Clan Munro

Clan Munro
Clann an Rothaich[1]
Crest: An eagle perching Proper
Motto	Dread God[2]
War cry	Caisteal Folais 'na Theine
Profile
Region	Highland
District	Easter-Ross[2]
Plant badge	Common club moss[2]
Pipe music	Bealach na Broige[2]
Chief
Hector Munro of Foulis[2]
The 35th Chief of Clan Munro (Tighearna Foghlais[1])
Seat	Foulis Castle
Septs of Clan Munro Dingwall,[3] Foulis,[3] Fowlis,[3] Keddie,[3] Kiddie,[3] MacAidie,[3] MacCulloch,[3] MacEeddie,[3] MacKeddie,[3] MacLullich,[3] Monro,[3] Monroe,[3] Munroe,[3] Vass,[3] Wass[3]
Clan branches Munro of Foulis (chiefs)[4] Munro of Milntown (senior cadets)[4] Munro of Culcairn (patrilineal seniority)[4] Munro of Culrain (agnatic seniority)[4] Munro of Auchinbowie[4] Monro of Fyrish[4] Munro of Obsdale[4] Munro of Kiltearn[4] Munro of Killichoan[4] Munro of Newmore[4] Munro of Kilmorack[4] Monro of Allan[4] Munro of Culnauld or Culnaha[4] Munro of Tarlogie[4] Munro of Pitlunde and Bearcrofts[4] Munro of Craiglockhart and Cockburn[4] Munro of Edmondsham[4] Munro of Fearn[4] Munro of Ingsdon[4] Munro of Coul and Balcony[4] Munro of Erribol[4] Munro of Culcraggie[4] Munro of Ferrytown of Obsdale[4] Munro of Milntown of Katewell[4] Munro of Ardullie[4] Munro of Teanoird[4] Munro of Tain[4] Munro of Milntown of Alness[4] Munro of Teaninich[4] Munro of Contullich and Kildermorie[4] Munro of Tullochue and Knockancurin[4] Munro of Assynt[4] Munro of Achany[4] Munro of Katewell[4] Munro of Limlair (Lemlair)[4] Munro of Pittonachy[4] Munro of Novar[4] Munro of Rhives[4] Munro of Findon[4] Munro of Braemore[4] Munro of Poyntzfield[4] Munro of Lealty (Rockfield)[4] Munro of Lexington (American)[4] Munro of New England (American)[4] See also: Munro baronets
Allied clans Clan Ross Clan Rose Clan Fraser of Lovat Clan Mackay Clan Sutherland Clan Campbell (18th century)
Rival clans Clan Mackenzie Clan Cameron Clan Mackintosh
Kindreds Beaton medical kindred

Clan Munro (listen^ⓘ; Scottish Gaelic: Clann an Rothaich [ˈkʰl̪ˠãũn̪ˠ ə ˈrˠɔhɪç]) is a Highland Scottish clan. Historically the clan was based in Easter Ross in the Scottish Highlands. Traditional origins of the clan give its founder as Donald Munro who came from the north of Ireland and settled in Scotland in the eleventh century, though its true founder may have lived much later.^[5] It is also a strong tradition that the Munro chiefs supported Robert the Bruce during the Wars of Scottish Independence. The first proven clan chief on record however is Robert de Munro who died in 1369; his father is mentioned but not named in a number of charters. The clan chiefs originally held land principally at Findon on the Black Isle but exchanged it in 1350 for Estirfowlys. Robert's son Hugh who died in 1425 was the first of the family to be styled "of Foulis", despite which clan genealogies describe him as 9th baron.

During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the Munros feuded with their neighbors the Clan Mackenzie, and during the seventeenth century many Munros fought in the Thirty Years' War in support of Protestantism. During the Scottish Civil War of the seventeenth century different members of the clan supported the Royalists and Covenanters at different times. The Munro chiefs supported the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and during the Jacobite risings of the eighteenth century the clan and the chiefs were staunchly anti-Jacobite, supporting the Hanoverian-British Government.