 Historian William Anderson asserted that the name came to prominence in Scotland through a French knight called Hugo de Cadella, who was created Thane of Calder, later known as Cawdor.The historian George Fraser Black lists Hugo de Kaledouer as a witness to a charter of land near Montrose in around 1178.However, the name arose around Inverness where the Calders were great nobles with considerable lands from the fourteenth century onwards.