George Seton, 3rd Lord Seton, of Seton,

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, (c. 1415 – 1478) was a

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, Lord Auditor, and a Scottish ambassador.

Family

George was the son and heir of William Seton, Master of Seton, who was killed at the

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on 17 August 1424. Sir William died before his father, the 2nd Lord Seton, and so George succeeded his grandfather John Seton, 2nd Lord Seton, when he was a minor, before 1434, and reached his majority before 2 November 1437.

Career

He was

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ed before 18 September 1439 and had a Safe-conduct to pass through England dated 23 April 1448, when he accompanied Lord Chancellor Crichton's Embassy to

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, 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

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". As a

('George domini Setoun') he sat in the Scottish Parliament as such on 14 June 1452. He was a Privy Councillor 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,

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, 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 1410s births 1478 deaths Nobility from East Lothian Lords of Parliament (pre-1707) Members of the Privy Council of Scotland Ambassadors of Scotland to the Kingdom of England Government audit officials 15th-century Scottish peers Medieval Scottish diplomats 15th-century diplomats Lords Seton