Sir Christopher de Seton, Knight

SOURCE= http://books.google.com/books?id=usUcAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA432&lpg=PA432&dq...

During the reign of David 1 Seiher de Say who emigrated from England obtained from the Scotish king some lands in East Lothian where he settled and to which the emigrant gave the name of Say tun Seiher was succeeded by his son Alexander who flourished under Malcolm iv and enjoyed Sayton and Wintoun in Hadington and Winchburgh in West Lothian By several descents all those lands came to      ******************* Sir Christopher Seyton************* who married a sister of Robert Bruce and who fell in 1306 in support of his crown under the axe of Edward 1 And he was succeeded by Alexander de Seyton who obtained from his uncle the Scotish king various lands in the Lothians and in Berwickshire p This respectable family was enobled by the title of Lord Seton under James 1 and in 1600 by the higher rank of Earl of Winton which were all sacrificed to mistaken principles. 

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Seton SETON (Family). The Scottish family of Seton, Seyton or Seatoun, claims descent from a Dougall Seton who lived in the reign of Alexander I. Sir Richard Maitland of Lethington counted seven generations between this personage and Sir Christopher Seton (d. 1306),

. Sir Christopher SETON , Knt. was born ABT 1240 in of, Seton, East lothian, Scotland, and died BEF 15 Mar 1306/07 in Dumfries. He was the son of 8. Christell SETON and 9. Agnes DUNBAR.

Source: Ancestry roots tree - Google (17.6.2010)