Clan Armstrong
| Clan Armstrong | |||
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| Mac Ghillieláidir | |||
Crest: An arm from the shoulder, armed, Proper
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| Motto | Invictus maneo (I remain unvanquished) | ||
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| Region | Scottish Borders | ||
| District | Liddesdale | ||
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| Clan Armstrong has no chief, and is an armigerous clan | |||
| Historic seat | Mangerton | ||
| Last Chief | Archibald Armstrong of Mangerton | ||
| Died | 1610 | ||
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Clan Armstrong is a Lowland Scottish clan of the Scottish Borders. The clan does not currently have a chief recognised by the Lord Lyon King of Arms and therefore it is considered an Armigerous clan.
The Clan is currently represented globally by the official Clan Armstrong Trust in the Scottish border region. The President of the Armstrong Clan Trust is Micheil Armstrong of Mungbyhurst CA,FCI,FSA SCOT, KLJ. The Clan Trust has a museum in Langholm, Dumfriesshire, which holds the biggest archive of Armstrong history in the world. Clan meetings take place each summer with a formal gathering every second year.
According to the legend and tradition, the first of the name Armstrong was Siward Beorn (sword warrior), who was also known as Siward Digry (sword strong arm). He was said to be the last Anglo-Danish Earl of Northumberland and a nephew of King Canute, the Danish king of England who reigned until 1035. The Armstrong chiefs are said also to have been related by marriage to Duncan, King of Scots as well as William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy and King of England.
The Armstrong name was common over the whole of Northumbria and the Scottish Borders. The Armstrongs became a powerful and warlike clan in Liddesdale and the Debatable Lands. Historian George Fraser Black lists Adam Armstrong in 1235 as being pardoned for causing the death of another man. Black also records Gilbert Armstrong, steward of the household of David II of Scotland, as ambassador to England in 1363.
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