"[45][46][47] For further details on whether Francis Buchanan of Arnprior was the chief of the clan, see the section below. p. 29f. [83][84] After a gap of 337 years, the clan now has a recognised chief. 16th – Sir George Buchanan,[24][77] (Guthrie Smith identifies him as 12th Chief and Buchanan of Auchmar identifies him as 19th Chief) succeed his grandfather, George 15th of Buchanan, in 1561, married Lady Mary Graham and by her one son (John his successor) and two daughters (Helen and Susanna). [115] So while there may have been discussions and determinations within the Clan hierarchy regarding the Clan Chief, the claims of neither Buchanan of Auchmar (1723–1816) nor Buchanan-Hamilton (1828–1919) appear to have been ratified in a legal sense. See Reports of cases decide in the Court of the Lord Lyon, Scots Law Times 1965, Scott, Sir Walter (1830) ‘‘Tales of a grandfather; being stories taken from Scottish history‘‘, 3rd Series, p 324, Cadell and Co., Edinburgh, John Heneage Jesse, The Pretenders and Their Adherents: Memoirs of the Chevalier, Prince Charles Edward, and Their Adherents, Volume 2, 1864, p259, Richard Bentley, London, A D. Fillan, Stories, traditionary and romantic, of the two rebellions in Scotland in 1715 and 1745, 1849, p265, Richard Bentley, London. [120] The Society also owns the Buchanan Monument in Killearn, and the Loch Lomond island of Clairinch. A list of Buchanans serving in British Army, Royal Navy or other Government roles at the time of the Jacobite uprisings has yet to be compiled. [44][45][48], 6) Thomas Buchanan, brother of Francis Buchanan of Arnpryor. W. & A. K. Johnston Limited. Unluckily they had to pass the castle gates of Arnpryor, belonging to a chief of the Buchanans, who had a considerable number of guests with him. 7th – Anselan McCausland,[67][66] (Guthrie Smith identifies him as the 7th Laird of Buchanan and commences his numbering of Chiefs from him.) The chief of a Highland clan could be referred to as the ‘Laird of’, meaning the head of the clan (a patrimonial title),[62] e.g. [111] John Buchanan-Hamilton (1822–1903) married (1845) Margaret Seton and had three sons (Francis (1853–1893) who died unmarried and without heir, George (1856–1886) who died unmarried and without heir, and John his successor) and three daughter (Margaret, Ann and Katherine). The experience of other clans is that their 21st-century chief: Early written renderings of the name include Balgquhannen, Balquhannan, Baquhanan, Bochannane, Bochannen, Bohannon, Boquehennan, Boquhannane, Boquhennane, Bowhanan, Bowhannan, Bucchanane, Buchanane, Buchanen, Buchannan, Buchannand, Buchannane, Buchanne, Buchannen, Buchannent, Buchquhannane, Buchquannan, Buchunnuch, Bucquanane, Buquhannan, Buquhannane, Buquhannanne, and Buquannane. The first six Clan Chiefs are poorly represented in historical records and are included by some Clan historians and omitted by others. Charles Richard Bowman passed away on Saturday, Oct. 11, 2014, and went to be with his Lord and Savior. [107] James Buchanan sold the right of redemption for the estate of Auchmar. At first the Buchanans were faring better and drove the MacLarens back. Crest or Badge:A dexter hand coupee holding a ducal cap, or duke’s cornet, proper, with two laurel branches wreathed surrounding the crest, disposed orleways proper 1. Released.[44][45]. [17] It is from the lands of Buchanan that the Clan name is derived. Clan Buchanan Heraldry. He married secondly to Isobel Stewart. Depending on the source, Drummakill accepted the surrender of the exhausted Tullibardine, captured him or, in defiance of Highland hospitality norms, betrayed him to the garrison at Dumbarton Castle. John Hamilton Buchanan. Nothing now remains of the original chapel.[88]. 12th – Sir Walter Buchanan,[71][24] (Guthrie Smith identifies him as 6th Chief and Buchanan of Auchmar identifies him as 13th Chief) first married an unidentified women and by her three sons (Patrick his successor and Walter [72] Drumikill and Carbeth) and one daughter. Both cited their estate but neither cited any special status in the Clan. The Buchanan clan motto is "Clarior hinc honos" (Brighter Hence the Honour) and the clan crest is a hand holding a duke's cornet, surrounded by laurel branches. It is preferable to speak of "The names and families of Clan X" rather to call a name "a Sept of Clan X". The Clan has played its part in the history of Scotland and many of its members have … Prior to the sale, John Buchanan of Arnpryor had been the estate manager for John Buchanan. After the death of Mary, he married in 1677 Jean Pringle and by her had a daughter (Janet). [50], 9) John Buchanan, in Gordon of Glenbuckett's Regiment, from Inverness-shire, assumed died at Culloden. [9], Traditionally, Clan Buchanan can trace its chiefly line back