Sir Alan WYNTOUN ¹⁸⁶⁵

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LifeSketch
Alan de Wyntoun (Wikipedia)
Alan de Wyntoun (died c.1347) was a Scottish soldier and crusader.
Wyntoun was the son of Alan de Winton and Margaret de Bothwell. Alan abducted Margaret de Seton for the purposes of forcing her to marry him. The abduction was not popular and caused what is known as "Wyntoun's war".[1] Upon the entering into the Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem, of his father-in-law, Alan became known as Lord of Seton, jure uxoris of his wife. He took up the cross in 1347 and died while on his way.

Alan married Margaret, daughter and heiress of Alexander de Seton and Christian le Cheyne, they are known to have had the following issue, who adopted the Seton arms and name:
William Seton, 1st Lord Seton, married Janet Fleming had issue.
Christina Seton, married George Dunbar, 10th Earl of March had issue.
Citations
Fordun 1447, p. 337.
Burke 1865, p. 991.
References
Fordun: Scotichronicon; Vol. II (1447).
Burke, Bernard (1865). Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire (27 ed.). Harrison and Sons.
Categories: 1347 deaths14th-century Scottish peopleMedieval Scottish knights

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George de Dunbar, 10th Earl of Dunbar and March (1338\endash 1420), 12th Lord of Annandale and Lord of the Isle of Man, was "one of the most powerful nobles in Scotland of his time, and the rival of the Douglases."

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Title of Nobility: Lord of Seton,, in Seton, , East Lothian, Scotland.

Alan married Margaret SETON, daughter of John DE SETON and Unknown. (Margaret SETON was born about 1330 in Seton, , East Lothian, Scotland,¹⁸⁶⁵ died about 1360 ¹⁸⁶⁵ and was buried about 1360 in Port Seton, , East Lothian, Scotland ¹⁸⁶⁵.)