Madam Arabella KincaidRepresenter of the Baronial House of Kincaid
Chief of Clan Kincaid
Representer of the Baronial House of Kincaid of Kincaid (Madam Arabella Jane Kincaid of Kincaid, Chief of the Name and Arms of Kincaid)
Credentials
- • Lord Lyon recognised Heather Veronica Kincaid of Kincaid as Representer of the Baronial House of Kincaid of Kincaid, matriculating arms with a blue chapeau at LO 67/115 on 16 August 1988 (Edinburgh Gazette, 5 December 1989, p. 2064); Arabella Jane Kincaid of Kincaid matriculated likewise at LO 82/85 on 26 January 2001 (Edinburgh Gazette, 16 July 2002, notice E-25256-1107/58). The blue chapeau marks the representer of a baronial family no longer in possession of the barony. It is not recognition as Baron of Kincaid, 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…. No barony of Kincaid is found in the Crown registers to 1700. The Register of the Great Seal (RMS, 1306–1633) and the Retours (1544–1700) record Kincaid as lands of the lordship of Lennox: on 22 May 1606 James Kincaid of that Ilk was retoured heir to his father "in terris de Kincaidis Mekill et Litle, et Kinkel, extendentibus ad 5 libratas terrarum antiqui extentus, in dominio de Lennox" (Retours, Stirling, no. 58; archive.org/…/n147). Parts of the name-lands were later united into the barony of Kilsyth, "terras de Kincaid et Birdstoun, infra parochiam de Campsie ... unitas in baroniam de Kilsyith" (Retours, Stirling, nos. 124 and 147, 1627 and 1634), and the temple lands of Kincaid into the barony of Duntreath (no. 123, 1627). No Kincaid heir is retoured in a barony of his own between 1544 and 1700. The Privy Seal and the Great Seal after 1633 were not searched, and a charter from the Earl of Lennox as subject superior would not appear in the Great Seal register.
- • Verified by The Roll seeing original Letters Patent "Representer of the Baronial House of Kincaid of Kincaid " officially recognised by Lord Lyon King of Arms 26th January 2001
Authentication
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