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Clan Gregor, also known as Clan MacGregor, [2] is a Highland Scottish clan that claims an origin in the early 9th century. The clan's most famous member is Rob Roy MacGregor of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. [ 2 ]
The Battle of Glen Fruin was a Scottish clan battle fought on 7 February 1603 between the Clan Gregor and its allies on one side, and the Clan Colquhoun and its allies on the other. The Clan Gregor (or MacGregor) and Clan Colquhoun were at feud due to the MacGregors carrying out raids on the Colquhoun's lands.
Clan map of Scotland The following is a list of Scottish clans (with and without chiefs ) – including, when known, their heraldic crest badges, tartans , mottoes , and other information. The crest badges used by members of Scottish clans are based upon armorial bearings recorded by the Lord Lyon King of Arms in the Public Register of All Arms ...
The remains of Rob Roy MacGregor's house in upper Glen Shira Factor's Island, Loch Katrine, where Rob Roy once imprisoned the Duke's factor Grave site of Rob Roy MacGregor, marking his wife (Helen) Mary, and sons Coll and Robert (Balquhidder) Rob Roy's Putting Stone, a boulder he supposedly used for stone putting, near Lochan nan Eireannaich at the head of Kirkton Glen where the pass leads ...
English: Tartan named after Robert Roy MacGregor (Rob Roy) in 1850, and also known as MacGregor Red and Black. The pattern dates to at least 1815-16 as a MacGregor tartan, when the Royal Highland Society of London solicited clan tartans from chiefs, and the chief of Clan Gregor supplied this one.
Lineage of the seven clans of Siol Alpin. Siol Alpin (from Gaelic, Sìol Ailpein: Seed of Alpin) is a family of seven Scottish clans traditionally claiming descent from Alpin, [1] father of Cináed mac Ailpín, King of the Picts, of whom the Scots tradition considered the first King of Scots. [2]
On Duncan's death in 1787, John Murray (being the eldest surviving son of the next brother) became the family's representative and chief of the clan. [3] [nb 2] Murray was created a baronet on 3 July 1795; in 1822, he adopted the surname Macgregor before that of Murray. [5]
Drummond (originally MacGregor) was born at Balhaldie, Perthshire, the son of Duncan MacGregor and Helen Linton, and was a cousin of Rob Roy MacGregor. In 1683 he inherited his father's lands and title as 4th Laird of Balhaldie, a junior branch of Clan Gregor. He participated in the Jacobite rising of 1689 and fought at the Battle of Killiecrankie