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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 (in some sense) and partly Anglo-Normans (in some sense), after the Norman Conquest. It is used to refer to people or things of Norman, Anglo-Norman, France or even Flemings or Breton people origin, but who are associated with Scotland in the Middle Ages like Scoto-Anglo-Saxon. It is also used for any of these things where they exhibit syncretism between French culture or Anglo-French culture on the one hand and Gaelic culture on the other.
For instance, the Kings of Scotland between the reign of the David I and the Stewart period are often described as Scoto-Norman. A classic case of Gaelic and French cultural syncretism would be Lochlann, 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.
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