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Sir Alan de Wyntoun (died c. 1347) was a Scottish soldier and crusader. He was the progenitor of three Scottish clans, being the ancestor of the Earls of Winton, Chiefs of Clan Seton, of the Earls of Eglinton, Chiefs of Clan Montgomery, and of the Earls of Huntly, Chiefs of Clan Gordon, respectively.

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Alan de Wyntoun

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Sir Alan de Wyntoun (died c. 1347) was a Scottish soldier and crusader. He was the progenitor of three Scottish clans, being the ancestor of the Earls...

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Earl of Winton

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Seton (d. c. 1410), created 1st Lord Seton in 1371. (son of Alan de Wyntoun and Margaret de Seton). Sir John Seton, 2nd Lord Seton (c. 1441) William Seton...

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Clan Seton

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killed fighting Edward Balliol. His daughter, Margaret (who married Alan de Wyntoun, a paternal cadet of the Seton family), therefore succeeded to the...

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John de Menteith

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contemporary nickname Fause Menteith ("Menteith the treacherous, false"). Wyntoun, whose Metrical Chronicle was written in 1418, says: Schyre Jhon of Menteith...

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Alan of Galloway

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Gallovidians. Both this source and the Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland by Andrew Wyntoun, reveal that Alexander's troops mounted a second and successful assault...

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Walter fitz Alan

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certainly had access to Barbour's account were the Scottish historians Andrew Wyntoun and Walter Bower. Although neither of these men ever made note of a figure...

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Robert de Keldeleth

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of Religious Houses, 68. Anderson, Early Sources, 518. Laing, Andrew of Wyntoun, 2.250–51; Barrow, "Margaret [St Margaret] (d. 1093)". Anderson, Early...

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Donald III of Scotland

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Edgar Ætheling take his nephews to England to keep them safe. Andrew of Wyntoun's much simpler account has Donald become king and banish his nephews. The...

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David II of Scotland

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 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 860. Endnotes: Andrew of Wyntoun, The orygynale cronykil of Scotland, edited by D. Laing (Edinburgh, 1872–1879);...

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Giric

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Late Middle Ages. Scots chroniclers such as John of Fordun, Andrew of Wyntoun, Hector Boece and the humanist scholar George Buchanan wrote of Giric as...

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Malcolm II of Scotland

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of Scotland. Fourteenth century Scottish chronicler and poet Andrew of Wyntoun suggests that "a third daughter" of Malcolm married Findláech of Moray...

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Alexander III of Scotland

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in Scotland was lamented in an early Scots poem recorded by Andrew of Wyntoun in his Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland: Quhen Alexander our kynge was dede...

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John Comyn III of Badenoch

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Scotland, 1837. Pluscarden, the Book of, ed. F. J. H. Skene, 1877–80. Wyntoun, Andrew, Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland, ed. D. Laing, 1872–9. Archer,...

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15th century in literature

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Siege of Thebes (poem) Approximate date: Andrew of Wyntoun – Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland 1423 Jordi de Sant Jordi – "Presoner" 1424 Bhaskara – Jivandhara...

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Edinburgh Castle

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the tribe's hill forts in the area. The Orygynale Cronykil of Andrew of Wyntoun (c. 1350 – c. 1423), an early source for Scottish history, names "Ebrawce"...

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Kenneth II of Scotland

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sources, such as the Chronicle of Melrose, John of Fordun and Andrew of Wyntoun provide more details, accurately or not. The simplest account is that he...

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David I of Scotland

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closely upon them, even in the significant works of John of Fordun, Andrew Wyntoun and Walter Bower. For example, Bower includes in his text the eulogy written...

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Makar

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distinguished from the work of earlier Scottish writers such as Barbour and Wyntoun who wrote romance and chronicle verse in octosyllabic couplets and it also...

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Legendary kings of Scotland

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Thought: 1450–1700. pp. 216–217. ISBN 0-521-24716-0. OCLC 1198866066. Stewart, Alan (11 March 2014). The Cradle King: The Life of James VI and I, The First Monarch...

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Robin Hood

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Laing, David (ed.). The Orygynale Cronykil Of Scotland. By Androw of Wyntoun. Vol. 2. Edmonston and Douglas. p. 263. Rot. Parl. v. 16. Dobson and Taylor...

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Merry Men

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ballads, and is mentioned in even earlier sources, such as Andrew of Wyntoun's Orygynale Chronicle of around 1420 and Walter Bower's expansion of the...

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Osbeorn Bulax

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location of the battle being the early 15th-century account by Andrew of Wyntoun. In recension C of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the names of the slain are...

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