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So, which parts of Rob Roy’s history are fact and which are fiction? The History Of Clan MacGregor — And The Banning Of Their Name Much of Scotland’s history revolves around the great clans ...
CENTRED around the head of a lion topped with an antique crown, the MacGregor Clan Crest is one of Scotland's more regal-looking clan emblems - and there's a good reason for that. The MacGregor ...
Less than two months later, around April 3, James VI ruled the name MacGregor should be “altogether abolished” and that all people of the clan should renounce their name and take another ...
People carrying the surnames of MacGregor, McGregor and Gregor are descended from a Scottish highland clan known in the original Gaelic as “Clann Grioghair.” The story of this surname in ...
but since marrying Sir Malcolm MacGregor of MacGregor, 24th chief of the famous Clan Gregor, her life has become consumed by the skirl of the pipes, the blood-soaked history of the Scots and the ...
Professor Richard E. McGregor , chairman of the Clan Gregor Society, said: “The history of the clan is not a glorious one. "We would call them basically mercenaries and in the 16th Century they ...
They are the burial stones of the ancient chiefs of Clan MacGregor, some of which are around 600 years-old, carved with warriors and flowers. Now the incredible remnants of the old clan system are ...
Clan Gregor, with their claims to have descended from King Alpin of Dalriada, had seen much of their ancestral lands lost to the likes of the Colquhouns and the Campbells. Angry and plunged into ...