George Seton V, 7th Lord Seton

George, fifth Lord Seton seems to have been born in 1531, and was educated in France. He was served heir to his father at Linlithgow, in the lands of West Niddrie 19 May 1550, in the lands, lordship and barony of Seytoun and Wintoun 2 May 1552, and in Wincliburgh 5 October 1557. He interdicted himself from alienating any portion of his heritage until he attained a certain age; this disability was relaxed by the Lords of Council 7 May 1554. He had a commission of justiciary 19 May 1554. He was Provost of Edinburgh on 20 October 1557.
The Queen Regent endeavoured to procure his re-election when his term of office expired, but failed to do so, and he vacated 27 October 1559. On 14 December 1557 he was appointed member of a commission sent to France by Parliament, and he was present at the marriage of Queen Mary to the Dauphin 24 April 1558, when "he had ane noble present sent him of silver plate by Henry II., then King of France, with ane yearly pension of 1200 francks." He returned to Scotland in the following October. In 1560 he accompanied the Bishop of Glasgow to Paris, arriving 3 August. He seems to have gone home and again returned to France, whence he accompanied the Queen to Scotland, arriving 19 August 1561. He entertained Her Majesty at his magnificent house, later known as Seton Palace (which he repaired and greatly enlarged), on 4 and 5 January 1561-62. Kingston says that the Queen offered Lord Seton an earldom. If this be the fact, the tender may probably have been made during that visit.
In the same month Lord Seton was reported by an English agent to have disclosed certain designs of the French on Berwick, etc.; this may have been done of set purpose, to deceive Queen Elizabeth's Government. He was Master of the Royal Household in 1563. On 15 March 1565 report was made to Cecil that Lord Seton was obliged to fly to France, and a fortnight later application was made for permission for him to pass through England on his way, and on 24 September following for his return. When Bothwell first publicly announced his ambitious design of marrying the Queen, at the famous supper on 19 April 1567, a band giving a general consent to the marriage was subscribed by the assembled nobles. It is said that Lord Seton was among those who signed it; but this appears doubtful. Queen Mary passed the night of 14 June 1567 at Seton.
The next day she surrendered to the confederate Lords at Carbery Hill. Lord Seton was deep in the plot for her escape from the island fortress of Lochleven, was in waiting ready to receive her at her landing on the shore of the lake, and escorted her to his castle of Niddrie 2 May 1568. He was one of the nobles who signed a band in her support at Hamilton on 8 May, and was present with her at the battle of Langside, where he was taken prisoner by the confederates on 13 May. He was confined in Edinburgh Castle, but in June 1569 Queen Elizabeth granted him leave to pass from Berwick to London, on his way to France. On 10 August 1570 he was commissioned on behalf of the captive Queen Mary to apply for assistance to Ferdinand, Duke of Alva, the Spanish Viceroy in the Low Countries. While there he incurred great risk by intriguing with the Scottish troops in the pay of the States of Holland, which were then in rebellion, and endeavouring to win them over to the Spanish interest.
On 31 May 1571 he was in Paris. Queen Mary wrote to Alva on 18 April 1571 that he was her most faithful and devoted subject and servant, and that she was convinced that next to the honour of God, his duty to his Queen was his sole object. But early in 1573 he was fain to submit himself to King James VI. Soon afterwards he appears as a Privy Councillor; he first sat at the board 3 June 1573. In the following year it was reported to Pope Gregory XIII. that Lord Seton and his three sons had been excommunicated by the Established Church.
