[Ancestor] Lamberton

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1 M James Lamberton ^{1 2}

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General Notes: Husband - [Ancestor] Lamberton

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The Lamberton family is of Scotch origin, the name being a very ancient one in Scotland, where it is found as far back as the eleventh century, Lambertons being among the landholders of Ayrshire and Berwick-on-Tweed in the reign of King Edgar, 1097-1107. John de Lamberton was sheriff of Stirling from 1263 to 1265. One of the most renowned members of the family was William de Lamberton, Bishop of St. Andrew's, elected in 1297, and preferred to the episcopate of St. Andrew's by Pope Boniface VIII, 1298. As Bishop of St. Andrew's he was primate of all Scotland, and first peer of the kingdom, ranking next to the royal family and taking precedence accordingly. He crowned the sovereigns and was chancellor and legate of the Apostolic See. He was a friend of Sir William Wallace and Robert Bruce. After the defeat of the former at the battle of Falkirk, in 1298, Bishop Lamberton, the elder Bruce and Sir John Comyn were appointed regents of Scotland. He was one of three bishops to anoint and crown Robert Bruce king of Scotland, March 27, 1306, and adhered to King Robert through all his vicissitudes. He held ecclesiastical office for thirty years, dying in 1328.
In 1321 there was an Alexander de Lamberton among the Scottish barons who signed the famous letter to the Pope asserting the independence of Scotland, in which it was declared that "never, so long as one hundred Scots are alive, will we be subject to the yoke of England." During the religious persecution under the Stuarts, the Covenanters were maltreated and harassed until they were obliged to leave their own country, seeking refuge in Ireland. This exodus commenced after the battles of Pentland Hills, in 1666, and continued after the battle of Bothwell Bridge, in 1679. It is said that among those who sought refuge in Ireland were three brothers by the name of Lamberton, one settling at the Giants' Causeway, another near Londonderry, and the third in the same county. The second of the three brothers was James Lamberton.
The arms of the Lamberton family are: Argent, three escallop shells, sable. Crest: A stag's head at gaze, St. Andrew's cross between the attires. Motto: Volonte de Dieu. As the arms would indicate, the early members of the family probably took part in the Crusades. [HVC 1919, 456]

The name of Lamberton is of Scotch origin, found in the Lowlands in ancient days. The estates of the De Lambertons lay in Berwickshire and Ayrshire, and there the name is found frequently on the records. In the reign of Edgar (1097-1107), in a charter granted by him to the monks at St. Cuthbert, and in other grants at that early day, the name also appears. William de Lamberton, Bishop of St. Andrews, was the friend of both Sir William Wallace and Robert Bruce. The history of the family from that time until the latter part of the seventeenth century is purely traditional; but with the anti-prelacy agitation it again becomes distinct. Religious persecution drove some members of the family to the North of Ireland. [BACC, 30]

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 456.

2 S. J. M. Eaton, D.D, Memorial of the Hon. Robert Lamberton (Franklin, PA: Privately published, 1885), Pg 22.