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Gilbert ("the Prosaic") Fleming, 6th of Biggar

b. circa 1265, d. after 1322

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Gilbert ("the Prosaic") Fleming, 6th of Biggar, was born circa 1265.¹

Father

Gilbert ("the Prosaic") Fleming, 6th of Biggar, and Marjory, heiress of Biggar, were married circa 1296.^2,1

Son	Patrick ("Sheriff of Peebles") Fleming, 7th of Biggar+ (b. circa 1297, d. before 26 January 1360)
Daughter	Margaret Fleming (b. circa 1300)

Gilbert ("the Prosaic") Fleming, 6th of Biggar, served in the military as fought with Sir William Wallace at the Battle on 11 September 1297 in Stirling Bridge, Scotland.³
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Gilbert ("the Prosaic") Fleming, 6th of Biggar, possessed feudal superiority of Edmonston near Biggar on 6 December 1322 in Edmonston.^1,7

Gilbert ("the Prosaic") Fleming, 6th of Biggar, died after 1322.

[S65] The Ballantyne Club, Registrum Honoris de Morton: A series of ancient charters of the Earldom of Morton with other original papers (Edinburgh: 1853), vol ii, p 21-22; digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/registrumhonoris01bann/page/n5/mode/2up or https://archive.org/details/registrumhonoris02bann/page/n5/mode/2up : viewed 16 February 2026; charter 29: Resignation of Edmideston.
[S34] J Arnold Fleming, Flemish Influence in Britain (Glasgow: Jackson, Wylie & Co, 1930), vol 2, p13-19, Baldwin Fleming.
[S34] J Arnold Fleming, Flemish Influence in Britain (Glasgow: Jackson, Wylie & Co, 1930), vol 2, p 29.
[S34] J Arnold Fleming, Flemish Influence in Britain (Glasgow: Jackson, Wylie & Co, 1930), vol 2, p 35.
[S5] William Hunter, Biggar and the House of Fleming: an account of the Biggar District, Archeological, Historical and Biographical, second edition (Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1867), p 470.
[S32] Various contributors, "People of Medieval Scotland," database, Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh et al, People of Medieval Scotland (https://poms.ac.uk/: online 8 October 2024), Document 1/53/495 (RMS, i, no. 80), Gift of barony of Kirkintilloch (DNB.)
[S83] George Vere Irving, The upper ward of Lanarkshire described and delineated (Glasgow: Thomas Murray and Son, 1864), vol i, p 329; online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/upperwardoflanar02irvi/page/n9/mode/2up : accessed 28 March 2025.

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