As is the tradtion any Balfour can display the arms of thier chief and you can display the arms of you branch I have created several dozen or so Balfour arms because I have become rather the heraldic artists So feel free to display any of the arms you find here or on Instagram, Facebook …
Many Balfours have served in the Royal Households of Scotland, England, France and the Netherlands as well …. but this Balfour .. who it seems was gay but also a favourite of Mary of Guise and her daughter Mary Queen of Scots John Balfour was a Scottish courtier or servant at the court of Mary of Guise and Mary, …
The Bethunes married early into the Balfours so they are close cousins …. and they are part of Clan Balfour
For PRIDE this year I thought I would mention the numerous GLBT Balfours throughout the Clans history from the very beginning up until today. Yes many of them were married to the opposite sex and some were confrimed bacholochers along with Old Maids; bear in mind that marriages we dynastic alliances which had very little …
A huge thanks to Best Scottish Tours for their feature on our clan 🙂
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https://www.electricscotland.com/webclans/atoc/balfour_bethune.pdf
BALFOUR, (Sir) JAMES, an eminent lawyer and public character of the sixteenth century, was the son of Balfour of Monquhanny, in Fife, a very ancient family. In youth, being designed for the church, he made considerable proficiency, not only in ordinary literature, but in the study of divinity and law: which were all alike necessary …
A new golf course at Markinch was opened on the twelth of October 1905 by Mr Edward Balfour of Balbirnie. It was situated in the Burn Park, or Playfield as it was known for hundreds of years, on Newton Farm to the north of Markinch Hill. During the Second World War 1939-1945 the course was …
