Robert I or Robert of Nostell (died 1160) was a 12th-century Anglo-Norman Augustinian churchman, the first prior of St Andrews. Quick Facts Born, Died ...
Walter Bower thus speaks of him in noting his death in 1267: "Hugo Giffard dominus de Zester moritur, cujus castrum, vel saltem caveam et dongionem, arte demoniacula antiquae relationes fuerunt ...
The legend comes from the Scotichronicon, a 15th century tome by Walter Bower, though that particular chronicle also says the English were born with tails. The notion of Scotland having been ...