MacKenzie Clan Crest
MacKenzie Coats of Arms
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MacKENZIE, The Chief of Clan Mackenzie
Azure, a stag’s head, cabossed, Or.
Brian Brendan Michael John
Mackenzie-Hanson
Arms – Quarterly: 1st and 4th, azure, a stag’s head, cabossed, or, for MACKENZIE; 2nd argent, a lion rampant, gules, within a border, sable; on a canton, azure, a harp and a viscount’s crown, or, for LANE; 3rd, argent, a chevron between three foxes’ heads, erased, gules, and (for distinction) in the centre chief point a cross crosslet sable, for FOX. Below the shield: dexter, two holly (cuileann) leaves, for MACKENZIE; centre, two shamrocks, for SNEE; sinister, two variegated ivy leaves, for HANSON; proper; with the stalks thereof bound together in a fasces with binding, or, and axe-blade, argent also for HANSON.
Helms – 1st and 2nd, argent, a peer’s helm, the 1st facing the 2nd.
Crests – 1st, out of a wreath, azure and or, a stag’s head cabossed, between two stag’s horns, or, for MACKENZIE; 2nd, out of a coronet composed of fleurs-de-lis, or, an estoile, argent, for SACKVILLE (from LANE-FOX);
Mantling – Azure and or.
Supporters – Dexter, an armed highlander in full costume of the Mackenzie modern colours tartan with a badge of the cuileann, proper, for MACKENZIE, upon the highlander’s targe, in dexter, an escutcheon of arms of MACKENZIE:- azure, a stag’s head, cabossed, or, in sinister, an escutcheon of arms of HANSON de RASTRICK:- Quarterly, 1, or, a chevron counter componed argent and azure, between three martlets sable, for Hanson; 2, azure, a chevron between three roses, gules, barbed and seeded proper for de Rastrick; 3, azure, a chevron between three mullets, or, for Woodhouse; 4, or, on a chevron sable, three crescents, argent, in chief a crescent of the second, for Totehill; sinister, a griffin rampant, azure, gorged with a ducal coronet, or, therefrom pendant an escutcheon of arms of SACKVILLE:- Quarterly, or and gules, a bend vair; each supporter standing on a scroll, or.
Mottoes – Dexter scroll: “Daonnan Dìleas” (Scottish Gaelic, meaning “Always Faithful”), for MACKENZIE; sinister scroll: “Sola Virtus Invicta” (Latin, meaning “Virtue Alone is Invincible”), for both HANSON de RASTRICK and HOWARD Dukes of Norfolk.
Montagu-Stuart Wortley-Mackenzie, Edward Montagu Stuart Granville, 1st Earl of Wharncliffe (1827 – 1899) (Stamp 2)
Montagu-Stuart Wortley-Mackenzie, Edward Montagu Stuart Granville, 1st Earl of Wharncliffe (1827 – 1899) (Stamp 2)
Dimensions: 52mm x 52mm
Arms Quarterly 1 & 4. Azure a stag’s head caboshed above two branches of laurel (Mackenzie of Rosehaugh) 2. On a bend gules between six martlets three bezants [roundels] on a canton or a fess checky within a double tressure flory counterflory (Wortley) 3. Or a fess checky within a double tressure flory counterflory (Stuart, Earl of Bute) Coronet of an Earl Motto • AVITO • • VIRET • • HONORE •
Montagu-Stuart Wortley-Mackenzie, Edward Montagu Stuart Granville, 1st Earl of Wharncliffe (1827 – 1899) (Stamp 3)
Montagu-Stuart Wortley-Mackenzie, Edward Montagu Stuart Granville, 1st Earl of Wharncliffe (1827 – 1899) (Stamp 3)
Dimensions: 43mm x 33mm
Arms Quarterly Ist and IVth grand quarters Quarterly 1 and 4. A stag’s head caboshed above two branches of laurel (Mackenzie of Rosehaugh) 2. On a bend between six martlets three roundels on a canton a fess checky (Wortley) 3. A fess checky within a double tressure flory counterflory (Stuart, Earl of Bute) IInd and IIIrd grand quarters Quarterly 1 and 4. Three lozenges conjoined in fess a bordure (Montagu) 2 and 3. An eagle displayed (Monthermer)