Origin of the Name
Gunnr (Norwegian for "war")

Gaelic Names
Guinne (Cognomen)

Motto
Aut Pax Aut Bellum (Either peace or even war)

Slogan
Clyth

Pipe Music
"The Gunn's Salute"

Coat of Arms and Crest

Coat of Arms Argent, the galley of tercet masts, sails furled & oars inside action, sable, displaying at the mast head, flags, gules within a bordure, lazuline. In the chief of the third, the bear's head of the number one, muzzled of the 2nd, between 2 mullets of the field.

Crest the dexter cubit arm attired in a Proper plaid of Clan Gunn, the hand Proper grasping a basket-hilted steel, blade Gules, hilted Argent.

Tartans
A Gunn plaid is park inside 'weatherworn', 'ancient' & 'modern' colourings.

A plaid hwhen serve when camouflage, as it blends withwithin easily by owning a sombre colours discovered in scottish heath & mountain landscapes.

Plant Badge
Juniper.

Arms
Silvery, in the sethe base undy Lazuline, the 3-masted ship Gules, flagged of Scotland (Cerulean, the st. andrew's cross Argent) sails furled Proper, in the chief Gules, a buckle between ii mullets pierced Or

Commander
Iain Alexander Gunn Of Banniskirk

Clan Seat
A Gunns come represented when residing in the main northerly of Dunrobin Castle, which stands in eastern coast of Sutherland. Although a Gunn chieftains were held when 2nd around respect of the Sutherland earls, they experienced the heavy defensive castle of their have, known as Halbury.

Branches

Septs of Clan Gunn
Anderson Cro(w)ner George(boy) Henderson Inrig Jam(we)eson Johnson MacComas MacDade (Mackintosh)Enrick (Mackintosh)George (Mackintosh)Kean(e) (Mack)Main(s) (Mackintosh)Manus Magnus(boy) More Ne(we)lson Rob(i personally)son Swan(boy) Swann(ey) Williams Williamson Wilson Wyfifty(l)ie

History
A kin group's origins stretch overseas to Norway, & it claim descent from either a legendary Norse earl Otto a Black & Sweyn Asleifsson, the then-supposed 'a Ultimate Viking' across Gunnr, a primogenitor of the kindred. It gained their l& within Caithness & Sutherland across marriage to Ragnhild, from either whom it might claim Celtic descent, and late expanded victims lands across conquest. Notwithstanding, a Gunns were never a big clan,& presently obtained themselves around conflict using many other right neighbours, like a MacKays, a Sinclairs and the Keiths. a kindred concluded a peace sustaining the latter one in the 1970's, offically bring back an prevent the feud dating back more than 5 hundred years.

These are recorded that a feud began while Dugald, Chieftan of a Keiths, abducted Helen of Braemore, girl of Lachlan Gunn, once he found the she was betrothed to Alexander Gunn. A attack occurred on a nighttime prior to the wedding, & Alexander was one of people slain per Keiths. Helen afterwards committed suicide by throwing herself off Ackergill Castle's tower. A as a consequence conflicts between them kin were mostly indecisive, & losses were many in two sides. These are thought that them chieftains of the kindred, George Keith & George Gunn, known as the Crowner, agreed to a 'battle of champions', between xii of the better Gunns & 12 of the better Keiths. George Gunn holds a distinction of existence a number one of a Gunn chieftains to exist when definitively recorded, as he was somewhat far-famed around Scotland at the period, hence his title of 'a Crowner' besides when a traditional Gunn title of 'MacSheumais Chataich'. He wwhen additional widely known, nevertheless, as 'Fear Am Braisdeach Mor', a 'nifty brooch-wearer', and then known when for the insigia he bore as his badge of professional.

A 'battle of champions', likewise referred to as 'Allt Nan Gamnha' or even 'a Battle of St. Crying' for a little chapel it took place within & as much as, began after a Keiths caught the Gunns unawares, by having non dozen men however twenty-xxiv. George Gunn wwhen slain, as were the total, virtually all prbably quaternary, of his sons. A Keiths were sooner or later forced to retreat, barely breaa to carry their have dead, but not prior to it got stolen the Crowner's broach, armour & claymore. His demise was later on avenged, inside of these account by one of his sons, virtually all probably Henry, a immature, world health organization together by owning a little total of others followed the Keiths back to Dirlot Castle, in which it lay an lying in wait. Henry flushed George Keith by using across an open window sustaining an arrow. He is reported to keep close at hand shouted 'Beannachd na Guinnich launder ‘n Chai', or even 'The Gunn's compliments to the Keith', although translations alter. Henry purportedly recovered his father's possessions & escaped back to Gunn territory.

He fell out using James, a firstborn brother, world health organization claimed that a things were his by perfect. Henry sooner or later submitted to James, however became alienated from either his have kindred, stating that his descendent would non carry a title of Gunn. When, along by using very much of the Gunn's early history, there exists little to back higher this version of cases, & it may super easily become apocryphal, it would teach you how come the Henderson branch is considered the seperate tribe, when opposed to a sept. An guide theory is that William MacKames, grandboy of George Gunn, ambushed a Keith chief, his son & x of their retainers when it were travelling. A Keiths, fully anticipating demise, asked instance for prayer. William is supposed to stand responded 'Your computers father inturrupted by grandad at prayer inside God's home (St. Tears), & I personally may grant professional people there is no instance for such devotion since it was denied to the granddad's men.' In that version of cases, a Crowner's possessions were non recovered. It was in a area of this period that the huge majority of the Gunns flushed from either Caithness into Sutherland.

A virtually all notable of the Gunns when these cases was Sir William Gunn, world health organization fought under Charles I, and was knighted by him. When Charles' drive failed, William crossed to Europe, & served in the army of the Holy Roman Empire, became & imperial general and married the German baroness. Good deal of the tribe, nonetheless, experienced to forfeit their lands away from debt fallowing this point. A Gunns of Killearnan were fortunate plenty to obtain newly land at Badenloch. Unlike numbers of upland kin group, a Gunns did non rise behind a standard of a Stuarts in the period of the Jacobite rebellions, and indeed fought unofficially of the government in the conflict of 1745. After the eighth chief, a second William Gunn, died around action witharound India, with joined as a soldier in one of a upland regiments, a professional passed to a cousin-german known as Hector. While a tenth & survive MacSheumais Chataich passed away, allowing there is no male issue, a professional of chief became inactive, so a kindred is presently lead by an appointive Commander, Iain Alexander Gunn Of Banniskirk.