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Personal data GEORGE Seton 5th Lord George 7th Lord Seton 11th GGM 

• Alternative name: George Seton, 7th Lord Seton
• He was born in the year 1528 in Seton House, Port Seton, East Lothian, Scotland.Sources 3, 4, 5, 6

  He was the 5th Lord George, meaning that he was the 5th George to hold the title. But he was the 7th Lord Seton.

• He died on January 8, 1586 in Seton, Haddingtonshire, Scotland (Illness), he was 58 years old.Sources 3, 4, 5, 6
• He is buried in Seton Collegiate Church Tranent, East Lothian, Scotland.Source 5
• A child of George Seton 4th Lord Seton and Elisabeth Hay Seton

Household of GEORGE Seton 5th Lord George 7th Lord Seton 11th GGM

He is married to LADY Isabel Hamilton.

They got married on August 2, 1550 at Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Mid Lothian, Scotland, he was 22 years old.

Child(ren):

1. MARGARET Seton  1550-1616 

Notes about GEORGE Seton 5th Lord George 7th Lord Seton 11th GGM

George, fifth Lord Seton, was the chivalrous and devoted adherent of Mary, queen of Scots, and with two of his children, figures conspicuously in Sir Walter Scott’s tale of ‘The Abbot.’ He was one of the commissioners appointed by the parliament of Scotland, 17th December 1557, to be present at Mary’s nuptials with the dauphin of France. In 1558, when several of the nobility went to secret to hear the reformed preacher, John Willock, expound from his sickbed the doctrines of the Gospel, Lord Seton was one of them, but afterwards he was the first to fall back into popery. The following year he was provost of Edinburgh, and joined the party of the queen-dowager against the lords of the Congregation. Calderwood (Hist. of the Kirk of Scotland, vol. i. p. 474) says, “The erle of Argile and Lord James (afterwards the regent Moray) entered in Edinburgh the 29th June 1559. The Lord Seton, provost, a man without God, without honestie, and often times without reason, had diverse times before troubled the brethrein. He had takin upon him the protection of the Blacke and Gray friers, and for that purpose lay himself in one of them everie night, and also constrained the honest burgesses of the toun to watch and guarde these monsters, to their great greefe. When he heard of the suddane coming of the lords, he abandoned his charge.” In autumn of the same year he was sent by the queen-dowager, with the earl of Huntly, to solicit the brethren assembled in St. Giles’, Edinburgh, to allow mass to be said either before or after sermon, but of course they could get no other answer than that they were in possession of the church and would not suffer idolatry to be erected there again. About the same time, suspecting one Alexander Whitelaw to be John Knox, he pursued him as he came from Preston, accompanied with William Knox, towards Edinburgh, and did not give up the chase till he came to Ormiston. On Queen Mary’s return from France in 1561, he was sworn a privy councilor, and appointed master of the household to her majesty. The night after the murder of Rizzio, Lord Seton, with 200 horse, attended the queen first to Seton and then to Dunbar, Darnley being compelled by threats to go with her. On Darnley’s assassination, the queen and Bothwell, it is well known, went to Seton, where they remained for some days, and there the marriage contract between them was signed. Lord Seton was one of her chief supporters at Carberry Hill, and when she made her escape from Lochleven castle in the beginning of May 1568, he was lying secretly among the hills on the other side, and immediately joining her, conducted her first to his castle of Niddry, in Linlithgowshire, and then to Hamilton. He was present at the battle of Langside, and on the defeat of the queen’s forces there, retired to ‘Flanders. He remained two years in exile, and for his living was compelled to become a waggoner. A painting of him driving a wagon with four horses was in the north end of the long gallery of Seton. He was in Scotland in the spring of 1570 actively employed on behalf of Queen Mary. He was one of the nobles of her faction who signed the letter to Queen Elizabeth, dated in March of that year. On the report that the lords of the king’s party were to come to Edinburgh on the first of May, some of the queen’s lords left the town, but “Lord Seton assembled his forces at the palace of Holyrood-house, and bragged that he would enter in the town, and cause beat a drum, in despite of all the caries. He had in company with him the Lady Northumberland.” This lady was in Scotland on the captive queen’s behalf, and the same year she was sent with Lord Seton to the Low Countries to solicit the assistance of the duke of Alva for the friends of Mary’s cause in Scotland. On the downfall of the Regent Morton in 1581, he was committed to the charge of Lord Seton and sundry other noblemen, to be conveyed to Dumbarton castle. In January of the same year he was one of the lords of the king’s household, who subscribed the Second Confession of Faith, commonly called the King’s Confession. He was one of the jury on Morton’s trial, and with the laird of Wauchton was objected to by him, as known to be his enemies. At his execution, “Lord Seton and his two sons stood in a stair, south-east from the cross.” He was one of the noblemen who conveyed the duke of Lennox on his way to England in December 1582, when ordered out of Scotland. The following year he was complained upon by the synodal assembly of Lothian for entertaining of ‘Seminary priests.” In January 1584, he was sent by King James VI. ambassador to France, He died soon after his return, on 8th January 1585, aged about 55, and was buried in the family vault at Seton, where there is a monument to his memory. By his wife, Isabel, daughter of Sir William Hamilton of Sanquhar, high-treasurer of Scotland, he had five sons and one daughter, Margaret, married to Lord Claud Hamilton. The sons were, 1. George, master of Seton, who predeceased his father in March 1562. 2. Robert, sixth Lord Seton. 3. Sir John Seton, Lord Barns, of whom afterwards. 4. Alexander Seton of Pluscardine, first earl of Dunfermline. 5. Sir William Seton of Kyllismore, sheriff of Mid Lothian and postmaster of Scotland. It is related that George, fifth Lord Seton, declined the dignity of earldom, being unwilling to forgo what he considered a great distinction, and that his accomplished sovereign commemorated the fact in the following lines:

“Sunt Comites, Ducesque alii, sunt denique Reges,
Setoni Dominium, sit satis esse mihi.”

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