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Description: | The Marischal Staff of Scotland in gilded brass with ends in steel One end has royal arms in relief, the other the arms of the Earls Marischal in relief
"The Marischal Staff of Scotland, sent from Potsdam by the Earl Marischal to his old college after his involvement in the Jacobite risings of 1715-19."
Author: Inglis,Jim & Curtis,Neil Date: 1990 Purpose: Encyclopaedia of the North-East
"The Earls Marischal of Scotland have a long association with Aberdeen University, George Keith, the fourth Earl, having founded Marischal College in 1593. After Culloden in 1745, George Keith, the 10th Earl Marischal, having supported the Jacobite cause, lost both the title of Earl Marischal and his links with Marischal College. This is the Marischal Staff of Scotland dating from betwen 1400 to 1600AD. The shaft is made of gilt brass and the ends each have a ferrule of steel into which is set an iron seal. The portrait of the last Earl in armour and carrying the staff can be seen at Marischal College. The Marischal Staff was sent from Potsdam to Marischal College in 1760 by the tenth Earl, as the title had ceased. One photograph shows the end of the staff with a steel relief of the arms of the Earls Marischal supported each side by a roebuck and surmounted by an earl's coronet. The shield carries the three red fingers signifying the fingers dipped by Malcolm I in the blood of Camus the Viking who was killed by Robert Keith in 1010. This now appears in the arms of the University of Aberdeen. The photograph of the other end of the staff is a steel relief of the arms of Scotland surmounted by the crown of Scotland and supported by the crowned lion and the unicorn."
Author: Feilden,Rosemary Date: 1999 Purpose: SCRAN
Acquisition source: Keith, 10th Earl Marischal George | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDUA University of Aberdeen, Marischal Museum | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 1400-1600 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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