George Seton, 3rd Lord Seton, of Seton,

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, (c. 1415 – 1478) was a Lord of Parliament, Lord Auditor, and a Scottish ambassador.

Family

George was the son and heir of

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, who was killed at the battle of Verneuil on 17 August 1424. Sir William died before his father, the 2nd Lord Seton, and so George succeeded his grandfather

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, when he was a minor, before 1434, and reached his majority before 2 November 1437.

Career

He was knighted before 18 September 1439 and had a Safe-conduct to pass through England dated 23 April 1448, when he accompanied

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's Embassy to Flanders, France, and

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. He served on a jury in a perambulation by Thomas de Cranstoun, Justiciar, on 22 March 1451, where he is styled "Sir George de Seton of that Ilk". As a Lord of Parliament ('George domini Setoun') he sat in the Scottish Parliament as such on 14 June 1452. He was a

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by 11 July 1458 and made a Lord Auditor in 1469/70. He again had a Safe-conduct to travel to England as Ambassador on 16 March 1472 (1471/2), and once more on 21 April 1473.

Marriage and death

He married twice: (1), before 8 January 1436/7, Margaret, only child of

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and

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, by his spouse Elizabeth, only daughter of

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; (2), before 8 January 1460/1. Christian, née Murray, said to have been of the house of Tullibardine. The 3rd Lord Seton died shortly after 15 July 1478 at the Black Friars, Edinburgh, and was buried there. By his first wife, Lord Seton had only one son and heir: * John, Master of Seton, died before 19 July 1476. Because John died before his father, his son (the grandson of the 3rd Lord Seton) succeeded as

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: ** George Seton, 4th Lord Seton (d. 1507/8).

References

* Anderson, William, ''The Scottish Nation'', Edinburgh, 1867, vol. viii, p. 437. * Cokayne, G. E., & White, Geoffrey H., editors, ''The Complete Peerage'', London, 1949, vol. ii, pp. 633–34. {{DEFAULTSORT:Seton, George, 3nd Lord 1415 births 1478 deaths Lords of Parliament (pre-1707) Members of the Privy Council of Scotland Ambassadors of Scotland to England People from East Lothian Government audit officials 15th-century Scottish people Medieval Scottish diplomats 15th-century diplomats George