In 1577 Lord Seton was again in Paris, and the next year in Flanders, on the Queen's business. In 1579 he and his three sons were ordered into confinement, apparently on suspicion of harbouring a servant of the Bishop of Glasgow, Queen Mary's agent in Paris. On 26 October 1583 King James VI. wrote to King Henry III. of France that he was sending George, Lord Seton, one of his council, as Ambassador to negotiate for a renewal of the treaty of friendship between the two countries. The envoy assured Queen Mary in a letter dated 16 September previous, which was intercepted by the English and deciphered, that his main object in accepting the mission was to advance her service. He wrote to Pope Gregory XIII. from Paris on 14 March 1584, informing his Holiness of the existence in Scotland of rebellion abetted by England, and imploring assistance. Sir E. Stafford wrote to Sir F. Walsingham from Paris on 29 May following, that Lord Seton aimed at getting liis son appointed Captain of the Scottish Guard. He returned for the last time to Scotland towards the end of 1585, died 8 January 1585-86, and was buried at Seton Church.
George, fifth Lord Seton married (contract 2 August 1550) Isabell, daughter of Sir William Hamilton of Sanquhar, one of the Lords of Council. She survived him, died 13 November 1604 aged about seventy-five years, and was buried at Seton Church.
They had issue :
1. George, Master of Seton, who died in boyhood. it is said in March 1562.
2. Robert, who succeeded as sixth Lord Seton.
3. Sir John, who had from his father a charter of the lands of East and West Barnes, dated 10 May 1583. He bore in his coat armorial the sword supporting an imperial crown said to have been granted as an augmentation to his ancestor Sir Alexander Seton along with those lauds. He was brought up at the Court of Spain. Lord Kingston states that King Philip II. made him a Knight of Santiago, a Gentleman of the Bedchamber and Caballero de la hoca, and granted to him and his heirs a pension of two thousand crowns yearly. In 1575 he visited the English Court, and was well received. He was appointed Master of the Horse 9 May 1581, having been so styled on the tenth of the previous month, when he received instructions for his conduct as envoy to the Court of England. The mission proved abortive; Sir John was not allowed to pass the frontier; the English warden believed him to be a servant of the King of Spain, and suspected him of a design to communicate with the French and Spanish ambassadors in London. He seems to have been in Spain in 1583 or 1584. In 1586 he was nominated Scottish Ambassador to the Court of Spain. On 3 January 1586-87 he was appointed for life First Master of the Royal Household. On 1 July 1587 he is styled Miles, sive Eqiies auratus. On 8 July 1587 he was appointed for life Comptroller of the Royal property and on 17 February 1587-88 he was admitted an Extraordinary Lord of Session. He died in May 1594 Sir John married on 8 September 1588 (contract dated 10 and 12 of the previous month), Anna, youngest daughter of William, seventh Lord Forbes, and was by her ancestor of the Setons of Barnes.
4. Alexander, who was created Earl of Dunfermline. He became Chancellor of Scotland.
5. Sir William, of Kylesmure, Knight, is said to have been born in 1562. On 3 January 1584-85 he had
from his father a grant of the provision of the College Church of Seton, vacant through the decease of Mr.
Thomas Raith, last Provost thereof. On 15 December 1602 he had a letter of gift of a reward for his trouble and charges in bringing of certain craftsmen clothmakers for the great benefit of his native country. On 15 June 1611 a commission issued appointing him and three others to be justiciaries, with jurisdiction in the Border counties; and on 1 July following he was named member of a joint commission for the settlement and maintenance of peace on the Borders between Scotland and England. He wrote in the capacity of Sheriff of Edinburgh to the Secretary of State on 10 February 1616; and on 18 June 1618 he received £1000 for services rendered as one of the Masters of the Household during the King's visit to Scotland. In 1620 he was Postmaster-General of Scotland, with patent for a monopoly of the supply of post horses throughout the kingdom. He died in July 1635, and was buried in Seton Church. Sir William married Agnes Stirling (who is said to have come of the family of Stirling of Glorat), and had issue by her; but his male line seems to have failed in the person of his eldest son, Sir William Seton of Grange, His Majesty's Chief Postmaster, who died unmarried in the year 1662, and was buried in Seton Church.
6. Margaret, married at Niddry Castle, on 1 August 1574 (contract 15 and 16 June 1574"), to Lord Claud Hamilton, fourth and youngest son of James, second Earl of Arran and first Duke of Chatelherault (afterwards first Lord Paisley), and had issue. She died a few days before 10 February 1616.
Source: "The Scots Peerage" Vol 8, page 585.

