Clan Chattan

Clan Chattan
Profile
Region	Highland
District	Inverness
Chief
Malcolm Mackintosh of Torcastle, 33rd Chief of Clan Chattan, a resident of New Zealand represented by John Mackintosh of Mackintosh, 31st Chief of Clan Mackintosh and President of the Clan Chattan Association.[1]
Historic seat	Tor Castle in Lochaber
Septs of Clan Chattan Clan Mackintosh, Clan MacPherson,[2]Clan Davidson, Clan MacBean, Clan MacPhail,[2] Clan Farquharson, Clan MacGillivray, Clan MacQueen,[2] Clan Shaw of Tordarroch,[2] Clan MacThomas,[3][4] the Macleans of Dochgarroch, MacIntyres of Badenoch, Clan Tarril (extinct), Clan Andrish (status unknown)
Allied clans See each member clan's list but most significantly: Clan MacDougall (early period), Clan Bruce (early period), Clan Donald (early period), Clan Grant, Clan Mackenzie of Kintail, Clan Campbell of Cawdor, Clan Rose, Clan Erskine(Earls of Mar) on occasion, Clan Gordon(Earls of Huntly) on occasion
Rival clans See each member clan's list but most significantly: Clan Donald (early period), Clan Cumming, Clan Cameron, Clan MacDonald of Keppoch, Clan Erskine(Earls of Mar) on occasion, Clan Gordon(Earls of Huntly) on occasion

Clan Chattan (Scottish Gaelic: Na Catanaich or Clann Chatain)^[5] is a unique confederation of Highland clans.^[6] This distinctive allied community^[7] comprised at its greatest extent seventeen separate clans (currently twelve),^[8] who each had their own clan chief recognized under Scottish law, but were further united and bound to the superior chief of the Confederation for mutual solidarity, sustenance and protection in the Middle Ages and early modern period in the Great Glen and Cairngorms. A tribal coalition of this magnitude was a source of apprehension to both the Lord of the Isles and the Kings of Scots and records exist of machinations to "crying doon the Clan Chattan" by formenting internal dissension.^[9]