• Manrent refers to a Scottish contract of the mid-15th century to the early 17th century, usually military in nature and involving Scottish clans. The...
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    Cohors amicorum Comitatus Dienstmann in Austria Druzhina in Kievan Rus' Manrent, a Scottish clan bond Svita in the Russian Empire Bodyguard Great house...
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    against aggressive Earls 1591: Manrent between MacPherson and the Earl of Huntly signed at Huntly Castle. 1593: Manrent between Mackintosh of Dunnachten...
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    Zamindar Multiple vassalage [de] Gokenin, vassals of the shogunate in Japan Manrent, Scottish Clan treaties of offensive and defensive alliance Nöken (plural:...
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  • laird, they would follow him whether they were related or not. Bonds of manrent were sometimes used to bind lesser chiefs and his followers to more powerful...
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    Society 37 (1987), 146–48. Wormald, J., Lords and Men in Scotland: Bonds of Manrent, 1442–1603 (Edinburgh, 1985), 76ff. Peter R. Coss; Maurice Hugh Keen (2002)...
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    specialist troops, particularly men-at-arms and archers, hired by bonds of manrent, similar to English indentures of the same period. Archers became much...
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    was usually recorded in the local royal or burgh court. Fosterage and manrent were the most important forms of social bonding in the clans. In the case...
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    Alexander MacGregor of Glenstrae, chief of Clan Gregor, signed a bond of manrent. In the bond, Ardincaple acknowledged Glenstrae as his chief and of being...
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    Scottish nobility through analysis of a kind of document known as a bond of manrent. Wormald taught at the University of Glasgow between 1966 and 1985, and...
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    1595 the Clan Farquharson joined the Chattan Confederation and a bond of manrent acknowledged the chief of Clan Mackintosh, who was also chief of Clan Chattan...
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    of Dunvegan, the 13th chief, bound himself and his heirs in a bond of manrent to "assist, maintain, and defend, and concur with Lachlan Mackintosh of...
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    an heir who was a minor succeeded to the chiefship, and giving bonds of manrent. In an Act of the Scottish Parliament of 1587 there is the description...
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    Septs Clan badge Clan crest Clan battles Tartan Bagpipes Clearances Kilt Manrent The Highlands Battle of Culloden Highland games Border reivers Lowland...
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    Jus tractatuum List of intergovernmental organizations List of treaties Manrent (feudal Scottish Clan treaty) Supranational union Treaty ratification Vienna...
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    Scottish clan Marian civil war Military of Scotland Independent Highland Companies Manrent List of battles involving the Kingdom of Scotland...
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  • in 1510, whom his father had kidnapped. Campbell made several "bonds of manrent" which formalised and cemented alliances between families. He made bands...
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    Scottish clan Marian civil war Military of Scotland Independent Highland Companies Manrent List of battles involving the Kingdom of Scotland...
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    and having entered into a fresh acquisition of territory gave a bond of manrent to Alexander Gordon, Master of Sutherland on September 4, 1529, which acknowledged...
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    himself to the Earl of Sutherland, to whom John Mackay gave a bond of manrent and service. However, historian Angus Mackay disputes Gordon's account...
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    Scottish clan Marian civil war Military of Scotland Independent Highland Companies Manrent List of battles involving the Kingdom of Scotland...
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    December 1545 at Dingwall, the Earl of Sutherland entered into a bond of manrent with John Mackenzie of Kintail for mutual defence against all enemies,...
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    Ardincaple and Alasdair MacGregor of Glenstrae entered into a bond of manrent. In the bond the two chiefs promised to aid each other against anyone but...
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    Septs Clan badge Clan crest Clan battles Tartan Bagpipes Clearances Kilt Manrent The Highlands Battle of Culloden Highland games Border reivers Lowland...
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    streyghts, marishes, and mountayne countries". At Irwine in 1545, a bond of manrent was granted to Hugh, Master of Eglinton to Duncan, uncle of the Laird of...
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    Septs Clan badge Clan crest Clan battles Tartan Bagpipes Clearances Kilt Manrent The Highlands Battle of Culloden Highland games Border reivers Lowland...
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    Strathairdle and Finlay Macnab of Bowaine, entered into a Bond of Friendship and Manrent. In the bond the two chiefs claimed to "come from ane house and one lineage"...
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    specialist troops, particularly men-at-arms and archers, hired by bonds of manrent, similar to English indentures of the same period. New "livery and maintenance"...
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    Septs Clan badge Clan crest Clan battles Tartan Bagpipes Clearances Kilt Manrent The Highlands Battle of Culloden Highland games Border reivers Lowland...
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    Skelbo having entered into a fresh acquisition of territory gave a bond of manrent to Alexander Gordon, Master of Sutherland on 4 September 1529, which acknowledged...
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