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The current chief is Sir Wayne Broun of Coultson, Bt, 14th Baronet of Colstoun. Variations of ‘Brown’ exist in every European language. In France it is le Brun, and in German Brun, or Braun, while other versions are Bron, Browne, Browyn, Brwne, Brune, Brouin, Broune, and Broun. The name le Brune (‘the Brown’) is found in Cumberland only a few decades after the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, at a time when this vast area of the north of England was part of the Scottish kingdom. This family of le Brune would have been among those Norman warriors, their families, and retainers who settled in England and later in Scotland following the conquest. The name also appears in Scotland in 1128 when a Sir David le Brun is recorded as witnessing the foundation charter of Holyrood Abbey. King David I, according to legend, had been hunting in the grounds of what would later become the abbey and palace of Holyrood, in Edinburgh, when he was saved from a charging stag, and founded the Holy Cross (Holyrood) Abbey in thanks for his salvation.