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Of Freskyn or Fretheskin I, the founder of the line, we have no mention in any charter direct to him, either of his Linlithgowshire lands at Strabrock, or of his estate near Spynie in Moray with its Castle at Duffus. To us he is as Melchizedek; for neither his father nor his mother is known.
The Charter is dated at Elgin probably near the end of the twelfth century, when William Mac-Frisgyn, Hugo, and William of Sutherland were all alive. Not a single member of the family was, as every Fleming was, styled "Flandrensis" in any charter or writ, and Fretheskin is probably a Gaelic name, of which the latter part may mean "knife" or "dagger." The name does not mean Flemish or Frisian.
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