Clan MacGregor

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Clan MacGregor
coat of arms

Clan member crest badge - Clan Gregor.svg
Motto : 'S rioghal mo dhream ( "Royal is my race")
portrait
region Highlands
district Argyll
Plant badge Scots pine
Gaelic names Mac Griogair
Chief
Sir Malcolm MacGregor of MacGregor
7. Baronet of Lanrick and Balquhidder
Chief Title (Gaelic) At t-Ailpeanach
Seat Irvine House

Affiliated clans
Clan Grant
Rival clans
Clan Campbell
Clan MacLaren
Clan Colquhoun
Clan Drummond

MacGregor ("son of Gregory") is the name of a Scottish clan supposedly descended from the first king of Scotland , Kenneth MacAlpin .

history

The clan became known when it first lost its lands to the Campbells after a power struggle and in 1603 after a cattle robbery from the Colquhouns and a subsequent battle in which 200 Colquhouns and only two MacGregors fell, by King James VI. was partially dissolved by force. When the wearing of the name was officially allowed again in 1775, 826 members of the clan still registered.

The clan's motto is ' S rioghal mo dhream ("My race is royal").

photos

  • Clan badge and motto

  • Green MacGregor tartan

  • Tartan MacGregor of Cardney

  • Red and green MacGregor tartan

  • Tartan (aka Rob Roy MacGregor)

  • Tartan MacGregor of Glengyle or of Deeside

literature

  • Alan Bold: Scottish tartans. Pitkin Pictorials, London 1978, ISBN 0-85372-245-5 , ( Pitkin "Pride of Britain" Books ).

Individual evidence