to Anselan O Kyan who was of the clan Ó Catháin, provincial king of north Ulster (and had his seat in Limavady, Co. Londonderry) who landed in Argyll in 1016. Image, right. (Descendants of Thomas Buchanan of Gartencaber were excluded from consideration because the C15th documents that purport to link him to the chiefly line were demonstrated to be forgeries. “Yet go up to the company my good friend,” said the King, “and tell him that the Goodman of Ballengiech is come to feast with the King of Kippen.” The porter went grumbling into the house, and told his master, that there was a fellow with a red beard, who called himself the Goodman of Ballengiech, at the gate, who said he was come to dine with the King of Kippen. Others can derive from an occupation, such as Harper or Rusk (a tanner) in service to a chief. Directory of Scots Banished to the American Plantations: 1650–1775. [102] In Nisbet's (posthumously published) A System of Heraldry Vol 2, 1742, he recognises Buchanan of Auchmar as the successor of the chiefly line. Buchanan of that Ilk. David Buchanan, Royalist soldier captured at Worchester. After the defeat at Culloden on 16 Apr 1746, the escaping William Murray, Marquis of Tullibardine, took refuge in the Loch Lomond house of Archibald Buchanan of Drummakill (husband of Tullibardine's cousin). He died without an heir in 1816. The Clan Buchanan. The chief, seeing so much fat venison passing his very door, seized on it; and to the expostulations of the keepers, who told him it belonged to King James, he answered insolently, that if James was King in Scotland, he, Buchanan, was King in Kippen, being the name of the district in which the Castle of Arnpryor lay. [81] He made two attempts to pass the chiefship to suitable candidates by arranging their marriage to his oldest daughter (Elizabeth). are right and the chiefship had passed to Francis Buchanan (possibly via marriage to the heir of the last chief), then Buchanan of Auchmar may have misrepresented the Buchanans of Arnprior to bolster his own claim to the chiefship. There are three contemporary organisations which represent the Clan Buchanan. [45][49], 8) John Buchanan, in Stuart of Appin's Regiment, died in prison. [116][117][118] Noting that part of the Buchanan-Hamilton claim is that the cadet branch of Buchanan of Auchmar is extinct, Buchanan-Hamilton's wider cadet branch of Buchanan of Spittal would be a plausible starting point for search a hereditary claim on the chiefship of Clan Buchanan. He was born on Sept. 8, 1931, in Marfa, Texas. Clan crest: Sunflower turning to the sun Clan Buchan is a Scottish clan. Consequently, no arrangement was finalised by which chiefship could be passed on to the descendants of his daughter. LXXII, 6th series, Vol XII (1938) pages 84-111. With the lack of male heirs, the direct chiefly line ended at this time. A petition to claim the chiefship of Clan Buchanan was lodged with the Court of the Lord Lyon in December 2016 and in August 2018 the Lord Lyon allowed the petition thus recognising John Michael Baillie-Hamilton Buchanan as the chief of Clan Buchanan. [10][11] For his services against the Danes he is traditionally said to have received the lands of Buchanan from king Malcolm II which lie to the east of Loch Lomond around the village of Killearn. He is referred to as 'clericus meus', meaning 'my clergyman'. When James V travelled in disguise he used a name which was known only to some of his principal nobility and attendants. (Precisely what his services were and the meaning of "evicting the whole estate" is unclear.). Asterisked (*) sept names are sourced from, This page was last edited on 6 January 2021, at 18:49. In fact it was a recent client of mine who was a part of a sept of Clan Gunn that sparked the idea for this article! During the reign of Malduin, Mormaer (Earl) of Lennox, 1217–1250, Anselan (third of that name) was granted, in 1225, the island of Clareinch. The Clan Buchanan is an ancient Scottish Clan, purportedly founded in the 11th century. Aikman, Christian and Betty, Stuart Hart (2010) "No Quarter Given: The Muster Roll of Prince Charles Edward Stuart's Army, 1745–46", p 66, Neil Wilson Publishing Ltd, Glasgow. MacGibbon, along with Gibbon/Gibson, were among the names "sept-napped" by William Buchanan of Auchmar in the early 18th century when he invented a man called "Methlan Buchanan" to be the … [16] During the reign of king Alexander II (1214–1249), Gilbert de Buchanan, seneschal to the Earl of Lennox, received, in 1231, a charter confirming Clareinch and other lands in Buchanan. Unlike numerous other points, this assertion of Buchanan-Hamilton’s chiefship is not challenged. He is subsequently recorded as Absalom de Buchanan and it is understood that to have this title, there must have been other grants of land in the parish of Buchanan. [108] Adams cites the successor to Buchanan of Auchmar as being Buchanan of Leny; however, the term Leny here should be read as a territorial designation and not an indication of the cadet line.