3 Celts & Company • "LAMONT" Clan Siol Eachern: the race of Innes. Mac Dubhghaill Creaginnis/Dugald of Craignish/Campbell of Argyle, Clan Lamond. ( Angus mac Erc ).
The Clan MacEarcher (i.e. from some Farquhar chief, earlier than the northern Farquharsons' ancestor) were the immemorial of their part of Argyllshire, centered on Castle Toward in Cowal. A chief or his son in the 13th century seemingly acquired a special judicial rank that earned the clan, or its earliest branch, the new name 'Law-man,' hence Laumon, Lamont and other variations. The clan lost power and territory to Campbells and other neighbors, through marriages and less gentle means. A Dunoon monument recalls the 1646 capture and destruction of Toward Castle, with the subsequent massacre of many principal Lamonts on the excuse of their adherence to the royalist cause. The chief's seat there-after became Ardlamont, at the other end of the Kyles of Bute.
Septs: BLACK, BLACKIE, BLAIK, BLAIKIE, BLAKE, BROUN, BROWN, BURDEN, BURDON, CLEMENT, DOUGLAS, FORSYTH, LAMB, LAMMIE, LAMOND LAMONDSON, LEMMON, LEMOND, LIMOND, LIMONT, LUCAS, LUCK, LUCKIE, LUKE, MACALDOWIE, MACALDUIE, MACCLEMENT, MACCLYMONT, MACEARACHER, MACERCHAR, MACERRACHER, MACFARQUHAR, MACGILLEDOW, MACGORRIE, MACILWHOM, MACKERCHAR, MACKERRACHER, MACLAMOND, MACLEMON, MACLUCAS, MACLUCKIE, MACLUKE, MACLYMONT, MACMUNN, MACPATRICK, MACPHUN, MACSORLEY, MEIKLEHAM, MEIKLEM, MUNN, PATERSON, PATRICK, SORLEY, TOWARD, TOWART, TURNER, WHITE, WHYTE
"LAMONT." Scots Kith and Kin and Illustrated Map Revised Second Edition. Edinburgh, SCOT: Clan House, c.1970. p.60. Print.
"Ancient North Scotland." The Highland Monthly - Volume 2. Edinburgh: JOHN MENZIES & CO. c.1890-91. p.546. Print.
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