John Byset
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Who is John Byset?
John Byset the Elder, Lord of the Aird was a Scoto-Irish nobleman who is the progenitor of the Bissett family of the Glens of Antrim in Northeast Ireland or Ulster. Born in Scotland, certain details of what is known of his life are limited. Among these are the date of his death as recorded in the Annals of Ulster. His name has the distinction of being the ancestral element in the Gaelic style Mac Eoin of the Glens used by his descendants in Ireland into the 16th century.
According to some sources it was Byset who founded Beauly Priory in the year 1230.
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