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John de Fenton
- Preferred Name: John de Fenton
- Gender: M
- Birth: 1280 in Fenton, Nottinghamshire, England at LATI: N3.3386 LONG: E0.8133
- FSID: LDRL-WJQ
- Death: 1325
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
Sir John de Fenton was a 14th-century Scottish noble.
He was the son of William de Fenton, Lord of Baikie and Beaufort and Cecilia Bisset, the co-heiress of John Bisset, Lord of Lovat.[1] John succeeded to his father's estates.[2]
John campaigned with King Robert I of Scotland against the William, Earl of Ross in 1308 and was a witness at the submission of William, Earl of Ross to King Robert I.[3] He was at the Scottish parliament of 1309 at St. Andrews. Fenton signed the Declaration of Arbroath in 1320 and attached his seal. His seal however is no longer attached to the document.
Preferred Parents:
Father: Richard de Fenton, b. ABT 1250 in Fenton Barns, Haddingtonshire, Scotland
Mother: Jane Clifton, b. ABT 1245 in Of, Fenton, North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland
Family 1: Ellinor Mallory, b. ABT 1297 in Walton on the Woods, Peckleton, Leicester, England
- William de Fenton, b. 1315 in Beauly, Inverness-shire, Scotland d. 1380 in Beauly, Inverness-shire, Scotland
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