Clan Macpherson
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Macpherson ( Gaelic : Mac a 'Phearsain - son of the pastor or councilor) is the name of a Scottish clan that came from the Badenoch area (Gael .: Bàideanach - land under water; today part of the electoral district of Badenoch and Strathspey ) on the upper reaches of the Spey originates.
history
The MacPherson clan goes back to Murdoch (gäl .: Muirich) from Kingussie , who lived in the 12th and 13th centuries. Century lived, hence the Gaelic clan name: Clann Mhuirich - children of Murdoch. In pre-Reformation Scottish Highlands was his office, next to the priest as a spiritual leader, who the property administrator of the parish (parish), responsible for the withholding of church tithes. Hence the Gaelic name ( pearsain (person) or pears-eaglais (church person )).
Ewen Ban (Eoghann Ban), the second son of Murdoch, was the first Macpherson - son of the pastor. His three sons Kenneth (Caoineach), John (Iain) and Gilliosa (Gill-Iosa), the three grandsons of Murdoch, became the ancestors of the three family branches named after place names Cluny (Cluanaigh), Pitmain (Baile-meadhan - Mittelstadt) and Invereshie ( Inbhir Fheisidh - mouth of Feshie (in the Spey)), which is why the history of the clan as the descendants of three brothers ( the Posterity of the three brethren ) was known.
The Macphersons were a member of the Chattan Clan Confederation from the start and continually challenged the leadership of the Mackintosh . Within the family, the Macphersons of Cluny played the greatest role, the most famous representative of which was Ewen Macpherson of Cluny (1706–1764) - he led about 400 clan members for Bonnie Prince Charlie in the Jacobite Rising of 1745. After the rebellion was put down, he went into hiding and lived in a cave for nine years before finally escaping to France .
When the basement Raitts Cave was excavated in 1835, the excavator heard of local legends that the tunnel was built by members of the MacNiven clan who tried to hide here from their pursuers from the Macpherson clan.
The motto of the clan is Touch not the cat bot a glove ("Do not touch the cat without a glove"), a warning from bygone days to all other clans not to disturb the wildcat - the Clan MacPherson - in its actions ("touch" ) when she shows her claws - is "without gloves". The emblem of the clan shows a seated wild cat with raised left paw and bare claws within the typical circular belt shape with buckle and applied motto. In addition to the white and black dominated tartan, there are two other tartan variations with a red interweave.
The seat of the clan chief was Cluny Castle, approx. 28 km west-northwest of Aberdeen , built in 1604, largely destroyed in 1746 and rebuilt around 1805, since then it has been Newton Castle , Blairgowrie , acquired by the clan in 1789. Another seat of the clan is Ballindalloch Castle , Ballindalloch , built in 1546 and owned by the Macpherson Grants.
In 1952 the Macphersons opened a clan museum in Newtonmore .
Tartan
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literature
- Alan Bold: Scottish tartans. Pitkin Pictorials, London 1978, ISBN 0-85372-245-5 , ( Pitkin "Pride of Britain" Books ).
- James Logan, Robert R. McIan: The Clans of the Scottish Highlands. Crescent Books, Birmingham 1986, ISBN 0-517482843 .