Clan Haig Collection

The Haigs descend from Petrus de Haga, who witnessed a charter of Richard de Morville, Constable of Scotland 1162-1188, and is named in charters as lord of Bemersyde, still the chief's home.…

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About Clan Haig

The Haigs descend from Petrus de Haga, who witnessed a charter of Richard de Morville, Constable of Scotland 1162-1188, and is named in charters as lord of Bemersyde, still the chief's home. The Haigs have held Bemersyde, in the Scottish Borders, for roughly eight centuries, a continuity celebrated in a rhyme traditionally attributed to the 13th-century seer Thomas the Rhymer: 'Tyde what may, whate'er betyde, Haig shall be Haig of Bemersyde.' The lairds swore fealty to Edward I in 1296 (the Ragman Rolls), then fought for Wallace at Stirling Bridge in 1297, and the sixth laird joined Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn in 1314. Field Marshal Douglas Haig, commander of the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front from 1915 to 1918, was created Earl Haig in 1919, and in 1921 the government bought Bemersyde and gave it to him

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Modern or Ancient?

Same pattern, different dyes. Modern uses deep, saturated colours; Ancient uses the softer tones associated with natural dyes.