Lorne Maclaine of LochbuieRepresenter of the Baronial House of Moy
Chief of Maclaine of Lochbuie, The Maclaine of Lochbuie
Representer of the Baronial House of Maclaine of Moy (Lorne Gillean Iain Maclaine of Lochbuie, 26th Chief of Clan Gillean of Lochbuie, The Maclaine of Lochbuie)
known as 21st Baron of Moy
Credentials
- • Known as "21st Baron of Moy"; family style, not a legal title maclaine.org
- • Lord Lyon recognised Lorne Gillean Iain Maclaine of Lochbuie as Representer of the Baronial House of Maclaine of Moy, matriculating arms on 10 October 1978 with "a chapeau azure furred in ermine" (blazon as printed in Burke's Peerage, 107th ed., 2003, p. 2518). The blue chapeau marks the representer of a baronial family no longer in possession of the barony. It is not recognition as Baron of Moy, and the Roll does not style the representer as one. Sir Thomas Innes of Learney wrote that such a chapeau "descends to the 'heir and representative' of such 'baronial race'—who in the Continental sense is of course a 'Baron'" (Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol. 79, p. 155), though not a baron in Scots law, the barony having passed with the land. See the glossary entry "Representer (of a House)" at baronage.com/scottish-baronies-expla…. The barony of Moy itself is a separate dignity, not identified on the Roll.
- • Burke’s Peerage, 107ed. Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, p. 2518 column 2
Authentication
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