Freskyn de Moravia, and family; the family the mainstay of Scottish rule in the north; superintended building of Kinloss Abbey; ancestor of earls of Sutherland; built Duffus Castle; not a Fleming; a Pict or Scot, and ancestor of families of Athole, Bothwell, Sutherland and probably Douglas; his family in Caith.; great-great-grandfather of Freskin the younger, husband of Johanna; two branches of family settled north of the Oykel; Freskyn, of Strabrock and Moray, its two branches in Sutherland and Caith.; founder of the family; entertained king David I at Duffus Castle; year of death; his two sons; father of William MacFriskyn, and Hugo the witness; derivation of name; revised pedigree; he and successors appointed guardians of Moray and Nairn; defended Moray against the Norse; the family introduced into Sutherland; no thanes of this line in Sutherland; name also spelt Fretheskin; his neighbour in Moray, earl Waltheof. (See Appendix, Pedigree.) Freskin de Moravia, younger, lord of Duffus; eld. son of Sir Walter de Moravia; in Strathnaver and Caith.; m. Johanna of Strathnaver; his date fixed; by marriage became owner of lands in Strathnaver and of a moiety of earldom of Caith.; lineage; born in or after 1225, lord of Duffus by 1248; m. 1245-1250; nephew of William, earl of Sutherland; signatory to National Bond; d. 1260-1263; buried in church of Duffus; his maternal uncle, William MacFerchar, earl of Ross; possible violent death. (See Appendix, Pedigree.) Freskyn, Andrew, son of Hugo F. of Sutherland; parson of Duffus, bishop of Moray. Freskyn, Andrew, son of William son of Freskyn; parson of Duffus. Freskin, Christian; dau. of Freskin younger and Johanna of Strathnaver, m. William de Fedrett, had one fourth of Caithness, which their son resigned to her sister's husband, Sir Reginald Chen III. Freskyn, Hugo, son of Freskyn; the witness, uncle of Hugo de Moravia of Sutherland. Freskyn, Hugo, eld. son of William MacFreskyn; his family settled north of the Oykel and owned Sutherland; northern boundary of his estate; ancestor of the de Moravias, or Murrays, of Sutherland; called "my lord" by his younger brother, William; his family; burial place; succession to Morayshire estates; grant of Sutherland; not earl; his lordship of Sutherland, excluded from earldom of Caithness as inherited by earl David; grant to Gilbert, archdeacon of Moray; of Strabrock, Duffus and Sutherland, father of Walter de Moravia of Duffus, whose son m. Johanna of Strathnaver; his eld. son, William; a witness. Freskin, Mary; dau. of Freskin, younger, and Johanna of Strathnaver, m. Sir Reginald Chen II, had one fourth of Caithness.