General Notes

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Christell succeeded his father Adam, and married Maud, daughter of
Ingelram Percy, Lord Topcliff in Yorkshire. He was a very pious man,
"more given to devotion than to worldliness," says Maitland; and another
family ch ronicler tells us that he was a man who loved neither strife nor
wrong, but r ather to read and to pray. He was a considerable benefactor
of the Church, pa rticularly out of the estates in England, which he
administered during his fa ther's lifetime. His brother settled also in
that part of England in which ma ny Scoto-Normans (originally
Anglo-Normans) were large landowners, and is des cribed as "Sir John Seton
of Seton, in Yorkshire." Dugdale mentions in those northeastern parts of
England an Ivo De Seton and a "Capella De Seton," and t he villa et
territorium De Seton. Camden (Britannia) names Seton, in Northumb erland,
as part of the barony of De-la-Vall in the thirteenth century; and "S eton
Delavell," as also "Monk-Seton," is plainly marked in the superb
colle ction of maps in the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum of William and John
Blaeu, publi shed at Amsterdam in 1648. These names of places are now
mostly written Seato n, but it was not so formerly; and the old feudal
barons Delaval--"of the Val e"--were originally Setons-Delaval and an
early offshoot of our ancient famil y. It was probably from one of
Chrystell De Seton's donations that Pope Innoc ent IV. confirmed (as in
Dugdale's Monasticon) at Lyons, in 1245, to the Prio r of the Monastery of
Saint James of Wartry Grangiam De Seton cum terris, pra tis, pascuis,
nemoribus, piscariis, et omnibus pertinentiis suis. He died in old age,
before 1270:
"The knight's bones are dust,
And his good sword rust ;
His soul is with the Saints, I trust."
Sources: "The History of the House o f Seytoun to the Year MDLIX", Sir
Richard Maitland of Lethington, Knight, wit h 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 Fa mily"
Monsignor Seton, Call Number: R929.2 S495