 The Crest Badge of the Chief of Clan Urquhart, which Clan members may wear as a courtesey. The Chief's motto: Meane Weil Speak Weil and Doe Weil Urquhart is a Highland Scottish clan. They traditionally occupied the lands in the district and town of Cromarty, a former Royal Burgh with an excellent natural harbour on the tip of the Black Isle. Chiefs of the Clan were Barons and hereditary Sherriffs of the county for hundreds of years. Today the Clan is an international body organized in part by the Clan Urquhart Association, with Clan members in Scotland, England, Wales, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and America. The current Chief, Kenneth Trist Urquhart of Urquhart, is one of several Scottish Highland Chiefs that are American citizens. Image File history File links UrquhartCrest. ...
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Clan map of Scotland Scottish clans (from Old Gaelic clann, children), give a sense of identity and shared descent to people in Scotland and to their relations throughout the world, with a formal structure of Clan Chiefs officially registered with the court of the Lord Lyon, King of Arms which...
Location within the British Isles The Royal Burgh of Cromarty (Cromba in Gaelic) is a burgh in Ross and Cromarty, Highland, Scotland. ...
A Royal Burgh is a type of Scottish burgh (town or city), used today for ceremonial purposes only. ...
Linguistic Origin of the Name The name Urquhart is of ancient gaelic origin, believed to be derived from "Airchartdan." This has been variously translated as "upon a rowan wood" (copses of rowan trees are common in Glen Urquhart, the Clan's place of origin according to oral tradition) and the "fort on the knoll," perhaps alluding to Castle Urquhart and/or the previous neolithic forts upon which it was built. Some suggest the Urquhart family derive their name from the district of Urquhart on the Black Isle, located on the north side of the Great Glen. Earlier phonetic spellings include "Urchard," as the name, first recorded in the 1200s in a Charter from King Robert the Bruce to allow William de Urquhart of Cromarty to build Cromarty Castle, has been being written down since long before the development of early modern English in the 1500-1600s. Note: This page or section contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. ...
Legendary Origin According to Oral Tradition The apical ancestor of Clan Urquhart was Conachar Mor, founder of the Clan. According to an historical address by the current Chief, In kinship and descent, an apical ancestor is a common ancestor from whom a lineage or clan may trace its descent. ...
"As legend has it, in the days when wild boar, wolves and bears still roamed the Scottish Highlands a mighty warrior named Conachar Mor ruled over a swathe of territory near Inverness, on the northwest side of Loch Ness. A scion of the Royal House of Ulster, Conachar became a hero in the folklore of the region for his strength and valour after he and his faithful, but aged hound An Cu Mor slew a ferocious wild boar that had long terrorised the Great Glen.
It is said that Conachar and his sword lie buried somewhere in what is today Glen Urquhart, and Conachar's feat is reflected in the boars' heads adopted as part of the heraldic achievement of the Chief of Clan Urquhart, who regards Conachar Mor as the founder of his clan.
Clan Urquhart took its name from Airchartdan or Urchard, as Conachar’s territory was named when St. Columba visited the area in the sixth century, bringing Christianity to a hitherto heathen land. Later a castle was built there, overlooking Loch Ness, Scotland's most famous loch. Urchard became Urquhart, and the area became known as Glen Urquhart. Today the remains of Urquhart Castle stand as an imposing monument to the past and a symbol of the ancient connection between Clan Urquhart and Glen Urquhart. The castle and glen serve as constant reminders to Urquharts throughout the world that their name had its origin here."[1]
Conachar Mor's son succeeded him as O'Conachar Mor, the second Urquhart, and so on down to the first Urquhart recorded in historical documents, William de Urquhart mentioned above. It has been tenuously suggested Conachar Mor's two other sons went on to become the founders of Clan MacKay and Clan Forbes. MacKay Crest The Clan Mackay is an ancient and once powerful Scottish clan from the countrys far north in the Scottish Highlands, but with roots in the old province of Moray. ...
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Chief's Motto The motto of the Chief of Clan Urquhart found on his crest and above the achievement of his coat of arms reads Meane Weil Speak Weil and Doe Weil. Although only an armiger granted the right to use arms by the Lord Lyon is entitled to bear Scottish arms, members of the clan are allowed to wear the Chief's crest as a cap badge as a show of loyalty as a "clansman crest badge," so long as it is encircled by a belt and buckle (the Chief himself wears his crest within a plain circlet rather than the belt and buckle). Clansmen may also use the crest badge on stationary, provided the words "Member of the Clan" appear beneath the badge to denote the arms belong to the Chief. The Chief's war cry is "Trust and Go Forward." An armiger is a person entitled to use a coat of arms. ...
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16th Century & Anglo Scottish Wars During the Anglo-Scottish Wars the Clan Urquhart fought at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh in 1547, where nine sons of the Chief died in battle. The Anglo-Scottish Wars were a series of wars fought between England and Scotland during the sixteenth century. ...
