flandrensis

Updated: May 4, 2025

Freskyn was thus no Fleming, but a lowland Pict or Scot, as the tradition of his house maintains, and he was a common ancestor of the great Scottish families of Atholl, Bothwell, Sutherland, and probably Douglas. No member of the Freskyn family is ever styled "Flandrensis" in any writ.

James Gray - Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time: or, The Jarls and The Freskyns

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.

James Gray - Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time: or, The Jarls and The Freskyns