Rose Clan 1960’s Glengarry - Bonnet Badge

Vintage Rose Clan badge. Clan motto’ Constant and true ‘.

FAMILY - Rose

BLAZON - A Harp Az. Constant And I True.

SOURCE - Fairbairn's Book of Crests, 1905 ed.

Size approx 47mm x 52mm

The chiefs of the Clan Rose were a Norman family. They had no connection to the ancient Celtic family of Clan Ross. They derive from Ros, near Caen in Normandy and accompanied the early Norman kings to England. They appear to be connected with two other Norman families; the de Bissets and the de Boscos. 

All three of these families disappear from the records of Wiltshire and Dorset where they are first known to have settled after the Norman conquest, and they reappear in the mid thirteenth century around the area of the Moray Firth. 

Elizabeth de Bisset's family owned the lands of Kilravock and she married Andrew de Bosco. Their daughter was Marie, who in around 1290 married Hugo de Ros, whose lands were at Geddes. Hugh's (Hugo's) father had been a witness to the foundation charter of Beauly Priory, which was erected by Sir John Bisset of Lovat. Hugh and Marie established their home at Kilravock which remained the home of the chief of Clan Rose until 2012.

During the Wars of Scottish Independence the Barons of Kilravock supported the cause of Scottish Independence. In 1306 they captured Invernairn Castle for Robert the Bruce.