert the Bruce when he killed John "the Red" Comyn, chief of Clan Comyn in the church at Dumfries. [1] It is said that Kirkpatrick met the Bruce rushing out of the church exclaiming that he thought he had killed Comyn and that Kirkpatrick then drew his dagger with the words, I mak sikkar; meaning “I make sure”; the clan motto and chief's coat of arms ...
A romanticised Victorian-era illustration of a Fergusson clansman by R. R. McIan from The Clans of the Scottish Highlands published in 1845. Clan Fergusson is a Scottish clan . [ 2 ] Known as the Sons of Fergus they have spread across Scotland from as far as Ross-shire in the north to Dumfriesshire in the south.