This family held the lands bearing their own name at Dirleton in East
Lothian. They were powerful nobles, and the castle at Dirleton remains
one of the finest examples of thirteenth-century fortified architecture.
Sir William Fenton, styled Lord of Beaufort, was one of
the auditors at Berwick of the com-peting claims for the Scottish throne
between Bruce and Balliol. According to Nisbet, this noble, or perhaps
his son, married Cecilia Bisset, co-heiress of William Bisset, Lord
of Lovat. The principal seat of Lord Lovat, near Beauly, is still known
as Beaufort Castle. The lowland Fentons ended in an heiress who
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