Combatants Scots English Commanders Earl of Arran Duke of Somerset Strength Between 23000 and 36000 17000 30 warships Casualties 5000 killed 1500 prisoners 500 killed The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, along the banks of the River Esk near Musselburgh on 10 September 1547, was part of the War of the...
17th Century & Civil War The Clan Urquhart fought at the Battle of Worcester in 1651 where the Chief, Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty, was taken prisoner. The Clan had always been Stuart loyalists, and Sir Thomas was knighted by Charles II, and was an active member of the King's court. During his subsequent captivity at the Tower of London ordered directly by Oliver Cromwell, Sir Thomas published several books in an effort to demonstrate his value to society to secure his release. In 1662 he returned to Scotland on parole to find that his estate had been ruined and pilaged. Probably as a condition of his final release, Sir Thomas spent the rest of his life in Holland. The Chiefship then passed briefly to his brother Alexander before falling to the Urquharts of Craigston, a family near Turriff in Aberdeenshire. The Battle of Worcester was the final battle of the English Civil War. ...
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Urquhart Castles
Urquhart Castle sits beside Loch Ness. Another important Urquhart castle is Craigston Castle in Aberdeenshire, and the present-day Cromarty House on the hill above the Black Isle town of Cromarty was built from the stone and timbers of the former Urquhart stronghold of Cromarty Castle. The current seat of the Chief of Clan Urquhart is the ruined Castle Craig, a 15th-century tower originally occupied by the Urquharts of Braelangwell and Newhall that overlooks the Cromarty Firth from the north shore of the Black Isle. Urquhart Castle, main tower Urquhart Castle ( ; Ordnance Survey grid reference NH530286) sits beside Loch Ness in Scotland along the A82 road, between Fort William and Inverness. ...
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Craigston Castle, Turriff, Aberdeenshire is a historic home of the Urquhart family. ...
Location within the British Isles The Royal Burgh of Cromarty (Cromba in Gaelic) is a burgh in Ross and Cromarty, Highland, Scotland. ...
Clan Chief The 27th and current Clan Chief of Urquhart is Kenneth Trist Urquhart of Urquhart.
Notable Urquharts Several branches of the clan have emigrated to North America. Some of the clan's more famous members are: World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ...
- Sir Thomas Urquhart (1611–1660), Scottish writer and translator of Rabelais.
- John Urquhart of Craigfintry, Tutor of Cromarty
- David Urquhart (1805–1877), British diplomat and writer.
- Thomas Urquhart (1858-1931), mayor of Toronto.
- Roy Urquhart (1901–1988), British military officer who served in World War II.
- Alasdair Urquhart (born 1945), British-born Canadian logician
- Jane Urquhart (born 1949), Canadian writer.
- Bonnie Urquhart Gruenberg (born 1963), American writer, photographer, artist, and midwife. [http//:www.themidwifesite.com]
- Feargus Urquhart, computer game developer and CEO of Obsidian Entertainment.
- Emma Maree Urquhart (born 1991), Scottish fantasy writer.
- Dylan Urquhart (born 1990), American Science Fiction Writer.
A fictional Urquhart, Francis, was the protagonist of the House of Cards TV series; another, Ethan, of the science fiction novel Ethan of Athos. Thomas Urquhart in a 1641 engraving by George Glover Sir Thomas Urquhart (or Urchard, 1611 - c. ...
David Urquhart (1805 - May 16, 1877) was a British diplomat and writer. ...
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Robert Elliott Urquhart, CB, DSO (November 28, 1901 - December 13, 1988) was a British military officer. ...
Alasdair Ian Fenton Urquhart, born December 20, 1945, is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. ...
Jane Urquhart (born June 21, 1949) is a Canadian author. ...
Bonnie Urquhart Gruenberg is an artist, photographer, author, and certified nurse-midwife. ...
Feargus Urquhart is a computer game developer and current the CEO of Obsidian Entertainment. ...
Obsidian Entertainment, founded and located in Santa Ana, California since 2003 after the disestablishment of Interplay Productions Black Isle Studios, is an entertainment software developer for PC and console systems. ...
Emma Maree Urquhart, born 1991, from Inverness, United Kingdom, is an author. ...
House of Cards was a political thriller novel written by Michael Dobbs, a former Chief of Staff at Conservative Party headquarters, which was set at the end of Margaret Thatchers tenure as British Prime Minister. ...
Ethan of Athos is a science fiction novel which is part of the Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold. ...
See also Clan map of Scotland Scottish clans (from Old Gaelic clann, children), give a sense of identity and shared descent to people in Scotland and to their relations throughout the world, with a formal structure of Clan Chiefs officially registered with the court of the Lord Lyon, King of Arms which...
An armigerous clan or Family, is a Scottish clan the chief of which has matriculated arms with the Lyon Office. ...
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