Freskin was a minor nobleman active in the reign of King David I of Scotland. His name appears only in a charter by King William to Freskin's son, William, granting Strathbrock in West Lothian and Duffus, Kintrae, and other lands in Moray, "which his father held in the time of King David". The name Freskin's Flemish, and in the words of Geoffrey Barrow "it's virtually certain that Freskin belonged to a large group of Flemish settlers who came to Scotland in the middle decades of the 12th century… (More on Freskin)