Teague-Earnest Family Tree » GILBERT i Fraser 23rd GGF (1098-1164)

Personal data GILBERT i Fraser 23rd GGF 

• He was born in the year 1098 in Tweeddale, Peebles-shire, Scotland.
• He died in the year 1164 in Tweeddale, Peebles-shire, Scotland, he was 66 years old.
• A child of SIMON Fraser and MARGARET de Alpin of Lochaber

Household of GILBERT i Fraser 23rd GGF

He had a relationship with NN of Lochabar.

Child(ren):

1. UDARD Fraser  1131-1169 

Notes about GILBERT i Fraser 23rd GGF

he earliest known Scottish Fraser was Gilbert de Fraser, who lived near the Borders in 1109.

Put together from "history of the Frasers" by Alexander Mackenzie published Inverness 1896. The first record is of the name Frizale in the Roll of Battle Abbey, among the supporters of Willwim the Comqueror in 1066. The name is then variously recorded as Frisel, Frseil, Frasel or Fraser till the 14th Century when Fraser was accepted as the correct name. The chief influx of Norman Settlers in Scotland came during the reign of David 1, and the Frasers became a race of importance. In 1174 William the Lion, King of Scotland, returned from imprisonment in England with sons and Nobles, including Frasers, from the south. The first Fraser settlements were in East Lothian, in the 12th and 13th centuries they spread to Tweeddale and later to Aberdeen, Kincardine and Inverness shires. (Inverness Shire then and for a long time after comprised the more modern counties of Inverness Shire, Ross and Cromarty, Sutherland and Caithness.

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