Margaret De Seton 
Margaret was born in 1335 in Seton, East Lothian, Scotland. Margaret's father is Alexander De Seton and her mother is Margaret Murray. Her paternal grandparents are Alexander De Seton and Christian Cheyne; her maternal grandfather is William Murray and her maternal grandmother was Agnes RANDOLPH. She is an only child.General Notes
Lady Margaret Seton was forcibly abducted in the year 1347 by a
neighboring baron named Alan de Winton, a distant kinsman of her own and
a cadet of the Seton family. Andrew Wyntoun relates the case in his
Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland, saying: "Dat yhere Alene de Wyntoun tuk
the yhoung Lady Setoun and weddit hyr than till hys wyf." This outrage
caused a bloody contest in Lothian; on which occasion, says Fordun, a
hundred ploughs were laid aside from labor.In a ballad entitled "Alan of
Winton and the Heiress of Seton," we find somegood verses, and in one of
the stanzas an allusion to the family Crest:
"One hundred ploughs unharnessed lie.
The dusky collier leaves his mines.
A Seton ?? is the gathering cry.
And far the fiery Dragon shines."
A romantic incident of this affair--the opposition springing, perhaps,
from selfish motives on the part of her guardian--is that when Margaret
was rescued and Alan confronted with the Seton family, she was handed a
ring and a dagger, with permission to give him either Love or Death. She
gave him the ring, and they werehappy ever afterward.
Sources: "The History of the House of Seytoun to the Year MDLIX", Sir
Richard Maitland of Lethington, Knight, with the Continuation, by
Alexander Viscount Kingston, to MDCLXXXVII. Printed at Glasgow,
MDCCCXXIX.
"A History of the Family of Seton during Eight Centuries" George Seton,
Advocate, M.A. Oxon., etc. Two vols. Edinburgh, 1896
"An Old Family" Monsignor Seton, Call Number: R929.2 S495
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.~ 1190 in Seton, East Lothian, Scotland d.1249
- b.~ 1240 in Seton, East Lothian, Scotland
- b.~ 1210
- b.~ 1265 in Seton, East Lothian, Scotland d.1323
- b.1282 in Seton, East Lothian, Scotland
- b.1264 in Carrick, Ayrshire, Scotland
- b.1306 in Seton, East Lothian, Scotland
- b.1286
- b.1335 in Seton, East Lothian, Scotland
- b.~ 1300 in Scotland
- b.~ 1322 in Stranith, Scotland
- b.~ 1147 in Of Stranith Or Nithsdale, Scot. d.18 May 1262
- b.< 1266 in Of Stranith Or Nithsdale, Scotland d.> 1296
- b.~ 1224 in <Of Stranith Or Nithsdale, Scot.>
- b.< 1278 in Of Stranith, Scot d.20 Jul 1332 in Musselburgh, Scot
- b.Jul 1243 in Of, Annandale, Dumfrieshire, Scotland d.<04 Apr 1304 in , , , Palestine
- b.~ 1272 in Of, Carrick, Argyllshire, Scotland d.1358 in Of, Bergen, Bergen, Norway
- b.1254 in Carrick, Ayrshire, Scotland d.<27 Oct 1292 in Orkney, england
- b.~ 1285 in Of Stranith, Scot d.> 1367
- b.1214 in Dundonald, Ayrshire, Scotland d.1283 in Dundonald Castle, Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1245 in Dundonald Castle, Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland d.22 Jul 1298 in Battle of Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland
- b.< 1228 in Bute, Scotland
- b.~ 1294 in Of Bonkyl, Scotland d.>16 Jul 1351
- b.~ 1230 in Bonkyl, Berwickshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1254 in Bonkyl, Berwickshire, Scotland
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They had a son and a daughter, named William and Christian.
Family Notes
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Children
William De Seton
William was born in 1348 in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. He died at the age of 76 on August 17th, 1424 in Battle of Verneuil.