Freskyn de Moravia, and family;
the family the mainstay of
Scottish rule in the north;
superintended building of
Kinloss Abbey;
ancestor of earls of Sutherland;
built Duffus Castle;
not a Fleming;
a Pict or Scot, and ancestor
of families of Athole, Bothwell,
Sutherland and
probably Douglas;
his family in Caith.;
great-great-grandfather of
Freskin the younger, husband of Johanna;
two branches of family settled
north of the Oykel;
Freskyn, of Strabrock and
Moray, its two branches in Sutherland
and Caith.;
founder of the family;
entertained king David I at
Duffus Castle;
year of death;
his two sons;
father of William MacFriskyn,
and Hugo the witness;
derivation of name;
revised pedigree;
he and successors appointed
guardians of Moray and Nairn;
defended Moray against the
Norse;
the family introduced into
Sutherland;
no thanes of this line in
Sutherland;
name also spelt Fretheskin;
his neighbour in Moray, earl
Waltheof.
(See Appendix, Pedigree.)
Freskin de Moravia, younger, lord of Duffus;
eld. son of Sir Walter de
Moravia;
in Strathnaver and Caith.;
m. Johanna of Strathnaver;
his date fixed;
by marriage became owner of
lands in Strathnaver and of a
moiety of earldom
of Caith.;
lineage;
born in or after 1225, lord
of Duffus by 1248;
m. 1245-1250;
nephew of William, earl of
Sutherland;
signatory to National Bond;
d. 1260-1263;
buried in church of Duffus;
his maternal uncle, William
MacFerchar, earl of Ross;
possible violent death.
(See Appendix, Pedigree.)
Freskyn, Andrew, son of Hugo F. of Sutherland;
parson of Duffus, bishop of
Moray.
Freskyn, Andrew, son of William son of
Freskyn;
parson of Duffus.
Freskin, Christian;
dau. of Freskin younger and
Johanna of Strathnaver, m. William
de Fedrett, had
one fourth of Caithness, which their son
resigned to her
sister’s husband, Sir Reginald Chen III.
Freskyn, Hugo, son of Freskyn;
the witness, uncle of Hugo
de Moravia of Sutherland.
Freskyn, Hugo, eld. son of William MacFreskyn;
his family settled north of
the Oykel and owned Sutherland;
northern boundary of his estate;
ancestor of the de Moravias,
or Murrays, of Sutherland;
called “my lord”
by his younger brother, William;
his family;
burial place;
succession to Morayshire estates;
grant of Sutherland;
not earl;
his lordship of Sutherland,
excluded from earldom of Caithness
as inherited by earl
David;
grant to Gilbert, archdeacon
of Moray;
of Strabrock, Duffus and Sutherland,
father of Walter de Moravia
of Duffus, whose
son m. Johanna of Strathnaver;
his eld. son, William;
a witness.