The Scots peerage; founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom . Frasers of undoubtedly camefrom France, butwhether with Williamthe Conqueror or lateris not known. Tliey arefound in England from1188 onwards when TwoKnights of the householdand family of the King of England (Henry ii.) whose namesare Robert Puer and Radulphus Fraser were captured bythe Count of St. Giles while returning from a pilgrimageto the slu-ine of St. James. Frasers, Fresers, Fresels, and Freysels he
The Scots peerage; founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom . Frasers of undoubtedly camefrom France, butwhether with Williamthe Conqueror or lateris not known. Tliey arefound in England from1188 onwards when TwoKnights of the householdand family of the King of England (Henry ii.) whose namesare Robert Puer and Radulphus Fraser were captured bythe Count of St. Giles while returning from a pilgrimageto the slu-ine of St. James. Frasers, Fresers, Fresels, and Freysels held lands invarious English counties during the twelfth and thirteenthcenturies. The first of the name who appears in Scotlandis Simon Fraser, who in 1160 granted the Church of Keth(Keith) with a large tract of land to the monks of family seems to have spread rapidly through Tweeddaleand the Lothians, and to have Iisen to a position ofimportance in the district. The senior branches of the famUy were the Frasers ofTouch-Fraser, from whom are descended the Lords Saltoun 1 Benedictus abbas Petroburgensis, Hearns ed. Oxon. 1735, ii. Cart, of Kelso, No. FRASER, LORD FRASER OF LOVAT 519 and Lords Fraser of Muchalls (see those titles), and theFrasers of Oliver Castle, which branch died out in thebeginning of the fourteenth century. There were alsobranches of Forglen, Frendraught, Drumelzier, and Fruid,which are all now extinct. The lands of Lovat, which lie in the county of Inverness,belonged during the first half of the thirteenth century toJohn Bisset, who also possessed a district called the Ard,as well as lands in Ross-shire. About 1268 these landswere divided amongst three co-heiresses who were marriedrespectively to Sir David de C4raham, Sir William Fenton,and Sir Andrew de Bosco; Lord Saltoun conjectures thatpossibly Hugh Fraser first designed of Lovat married thedescendant and heiress of one of these three.^ On theother hand, the Wardlatv Manuscript states
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