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Crest: A lion's head erased sable crowned with an antique crown of six (four visible) points Or, between two branches of laurel issuing from the Wreath at either side of the head both Proper. [ 215 ] Motto: Creag an tuirc [ 215 ] [Scottish Gaelic, 'The boar's rock'] [ 215 ]
The O’Hanlon family coat of arms features a boar and was used as the Standard Bearer for Orior (present day Ulster). Some Irish Keating families have been granted arms containing a boar going through a holly bush to symbolize toughness and courage [citation needed]. In Scotland, a boar's head is the crest of Clan Campbell and Clan Innes.
A bear is also used, cantingly, in the arms of the Berwick-upon-Tweed Borough Council. The coat of arms of German state of Saxony-Anhalt depicts a bear on a red city gate on lower half, which is inherited from the former Free State of Anhalt. This is also adopted by arms of several districts of the state for their histories with Anhalt.
See also: Coat of arms of the Washington family. Arms of John Adams, 2nd president, 1797–1801 Shield: Gules, six crosses-crosslet fitchy argent, on a chief or three pellets, the center one charged with a fleur-de-lis and the other two with lions passant guardant argent. Crest: A lion passant holding in his dexter paw a cross-crosslet fitchy ...
The crest badge deemed suitable for clan members to wear contains the heraldic crest of a bear's head couped argent muzzled azure, and the heraldic motto AB OBICE SUAVIOR which translates from Latin as "gentler because of the obstruction".
Traditionally the original ancestor of the Clan Cochrane in Scotland was a Scandinavian Viking who settled in what is now known as Renfrewshire, [4] between the eighth and tenth centuries. [2]
Tradition stating that the Chisholms were a Norman family who arrived in England after the conquest of 1066., [3] the original surname being De Chese to which the Saxon term "Holme" was added. [3] According to the Collins Scottish Clan & Family Encyclopedia the Chisholm name was known in the Scottish Borders since the reign of Alexander III . [ 4 ]
A grant of arms or a governmental issuance of arms is an instrument issued by a lawful authority, such as an officer of arms or State Herald, which confers on a person and his or her descendants the right to bear a particular coat of arms or armorial bearings.