[9][12][13] The lands of Brodie are between Morayshire and Nairnshire, on the modern border that separates the Scottish Highlands and Moray.

He took a distinguished part in the fight and behaved "to the advantage of his friend and notable loss of his enemy," his conduct produced a friendship between Clan Mackenzie and Clan Brodie, which continued among their posterity, "and even yet remains betwixt them, being more sacredly observed than the ties of affinity and consanguinity amongst most others," and a bond of manrent was entered into between the families.

[21][22] Clan Brodie joined the royal army led by the Earl of Atholl against the rebel son of the Lord of the Isles, Aonghas Óg.

[23] Thomame Brodye de iodem, the 11th chief, was killed defending against the English invasion at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh.

As a result, he was put to the horn as a rebel for not appearing to a charge of waylaying, but was pardoned the year following.

Huntley died, Brodie escaped but was denounced a rebel, and his estates declared forfeited.

[25] In 1645 Lord Lewis Gordon burnt down Brodie Castle, a Z-plan tower-house built in the mid-sixteenth century.

An ardent presbyterian, his faith led him to be responsible for acts of destruction to Elgin Cathedral and its paintings.

He served on the committees: of war for Elgin, Nairn, Forres, and Inverness; of estates; of the protection of religion; and of excise.

Clan Brodie was part of the covenanter army in 1645 that lost the Battle of Auldearn to Montrose.

After the defeat of the covenanters, Clan Gordon sacked Brodie Castle and besieged Lethen House.

He was the author of a diary revealing a complicated, yet devoted mind, torn by temptation and doing what he believed to be right.

Lord Huntley threatened the "highest threats of military execution, as that of battering down his house, razing his tenants, burning their corns, and killing their persons."

Unable to secure enough cannon and gunpowder to proceed with an assault, Lord Huntley was forced to abandon his threats.

He returned from Madras a very rich man and purchased the estates of Thunderton House in Elgin, Arnhall in Kincardineshire, and The Burn.

[47][48] A rare pontifical document was discovered in Brodie Castle in 1972 and is now housed in the British Museum.

Her former husband avoided any involvement in the situation, but their children also took their grandfather to court seeking financial contribution to their education and lifestyle; Alexander Brodie sought to have the transfer of Brodie Castle to the National Trust overturned, but met with no success.

The legend of the source of this malediction was one of the early Brodie Chiefs "who induced an old woman to confess being guilty of witchcraft by offering her a new gown, and then, instead of fulfilling his promise, had her tied to a stake and burnt".