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Clan Byres (Byres Tartan)

1. About Clan Byres (Byres Tartan) Crest: A cock reguardant, Proper Motto: Marte Suo Tutus (Safe by his own exertions) Historic Seat: Byres Castle (ruined), East Lothian Clan Chief: None, armigerous clan 2. Clan Byres History (Byres Tartan) The name is taken from the former barony of Byres in East Lothian and is also known as Byers...

1. About Clan Byres (Byres Tartan)

Crest: A cock reguardant, Proper
Motto: Marte Suo Tutus (Safe by his own exertions)
Historic Seat: Byres Castle (ruined), East Lothian
Clan Chief: None, armigerous clan

2. Clan Byres History (Byres Tartan)

The name is taken from the former barony of Byres in East Lothian and is also known as Byers and Buyers.


at 1309, John de Byres arrives at Neubotle as a monk. In 1392, Thomas de Byris had a tenement in Edinburgh; he was made a burgess of Aberdeen in 1534.

Between 1593 and 1653, George Byris and Thomas Byris served as Legertwood's ministers in Berwickshire.

In the seventeenth century, John Byres was a prominent businessman in Edinburgh who served as treasurer, guild dean, and provost.

Andrew Byers is listed as a burgess of Cupar in 1694.

3. Clan Byres Tartans

As a sept of Clan Lindsay, the Byres family is allowed to wear the Lindsay tartans even though there is no officially recognized Byres tartan.

 

Lindsay Ancient

 

Lindsay Modern

 

Lindsay Weathered

4. Clan Byres Crest & Coats of Arms

4.1 Clan Byres Crest

Worn by all of the name and ancestry

Crest Description:
A cock reguardant, Proper

4.2 Clan Byres Coat of Arms

Note on Coats of Arms: A coat of arms is given 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 exclusions listed above, the weapons depicted below are personal weapons. The only person authorized to use these weapons is the grantee.

 

Byres

 

Byer or Byers or Byres Northamptonshire

 

Simplified version of a Byers coat of arms

5. Clan Byres Places & People

 

6. Associated Names

Byres and Buyers are septs of Clan Lindsay.