Clan Murray

Clan Murray coat of arms Motto : Furth, Fortune, and Fill the Fetters portrait region Highlands Plant badge Butcher's broom or juniper Gaelic names Moireach

Chief His Grace Bruce Murray 12. Duke of Atholl Historic seat Blair Castle

Clans of the Murray clan Balneaves, Buttar Butter, Butters, Flamanc, Flamang, Flamench, Flamyng, Fleeman, Fleeming, Flemen, Fleming, Flemmynge, Flemyn, Flemyne, Flemyng, Flemynge, Fleymen, Fleyming, Fliming, Flymen, Flymyng, MacKinnoch, MacMurMurrur, MacKremurr , MacMurree, MacMurrie, MacMurry, MacMurrye, MacMury, Mirrey, Clan Moncreiffe , Moray, Morray, Morrow, Mouncref, Mowray, Mulmurray, Mulmury, Munkrethe, Muray, Murra, Murrai, Murraue, Murray, Murrie, Murry, Mury, Neaves, Pepper, Phylemen, Piper, Pyper, Clan Rattray , Smail, Smaill, Smal, Smale, Small, Smalle, Smaw, Smeal, Smeall, Spaden, Spadine, Clan Spalding .

Clan branches Murray of Atholl (chiefs) Murray of Dunmore Murray of Mansfield See also: Murray Baronets

Affiliated clans Clan Sutherland

Rival clans Clan Drummond

Murray is the name of a Scottish clan in the Highlands who played a significant role in Scottish history .

history

Original coat of arms of the Murray family

The Murrays are descendants of the Flemish nobleman Freskin (also ancestor of the Sutherland and Douglas clans ). In the 12th century some Flemish and Norman nobles accepted the invitation of the Scottish King to settle in Scotland. Freskin and his son were gifted with extensive estates in Moray and married into the old line of the Pictish Mormaer of Moray , a local kingdom until the end of the 13th century. They then took the name 'de Moravia', which is Latin for 'from Moray'.

The descendants of Freskin's great grandson William de Moravia eventually became laird of the feudal barony of Bothwell .

The name Moray / Murray may derive from the Pictish word Moritreb . The kingdom of Moray was much larger than present-day Morayshire and ran along the coast of the Moray Firth , north of the Grampian Mountains . MacMurray, Moray, Murry, Morrow, and Morogh are all variants of the family name.

Castles

• Blair Castle was built in 1269 and is still the seat of the Chief of Clan Murray, the Dukes of Atholl . The castle is the venue for the spring meeting of the Atholl Highlanders every year , which is patronized by His Grace, the Duke of Atholl. The Atholl Highlanders are the last private regiment in the United Kingdom .
• Balvaird Castle was built around 1500 for the Murrays of Tullibardine, Earls of Mansfield and Mansfield.
• Bothwell Castle was owned by the Morays of Petty until 1362, when it passed by marriage to Archibald Douglas, 3rd Earl of Douglas .
• The Murrays of Atholl also owned Huntingtower Castle and were owners of Falkland Palace . John Murray, the 1st Duke of Atholl, spent much of his life in both residences, mainly because his parents were still living in the magnificent Dunkeld House (which no longer exists today) at the time. His son, the famous Jacobite General Lord George Murray , resided on Huntingtower until he decided to support the young heir to the throne Charles Edward Stuart (aka "Bonnie Prince Charlie") in the last Jacobite uprising in 1745.

Chief

Acting Chief of Clan Murray has been Bruce Murray, 12th Duke of Atholl (* 1960) since 2012 .

Web links

• Clan Murray (North America)
• http://www.scotclans.com/clans/Murray/history.html
• http://www.electricscotland.com/webclans/m/murray2.html
• http://www.abercairny.com/history.html
• http://www.murray-clan-nsw.net (Murray Clan Society of New South Wales, Australia)