Clan Fraser of Lovat
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Clan Fraser of Lovat is a Highland Scottish clan and the principal branch of Clan Fraser. The Frasers of Lovat are strongly associated with Inverness and the surrounding area since the Clan's founder
Romantic depiction of a Fraser clansman by McIan
Traditionally, Frasers wear small branches of Iubhar (Gaelic), or Yew, in their caps.
Stone said to mark the spot where the Frasers were buried after the Battle of Culloden, 1746.
Lovat Tartan
Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, was a Scottish landowner and head of Clan Fraser of Lovat. Convicted of high treason for his role in the Jacobite rising of 1745, he was the last man in Britain to be ex
Clan Fraser of Lovat
…version in its spelling. Belief in the name's Angevin origin has also been firmly held by the Frasers themselves. In 1702, while in exile in France, Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, "entered into a formal league of amity" and "declared an alliance" with the French Marquis de la Frézelière and claimed common origin from the "seigneurs…
Portrait by Godfrey Kneller
Dunvegan Castle circa 1790
Chateau St Germain en Laye
Mary of Modena with her son James