Gordon Clan Crest Vintage Sterling Silver Glengarry - Bonnet Badge
Gordon Clan Crest Vintage Sterling Silver Glengarry - Bonnet Badge
Gordon Clan Crest Vintage Iona Sterling Silver Glengarry - Bonnet Badge.
Vintage 1973 Gordon clan crest, expertly crafted by John Hart of Iona. Clan Gordon, also known as the House of Gordon, is a Scottish clan. The chief of the clan is the powerful Earl of Huntly, and now also the Marquess of Huntly.
MOTTO Bydand
BLAZON A Stags Head Cabossed Ppr.
SOURCE Fairbairn's Book of Crests, 1905 ed.
Hallmark - John Hart - Edinburgh - Iona - 1973
Size approx. 39mm x 46mm
John Hart trained as an engraver, then joined Glasgow silversmiths Celtic Art Industries. By the early 1950s he was working independently and sold much of his work through The Iona Shop in Glasgow and Oban. He retired in 1979, and his son John merged his small workshop with his father’s at Lochdar, South Uist.
Clan Gordon is a Highland Scottish clan, historically one of the most powerful Scottish clans. The Gordon lands once spanned a large territory across the Highlands. Presently, Gordon is seated at Aboyne Castle, Aberdeenshire. The Chief of the clan is the Earl of Huntly, later the Marquess of Huntly.
During the Wars of Scottish Independence in the 13th century, the Gordons supported William Wallace in the cause of independence. In the 15th century, the chiefship of the clan passed to an heiress, who married into the Seton family and her male descendants assumed the surname Gordon and continued as chiefs of the clan.
The Gordons assisted in defeating the rebellion of the Earl of Douglas also in the 15th century. In the 16th century, the Gordons as Catholics feuded with their Protestant neighbours the Clan Forbes and also defeated at the Battle of Glenlivet, the Protestant Earl of Argyll. During the Wars of the Three Kingdoms of the 17th century, the Gordons supported the Royalist cause. During the Jacobite rising of 1715 the Clan Gordon was Jacobite. During the Jacobite rising of 1745, their chief, then the Duke of Gordon, pledged his support to the British-Hanoverian Government, but his clan remained Jacobite.
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