George Seton (c. 1531-1585/6), 5th [or 7th] Lord Seton. He was the 5th George Seton and the 7th lord.

George Seton V, 7th Lord Seton (1531–1586), was a Lord of the Parliament of Scotland, Master of the Household of Mary, Queen of Scots, and Provost of Edinburgh. He was the eldest son of George Seton, 6th Lord Seton, and Elizabeth Hay, a daughter of John Hay, 3rd Lord Hay of Yester. His childhood and schooling were in France.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Seton,_7th_Lord_Seton

From Darryl Lundy's Peerage page for George Seton, 5th Lord Seton:

http://thepeerage.com/p10953.htm#i109521

George Seton, 5th Lord Seton [1]

• M, #109521,
• b. 1531,
• d. 8 January 1585/86
• Last Edited=24 Mar 2011
• Consanguinity Index=0.43%

George Seton, 5th Lord Seton was born in 1531.[4]

A contract for the marriage of George Seton, 5th Lord Seton and Isabel Hamilton was signed on 2 August 1550.[4],[3]

He died on 8 January 1585/86.[4]

He was the son of George Seton, 4th Lord Seton and Elizabeth Hay.[3]

• He was educated at France.[3]
• He succeeded to the title of 5th Lord Seton [S., 1451] on 17 July 1549.[1]
• He partipicated in an ordinance between 1557 and 1559; Provost of Edinburgh.[3]
• On 17 December 1557 he was appointed by the Scottish Parliament to attend the marriage of Mary Queen of Scots with the Dauphin of France.[3]
• He held the office of Master of the Household to Mary Queen of Scots in 1563.[3]
• In 1568 he fled to Low Countries after Mary Queen of Scots defeat at the Battle of Langside.[3] He was a waggoner between 1568 and 1570.[3]
• He was invested as a Privy Counsellor (P.C.) [Scotland] in 1573.[3]
• He held the office of Scottish Ambassador to France in 1583.[3]

Children of George Seton, 5th Lord Seton and Isabel Hamilton

• 1. George Seton, Master of Seton3 d. Mar 1562
• 2. Sir William Seton+3 d. Jul 1635
• 3. Margaret Seton+1 b. bt 1551 - 1558, d. b 10 Feb 1615/16
• 4. Robert Seton, 1st Earl of Winton+5 b. 1552, d. 22 Mar 1603
• 5. Sir John Seton of Barns3 b. b 1555, d. b 11 Jun 1594
• 6. Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline+3 b. 1555, d. 16 Jun 1622

Citations

• 1. [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume IV, page 437. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
• 2. [S3409] Caroline Maubois, "re: Penancoet Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 2 December 2008. Hereinafter cited as "re: Penancoet Family."
• 3. [S37] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 1285. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.
• 4. [S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume XI, page 635.
• 5. [S37] Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.

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From the English Wikipedia page for George Seton, 5th Lord Seton:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Seton,_5th_Lord_Seton

George Seton, 7th Lord Seton (1531-1586) was a Lord of the Parliament of Scotland, Master of the Household of Mary, Queen of Scots and Provost of Edinburgh. He was the eldest son of George Seton, 6th Lord Seton and Elizabeth Hay, a daughter of John Hay, 3rd Lord Hay of Yester. His childhood and schooling were in France.

Edinburgh and the Reformation

George Seton was Provost of Edinburgh in 1557, and from time to time would send his carpenter, Robert Fendour, to the Burgh Council as his representative. In February 1558, George Seton was one of eight commissioners sent to Henry II of France to negotiate the marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots, to the Dauphin.[1] On 29 November 1558, the Parliament of Scotland granted that Seton and the others had fulfilled their commission. In February 1559, the town council gave him funds to prepare a banquet for Mary of Guise on their behalf.[2]

However, Seton and the burgh council began to encounter difficulties, due only in part to the Scottish Reformation. Then, after rioting in Perth, Edinburgh was occupied by the Protestant Lords of the Congregation in June 1559. Seton tried unsuccessfully to protect the Blackfriars and Greyfriars monasteries.

The Protestant Lords left Edinburgh in July, but made an agreement with Guise permitting freedom of conscience in religion. Seton, the Earl of Huntly and Châtellerault were asked to meet the people of Edinburgh to discuss the restoration of Mass in St Giles. According to John Knox, they met with refusal and the people would not allow the Mass in any other church.[3]

By the time the Lords of the Congregation occupied Edinburgh for the second time in October 1559, another rival council had already formed, lead by Archibald Douglas of Kilspindie. The Protestant lords retreated and Seton's council was re-instated. When the English army mobilised by the Treaty of Berwick arrived in April 1560, Kilspindie's council was back in power.[4]

During the subsequent Siege of Leith in 1560, Seton fought for Mary of Guise against the Scottish Protestants and the English army. On 24 April he attacked the English camp at Restalrig. He was seized by an English cavalryman who broke his sword and staff, but was rescued by French musketeers.[5]

In France in October 1560, he secretly met the English ambassador, Nicolas Throckmorton, asking him for a passport to return to Scotland through England. He managed to convince Throckmorton that he regretted his service of Mary of Guise and French causes.

