3 Celts & Company • "DRUMMOND" The name is from the clan's earliest land at Drymen, near Loch Lomond: conferred, a tradition says, upon their ancestor Maurice who married Queen Margaret's maid-of-honour; adding that either he or his father was the Hungarian prince who piloted the refugee vessel of 1066 that brought Malcolm Canmore's bride-to-be. The earliest chief now documented was Malcolm Beg, or "the little," a 13th-century Steward to the Earl of Lennox.
The Drummond arms display a motto 'Gang warily' and the caltrops, those four-spiked cavalry snags that a later Sir Malcolm contributed to the victory of Bannockburn. For his services Bruce awarded the lands of Perthshire where chiefly the clan was to flourish. Annabella Drummond became Queen to Robert II, the first Stewart king; and from then on to the last Stewart, no clan remained more faithfully adherent than the Drummonds.
Septs: BEGG, BREWER, CARGILL, DOCK, DOIG, GREWAR, GRUAR, GRUER, MACCROUTHER, MACGREWAR, MACGROUTHER, MACGRUDER, MACGRUER, MACGRUTHER, MACROBBIE, MACROBIE, MUSHET, ROBBIE
"DRUMMOND." Scots Kith and Kin and Illustrated Map Revised Second Edition. Edinburgh, SCOT: Clan House, c.1970. p.54. Print.
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