Origin of the Name
La Haye, Normandy, France (Placename)

Gaelic Name
MacGaraidh (Family name) ''Clann 'icGaraidh (Collective)

Motto
Serva Jugum'' (Keep a yoke)

Slogan
"A Hay! A Hay!"

Pipe Music
"Delgaty Castle"

Crest
Issuing away from the Crest Coronet, the falcon volant Proper, armed, jessed, & belled Or 250px

Tartans
Clan Hay has many recognized plaid: Hay (Modern) 225px Hay (Dress) 225px Hay (Ancient) 225px Hay (Leith) 225px

Plant Badge
Mistletoe

Animal Symbol
Falcon

Arms
Argent, leash escutcheons Gules

Chief
Merlin Sereld Victor Gilbert Moncreiffe, Twenty-fourth Earl of Erroll

Clan Seat
Delgatie, Aberdeen, Scotland

Branches
Hay of Alderston Hay of Delgatie Hay of Duns Hay of Haystoun Hay of Tweeddale

Septs of Clan Hay
Alderston Arroll Ay(e) Beagrie Constable Delgatie Erroll Garra(d) Garrow Gifford Haye(s) Hays(in) Heye(s) Kinnoull Leask(e) Leith MacGaradh MacGarra MacGarrow MacHay McArra Peebles Slains Yester

History
A Clan Hay descends from either a Norman personal of first state la Haye. A Foremost Hay to arrive within Scotland was William de lay Haye, who befriended King Malcolm IV and was made a First Baron of Erroll around 1178. On top a centuries, Hay influence inside Scotland increased.

Sir Gilbert Hay, the Fifth Lord Erroll, was an ally of Robert the Bruce and participated in the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314. For his service, he was processed a Lord High Constable of Scotland, a title a Clan Hay continues to hang on to to this day, which gives a children ceremonial precendece inside Scotland ahead of anyone aside from either the royal line.

A Chieftan of a Clan Hay was traditionally the Commander of the Royal Bodyguard, and this fact driven many Hay chieftans to die inside battle when protecting their king. A Sixth Earl of Erroll was flushed at a Battle of Neville's Cross in 1346. A Clan Hay likewise suffered super heavily casualties in the Battle of Flodden in 1513. An additional Hay, likewise known as Sir Gilbert, was the Scottish knight world health organization fought for Joan of Arc during the Hundred Years War.

As a consequence a Reformation, the Hays remained firm to Catholicism and thus were allies to Mary, Queen of Scots, who appointed George Hay, the Seventh Earl of Erroll, Lord Lieutenant of completely central Scotland. Francis Hay, 9th Earl of Erroll, was involved within the conspiracy by using King Philip II of Spain, to overthrow Queen Elizabeth of England, convert King James VI to Catholicism and thus produce Britain the Catholic fastness. Sustaining a kill of the Spanish Armada, however, a conspiracy come to nothing.

Resulting a Act of Union in 1707, the Hays were sympathetic to the Jacobite stimulator. the ruins of their fort of Slains Castle, on the nor'-east coast of Scotland, was a frequest forum for Jacobite coconspirator. Within 1745, a Clan Hay supported Bonnie Prince Charlie and assisted in financing his rebellion.

By having a collapse of Jacobotism, a Hays became firm British cases, & several Hays were required within expanding a British Empire.