Seton had gained a French pension as a gentleman of the King's Chamber. He intended to take a portrait of Queen Mary and her letter to Elizabeth, but Mary disappointed him of this mission, saying the picture was not ready. Seton left France in November 1560, accompanied by an archer of the Scottish Guard called Alexander Clark, whose loyalty Throckmorton thought he had bought.[6]

Mary in Scotland

During the personal reign of Mary in Scotland George had a loyal inscription set in large carved letters and gilded above the entrance to Seton Palace;

• "UN DIEU, UN FOY, UN ROY, UN LOY"
• One God for all time: One loyalty to the monarch.[7]

Mary was unsuccessful in proposing Seton as Provost of Edinburgh again in October 1561. Next year she made a better choice by backing Kilspindie, now associated with the success of the Reformation.[8]

Thomas Randolph, the English diplomat, reported that he heard that Mary and Lord Darnley went to Seton Palace and were 'bedded' after their marriage at Holyroodhouse.[9] Days after the death of Lord Darnley, on 17 February 1567 Mary had a blue costume for her fool called George Steven delivered to her at Seton Palace, in April she was there with her council.[10] With other supporters of Mary's marriage to James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell Seton signed the Ainslie Tavern Bond on 19 April 1567.

Mary's marriage and continued rule in Scotland was opposed by the Confederate Lords. Mary stayed at Seton Palace before her capture nearby at the battle of Carberry Hill. She was then imprisoned at Lochleven Castle.

She escaped to Seton's castle at Niddry but her supporters were defeated again at the battle of Langside. Seton was taken prisoner and early reports thought him killed. The son of Lord Ochiltree, John Knox's brother-in-law, would have killed him in revenge for his father's injury, but he yielded and was saved by James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray.[11]

Queen Mary went into England, where her companion, Seton's half-sister Mary Seton quickly joined her. With the other Marian lords Seton was imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle where Mary was worried that he was at risk from plague.[12]

Seton was finally allowed to go into exile in France. Elizabeth I of England sent him a passport on 1 June 1569.[13]

Supporter of the exiled queen

Three Scottish supporters of Mary, the Duke of Châtellerault, the Earl of Huntly and Earl of Argyll gave Seton a commission to treat with the Duke of Alba, Viceroy of Lower Germany, as Mary's ambassador in August 1570. Seton was to ask for Spanish help to re-instate Mary in Scotland and expel her son's supporters who depended on English power.[14]

In September 1570, Lord Morley met him in the household of Katherine Neville, the Countess of the exiled Earl of Northumberland at Bruges. Seton told Morley that he had come to escort the Countess, who had previously sought refuge in Scotland, into France.[15]

The author of the Historie and Life of James the Sext, recorded what must have been a popular account of the mission to the Duke of Alba. Seton tried to convince Alba to provide an army of 10,000 men by persuading the Scottish soldiers fighting against Spain to change sides. The soldiers were unresponsive until Seton himself was captured and tortured on the rack. The soldiers then mutinied only till he was released. There was an offer of money, but Alba could not spare the men, and Seton's mission was unsuccessful.[16]

Meanwhile in Scotland, the goods of his French stepmother, Marie Pieris, and half-brother Robert Seton were seized by Regent Moray's officers.[17]

In January 1572, Seton was in the Spanish Netherlands with the Duke of Alba and still in contact with the Countess of Northumberland. Seton's return to Scotland through England prompted thorough searches of Scottish shipping in English waters.[18]

An Italian called Battista di Trento wrote a long letter to Elizabeth I of England in 1577, which alleged to reveal a plot some years earlier involving Seton and his sons, including Alexander, then a student in Rome. Mary would have married the Duke of Norfolk and be restored to the Scottish throne. Seton would pay to secure Edinburgh Castle on her behalf. Elizabeth would marry the Earl of Leicester. Battista laid out five schemes for the plot and the 19th century editor of William Cecil's papers believed his circumstancial details to show some "sub-stratum of truth" in his statements.[19]

In May 1579, during the suppression of the Hamilton family, Lord Seton and three of his sons were ordered to enter ward at Brechin Castle. Seton pleaded with the King's keepers at Stirling Castle to mitigate their charge of treason. His son John Seton of Barnes, known as the 'Cavalier de Bucca' from his post at the Spanish court, had returned to Scotland and was suspected to have brought messages from the exiled Queen Mary.[20] On 2 June 1581, Seton and two of his sons watched the execution of Regent Morton from a forestair on the Royal Mile of Edinburgh.[21]

Ambassador in France, 1583

After the collapse of the Gowrie Regime, Seton was sent as ambassador to France in December 1583. He was accompanied by William Schaw, Master of Works to James VI of Scotland. An English observer heard that the young Laird of Fintry, a Catholic, would accompany them to escape his excommunication from the Church of Scotland, and the Master of Livingston would go to bring Catherine, Duchess of Lennox, widow of Esmé Stewart, and her son Ludovic back to Scotland.