[110]. He was the only son of Lillian Elder and Charles has association with the chiefly lands of. The 15th century is a watershed in the evolution of Buchanan heraldry. In the Armorial de Barry, c 1445[25] the arms of Buchanan (Le sire de bouguenal) are Or (gold/yellow), chevron checky of Azure (Blue) and Argent (silver/white), and the three boars heads erased and erect of Gules (red). The Lord Lyon King of Arms has now recognised a new chief of the Clan Buchanan. 9th – Sir Maurice Buchanan,[17][69] (Guthrie Smith identifies him as 3rd Chief and Buchanan of Auchmar identifies him as 9th Chief) had three sons (Maurice his successor, Allan who married the heiress of Leny and John the first ancestor of the cadets of Auchneiven). Along with the inheritance of the estate and clan chiefship, there was significant debt. 4) Francis Buchanan, of Arnpryor, Lenny House, Callander. Sir John is reputed to have betrayed Sir William Wallace to king Edward I of England on 5 Aug 1305. 5) Patrick Buchanan, brother of Francis Buchanan of Arnpryor, brewer from Kilmahog, Callander. The early origin of this family is said to be a son of the king of Ulster who landed in Argyll around 1016 and was rewarded with land on the east side of Loch … Writing to Philip Webb on 9 Sep 1746, Lord Milton, the Lord Justice Clerk, said of Francis Buchanan that it would be of "more consequence to His Majesty’s Service … to get rid of such a person than to convict 99 of the lowest rank. 1886. Dobson, David (1983). Alexander Buchanan, Buchlivie, Covenanter, was sent from Tollbooth, 12 Dec 1678, on St. Michael of Scarborough, to Themes for on forwarding to the American plantations. Toronto: Pro Familia Publishing. Ballengiech is a steep pass which leads down behind the Castle of Stirling. (By last laird, he was referring to John Buchanan, son of Sir George Buchanan.) Often these were families that lived on lands owned by a clan chief, swore allegiance to a chief for protection or were relatives of the chief. [104] The later Clan historian, John Guthrie Smith, omits any reference to Buchanan of Auchmar's claim when he details the Buchanans of Auchmar.[105]. [6] Sir Alexander Buchanan however was later killed leading the clan against the English at the Battle of Verneuil in 1424.[6]. Clan Buchanan has numerous septs, including: Bohannon, Buchanan, Coleman, Colman, Cormack, Cousland, Dewar, Donleavy, Donlevy, Dove, Dow, Gibb, Gibbon, Gibbs, Gibby, Gibson, GIlbert, … The deer were killed and put on horse’s backs, to be transported to Stirling. [91][92], Neither Guthrie Smith nor Buchanan of Auchmar identify him as a chief (hence why John Buchanan is the last recognised chief); however, Buchanan of Auchmar advises that John Buchanan transferred "his estate to an old comrade of his, Major George Grant, Governor of Dumbarton castle, with this provision, that the Major should marry his eldest daughter, and assume the name and arms of Buchanan; reserving his own life-rent and his lady's jointure, and settling the estate so as to return to Buchanan's heirs-male, and, failing heirs of Grant's own body, to Buchanan's heirs whatsoever ." [106] William Buchanan of Auchmar sold his estate, reserving a right for redemption, he married in 1796 Sarah Bartlet. [108] It is noteworthy that John was named John Hamilton Buchanan, thus the Hamilton name adopted by his grandfather became John's middle name. There have been attempts over the years to re-establish a Clan … Buchanan, Watson W. (2002) 'History of Clan Buchanan and its Septs: a Millennial Update' Pro Familia Publishing, Toronto, Canada, p 7f, Burke, John (1833) ‘A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire, Volume 1’, 4th Ed, Published for Henry Colburn, London, p 318, Robertson’s Index for Charters of Sovereigns of Scotland, cited in Nimo, William (1817) History of Stirlingshire. In his territory lived many of his family members, who were called a Clan, as well as several families not related by blood or marriage, called Septs. Some Sept examples. In a series of articles (initiated by genealogist and author, Walter Malise Graham Easton, and extended by Alexander Wilson Gray-Buchanan) and public response (including from John Parkes-Buchanan) in The Genealogical Magazine vols 2, 3 and 4 (1899-1901), aspects of specific cadet lines of Clan Buchanan are discussed. The Society has been given many Clan heirlooms. At this time the estate included the Barony of Buchanan, "several lands in the parishes of Killearn, Strablane, and others in Lennox" (Strablane is likely to be Strathblane which is between the parishes