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Robert ("de Strathgryffe") Flandrensis, 3rd de Biggar

b. circa 1175, d. after 1250

Birth

Robert ("de Strathgryffe") Flandrensis, 3rd de Biggar, was born circa 1175.

Parents

Father

Waltheof ("Waldeve") Flandrensis, 2nd de Biggar (b. circa 1145)

Children

Son	Hugh Flandrensis, 4th of Biggar+ (b. circa 1193)
Son	William Flandrensis, de Biggar and Stanhouse (b. circa 1194)
Son	Canon Simon Flandrensis, of Biggar (b. circa 1196)

Property

Robert ("de Strathgryffe") Flandrensis, 3rd de Biggar, possessed confirmed the land at Kilpeter to Reginald son of Hugh circa 1220 at Strathgrief in Kilpeter.^1,2,3,4 He possessed was mentioned in a confirmation by king Alexander II of the Richard Bard's donation to the church of St Machute circa 1240 in Strathaven.^3,5

Death

Robert ("de Strathgryffe") Flandrensis, 3rd de Biggar, died after 1250.⁶

Citations

[S64] Cosmos Nelson Innes, Editor for the Bannatyne Club, Origines Parochiales Scotiae: the antiquities ecclesiastical and territorial of the parishes of Scotland (Edinburgh: WH Lizars, 1851), vol i, p 83; online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/originesparochia01bann/page/n7/mode/2up?q=fleming&view=theater : accessed 3 March 2025.
[S25] William M Metcalfe, A History of the County of Renfrew: from the Earliest Times (Paisley: Alexander Gardner, 1905), p 125.
[S83] George Vere Irving, The upper ward of Lanarkshire described and delineated (Glasgow: Thomas Murray and Son, 1864), vol i, p 305; online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/upperwardoflanar02irvi/page/n9/mode/2up : accessed 28 March 2025.
[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 467.
[S79] C Innes, Liber S Marie de Calchou: Registrum Cartarum Abbacie Tironensis de Kelso (Edinburgh: The Bannatyne Club, 1846), charter 182, p 150-151; online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/libersmariedecal01kels/page/n11/mode/2up?view=theater : accessed 25 March 2025.
[S34] J Arnold Fleming, Flemish Influence in Britain (Glasgow: Jackson, Wylie & Co, 1930), vol 2, p13-19, Baldwin Fleming.

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Last Edited	14 August 2026