Talk:Lamberton, Scottish Borders

2007
There needs to be some redirections to this page set up. "Lamberton, Borders, Scotland" is too long and clumsy to incorporate into text. Probably the simplest (and correct) designation should be "Lamberton, Berwickshire". David Lauder 10:53, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

History as stated is incomplete and disputed
I'm sorry, but I dispute the accuracy and completeness of the history stated in this article, especially as it only goes back to the year 1200.

The township of Lamberton was already a settlement around 890-900AD, with its original settlers arriving from the former Empire of the Franks; specifically, from the tri-border region of Belgium, France and Germany. They were the followers of Bishop Lambert of Maastricht i.e. St Lambert (patron saint of marriage) who was murdered and subsequent made a martyr after he denounced the infidelity of the Prince. They fled persecution after the Prince's illegitimate son gained the throne, and settle in Berwickshire, with the town's original name "Lambert's Toun" or "Lambert Toun" (which was a homage to St Lambert, whom they venerated), becoming "Lamberton" (when anglicised) by the 12th century and from which they took what was to be their surname.

Furthermore, the town / Barony of Lamberton was recognised by King Edgar of Scotland in a Royal Charter dated 1096 (one of the oldest surviving charters of the early kings of Scotland). The original baron was not a Lindsay (as stated elsewhere in Wikipedia); the Lindsay's were originally an English family who only rose to prominence in Scotland around 1150 after William, a son of the Walter de Lindsay from the Barony of Lindsay in Anglia, married into and inherited the Barony of Crawford in South Lanarkshire, an later extended their estates into Mid and East Lothian.

I gained this knowledge while researching the history of William de Lamberton, Bishop of St Andrews (who has originally from Lamberton, not Coldstream as noted elsewhere) at the National Library and Nation Archive of Scotland for his role he played in supporting Scotland's independence in the late 13th and early 14th century. The article should therefore be updated. Blammy1 (talk) 18:21, 2 December 2021 (UTC)