{{Short description|Fusion of Scottish and Anglo-Norman origins}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} The term '''Scoto-Norman''' (also '''Franco-Scottish''' or '''Franco-Gaelic''') is used to describe people, families, institutions and archaeological artifacts that are partly [[Scottish people|Scottish]] (in some sense) and partly [[Anglo-Normans|Anglo-Norman]] (in some sense), after the [[Norman Conquest]]. It is used to refer to people or things of Norman, Anglo-Norman, [[France|French]] or even [[Flemings|Flemish]] or [[Breton people|Breton]] origin,<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pZNQAAAAYAAJ&q=scoto-normans&pg=PA359|title=History of Scotland: MCCCXXIX-MCCCLXX|first=Patrick Fraser|last=Tytler|date=October 26, 1841|publisher=William Tait|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=https://public.oed.com/help/|title=Help|website=Oxford English Dictionary}}</ref> but who are associated with [[Scotland in the Middle Ages]] like Scoto-Anglo-Saxon.<ref name="auto"/>{{Page needed|date=May 2026}}<ref name="auto1"/>{{Dead link|date=May 2026}} It is also used for any of these things where they exhibit [[syncretism]] between [[French culture|French]] or Anglo-French culture on the one hand and [[Gaelic culture]] on the other.

For instance, the [[Kings of Scots|Kings of Scotland]] between the reign of the [[David I of Scotland|David I]] and the [[House of Stewart|Stewart]] period are often described as Scoto-Norman. A classic case of Gaelic and French cultural syncretism would be [[Lochlann, Lord of Galloway|Lochlann]], [[Lords of Galloway|Lord of Galloway]], who used both a Gaelic (''Lochlann'') and French name (''Roland''), and kept followers of both languages. Another example of a Scoto-Norman would be [[Robert the Bruce]].

The term is used by historians as an alternative to Anglo-Norman when that term pertains to Scotland. It was first used in 1829, in P. F. Tytler's ''History of Scotland''.<ref name="auto"/><ref name="auto1"/>

==See also== * [[Anglo-Normans|Anglo-Norman]] * [[Cambro-Norman]] * [[Norman Irish|Hiberno-Norman]] * [[Norse-Gaels]]

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