Sir John Fenton

• Preferred Name: Sir John Fenton
  
• Gender: M
  
• FSID: GVMJ-PLK
  
• Death: 1270 in Angus, Scotland at LATI: N6.67 LONG: E2.917 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Birth: 1220 in Scotland with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  «b»Biography«/b»
  The family Fenton of Fenton owned the lands of that name in Midlothian and adopted that surname about 1200 A.D. At an early date they had a close association with Angus. The first of these appears to be John de Fenton, Sheriff of Angus whose account of the "wattings" of Forfar and Glamis is recorded in 1266.
  
  Earlier about 1244 when the Earls Patrick and Walter Cumyn were accused of offering council or assistance to the enemies of King Henry III of England in Ireland, John fenton appeared in the list of jurors for the Earl Walter.
  
  Sir John de Fenton was witness when Sir John of Inchyra granted a charter of the lands of Rosinclerache to Sir Gilbert de Haya in the period 1251-1265.
  
  In a charter of about 1290 long after his death, it is recited that at an earlier date John de Fenton was granted by John of Inchyra two tofts and two acres of land and one net's fishing in the waters of the Tay at Inchyra. The granter was probably John son of William de Haya of Errol.
  
  «b»Sir John married a woman called Mary about 1240 and had issue:«/b»
  1.) William his heir
  
  2.) John
  
  John de Fenton appears to have had a close association with the Hay family from the outset. In a charter of Gilbert Hay dated 1240, John Fenton is a witness at Inchaffray among several Hay relatives of Gilbert. The Fentons from an early time held lands in the Hay's Barony of Slains. It may be that his mother was a kinswoman of the Lord of Errol but evidence is lacking.
  
  About 1270 when Roger son of Baudryg, granted to his lord Nicholas de Haya, for a sum of money paid to him in his most pressing need for sustentation of his life, a piece of land in the territory of Achemor, Sir John de Fentun, Sir William de Haya and Robert de Haya were witnesses to the charter.
  
  His wife may have been a daughter to Malcolm of Kettins who flourished circa 1200-1230. William Fenton her son included Malcolm after her in the his donation to the convent of Coupar Abbey for the salvation of the souls of his ancestors.

1. Sir William Fenton, b. 1240 in Airlie, Angus, Scotland     d. 1316 in Airlie, Angus, Scotland