Erminia Seton de Wintoun

Source= http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/2009-01/... There is likewise no evidence which indicates that Ermina de Seton was the mother of Sir Christopher de Seton. Rather, it appears Ermina was the step-mother of Sir Christopher de Seton. There is an abstract of a petition of Ermina de Seton in the online National Archives catalogue, which is copied below. In the petition, Ermina de Seton mentions Christopher de Seton by name but does not call him her son. Rather, she refers to him only as the son and heir of her late husband, John de Seton. The same is true of Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1301–1307 (1898): 465, where Christopher de Seton is identitied as the son and heir of John de Seton, but Ermina is not called his mother (see http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/patentrolls/e1v4/body/Edward1vol4page0465...). + + + + + + + + + + + + Sources: National Archives Catalogue (http:// www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATID=-4317976&CATLN=7&Highlight=%2CERMINA&accessmethod=0)

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Petitioners: Ermina [de Seton], widow of John de Seton. Addressees: King and council.

Places mentioned: East Lutton, [East Riding of Yorkshire]; Butterwick, [East Riding of Yorkshire].

Other people mentioned: John Bard of Butterwick; Christopher de Seton son of John de Seton; Roger de Brabazon.

Nature of request: Seton states that when she brought a writ of Dower against John Bard of Butterwick for tenements in East Lutton which John de Seton her late husband was seised of on the day of their marriage, which tenements he afterwards enfeoffed John Bard, when she brought the writ against Bard demanding a third part of his tofts, 1 carucate, 1 bovate and 1 acre of land and 18s. of rent with their appurtenances in East Lutton, he vouched to warranty Christopher de Seton, son and heir of John de Seaton who afterwards made default after default by which it was awarded that John Bard held the same in peace, and Seton have to the value of her demands from the lands of Christopher de Seton. But before this, shortly after the award had been made, and before Seton could have her seisin, the lands came into the hands of the king by Christopher de Seton's forfeiture, because of which she has nothing for her dower. She requests remedy. Endorsement: She should sue by a writ to bring the record before Lord Roger de Brabazon at Easter in a month. Covering dates [1307]