BISSET, Muriel co-heiress of Lovat

   Other names for Muriel were BISET, Marry,³ BISSET, Marie ¹ and BYSET, Muriel.²

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Muriel married Sir David GRAHAM, son of Sir David DE GRAHAM of Dundaffmuir and Unknown.^{1 2} (Sir David GRAHAM was born about 1240 and died in 1297 in Flanders.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Sir David (Graham), who swore fealty to Edward I. as Lord Superior of Scotland, 1291, and was one of the nominees of Baliol in the competition for the throne, in June 1292. He was one of the prisoners taken by Edward at the battle of Dunbar 27 April 1296, and was committed to prison in the Castle of St. Breval. On 30 July 1297 he was released and had his estates restored on condition of serving in the King's expedition to the Continent. He accordingly accompanied Edward to Flanders, and died there 1297.

He married Muriel, the youngest of three daughters and co-heiresses of John Byset, Lord of Lovat, in Inverness-shire.[¹Hist, of Beauly Priory, Grampian Club, 54; Cal. Doc. Scot., ii. 129.] Among the records of Scotland found by King Edward in Edinburgh Castle, and delivered by him to Baliol in 1292, was a letter by William de Fenton, Andrew de Boscho, and David de Graham (husbands of the three heiresses of Lovat) acknowledging that they had received from William Wyscard, or Wishart, Archdeacon of St. Andrews, and Chancellor of the King, those charters which the late John Byset had deposited in the Abbey of Jedburgh.

Chancellor Wishart became Bishop of Glasgow in 1268, so that the marriage of David de Graham and Muriel Byset must have taken place prior to that date. In consequence of this marriage the private interests of Sir David lay chiefly in the north of Scotland, and he appears to have been involved in disputes with his brother-in-law Sir William de Fenton and the Bishop of Moray as to the lands of Kiltarlity and fishings of the water of Farrar. He had also, however, from his father the lands of Merton and others in Berwickshire. He had a son and a daughter"

from Scots Peerage (vol 6)




"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 ^{1 2 4}