Granted by the Court of the Lord Lyon, King of Arms, Scotland, 21st June 2013, Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland (Folio 102, Volume 88).
The Barony of Hartsyde is an old Scottish feudal Crown Barony (1345) and is located in Upper Clydesdale, near Biggar, Lanarkshire.
The Dignity of the Barony of Hartsyde is registered in vol.2 of the Scottish Barony Register of date 26 February 2010. The Arms were granted by the Lord Lyon, King of Arms, with a baronial helm appropriate to the Dignity of a Baron in the Baronage of Scotland.
The 20th Baron of Hartsyde is a Full Member of The Convention of the Baronage of Scotland.
The blazon for the armiger’s French coat of arms as Baron of Toutemoy, have also been registered (as a recognition of pre-existing arms used by the family) through a Certification of Arms (25/2003) under the Hand and Seal of Don Alfonso de Ceballos-Escalera y de Gila, Marques de La Floresta, Cronista Rey de Armas de Castilla y Leon of date 25 November 2003, and a Registration of Arms (Certificate N°3517) of the Bureau of Heraldry, Pretoria, South Africa, of date 04 April 2006.