Blue Sitting Room In Brodie Castle On History Visit To Moray Scotland

Tour Scotland short travel video clip, with Scottish music, of the blue sitting room on ancestry visit to Brodie Castle near Forres in Moray. The vaulted ceiling has embossed plaster motifs and strapwork with a Clan Brodie Crest which is a a right hand holding a bunch of arrows. Clan Bodie were associated with the province of Moray. John Brodie assisted the Clan MacKenzie against the McDonald's at the famous battle of Blair-na-Park in 1466. John de Brohy appears in 1380 as a witness in a matter between the bishop of Moray and Alexander Stewaer. Thomas Brodie was a juror on an inquest made at Inverness in 1546. The family continued to be prominent in local and national affairs and Alexander Brodie of Brodie, born in 1617, was a Senator of the College of Justice. He represented the county of Elgin in Parliament from 1643 and in 1649 he went to Holland from Parliament to treaty with King Charles II. and to arrange for the conditions of his return to Scotland. The first people in Scotland to acquire fixed surnames were the nobles and great landowners, who called themselves, or were called by others, after the lands they possessed. Surnames originating in this way are known as territorial. Formerly lords of baronies and regalities and farmers were inclined to magnify their importance and to sign letters and documents with the names of their baronies and farms instead of their Christian names and surnames. The abuse of this style of speech and writing was carried so far that an Act was passed in the Scots parliament in 1672 forbidding the practice and declaring that it was allowed only to noblemen and bishops to subscribe by their titles. Surnames before the Norman Conquest of 1066 were rare in England having been brought by the Normans when William the Conqueror invaded the shores. The practice spread to Scotland and Ireland by the 12th century, and in Wales they appeared as late as the 16th century. Most surnames can be traced to one of four sources, locational, from the occupation of the original bearer, nicknames or simply font names based on the first name of the parent being given as the second name to their child. The associated arms are recorded in Sir Bernard Burkes General Armory. Ulster King of Arms in 1884. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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