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The Clan Johnstone were once one of the most powerful of the Border Reiver Scottish clans. [3] They originally settled in Annandale and for more than six hundred years they held extensive possessions in the west of the Scottish Marches, where they kept watch against the English. [3]
The first of the family on record was Sir John de Johnstone, one of the Scottish barons who swore fidelity to Edward I. of England, in 1296. His great-grandson, also a Sir John de Johnstone, was conspicuous for his valour in the defence of his country in the reigns of David II. and Robert II.
The Johnstones were at one time among the most powerful of the Border clans. They settled originally in Annandale, and have for over six hundred years held extensive possessions on the western marches, where they kept watch against the English freebooters.
On 16 February 1982, the Lord Lyon recognised Major Percy Johnstone of Annandale and of that Ilk as baron of the lands of the earldom of Annandale and Hartfell and of the lordship of Johnstone, Hereditary Steward of the Stewartry of Annandale and Hereditary Keeper of the Castle of Lochmaben.
In 1983, after a lapse of nearly two centuries, the Lord Lyon King of Arms officially recognized Major Percy Wentworth Hope Johnstone of Annandale and of that Ilk, hereditary Keeper of Lochmaben Castle and a descendant of the daughter of the first Marquis of Annandale, as Chief of Clan Johnstone.
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JOHNSTONES OF JOHNSTONE, EARLS AND MARQUISES OF ANNANDALE. I. — JOHN, who gave name to Johnston or Johnstone, in the parish of Johnstone, in the lordship of Annandale and shire of Dumfries. Gilbert, son of John, is named in writs dated after 1194, and John must therefore have been a prominent settler before that date, c. 1170-1194. I II.—
