Janet Seton

• Preferred Name: Janet Seton
  
• Alternate Name: Halyburton
  
• Gender: F
  
• Birth: 1395 in Seton, East Lothian, Scotland at LATI: N5.9623 LONG: E2.9393
  
• Alternate+marriage: 1427 in Dirleton, Midlothian, Scotland at LATI: N5.83 LONG: E3.083 with note: From merged profile
  
• FSID: GQG1-WKZ
  
• Death: 1493 in Dirleton Castle, Drileton, Lothian, Scotland at LATI: N6.0475 LONG: E2.778 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Alternate+Birth: 1418 in Seton, East Lothian, Scotland at LATI: N5.9623 LONG: E2.9393 with note: From merged profile
  
• Alternate+Death: 1492 in Dirleton Castle, East Lothian, Scotland at LATI: N6.0475 LONG: E2.778
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  SIR ROBERT DE KEITH was born about 1425 of Kincardine, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, to William Keith (1389-1476) and Mary Hamilton (1402-1442.) He married Lady Janet Seton about 1444 of Kincardineshire, Scotland.
  
  Robert de Keith died 22 September 1446, in the Battle of Neville’s Cross, age 21.
  
  BATTLE OF NEVILLE’S CROSS:
  
  Geny:
  Robert Keith
  • Birth: 1262 - Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
  • Death: Oct 17 1346 - In Battle of Neville's Cross, Durham, Durham, England
  • Parents: Robert Keith, Barbara Seton
  • Wife: Barbara Douglas
  • Children: John Keith, William Keith
  Sir Robert Keith, great marischal of Scotland, son of William de Keith, first appears as marischal in 1294, when he received a charter from King John Baliol of the lands of Keith. During the war which ensued on Baliol's dethronement, Keith, who had been appointed by the Scottish regents warden of the forest of Selkirk, was in 1300 captured by the English and imprisoned in the castle of Carlisle. Reported to Edward as 'one of his worst enemies' and 'of bad repute,' he was ordered to be removed to Nottingham Castle; but, on reaching York on his way thither, was sent to Bristol Caslte. In 1302 he was admitted to the king's peace, and returning to Scotland, is mentioned as dining with the Prince of Cymru at Perth in February 1304. In the following year he was sent to the parliament at Westminster as one of the Scots commissioners for the settlement of the government of Scotland; Sir John de Bretagne, earl of Richmond, was then appointed the royal lieutenant in Scotland, and Keith one of his council, with the office of justiciar between the Forth and the Month, at a salary of forty merks yearly. Until the lieutenant was able to enter on his duties Keith was appointed one of the four wardens of Scotland, and he continued to act for the English king, and received various grants of money from him for his faithful services until the close of 1308. He then joined Robert Bruce, but subsequently to the battle of Inverurie, as the date of his desertion from the English is distinctly stated as Christmas 1308. In March following he united with other Scottish nobles in a letter to the king of France requesting his countenance in the assertion of the national independence. He received several charters of lands from Bruse, including one of the office of marischal of Scotland, and was appointed justiciar of Scotland from the Forth to the Orkneys. He had command of the Scottish horse at Bannockburn (24 June 1314), and so successfully attacked the English bowmen in flank as to completely rout them and materially aid the victory of Bruce. He signed the letter of independence to the pope in 1320, and was in 1326 appointed one of the Scots commissioners for concluding a treaty of alliance between Bruce and Charles IV of France, though he does not appear to have gone to France. He married, it is said, Barbara Douglas, and had a son, John, who dying before him, left a son Robert. Robert is usually said to have succeeded his grandfather as marischal upon the death of the latter at the battle of Dupplin, on 12 Aug 1332. But trustworthy evidence contradicts the statement, for which Boece alone is responsible. The contemporay historians, though they mention others of less note, say nothing of the marischal's death at Dupplin; and at the taking of Perth, which occurred later, his grantson is neither styled 'sir' nor 'marsichal.' Keith survived the battle, and was one of those who immediately afterwards provided for the safety of the young king, David II, by removing him to the fortress of Dumbarton, and thence to France. Here Robert Keith, marischal, is mentioned as forming a member of David's court at the Chateau Gaillard in Normandy. After his return to Scotland with the king he fell at the battle of Neville's Cross in 1346. [Dictionary of National Biography X:1214]
  
  Wikitree:
  According to The Complete Peerage, Robert Keith was still under age on 28 October 1444 citing Registrum magni sigilli regum Scotorum or The Register of the Great Seal of Scotland 1306-1668, page 62, no. 276. In a 1442 land charter, his father named Robert as his eldest son.
  Robert Keith was married to Janet Seton, probably about 1444 or 1445, and they had only one child (Janet). He apparently died in 1446 (before September 22). predeceasing his father, and therefore his brother William Keith II became successor when their father William Keith I died in 1464.
  
  Dunnottar Castle
  
  Previous biography
  The following information seems to be about his grandfather Robert, and therefore will need to be deleted:
  Sir Robert Keith was the son of Sir William Keith and Margaret Fraser.[1]
  [2]
  He was invested as a Knight between 1383 and 1390.[1] He held the office of Marshal of Scotland before 12 March 1406/7.[1]
  He died before 20 July 1430.[1]
  Child of Sir Robert Keith
  Sir William Keith+[1] d. Oct 1444
  No evidence of marriage or daughter.
  
  [Sample] LADY JANET SETON was born about 1420 of Seton, East Lothian, Scotland, to Lord William Seton (1349-1424) and Lady Janet Dunbar (1380-1430.) She married Sir Robert De Keith about 1444 of Kincardineshire, Scotland.
  
  Janet Seton passed away about 1493 of Caerlaverock, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, age 73.
  
  Dunbar Castle, Scotland
  
  Remains of Dunbar Castle
  
  direlton castle
  
  Wikitree:
  Janet Seton was the daughter of Sir John Seton of Seton.[1]
  She married Sir Robert de Keith, son of Sir William Keith and Mary Hamilton.[1]
  Her married name became Keith.[1]
  Child of Janet Seton and Sir Robert de Keith
  Janet Keith+[1]
  No evidence for birth date.
  
  Child of Robert de Keith and Janet Seton:
  
  1. *JANET KEITH BARONESS GRAY (1445-1480)
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  === Dau. of William Seton; m. John Haliburto ===
  Dau. of William Seton; m. John Haliburton. [Sarah Melton (nee Couch) BURRLINE b. 1390. Dau. of William Seton and Janet Dunbar; m. John Haliburton;mother of George Haliburton who m. ?? Dirleton. [Gail Martin REFN:HWS43162 Ancestral File Number: 8J5M-6J

• m. ABT 1444 in Kincardineshire, Scotland

1. Lady Elizabeth Stewart, b. 1460 in Scotland     d. in Castle Campbell, Luss, Dunbartonshire, Scotland, United Kingdom