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SIR CHRISTOPHER SETON

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 703 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:CHRISTOPHER See also:SETON , son and See also:heir of See also:John de Seton, a See also:Cumberland See also:gentleman, and his wife Erminia Lascelles, was See also:born probably in 1278, since his See also:age is given in See also:March 1299 as twenty-one, in an See also:inquisition into the lands of his deceased See also:father. He did See also:homage for these in See also:October of that See also:year, and was in the service of See also:Edward I. at Lochmaben in 1304. In 1305 he came into See also:possession of lands which had been granted by Sir John Seton to See also:Robert See also:Bruce and his wife See also:Christian, who was perhaps a Seton. He had married about 1301 Christian Bruce, See also:sister of See also:King Robert, who was possibly his second See also:cousin. He was See also:present at his See also:brother-in-See also:law's See also:coronation at See also:Scone in 1306, and saved his See also:life at the See also:battle of See also:Methven later in the same year. According to See also:Dugdale he shut himself up in See also:Loch-dom.' See also:Castle in See also:Ayrshire, and on the surrender of that castle was hanged as a traitor at See also:Dumfries by See also:order of Edward I. He See also:left no heirs. His widow was in March 1307 in See also:receipt of three pence a See also:day from Edward I. for her support at the monastery of Sixhill in See also:Lincolnshire. She was afterwards placed in the custody of Sir See also:Thomas de See also:Gray. His Cumberland estates, with the exception of his See also:mother's See also:dower, were given to Robert de See also:Clifford. Another Seton, John de Seton, described as having no lands or chattels, was hanged for helping in the See also:defence of Tibbers Castle, and for aiding in the See also:murder of John See also:Comyn, with other prisoners of See also:war, at See also:Newcastle in See also:August 1306.

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Sir Christopher was captured at Loch Doon Castle in Ayrshire which belonged to the Earls of Carrick. His brother-in-law King Robert Bruce had been the earl of Carrick. John Seton who was captured at Tibbers and executed in Newcastle, was Christopher's brother. A younger brother Alexander, was a signatory of the Declaration of Arbroath (1320). Christopher's lands were in Yorkshire. he probably had a daughter and Margaret and some sources say that there was a son who died in infancy. Although an Englishman we have adopted him as one of our valiant heroes.These Setons are a different family from the Scottish Setons of Tranent.
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