A French diplomat, François de Rocherolles, Seigneur de Maineville, according to Sir Robert Bowes, was behind the mission and the choice of Lord Seton.[22] When he was selected for the embassy in September 1583, Seton wrote to Queen Mary from Seton Palace to explain his mission. He said he was to continue the Auld Alliance with France, follow the advice of the Duke of Guise, and complete the treaty with her and her son. He explained that the poverty of King James frustrated his plans, which lead to Seton undertaking the diplomatic mission at his own expense, and he hoped she could help. Her service was his principal motive. He mentioned that the English envoy Francis Walsingham had left Scotland on 15 (or 25) September 1583, and had a very poor reception and entertainment in Scotland.[23]

The Scottish embassy was keenly observed by an English diplomat, Sir Edward Stafford. Stafford noted his audience with the French king in February 1584, supported by the Dukes of Guise and Joyeuse. He said that Seton was lavish in his entertainment and display of silver plate, which resulted in a suspicion that he was funded by Spain.

Stafford thought that Seton's mission concerned a marriage for James VI to the Princess of Lorraine. Seton had a commercial mandate from the Burgh of Edinburgh which had also contributed 2000 marks to his hire of Andrew Lamb's ship.[24] By May 1584, Seton had run out of money and pawned his silver plate and the guns of his ship at Dieppe.

Seton asked Stafford about the rebel leaders of the Raid of Ruthven who had fled into England, and Stafford wrote to Francis Walsingham that Seton was foolish in this conversation.[25] On 21 June 1584, Stafford remarked in another letter that Seton's phrases echoed those of Mary, Queen of Scots, and clearly the two maintained frequent communication.[26]

After Seton's return to Scotland, de Maineville wrote to James VI in November 1584 that Seton had been earnest in this embassy, but the time was not right. Primarily, France was anxious to maintain good relations with England.[27]

Death and epitaph

Seton remained in France till July 1585 or later. The Jesuit Robert Parsons wrote that he was uncertain whether to return or just send his son Alexander back to Scotland. (Although the ultra-Protestant Gowrie Regime was defeated, the political situation in Scotland was not as Seton had hoped) Back in Scotland, in January Sir John Colville twice noted him as ill in his letters, and he died in February 1586.[28] On 22 June 1586, his son Alexander, Prior of Pluscarden, returned to Edinburgh council copies of their papers regarding French import duties sent with George to Henry II.[29] George was buried at Seton Collegiate Church and his memorial has a lengthy Latin epitaph which also describes his children's careers. The Latin text is signed 'A.S.F.C.F.F.,' presumbly referring to Alexander Seton as its author.[30]

Family

He married Isobel Hamilton, daughter of Sir William Hamilton of Sanquhar.

Their children included;

• 1. George, Master of Seton, (died 1562)
• 2. Robert Seton, 1st Earl of Winton
• 3. Sir John Seton of Barnes, Master Carver to Philip II of Spain and Master of Horse to James VI.
• 4. Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline, Lord Urquhart, Lord Fyvie, and Prior of Pluscarden
• 5. Sir William Seton of Kylesmuir
• 6. Margaret Seton, married Claud Hamilton, 1st Lord Paisley.

Lord Seton's painter

An anonymous portrait of Lord Seton was kept by the family of Hugh Somerville, 7th Lord Somerville, and is now part of the collection of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. It shows him with his baton of office as Master of Queen Mary's household, and may have been a commemorative piece made in later decades. The picture is reduced in size and the last figure of a date "157-" is missing. A motto on this painting, "in adversity, unyielding; in prosperity generous," matches an inscription recorded under a version of the painting at Seton Palace by Alexander Seton, 1st Viscount of Kingston; "In adversity patiens; in prosperitie, benevolus; Hazard yet forward."[31] Seton's portrait is now attributed to Adrian Vanson. In January 1582, a painter in his employ, "Lord Seton's painter," was paid for drawing the King's portrait for coinage. The painter may perhaps have been Adrian Vanson or Arnold Bronckorst, who were both portrait painters to James VI.[32]

Seton was also painted in a family group by Frans Pourbus the Elder, now in the National Gallery of Scotland. The 18th century heraldic writer Alexander Nisbet described some of his additions to the interior of Seton Palace. Above the fireplace in the Great Hall were carved his coat of arms quartered with the Earl of Buchan encircled with a collar which Nisbet claimed to repesent the Order of the Thistle. The ceiling of another room, called Samson's Hall, encorporated 28 armorial achievements of families of France, Scotland and Lorraine, "curiously embossed and illuminated."[33] Viscount Kingston mentions seeing a mural painting on the end wall of the Long Gallery at Seton Palace, which he believed showed the exiled Lord Seton driving a wagon during his years of exile in France following the abdication of Mary, Queen of Scots.[34]

