MacKenzie Clan Crest
MacKenzie Coats of Arms
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Under Scottish heraldic law a coat of arms is awarded to an individual (with the exception of civic or corporate arms) . There is no such thing as a ‘family coat of arms’ The arms represented below are personal arms (with the above exceptions). Only the individual granted these arms has the right to use them. for more information see our pages on heraldry here:
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MacKENZIE, The Chief of Clan Mackenzie
Azure, a stag’s head, cabossed, Or.
MacKenzie, Earl of Seaforth Arms
Brian Brendan Michael John
Mackenzie-Hanson
Arms – Quarterly: 1st and 4th, azure, a stag’s head, cabossed, or, for MACKENZIE; 2nd argent, a lion rampant, gules, within a border, sable; on a canton, azure, a harp and a viscount’s crown, or, for LANE; 3rd, argent, a chevron between three foxes’ heads, erased, gules, and (for distinction) in the centre chief point a cross crosslet sable, for FOX. Below the shield: dexter, two holly (cuileann) leaves, for MACKENZIE; centre, two shamrocks, for SNEE; sinister, two variegated ivy leaves, for HANSON; proper; with the stalks thereof bound together in a fasces with binding, or, and axe-blade, argent also for HANSON.
Helms – 1st and 2nd, argent, a peer’s helm, the 1st facing the 2nd.
Crests – 1st, out of a wreath, azure and or, a stag’s head cabossed, between two stag’s horns, or, for MACKENZIE; 2nd, out of a coronet composed of fleurs-de-lis, or, an estoile, argent, for SACKVILLE (from LANE-FOX);
Mantling – Azure and or.
Supporters – Dexter, an armed highlander in full costume of the Mackenzie modern colours tartan with a badge of the cuileann, proper, for MACKENZIE, upon the highlander’s targe, in dexter, an escutcheon of arms of MACKENZIE:- azure, a stag’s head, cabossed, or, in sinister, an escutcheon of arms of HANSON de RASTRICK:- Quarterly, 1, or, a chevron counter componed argent and azure, between three martlets sable, for Hanson; 2, azure, a chevron between three roses, gules, barbed and seeded proper for de Rastrick; 3, azure, a chevron between three mullets, or, for Woodhouse; 4, or, on a chevron sable, three crescents, argent, in chief a crescent of the second, for Totehill; sinister, a griffin rampant, azure, gorged with a ducal coronet, or, therefrom pendant an escutcheon of arms of SACKVILLE:- Quarterly, or and gules, a bend vair; each supporter standing on a scroll, or.
Mottoes – Dexter scroll: “Daonnan Dìleas” (Scottish Gaelic, meaning “Always Faithful”), for MACKENZIE; sinister scroll: “Sola Virtus Invicta” (Latin, meaning “Virtue Alone is Invincible”), for both HANSON de RASTRICK and HOWARD Dukes of Norfolk.
Montagu-Stuart Wortley-Mackenzie, Edward Montagu Stuart Granville, 1st Earl of Wharncliffe (1827 – 1899) (Stamp 2)
Montagu-Stuart Wortley-Mackenzie, Edward Montagu Stuart Granville, 1st Earl of Wharncliffe (1827 – 1899) (Stamp 2)
Dimensions: 52mm x 52mm
Arms Quarterly 1 & 4. Azure a stag’s head caboshed above two branches of laurel (Mackenzie of Rosehaugh) 2. On a bend gules between six martlets three bezants [roundels] on a canton or a fess checky within a double tressure flory counterflory (Wortley) 3. Or a fess checky within a double tressure flory counterflory (Stuart, Earl of Bute) Coronet of an Earl Motto • AVITO • • VIRET • • HONORE •
Montagu-Stuart Wortley-Mackenzie, Edward Montagu Stuart Granville, 1st Earl of Wharncliffe (1827 – 1899) (Stamp 3)
Montagu-Stuart Wortley-Mackenzie, Edward Montagu Stuart Granville, 1st Earl of Wharncliffe (1827 – 1899) (Stamp 3)
Dimensions: 43mm x 33mm
Arms Quarterly Ist and IVth grand quarters Quarterly 1 and 4. A stag’s head caboshed above two branches of laurel (Mackenzie of Rosehaugh) 2. On a bend between six martlets three roundels on a canton a fess checky (Wortley) 3. A fess checky within a double tressure flory counterflory (Stuart, Earl of Bute) IInd and IIIrd grand quarters Quarterly 1 and 4. Three lozenges conjoined in fess a bordure (Montagu) 2 and 3. An eagle displayed (Monthermer)
MacKenzie Seaforth