Scottish Clans - Clan Macintosh or Mackintosh
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Published on 12 February 2009
The clan name is derived from Mac-an-Toisich ( son of the toiseach), the toiseach being the oldest cadet of a clan. The Macintoshes are one of the clans forming the Clan Chattan Confederation. They contend with the Macphersons for the chiefship of Clan Chattan, and the clan battle at Perth, in 1396, is alleged to be a result of this dispute.
The first mention of the MacKintosh as Captain of Clan Chattan is in a charter granted to William MacKintosh by the Lord of the Isles in 1337, and confirmed by King David II. In 1359. In a contract of friendship between, amongst other, Lord Forbes and Duncan MacKintosh in 1467, the latter is described as chief and captain of Clan Chattan.
The rise of the MacKintoshes led to a long period of feuds with neighbouring Earls of Moray and Huntly, and the clans Cameron, MacDonells of Keppoch, and Gordon. In 1639 when Huntly supported the King, MacKintosh joined the Covenanters north of the Spey, and in 1650 he formed part of the army which opposed Cromwell. At the Revolution the MacKintoshes supported the new government and refused to join Viscount Dundee.
The MacKintoshes were prominent in the Jacobite Rising of 1715 under Brigadier MacKintosh of Borlum. Angus, who was chief in 1745, was on service with Loudon’s Highlanders when the Rising took place, but Lady Anne his wife, who was a Farquharson of Invercauld, raised the clan for Prices Charles and her strategy was responsible for the Rout of Moy when 1500 of the government troops were put to fight by half a dozen of Lady MacKintosh’s retainers. Here the famous piper Donald Ban MacCrimmon, who accompained the Royalist force, was killed.
Crest: A cat salient, proper. Badge: Red whortleberry. War Cry: Loch Moy.
There is a Clan Chattan Association with headquarters in London.
The clan name is derived from Mac-an-Toisich ( son of the toiseach), the toiseach being the oldest cadet of a clan. The Macintoshes are one of the clans forming the Clann Chattan Confederation.
The clan name is derived from Mac-an-Toisich ( son of the toiseach), the toiseach being the oldest cadet of a clan. The Macintoshes are one of the clans forming the Clan Chattan Confederation. They contend with the Macphersons for the chiefship of Clan Chattan, and the clan battle at Perth, in 1396, is alleged to be a result of this dispute. The first mention of the MacKintosh as Captain of Clan Chattan is in a charter granted to William MacKintosh by the Lord of the Isles in 1337, and confirmed by King David II. In 1359. In a contract of friendship between, amongst other, Lord Forbes and Duncan MacKintosh in 1467, the latter is described as chief and captain of Clan Chattan.
The rise of the MacKintoshes led to a long period of feuds with neighbouring Earls of Moray and Huntly, and the clans Cameron, MacDonells of Keppoch, and Gordon. In 1639 when Huntly supported the King, MacKintosh joined the Covenanters north of the Spey, and in 1650 he formed part of the army which opposed Cromwell. At the Revolution the MacKintoshes supported the new government and refused to join Viscount Dundee.
The MacKintoshes were prominent in the Jacobite Rising of 1715 under Brigadier MacKintosh of Borlum. Angus, who was chief in 1745, was on service with Loudon’s Highlanders when the Rising took place, but Lady Anne his wife, who was a Farquharson of Invercauld, raised the clan for Prices Charles and her strategy was responsible for the Rout of Moy when 1500 of the government troops were put to fight by half a dozen of Lady MacKintosh’s retainers. Here the famous piper Donald Ban MacCrimmon, who accompained the Royalist force, was killed.
Crest: A cat salient, proper. Badge: Red whortleberry. War Cry: Loch Moy.
There is a Clan Chattan Association with headquarters in London.