Tour Scotland short 4K travel video clip, with Scottish music, of the mountain landscape on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Sutherland in Northern Scottish Highlands, Britain, United Kingdom. At its basic level, the Sutherland landform seems fairly simple, distinctive features separated by large areas of open ground which enables the relative differences between landforms to be clearly seen and compared. Within the large tracts of open land, several prominent isolated hills and mountains rise up in contrast to the fairly flat surroundings. These hills and mountains act as landmarks, as their profiles tend to be distinctive and individual. They have acted as landmarks since the earliest human interaction with the region as demonstrated by the number of cairns and standing stones which are built either on or in reference to these natural landmarks. The distinctive peaks of Canisp, Suilven and Cul Mor stand above a lower but undulating cnoc and lochan landscape, with lochans and rocky moorland entwined. Clan Sutherland also known as House of Sutherland is a Highland Scottish clan whose traditional territory is the shire of Sutherland in the far north of Scotland. The chief of the clan was also the powerful Earl of Sutherland, however in the early 16th century this title passed through marriage to a younger son of the chief of Clan Gordon. The progenitor of the Clan Sutherland was a Flemish nobleman by the name of Freskin, who was also the progenitor of the Clan Murray. It has been claimed that Freskin was Pictish but it is much more likely that he was a Flemish knight, one of a ruthless group of warlords who were employed by the Norman kings to pacify their new realm after the Norman conquest of England. Kin David I of Scotland who was brought up in the English court, employed such men to keep hold of the wilder parts of his kingdom and granted to Freskin lands in West Lothian. The ancient Pictish kingdom of Moray, Moireabh in Scottish Gaelic, was also given to Freskin and this put an end to the remnants of that old royal house. In a series of astute political moves Freskin and his sons inter married with the old house of Moray to consolidate their power. Freskin's descendants were designated by the surname de Moravia, of Moray in the Norman language. Freskin's grandson was Hugh de Moravia who was granted lands in Sutherland and was known as Lord de Sudrland. Hugh's younger brother, William de Moravia of Petty, was progenitor of the Clan Murray. Hugh's eldest son, also called William, was William de Moravia, 1st Earl of Sutherland. The place name and clan name of Sutherland came from it being the land to the south' of the Norse Earldom of Orkney and Caithness. Although the senior line of chiefs who were the Earls of Sutherland had the surname de Moravia, they often used the territorial surname Sutherland' and from Robert, 6th Earl, died 1444, onward it is known that they used the surname Sutherland. Previously to this younger sons of the family had also taken the surname Sutherland', thus creating the cadet branches of the Clan Sutherland. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome.
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