Painting

George V, 7th Lord Seton (about 1531 - 1585) and his Family by Frans Pourbus the Elder (without wife)

George Seton is shown here surrounded by his four sons and his daughter. Seton acted as her ambassador to the Duke of Alva in the Spanish Netherlands, and it was during this posting in 1572 that this portrait was painted. The figures each have their initials and age inscribed beside them, although it is not certain if these were added by Pourbus or by another hand at a later date.

References

• 1. ^ Ritchie, Pamela, Mary of Guise, Tuckwell, (2002), 190-1.
• 2. ^ Extracts from the records of the Burgh of Edinburgh, (1875), 3 Feb. 1559, 22 April 1559.
• 3. ^ Knox, John, The History of the Reformation, bk. 2: Laing, David, ed., 'John Knox's 'History of the Reformation', Books 1 & 2,' The Works of John Knox, vol. 1, Bannatyne Club, Edinburgh (1846), 362-3, 389-391.
• 4. ^ Lynch, Michael, Edinburgh and the Reformation, John Donald (1981), 75-81, Lynch argues that the council's problems were larely unrelated to Reformation pressures.
• 5. ^ Calendar of State Papers Scotland, vol. 1 (1898), 377, no. 748 Grey to Norfolk.
• 6. ^ Calendar State Papers Foreign, Elizabeth 1560-1561, vol. 3 (1865), p. 368 no. 665, para. 5; 409-10 no. 737; 411 no. 740.
• 7. ^ Maitland, (1829), 57-8.
• 8. ^ Lynch, Michael, Edinburgh and the Reformation, John Donald (1981), 98, 103.
• 9. ^ Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol. 2 (1900), p. 181 no. 208.
• 10. ^ Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland, vol. 12 (1970), 42, 52, 398.
• 11. ^ Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol. 2 (1900), p. 405-7 nos. 653-655.
• 12. ^ Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol. 2 (1900), 515, 525.
• 13. ^ Maitland, (1829), 56: Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol. 2 (1900), p. 650 no. 1068.
• 14. ^ Cameron, Annie I., The Warrender Papers, vol. 1, SHS (1931), 98-9: CSP Scotland, vol. 3, no. 408.
• 15. ^ HMC, Manuscripts of the Marquis of Salisbury at Hatfield House, vol. 1 (1883), p. 483 nos. 1517-1518.
• 16. ^ Historie and Life of James the Sext, Bannatyne Club (1825), 61-63: See also HMC Salisbury, vol. 1 (1883), 324 no. 1070, a Flemish receipt to Seton for the exchange of 10,000 crowns each of 40 stuivers, of uncertain date, calendared as (?1565).
• 17. ^ Accounts of the Lord Treasurer of Scotland, vol. 12 (1970), 216.
• 18. ^ HMC, Manuscripts of the Marquis of Salisbury at Hatfield, vol. 2 (1888), xlviii, 4 no. 8, 7 no. 16, 39 no. 103.
• 19. ^ HMC, Manuscripts of the Marquis of Salisbury at Hatfield, vol. 2 (1888), v-vi, 165-170 no. 491, (p. 168-9) Italian.
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• 22. ^ Stevenson, David, The Origins of Freemasonry, CUP (1988), 28-9, 94: Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol. 6, (1910), 649, 652; vol. 7, 4.
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• 24. ^ Extracts from the Burgh Records of Edinburgh, 1573-1589, (1882), 312, 316, 318, 319-320,
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• 26. ^ Murdin, (1759), 409.
• 27. ^ Cameron, Annie I., ed., The Warrender Papers, vol. 1 (1931), 167-169: See also, Mackie, J. D., 'Scotland and the Spanish Armada,' Scottish Historical Review, vol. XII, no. 45 (October 1914), 1-23.
• 28. ^ Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol. 7 (1913), 235, 533, 547, 562.
• 29. ^ Extracts from the Burgh Records of Edinburgh, 1573-1589, (1882), 463-4.
• 30. ^ Grose, Francis, The Antiquities of Scotland, vol. 2 (1789), 66: "Alexander Setonus Fermelinoduni Comes Fieri Fecit."
• 31. ^ Maitland, (1829), 58.
• 32. ^ Thomson, Duncan, Painting in Scotland, 1570-1650, NGS (1975), 31-3.
• 33. ^ Nisbet, Alexander, A System of Heraldry, reprint, vol.1 (1984), 'Of Celestial Figures etc.,' p. 234
• 34. ^ Maitland, (1829), 58.

