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Seton is the name of a Lowland family long settled in East Lothian, the surname being derived from Say-tun, the dwelling of Say. Alexander de Seton, son of Secher, witnessed a charter of David I, and later generations rose through crown service and marriage to become the Earls of Winton and the Earls of Dunfermline. The chiefly line's titles and estates were forfeited after the 1715 Jacobite rising, and no Seton chief is listed by the Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs today.
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The motto of Clan Seton is Hazard Yet Forward. It appears on the Clan Seton crest badge: the chief’s heraldic crest set inside a strap and buckle that carries the motto.
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View all Seton productsAlexander de Seton witnesses a charter of David I[2]
Sir Christopher Seton is executed at Dumfries by order of Edward I[2]
Sir Alexander Seton is named among the barons in the Declaration of Arbroath[4][2]
Alexander Seton marries Elizabeth Gordon, heiress of Gordon[7]
Robert Seton, 6th Lord Seton, is created Earl of Winton[2]
The Earl of Winton joins the rising; his titles and estates are forfeited[2][8]
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The Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs lists no Seton chief. The chiefly line's titles and estates were forfeited after the 1715 Jacobite rising, when George, 5th and last Earl of Winton, joined the rising, and the earldom is now dormant.
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In 1408 Alexander Seton married Elizabeth, heiress of Gordon; their descendants became the Gordon Earls and Marquesses of Huntly.
Seton Palace at Tranent, East Lothian. It was pulled down in 1790, and Robert Adam's Seton Castle of 1789-91, built for the Edinburgh lawyer Alexander Mackenzie, stands on the site.
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Clan GordonAlexander Seton married Elizabeth, heiress of Gordon, in 1408, founding the line that became the Gordon Earls of Huntly.
Clan CampbellGeorge, 2nd Lord Seton, married Lady Margaret Campbell, eldest daughter of the 1st Earl of Argyll.