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Scottish Tattoo Designs >> Eliott

Eliott Clan Tattoos - Outside the small circle of the nobility and great families, few individuals or their kin are well recorded in Scottish medieval history, but the obscurity surrounding the origins of the Eliotts, who suddenly make their appearance as a distinct clan with a chief in the late 15th century is unusual even by the sparse standards of such records. This lack of information can probably be traced to the destruction of the old castle at Stobs in a fire in 1712, when the family document, with a single exception, were burnt.

According to family tradition, the Ellots (as the name was then spelt) came from Angus at the foot of Glenshie, and moved to Teviotdale at the time of Robert the Bruce. It is true that to move from the north to the Borders, as suggested by the Eliott tradition, would be considered as exceptional. However in 1320 there occurred in Liddesdale an event of some note which might lend credence to the tale. In that year , William de Soulis, one of the most powerful nobles in Scotland, whose family had for nearly two hundred year held the Lordship of Liddesdale, was convicted of treason against Robert the Bruce and imprisoned for life. All his lands were forfeit. Two years later Liddesdale, together with the great fortress of Hermitage Castle, was made over to Bruce's illegitimate son, Robert.

Clan Eliott Motto: Fortiter Et Recte ~  From Latin: Boldly and Rightly

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