Clan Chattan

Clan Chattan
Clan Chattan
Profile
Region	Highland
District	Inverness
Chief
	John Mackintosh of Mackintosh(according to the most recent Clan Mackintosh history).
Historic seat	Tor Castle in Lochaber
Septs of Clan Chattan
	Clan Mackintosh, Clan MacPherson,Clan Davidson, Clan MacBean, Clan MacPhail, Clan Farquharson, Clan MacGillivray, Clan MacQueen, Clan Shaw of Tordarroch. Clan MacThomas. the Macleans of Dochgarroch, MacIntyres of Badenoch, Clan Tarril (extinct), Clan Andrish (status unknown)

Clan Chattan (Scottish Gaelic: Na Catanaich or Scottish Gaelic: Clann Chatain) is a unique confederation of Highland clans. The clan is distinctive in highland clan history in that it was acknowledged to be a community or confederation, of twelve separate Scottish clans, who each had their own clan chief recognized under Scottish law, but who were united under and bound to a superior chief of the confederation for mutual solidarity, sustenance and protection in the Middle Ages and early modern period in the Scottish Highlands.

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