FRASER, Simon 1st of Lovat, Sir ¹

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Simon married Marie BISSET co-heiress of Lovat, daughter of John BISSET of Lovat and Unknown.^{1 2} (Marie BISSET co-heiress of Lovat was born about 1242.)

  Marriage Notes:

"I finde Sir John Bisset leaving three daughters, coheirs portioners, viz. Marie Bisset, the eldest, married first to Sir David Graham, knight, by whom she hade a son, named Patrick Graham. I find both these designed Domini de Lovet, in the ancient register of the bishopriek. But it would appear that the said Sir David Graham dying, the said Marie did marrie the Fraser. And her oldest son of the first marriage dying without succession, her children by her second husband, of the name of Fraser, succeeded to the familie and estate of Lovet."

from Family of Rose




"Sir Simon, Lord Lovat,.. came north anno 1249, and had no time but onely to marry his lady Mary Biset when he was called immediatly back by express from the King, his majesty King Alexander (II of Scots)..."

"The Bissets being convict of treason, and all of them banisht in King Alexander the 2. his reign, the Frasers came north, and Sir Simon Fraser marrying Marry Biset, the eldest daughter of John, the King stiles him by his royal donation, Simon Lord Fraser of Lovat, as I have formerly set down in course. Patricius de Grahm, the last we find stiled Dominus de Loveth, renounces his right to Simon by the King's command, and is setled constable of the King's house at Elgin, so that Simon Fraser is now heretor of the lands of Lovat, as well as the fort, and is absolut, being stiled D. Simon Fraserius, Dominus de Lovet, which stile he and his successors to this day carry in their charters..."

"This Lord had with Mary Bisset 3 sones, Simon, Andrew, and Alexander, 3 daughters, Mary, Anna, and Isabell. Simon, a great spirit, called south to Court with his sister Mary the Queen's goddaughter, who is setled at Court and married to Alexander, Thane of Fife Weemes. Simon was knighted by King Alexander the 3, at tilting in Dounfarmling. Isabella was married to John Randalph ; Anna vitam coelebatam vovet. His sone Andrew traveled abroad and at his return marryed Jean Sower, heretrix off Glenugh, Lithgow : and Alexander, a brave youth, being about 17 yeares of age, hunting in the forrest of Corricharby, after a burst of running, decaying dayly, dyed, anrio 1269. King Alexander, as we told before, dyed by a fall from his horse at Kingorn. The newes of his death broak my Lord Lovat's heart, who dyed soon after him at Lovat, anno 1287, and was most solemnly interred at Beuly before the great altar which himselfe had erected, a stone off a prodigious length which I myselfe measured and found it 22 foot square."

from Chronicles of the Frasers ^{1 2}