Reference
The Reading Room
Papers on the baronage of Scotland — its law, its history, its words and its insignia — written from the sources, with page references so you can check them.
Heritage & Sources
Heritage & Sources
The Lord Lyon's Case for the Baronage
A reader's guide to Innes of Learney's 1945 paper, The Robes of the Feudal Baronage of Scotland
9 min read
Law & Statutes
Law & Statutes
The baronage in the statutes, 1428–2004
From the Act of the small barons to section 63 of the 2000 Act: what each statute did for the baronage, with a link to the record
5 min read
Law & Statutes
The Treaty of Union and the baronage
What Articles XVIII, XX, XXII and XXIII of 1707 did — and did not do — for the Scottish baronage
3 min read
The Lyon Court
The Lyon Court
The Lord Lyon and the baronage since 2004
How the Lyon Court’s practice on recognising barons has moved since the appointed day — and what has not changed
4 min read
Words & Usage
Words & Usage
Lairds, lords and barons: what the words meant
Laird and lord are one word; laird was never a rank; and what made a laird a baron was not the word but the Crown’s erection of his lands in free barony
5 min read
Robes & Insignia
Robes & Insignia
Robes, chapeau and insignia of the baronage
The red robe of 1455, the five-buttoned mantle, the chapeau and supporters — what a Scottish baron wore, and what the Lyon Register keeps of it
4 min read