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- His parentage is unknown, but he may well have been related to the Setons; Winton belonged to Alexander and Philip Seton.
"[A]ssumed the surname de Seton after his marriage, said to have died in the Holy Land, evidently on a pilgrimage." [The Ancestry of Charles II, citation details below]
From The Scots Peerage, citation details below:
Andrew de Wyntoun tells of the abduction in that year of the young lady of Seton by Alan de Wyntoun (whom some have supposed his own relative), and gives a circumstantial account of what followed. He relates that 'for that marriage fell gret struyffe'; that 'Wyntoun's war,' as it was called, was such that
'in Lowthyane as men sayde
Ma than a hundyr plwys was layde';
and adds that William of Murray in Edinburgh Castle heartily supported and aided the aggressor. Bower, writing perhaps forty years later, follows Wyntoun (except that he gives a different and much less probable date for the affair), and adds that Alan de Wyntoun was brought before the King's Court, at the instance of the young lady's relatives, to answer for forcible abduction; that the fate of the convicted culprit was left to her decision, a sword and a ring being presented for her choice; and that she chose the latter, after which the marriage took place. Her husband assumed the cross, apparently while still a young man, owing (according to Bower) to intrigues against him on the part of her relations, and died in the Holy Land.
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