Maitland, Richard and Seton, Alexander, The History of the House of Seytoun to 1559 by Sir Richard Maitland of Lethington contiuned by Alexnder Viscount Kingston, Maitland Club (1829)

Murdin, William, ed., Collection of State papers relating to affaires in the reign of queen Elizabeth from 1571 to 1596, London (1759)

External links

• Portrait of Lord Seton and family, 1572 by Frans Pourbus the Elder, National Gallery of Scotland.
• http://www.nationalgalleries.org/collection/online_az/4:322/result/...
• Portrait of Lord Seton as Master of Mary's Household, c. 1572, attributed to Adrian Vanson, National Gallery of Scotland.
• http://www.nationalgalleries.org/collection/online_az/4:322/result/...

Epitaph of Lord Seton at Seton Collegiate Church, translated, website The Setons of Scotland.

• http://www2.thesetonfamily.com:8080/history/7th_Lord_Seton_Epitaph.htm

Peerage of Scotland

• Lord Seton (1549–1586)
• Preceded by George Seton
• Succeeded by Robert Seton

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Children of George Seton, 5th Lord Seton and Isabel Hamilton

   * George Seton, Master of Seton d. Mar 15622

* Robert Seton, 1st Earl of Winton+ d. 22 Mar 16034
* Sir William Seton+ d. Jul 16352
* Margaret Seton+ b. bt 1551 - 1558, d. b 10 Feb 1615/161
* Sir John Seton b. b 1555, d. b 11 Jun 15942
* Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline+ b. 1555, d. 16 Jun 1622

SOURCES:

GENEALOGY: The Scots Peerage; Page 29; Vol 1; G929.72; P291sc; Denver

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Biography

George Seton, 5th Lord Seton was born in 1531.[1] [2] He was the son of George Seton, 4th Lord Seton and Elizabeth Hay.[3][4]

A contract for the marriage of George Seton, 5th Lord Seton and Isabel Hamilton was signed on 2 August 1550.[2]

He was educated in France.[3]

He succeeded to the title of 5th Lord Seton on 17 July 1549.[1] He participated in an ordinance between 1557 and 1559 and was Provost of Edinburgh 1557-59.[3] On 17 December 1557 he was appointed by the Scottish Parliament to attend the marriage of Mary Queen of Scots with the Dauphin of France.[3] He held the office of Master of the Household to Mary Queen of Scots in 1563.[3]

He fought for Queen Mary I at the Battle of Carberry Hill 1567, which cost Mary her crown, and at the Battle of Langside 1568, this was a skirmish that can be regarded as the start of the Marian civil war. George was captured and imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle, he fled to Low Countries and attempted to raise an army in support of Queen Mary I but later submitted to her son, King James VI, in 1573. [5][3]He was a waggoner between 1568 and 1570.[3]

He was invested as a Privy Counsellor in Scotland in 1573.[3]He held the office of Scottish Ambassador to France in 1583-85.[4] [3]

He died on 8 January 1585/86.[2] A transcript from the wall of the Seton Collegiate Church in the Lothians region of Scotland, the original in Latin this is a translation.

“Near the south side of this chapel are deposited the bodies, once the habitation of the souls, of George Seton and Isabel Hamilton; souls truly noble, and worthy of everlasting remembrance. George, of this name the 5th, honourably possessed and enlarged the ample estates and fortune transmitted to him by his ancestors in times of great disturbance in the country. He was born in the reign of James the Fifth. Being deprived of his most worthy father, when he was a young man, living in France, he returned home, and in a short time afterwards, by a decree of the Estates of the Kingdom, he is sent back to France, and there, as one of the Ambassadors, he negotiated and ratified the marriage between Queen Mary and Francis, Dauphin of France, and the ancient treaties between the French and the Scots.

Upon his return home, he found his country involved in the flames, both of foreign and civil wars, upon the change of religion and the forms of worship: when within Scotland, the English and French, the Germans and Spaniards, were engaged in war, and the Scots also fighting among themselves, his house having been more than once burnt to the ground, and entirely demolished, and all of his estates ravished by the English, he restored the whole anew upon a scale more extensive, and in a style more magnificent.

