Where did the Grants come from? Where did the Grant surname come from?
(The Clan Grant History site is run by some researchers in the U.K. and presents a very different view of the history of the Clan, and on the origins of the Grant surname. They present much new evidence and research that significantly alters some of the long held and long accepted views about the origin of the Grant surname and the origins of the Clan Grant.) The verifiable origins of Clan Grant have been lost in the mists of time, which in itself attests to the extreme age of the Clan. There have been at least three theories advanced for the possible origins of the Grants, and the debate over these origins has been a long and involved one. In the Norman theory, the name Grant has been said to be of Norman/French origin (Note: the Normans were not French, though they did speak French and eventually adopt Gallic culture).The Normans were descendents of Viking raiders who eventually were given the province of Normandy as a form of appeasement after constant raiding – “Norman” meaning “No
