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I've been searching around for proof that the Morays were decended from Flemish origins without success. -- Billreid 11:37, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Freskyn, probably about 1130 or earlier, had built this castle on the northern estate, comprising the parish of Spynie near Elgin and other extensive lands in Moray, which had been given to him in addition to his southern territories of Strabrock, now Uphall and Broxburn in Linlithgowshire, which he already held from the Scottish king. Freskyn was thus no Fleming, but a lowland Pict or Scot, as the tradition of his house maintains, [1] and he was a common ancestor of the great Scottish families of Atholl, Bothwell, Sutherland, and probably Douglas. No member of the Freskyn family is ever styled "Flandrensis" in any writ.
The first four generations of the Freskyn family seem to be also clearly proved in one line of a grant by William the Lion to Gaufrid Blundus, burgess of Inverness, of 2nd May (year omitted) which is attested “Willelmo filio Freskin Hugone filio suo et Willelmo filio ejus,” which is strange Latin, but embraces all four generations. It is quoted in the New Spalding Club’s Records of Elgin, p. 4, as from Act Parl. Scot, vol. 1, p. 79. The Charter is dated at Elgin probably near the end of the twelfth century, when William Mac-Frisgyn, Hugo, and William of Sutherland were all alive. Not a single member of the family was, as every Fleming was, styled “Flandrensis” in any charter or writ, and Fretheskin [as he was also known] is probably a Gaelic name, of which the latter part may mean “knife” or “dagger.” The name does not mean Flemish or Frisian.
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I've been searching around for proof that the Morays were decended from Flemish origins without success. -- Billreid 11:37, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Freskyn, probably about 1130 or earlier, had built this castle on the northern estate, comprising the parish of Spynie near Elgin and other extensive lands in Moray, which had been given to him in addition to his southern territories of Strabrock, now Uphall and Broxburn in Linlithgowshire, which he already held from the Scottish king. Freskyn was thus no Fleming, but a lowland Pict or Scot, as the tradition of his house maintains, [1] and he was a common ancestor of the great Scottish families of Atholl, Bothwell, Sutherland, and probably Douglas. No member of the Freskyn family is ever styled "Flandrensis" in any writ.
The first four generations of the Freskyn family seem to be also clearly proved in one line of a grant by William the Lion to Gaufrid Blundus, burgess of Inverness, of 2nd May (year omitted) which is attested “Willelmo filio Freskin Hugone filio suo et Willelmo filio ejus,” which is strange Latin, but embraces all four generations. It is quoted in the New Spalding Club’s Records of Elgin, p. 4, as from Act Parl. Scot, vol. 1, p. 79. The Charter is dated at Elgin probably near the end of the twelfth century, when William Mac-Frisgyn, Hugo, and William of Sutherland were all alive. Not a single member of the family was, as every Fleming was, styled “Flandrensis” in any charter or writ, and Fretheskin [as he was also known] is probably a Gaelic name, of which the latter part may mean “knife” or “dagger.” The name does not mean Flemish or Frisian.