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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 Fleming is a Lowland Scottish clan and is officially recognized as such by the Lord Lyon King of Arms. [3] However, as the clan does not currently have a chief that is recognized by the Lord Lyon King of Arms it is therefore considered an armigerous clan .
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A Scottish clan (from Scottish Gaelic clann, literally 'children', more broadly 'kindred' [1]) is a kinship group among the Scottish people. Clans give a sense of shared heritage and descent to members, and in modern times have an official structure recognised by the Court of the Lord Lyon, which regulates Scottish heraldry and coats 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.
The next name found in records is that of John Forbes dominus ejusdem or Lord of Forbes. [7] He witnessed two charters of Thomas, Earl of Mar in 1358 and 1359, and in 1364 King David II of Scotland confirmed a charter for the lands of Edinbanchory and Craiglogy by Thomas, Earl of Mar granting them to John de Forbes. [ 8 ]
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The first lands by the name of Irvine were in Dumfriesshire. [5] According to family tradition the origin of the clan chief's family is connected with the early Celtic monarchs of Scotland. [5] Duncan Irvine settled at Bonshaw. [5] Duncan was the brother of Crinan, who claimed descent from the High Kings of Ireland, through the Abbots of ...