Armigerous Clans

[gilmore]

I know this is an improbable scenario but humor me. Are any of the Chiefs non-Scots? Could some kind of wacky King Ralph story play out? Would hilarity ensue or would the Lord Lyon take one look at the passport and say "Oh hell no!" Genealogically speaking, it seems that any movement from Scotland would add a lot of water to the ancestral claim.

There would be neither hilarity nor refusal of a chiefdom to a non-Scot. There are quite a few. If you would like to know how many, you can go here http://www.clanchiefs.org/p/chiefs.html and look up their addresses.

The clan system predates even feudalism, and both predate the existence of nation-states as we know them.