of Killearn and Lennox); "the whole estate of Badindalloch" (in Stirlingshire); and "the estate of Craigmillar in Midlothian". The wonderful thing about the CBSI is that any person who is of Buchanan descent or one of the Septs and Associated Family Names can join and celebrate their Scottish heritage with many links to Buchanan … Moore, Philadelphia. William died in 1747. The surnames of the Septs listed below [left] give the Clan [right] to which they are associated with. [19] It is tradition and likely given the aforementioned service, but ill-documented, that the clan fought at the Battle of Bannockburn. (The use of the title, Buchanan of that Ilk, implies that George had taken over the chiefship but it might also imply that John Buchanan was deceased by 28 Aug 1680.) 8th – Gilbert Buchanan,[67][17] (Guthrie Smith identifies him as 2nd Chief and Buchanan of Auchmar identifies him as 8th Chief) whose son and successor was Maurice. According to William Buchanan of Auchmar the "Principal Man" of the sept in the early 18th century was a Nivein M'Bhaxter in Glendaruel on the Cowal peninsula. [82] He inherited significant debt and during his chiefship, significant parts of the Buchanan Estate were sold, and the final portions of it were lost due to defaulting on creditors. He first married Margaret Edmonstone and by her a son (John [Guthrie Smith identifies him as 11th Chief but then goes on to advise that the Chiefship passed from John's father to John's son[24] and Buchanan of Auchmar identifies him as 18th Chief[77] who married Elizabeth Livingston and by her had George[77] who succeeded his grandfather) and two daughters (Helen and Susanna). Secondly the office and title is implicitly linked to the surname, thus a McKay, a Cairns, etc. Youngson, A. J. 2nd – John,[65] whose son and successor was Anselan. On hearing what had happened, the King got on horseback, and rode instantly from Stirling to Buchanan's house, where he found a strong fierce looking Highlander, with an axe on his shoulder, standing sentinel at the door. He died in prison in 1651. The full scope of Buchanan Covenanters is unknown; however, Regarding the Buchanan Estate (c1681),[39] according to William Buchanan of Auchmar, "The most flourishing condition it has been in, for diverse ages, was upon the last laird's accession to it" (c1652). [21], During the reign of Donald Mormaer (Earl) of Lennox (1333–1365), and confirmed by the king David II in 1370/71, "Confirmation is of charter by Donald, Earl of Lennox, in favour of Maurice Buchanan, son and heir of late Maurice Buchanan, of that carucate of land called Buchanan with Sallochy, with these bounds ie Akehin up to Aldmarr [Auchmar] just as it descends below the water of Hanerch [Endrick], and the land of Sallochy, with these bounds, from Sallochy all along to Kelg and then it descends to the water of Lochlomon [Loch Lomond], to hold in fee and with the freedom to hold as many courts with jurisdiction of life and limb as he may wish. The Septs of Clan Buchanan derive from the first Auselan to use the surname Buchanan, Gilbert, whose father had obtained the Buchanan lands, and his brothers Colman and Methlan, grandson Maurice, and great-grandson Walter. The Chief's Council of Armigers[126] is an organisation comprising Clan armigers whose aim is to optimise the strategic leadership of the Clan in order to promote Clan interests globally with due regard for tradition, Scottish law, and contemporary needs and opportunities. Buchanan Castle was built in the 19th century as a replacement for Buchanan Auld House, after the surrounding lands had passed to the Grahams in the late 17th century. It is possible that Scott, a historical novelist, simply embellished the facts for literary purposes. Sir John was imprisoned by king Robert I but in 1314 "through influence of his sons-in-law; Malice, Earl of Strathern; Sir Archibald Campbell, of Lochow; and Maurice Buchanan, of Buchanan, he was released immediately before the Battle of Bannockburn, where he deported himself valiantly on the part of the Scottish king. William Buchanan. The CBSI Black Lion Banner. The name Buchan is also considered a sept of the Clan … One was cut down at Gartnafuaran and the second was cut down at a place since known by the circumstance as Sron Laine. Corrected and brought down to the present time by W.M. (This might be described in heraldic language as, "Or, a lion rampant Sable, armed and langued Gules charged with five goutte Argent all within a double tressure flory-counter-flory of the second.") Buchanan of Auchmar and Guthrie Smith commence their respective numbering of Chiefs at a different person, and describe a different order and number of Chiefs following Sir Walter 11th of Buchanan. 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