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The Clan Johnstone were once one of the most powerful of the Border Reiver Scottish clans. [3] They originally settled in Annandale and for more than six hundred years they held extensive possessions in the west of the Scottish Marches, where they kept watch against the English.
The Battle of Dryfe Sands was a Scottish clan battle that took place on 6 December 1593, near Lockerbie, Scotland.It was fought between the Clan Maxwell and Clan Johnstone after a hundred years of feuding between them.
James Hope-Johnstone, 3rd Earl of Hopetoun; James Johnstone, 1st Earl of Hartfell; James Johnstone, 2nd Marquess of Annandale; John Hope-Johnstone (1796–1876) John Hope-Johnstone (photographer) John Hope-Johnstone (1842–1912)
Female clan chiefs, chieftains, or the wives of clan chiefs normally wear a tartan sash pinned at their left shoulder. Today, Scottish crest badges are commonly used by members of Scottish clans. However, much like clan tartans , Scottish crest badges do not have a long history, and owe much to Victorian era romanticism , and the dress of the ...
The title therefore descended through the female line in the person of Lady Henrietta Johnstone (who married Charles the First Earl of Hopetoun) to Patrick Hope-Johnstone. The current earl holds the subsidiary title of Lord Johnstone (1662), in the peerage of Scotland. The family seat is Raehills, near Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire.
Lady Julia Claire Hope-Johnstone (born 1974), married Andrew Lindsay Curtis Barnard and has issue three children. In 1983, Patrick succeeded his father as chief of the Clan Johnstone, hereditary steward of Annandale and hereditary keeper of Lochmaben Castle. Hope-Johnstone continued to prosecute the family claim to the earldom of Annandale and ...
C. Clan Agnew; Clan Donald; Clan Fergusson; Clan Forsyth; Clan Gunn; Clan Johnstone; Clan Lamont; Clan MacAlister; Clan MacDonald of Glencoe; Clan MacDougall; Clan ...
A Scottish clan (from Gaelic clann, literally 'children', more broadly 'kindred') is a kinship group among the Scottish people. Clans give a sense of shared identity 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.