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- Bowmont and Cessford. The previous Duke of Roxburghe was heir to the chiefship of Clan Innes (Clann Innis, not Mac Aong****s or Clan MacInnes); however...
- remains. Highland chiefship or chieftainship in the modern sense is no more than a high social dignity. The existence of chiefship and chieftainship has...
- mac Domhnaill, Lord of Islay. After the latter's apparent death, the chiefship of the kindred was ****umed by Aonghus Óg's elder brother, Alasdair Óg...
- a senior figure of the Clan Macrae. He contested a rival claim to the chiefship of the clan, and in 1912 he purchased and subsequently restored the Macrae...
- descendants of the Morays of Bothwell, the Murrays of Tullibardine, secured the chiefship of the clan and were created Earls of Tullibardine in 1606. The first...
- William Wallace in the cause of independence. In the 15th century, the chiefship of the clan p****ed to an heiress, who married into the Seton family and...
- controversially (vis-à-vis Scotland's Salic law) granted the arms and allocated the chiefships of medieval noble families to female-line descendants of lords, even when...
- order of succession permits. Methods of succession to kingdoms, tribal chiefships, and such include nomination (the reigning monarch or a council names...
- would become the legal heir to the Earldom of Sutherland and overall chiefship of the Clan Sutherland. According to Sir Robert Gordon, who himself was...
- Political agent for the Western States of Raj****na 17 salute states, 1 chiefship, 1 zamindari 42,374 3.64 million (chiefly Hindu, 1901) 155 (1901) Total...