Clan Haldane is a Lowland

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History

Origins of the clan

Bernard, son of Brien, received from

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the manor of Hauden between 1165 and 1171. A cadet of the house is believed to have settled in

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and acquired lands which later became part of the barony of Gleneagles, where the chiefs of Clan Haldane still reside today. The name Gleneagles has nothing to do with the chief's heraldry but is derived from the

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, ''

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'' and ''eaglais'', which means ''a church''.

Wars of Scottish Independence

In 1296 Aylmer Haldane appears in the

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swearing fealty to

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. However he soon allied himself with

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in the struggle for Scottish independence. In 1312 Sir Simon Haldane received a charter for part of the lands of Bardrill in Streathearn from Sir John de Logy. Sir Simon married Matilda de Arnot and in doing so obtained extensive lands within the

earldom of Lennox The Earl or Mormaer of Lennox was the ruler of the region of the Lennox in western Scotland. It was first created in the 12th century for David of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon and later held by the Stewart dynasty. Ancient earls The first ea ...

15th century

Sir John Haldane, third of Gleneagles was Lord Justice General of Scotland beyond the Forth, sheriff principal of Edinburgh and Master of the Household under

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. In 1482 he resigned his lands in

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and

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to the Crown, and as a result received a charter that erected them into the free barony of Gleneagles. He was married to a daughter of Murdoch Menteith of Rusky, through whom he claimed the earldom of Lennox. He began a lengthy lawsuit which resulted in Stuart, Lord Darnley retaining the earldom but Gleneagles was compensated with one quarter of the lands.

16th century and clan conflicts

In 1505, Sir James Haldane, fourth of Gleneagles was appointed Governor of

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. His son, Sir John Haldane, fifth of Gleneagles was responsible for erecting lands in Lennox and

that were not already part of Gleneagles into the barony of Haldane. The seat was then at Rusky House. He was killed at the

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in 1513. In 1560 Robert Haldane, laird of Gleneagles, and his brother John, were at the

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in support of the

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.''Protocol Book of Gilbert Grote'', SRS (1914), p.42 no.191 Embracing the reformation, the Haldanes played a prominent part in the political upheavals that removed

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. The Haldanes were part of a force that laid siege to

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in 1585. They were attempting to persuade the king to rescind the banishment on the

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and other unruly Protestant nobles. James Haldane, brother of the Laird of Gleneagles, led an attack on the west port of the castle. He engaged Sir William Stewart, colonel of the Royal Guard and drove him back. However Haldane was shot while on the point of victory by Stewart's servant.

17th century and Civil War

Sir John Haldane, eleventh Laird of Gleneagles was a professional soldier who fought for Henry, Prince of Orange, along with his brother, James Haldane in the Netherlands. He was knighted by

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in 1633 and represented Perth in Parliament. He was a strong supporter of the

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and his estates became burdened with debts as a result of raising men and supplies. He is credited with building the present House of Gleneagles and fought for the royalist army, leading his regiment against Parliament at the

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18th century and Jacobite risings

General George Haldane, son of the sixteenth Laird was a professional soldier who fought against the French at the

Battle of Dettingen The Battle of Dettingen took place on 27 June 1743 during the War of the Austrian Succession, near Karlstein am Main in Bavaria. An alliance composed of British, Hanoverian and Austrian troops, known as the Pragmatic Army, defeated a French ...

in 1743 and the

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in 1745. George Haldane also served under the

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against the Jacobites in the campaign of 1745 - 1746.

19th to 20th Century

In 1820 the estates passed to a cousin of the eighteenth Haldane of Gleneagles, Admiral Adam Duncan, Viscount Duncan of Camperdown, who was renowned for his victory at the

Battle of Camperdown The Battle of Camperdown (Dutch language, Dutch: ''Zeeslag bij Kamperduin'') was fought on 11 October 1797 between the Royal Navy's Commander-in-Chief, North Sea, North Sea Fleet under Admiral Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan, Adam Duncan and a ...

in 1797. The Admiral's son assumed the surname of Haldane and was raised to the title of Earl of Camperdown in 1831. The fourth Earl of Camperdown resigned his estates to his kinsman, James Chinnery-Haldane in 1918. James's son, Alexander, succeeded as clan chief. Another of his sons, Brodick, was a renowned portrait photographer. Alexander died in 1994 and the chiefship passed to his nephew Martin.

Clan Chief

The current chief of Clan Haldane is Martin Haldane of Gleneagles, 26th Baron of Gleneagles.

References

External links

Clan Haldane at ScotClans

https://web.archive.org/web/20070314000937/http://www.myclan.com/clans/Haldane_47/default.php

*Haldane Heraldr

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