Clan Grant

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Clan Grant
coat of arms

Clan member crest badge - Clan Grant.svg
Motto : Stand almost ("Stands steadily")
Keyword : "Stand Almost Craig Elachie!"
portrait
region Highlands
district Badenoch
Plant badge Scots pine
Piece of music for bagpipes "Craigelachie"
Gaelic names Grannd (surname), Granndach (singular), Na Granndaich (collective).
Chief


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The Rt. Hon. Sir James Grant of Grant
6. Baron Strathspey
Historic seat Castle Grant

Clans of the Grant clan
More of Drumcork , Allans of Rhynagairn, The Siol Lewis

Affiliated clans
Clan Gordon
Clan Gregor
Clan Campbell
Rival clans
Clan Cameron

Grant is the name of a Scottish clan that is located southwest of Loch Ness and in the Spey Valley .

history

Laurance le Grant laid the foundation stone when he became sheriff of Inverness around 1258 ; the land in the Spey Valley was acquired by a successor named Iain through marriage. As a reward for his loyalty to King William of Orange , he created a semi-autonomous principality, whereupon the grants from the Spey region, unlike those from the Great Glen , remained anti- Jacobite even during the Jacobite uprisings .

The motto of the clan is Stand almost ("Steht stead").

photos

  • Clan badge and motto

  • Coat of arms of the Grant of Strathspey

literature

  • William Fraser: The Chiefs of Grant. 3 volumes. Edinburgh 1883. (Vol. 1: Memoirs Internet Archive ).
  • Archibald Kennedy, Earl of Cassillis: The Rulers of Strathspey. A History of the Lairds of Grant and Earls of Seafield. Inverness 1911. ( Internet Archive ).
  • Isabel Frances Grant: The Clan Grant. The Development of a Clan, with Tartans and Chief's Arms in Color, and a Map. Johnston & Bacon, Edinburgh / London 1955.
  • Trevor Grant, Lord Strathspey: A History of Clan Grant. Phillimore, Chichester 1983, ISBN 0-85033-442-X .
  • Alan Bold: Scottish tartans. Pitkin Pictorials, London 1978, ISBN 0-85372-245-5 , ( Pitkin "Pride of Britain" Books ).

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