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 Abt 1189 - Abt 1263 (74 years)
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| Name |
Gilbert Fraser Of Oliver |
| Prefix |
Sir |
| Birth |
Abt 1189 |
Oliver Castle, Tweedmuir, Peebleshire, Scotland  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
Abt 1263 |
Touch-Fraser, Stirlingshire, Scotland |
| Person ID |
I71326 |
Cecilie Family |
| Last Modified |
2 Mar 2009 |
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| Notes |
- Gilbert (Sir), of Oliver Castle; born by 1214; Sheriff of Tweeddale 1233-59; married Christian Lascelles (probably cognate with Leslie) and died c1263. [Burke's Peerage]
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The following is from "Scotland and her Tartans" by Alexander Fulton.
The first known Fraser in Scotland was Simon Fraser, who in about 1160 donated the Church of Keith to Kelso Abbey. The name came from the lordship of LaFraseliere in Anjou, and a descendant of Simon Fraser, Sir Gilbert Fraser, established the main line of the family in about 1250 at Touch-Fraser, Stirlingshire. His direct descendant, Alexander Fraser was knighted by King Robert I (the Bruce) before the battle of Bannockburn in 1314. After the battle he married the Bruce's sister, Lady Mary - who had been strung up in a cage for four years by King Edward I of England in reprisal for the Bruce's coronation - and he was later Chamberlain of Scotland. Their grandson gained the lands of Philorth in Buchan by his marriage in 1375.
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- [S1779] Fraser, Alexander, Fraser (1895), (Toronto, Canada: Mail Job Printing Co., 1895.), pp. 42-55 (Reliability: 3).
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