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The Royal Stuart (or Royal Stewart) tartan, first published in 1831, is the best-known tartan of the royal House of Stuart/Stewart, and is one of the most recognizable tartans. Today, it is worn by the regimental pipers of the Black Watch , Scots Guards , and Royal Scots Dragoon Guards , among other official and organisational uses.
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 and Bearings in Scotland .
A Scottish clan (from Scottish Gaelic clann, literally 'children', more broadly 'kindred' [1]) is a kinship group among the Scottish people. Clans give a sense of shared heritage and descent to members, and in modern times have an official structure recognised by the Court of the Lord Lyon, which regulates Scottish heraldry and coats of arms.
Clans generally identify with geographical areas originally controlled by their founders, sometimes with an ancestral castle and clan gatherings, which form a regular part of the social scene. The most notable clan event of recent times was The Gathering 2009 in Edinburgh , which attracted at least 47,000 participants from around the world.
Clan Duncan [9] [10] [19] is an armigerous clan with no present chief of the name Duncan, nor any officially accepted house under the name Duncan. It is the aim of the Clan to have a chief of the name Duncan or one of the various spelling variants, other than Donnachaidh to be officially recognised by the Lord Lyon King of Arms, either by a proven genealogical link to the last chief around ...
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The Keith clan tartan is registered with the Scottish Register of Tartans with a date of 1 January 1838. The Scottish Tartans Authority (STA) and Scottish Tartans World Register (STWR) reference numbers are both 253. The designer is not specified and the tartan was registered prior to the establishment of the Scottish Register of Tartans (SRT).
Macduff's Castle, in Fife, Scotland.The site is associated with the MacDuff Earls of Fife. The Clan Duff claims descent from the original royal Scoto-Pictish line of which Queen Gruoch of Scotland, wife of Macbeth, King of Scotland, was the senior representative. [5]