BISSET, Walter of Aboyne ¹

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  General Notes:

"Another Walter Bisset had a charter from King Robert Bruce of the lands of 'Aboyne, in the county of Aberdeen.' We do not know whether this was a son of Old Walter, the exile, or not; but the Bissets had good family reasons for taking the side of Bruce against the Galloways, who were the kinsfolk and abettors of the Baliols."

from Electric Scotland



"Walter Byset never recovered possession of Aboyne, and apparently left no family when he died in the Island of
Arran in 1 251, as proved by the Inquisition Post Mortem (36 Henry III., 58), which proceeded under writ dated
at Wallingford on 30th October of that year....."

"We have failed to trace the further descent of the Bysets of Aboyne. In 1296 king Edward granted the Island of Arran to Thomas Byset, an Irishman, and in the same year Walter Byset of Aberdeenshire swore fealty to Edward. According to Robertsons Index (pp. 2-4g), Walter Byset had as reward for his services a charter of the lands of Aboyne from the Brus in 1309, and, during the reign of king David II., Thomas de Byset has a charter of the lordship of Aboyne, but it is impossible to trace the connection between these parties."

"The Bysets never recovered their former importance ; the House of Lovat ended with three daughters, and the descendant of the old Lords of Aboyne cannot be satisfactorily identified, although from the similarity of names the probability is that they are represented by the Bissets of Lessendrum."

from Records of Aboyne ^{1 2}

Walter married.