Talk:Wiston Castle

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Wizo Flandrensis in Scotland
Lauran Toorians has expressed the opinion that the Wizo of Pembrokeshire is a different person to Wizo/Wice of Wiston in Lanark in a journal article - Toorians, Lauran, “Wizo Flandrensis and the Flemish settlement in Pembrokeshire”, Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies 20 (Winter, 1990): 99–11

He states on page 110 " Actually, there is no way to be sure that these Pemrokeshire Flemings were the same people as their Scottish namesakes; their names were common ones, the chronology is insecure (in the sources they appear in Pembrokeshire a few years earlier than in Scotland), and the Scottish Flemings seem to have retained their interests in scotland during the following years"

He goes on to state on page 112 " Probably William of Brabant was succeeded as chief in FLemish Daugleddau by Wizo ( a namesake of the Lanarkshire Wice), who came directly from Flanders to Pembrokeshire. If this interpretation is right, it would mean that Wizo arrived in Wales in or shortly after 1110, but before 1112 as we have already seen above."

There is also Scottish Charter evidence demonstrating Wice of Wiston (ie the Strathclyde/Lanarkshire Wizo) was active in that area after 1147, some 15-17 years after he died. In further explanatory notes, Toorians states "Wizo must have died shortly before 1130 and was succeeded by his son Walter fitz Wizo".

Scottish Charter Kelso Lib 336 People of Medieval Scotland database dated to 24 May 1153 X 24 March 1160:

Wice of Wiston has given, granted, and established by this his charter, to Kelso Abbey the church of Wiston (LAN), his villa with its two chapels of the villa of Robert, brother of Lambin, (i.e. Roberton) and the villa of John, stepson of Baldwin, (i.e. Crawford John) to be held by them in perpetual alms, with the land, teinds, pastures, wood, and the other easements of the _villa_ and with all other just pertinents of the church, for the salvation of his lord, King Malcolm, and his brother William, and for the salvation of his soul, his spouse and his heirs and for the soul of his father, his mother and all of his ancestors and successors.

Happy to discuss this further, but I don't think it is accurate to assume this Wice was the same person who settled in Strathclyde.

Comes.amanuensis (talk) 05:36, 18 January 2022 (UTC)