Clan Forbes

Affiliated clans
	Clan Mackay ; Clan Campbell

Chief
;
Malcolm Forbes
23. Lord Forbes
Seat	Castle Forbes
Historic seat	Culloden House

Clan Forbes
coat of arms
	Motto : Grace me guide (about "Lamaziere my leadership")
	Battle cry : "Lonach" (A mountain in Strath Don ).
portrait
Plant badge	Broom .
Piece of music for bagpipes	March "Cath Ghlinn Eurainn" ("The Battle of Glen Eurann").

Rival clans
Clan Gordon

Forbes is the name of a Scottish clan from Aberdeenshire .

history

According to legend, the clan was founded when the progenitor Oconochar killed a bear living there and made the area habitable. In 1271 feudal ownership was officially confirmed. The lands were lost when Alexander Forbes, the 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo , took part in their 1745 uprising on the wrong, namely the Jacobite, side. Duncan Forbes of Culloden, Lord President of the Court of Session , first dissuaded several clans from participating in the apparently hopeless rebellion and, after the suppression of the uprising, tried in vain to convince the king to give the rebels a strong warning rather than brutalism punish.

The clan's motto is Grace me guide (something like "Adorn my guide").

Nobility title

Members of the Forbes clan held or carry the following titles of nobility:

Earl of Granard (1684)
Viscount of Granard (1675)
Lord Forbes (1442)
Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1633)
Baron Clanehugh (1675)
Baron Forbes (1724)
Forbes Baronet, of Monymusk (1626)
Forbes Baronet, of Castle Forbes (1628)
Forbes Baronet, of Craigievar (1630)
Forbes Baronet, of Foveran (1700)
Forbes Baronet, of Newe and Edinglassie (1823)
Forbes-Leith Baronet, of Jessfield (1923)

photos

Forbes Coat of Arms
Tartan
Victorian representation of the clan head

literature

Alan Bold: Scottish tartans. Pitkin Pictorials, London 1978, ISBN 0-85372-245-5 .

Web links

Website of the Clan Forbes Society USA (English)
Links to Clan Forbes (English)

Individual evidence

↑ George Way of Plean, Romilly Squire: Clans and Tartans. Harper Collins, Glasgow 2000, ISBN 0-00-472501-8 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c The Scottish Clans and Their Tartans. Library edition. W. & AK Johnston, Edinburgh et al. 1902, p. 22 ( digitized version ).

[ReferenceA-1] George Way of Plean, Romilly Squire: Clans and Tartans. Harper Collins, Glasgow 2000, ISBN 0-00-472501-8 .

[ScottishClansAndTheirTartans-2] The Scottish Clans and Their Tartans. Library edition. W. & AK Johnston, Edinburgh et al. 1902, p. 22 ( digitized version ).