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Clan Hepburn (Tartans, Crest) and The Story Behind

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Hepburn

Clan Crest: A horse’s head couped Argent, bridled Gules

Clan Motto: Keep Tryst

Lands: East Lothian

Clan Chief: None, armigerous clan

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Hepburn Clan History

Originated in Hepburn, Northumberland, where a family of this name lived from 1271 until the end of the eighteenth century.

Adam de Hepbourne is said to have been taken prisoner by the Earl of March, who later gifted him lands in East Lothian in exchange for saving the earl's life from a savage horse.

The Hepburns were once quite powerful in East Lothian, with Hepburns of Hailes, Waughton, Smeaton, Bolton, Alderston, Bearford, Beanston, Humbie, Keith, Nunraw, and Monkrigg in the 1500s.

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Hepburn Tartans

The Tartan of Hepburn

Hepburn Crest & Coats of Arms

Clan Hepburn Crest

Crest: An Argent horse's head couped, bridled Gules

Coats of Arms of Hepburn:

A word about Coats of Arms:

A coat of arms is granted to an individual under Scottish heraldic law (with the exception of civic or corporate arms). A 'family coat of arms' does not exist. With the exceptions noted above, the arms depicted below are personal arms. Only the person who has been granted these weapons has the right to use them.  

 

HEPBURN, Hailes

Gules, on a chevron Argent, two lions counter-passant, the first pulling at a rose.

Earl of Bothwell HEPBURN

First and fourth quarters, Or, a bend Azure (for Vaux of Dirleton); Gules, on a chevron Argent, two lions counter-passant, pulling at the first rose (for Hepburn).

James HEPBURN (c.1535-1578), 4th Earl of Bothwell, Duke of Orkney

Quarterly, 1st, Gules, on an Argent chevron, two lions counter-passant, pulling at a rose (for Hepburn); 2nd, Azure, a lymphad (ship), Or, sails furled, Argent, within a double tressure, flory, counterflory, Or (for the Dukedom of Orkney); 3rd, Ermine, three chevronels, Gules (for the Lordship of Liddesdale); 4th, Or, a bend, Azure (for Vaux of Dirleton).

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