In every change of fortune always independent and undaunted, when his King was murdered by the most abandoned of men, and the Queen being driven into exile by the faction of the nobles, he, like his brave ancestors, always stood unmoved. For this steady loyalty being often imprisoned and kept in close confinement, often banished his country, and stripped of all his fortune, he not only sustained with fortitude, but even despised and surmounted innumerable distresses of that kind, which bore witness of his faithful attachment to his country, and his loyalty to its rightful Sovereigns.

At length, upon the accession of James the Sixth, by whose auspicious government, prudence, and counsels, Scotland was delivered from all its tempests and distresses, and restored to its ancient splendour, he too was honourably received, and treated according to his merit, recovered his rank and dignity of his ancestors, and was sent by the King as his chief ambassador to Henry the Third King of France, with the most ample powers to confirm alliance between them. In this high office, when he was performing services to the satisfaction, and with the favour of both Princes, the labours of his past life bring upon him a fatal disease. He returned to his own country, and within a month after he went hence to a better state, on the 8th day of January, in the year of our Lord 1585, about the 55th year of his age.

“Dame Isabell Hamilton sprung from parents of noble birth; her father being Sir William Hamilton of Sanquhar, and her mother Catherine Kennedy, daughter of the Earls of Cassilis, was herself distinguished for her beauty, moral excellence, and all accomplishments both of mind and body; standing high in these respects among the ladies of her age. Having got this George Lord Seton for her husband, she was his support and comfort in all his adversities, and his ornament in prosperity.

“Surviving her dearest husband 18 years, she lived in a liberal and most affectionate manner with their common children.

“All the jointure she had received from her husband she cheerfully shared with them in common, and with her substance cherished and promoted all their honourable endeavors and studies; nor did she reap in her own life time scanty fruits of this pious attention and maternal love, being herself rendered more respectable and illustrious, by the high offices, dignities, and honours of her children, until worn out with age, and afflicted with the gout, and other diseases, she resigned her soul to God, on the 13th. of Nov. 1604, being about 75 years of age.

“Of these so illustrious parents this was the issue:-

“1st, Robert Seton, their eldest son, the first Earl of Winton, honoured with this title by James the Sixth for his own merits and those of his ancestors.

“2nd, Sir John, very high in favour with the same King; made a Privy Councillor, and raised to be Lord High Treasurer, and other great offices. “He was carried off in the flower of his age; yet leaving children behind him.

“3rd, Alexander, many years a judge of the Supreme Court, and a Privy Councillor; then chosen president of the Court of Session, by the Court itself, was at length made a Privy Councillor of both kingdoms, by that wise being who first connected Scotland and England by the tie of a common Sovereign, and was created Earl of Dunfermline and counsellor of the Kingdom of Scotland.

“4th, William, Sheriff of Lothian; and one of the Lords Wardens and administrators of the marches of Scotland and England.

“5th, a daughter, Margaret, married to Claud Hamilton, Lord of Paisley, mother of James, the first Earl of Abercorn, and the fruitful parent of all that flourishing family of brothers and sisters.

“Let posterity know these things, and honour the memory of so great a man, and so distinguished a woman; let them imitate their virtues, and wish sweet repose to their pious souls. “The memory of great men is no less useful than their presence.”

Sources

1. G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume IV, page 437.
2. Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume XI, page 635.
3. Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 1, page 1285.
4. Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-20, 22 about Lord George Seton
5. Cracroft's Peerage Website
6. See also: Transcript from a wall at the Seton Collegiate Church in the Lothians region of Scotland, which outlines some details of the life of George and his wife Isabel as well as some family details. ~PDF
7. Encyclopædia Britannica Online Website ~ George Seton, 5th Lord Seton
8. Dictionary of National Biography ~ Page 268
9. Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-20, 22 about Lord George Seton
10. The Dictionary of National Biography (or DNB) is a biographical reference for deceased persons notable in British history.
11. The Peerage website, entry for George Seton.
12. Biography at University of Toronto.

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References

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   1. [S6] Stirnet Genealogy, Peter Barns-Graham, Seton03 (Reliability: 3).
   2. [S6] Stirnet Genealogy, Peter Barns-Graham, Seton03: (Reliability: 3).
   3. [S1582] Faculty of Advocates, SIR FRANCIS J. GRANT, K.C.V.O., LL.D., W.S., (THE FACULTY OF ADVOCATES OF SCOTLAND 1532-1943 WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES EDITED BY SIR FRANCIS J. GRANT, K.C.V.O., LL.D., W.S. LORD LYON KING OF ARMS EDINBURGH: PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY BY J. SKINNER & COMPANY, LTD. 1944.).
   4. [S6] Stirnet Genealogy, Peter Barns-Graham, Hay04 (Reliability: 3)