Clan Lennox

Clan Lennox
Clan Lennox
Crest badge
Clan member crest badge - Clan Lennox.svg
Crest: Two broadswords in saltire behind a swan's head and neck all Proper.
Motto: I'll defend
Profile
Plant badge A rose slipped Gules
Chief

Blason Maison de Lennox.svg
Edward Lennox of that Ilk and Woodhead,
Chief of the Name and Arms of Lennox.[1]



Clan Lennox is a Lowland Scottish clan.

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History

Origins of the name

The name Lennox in gaelic comes from the place of the same name. The clan name comes from the title of Earl of Lennox which commanded the vale of Leven between the 12th and 15th centuries.

15th century

In 1424 the Clan Lennox was decimated and Iain Colquhoun of Luss of Clan Colquhoun took advatage of this to win the King's favour by capturing Dumbarton Castle from Lennox.

Sir John Stuart of Darnley was created 1st Earl of Lennox of the new line by King James III of Scotland in 1473.

Malcolm the fifth Earl of Lennox led Clan Lennox into England and besieged Carlisle Castle.

16th century

A clan battle took place between the Clan Kincaid and the Clan Lennox of Woodhead in 1570.

Henry Stuart (1545-1567) Lord Darnley and the eldest son of the 4th Earl of Lennox was the second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots. He was also the father of King James VI of Scotland. The King promoted the 8th Earl of Lennox to Duke of Lennox in 1581.

Lennox tartan, reproduced from a lost sixteenth century portrait of the Countess of Lennox

Clan chief

  • Chief: Edward Lennox of that Ilk and Woodhead, Chief of the Name and Arms of Lennox.[2]
  • Arms: Argent, a saltire between four roses Gules.

Tartan

Notes

  1. ^ burkes-peerage.net
  2. ^ burkes-peerage.net
  3. ^ a b The Setts of the Scottish Tartans, p.64

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