Background
Christopher Seton was the eldest son of Sir John de Seton of Skelton, Cumberland.
Christopher Seton was the eldest son of Sir John de Seton of Skelton, Cumberland.
He was the brother-in-law of Robert the Bruce and executed in 1306. This branch of the Seton family had long served the Bruces in Yorkshire, Cumberland and Scotland. (Number connection has as yet been discovered to Alexander Seton, Governor of Berwick).
In 1301, at the age of twenty-three, Christopher married Robert de Brus"s sister Christian or Christina Bruce.
Seton was present on 10 February 1306 when Sir John Comyn of Badenoch was stabbed by Robert de Brus in Greyfriars Church, Dumfries. Some accounts have him present at the Battle of Methven on 19 June 1306 but Duncan places him at Loch Doon Castle, an important castle for the Earls of Carrick and one of three that Robert tried to hang on to, but Loch Doon fell about 14 August.
Loch Doon Castle, Ayrshire, was besieged by the English and after the surrender of that castle by the Governor Sir Gilbert de Carrick, Christopher was hanged. His Cumberland estates, with the exception of his mother"s dower, were given to Sir Robert de Clifford.