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Hugh Flandrensis, 4th of Biggar

b. circa 1193

Birth

Hugh Flandrensis, 4th of Biggar, was born circa 1193 in Biggar.1

Parents

FatherRobert ("de Strathgryffe") Flandrensis, 3rd de Biggar (b. circa 1175, d. after 1250)

Child

SonNicholas, 5th of Biggar+ (b. circa 1240, d. before 13 December 1292)

Property

Hugh Flandrensis, 4th of Biggar, possessed granted, as Hugo de Bygres fil Robti filii Waldevi de Bigres, as patron or auditor of the Strathaven church, all the land south of the Avon to the monks at Lesmahago on 14 February 1229 in all land south of the Avon.2,3,4,5,6

Citations

  1. [S83] George Vere Irving, The upper ward of Lanarkshire described and delineated (Glasgow: Thomas Murray and Son, 1864), vol ii, p 181; online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/upperwardoflanar02irvi/page/n9/mode/2up : accessed 28 March 2025.
  2. [S79] C Innes, Liber S Marie de Calchou: Registrum Cartarum Abbacie Tironensis de Kelso (Edinburgh: The Bannatyne Club, 1846), charter 186, p 152-153; online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/libersmariedecal01kels/page/n11/mode/2up?view=theater : accessed 25 March 2025.
  3. [S32] Various contributors, "People of Medieval Scotland," database, Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh et al, People of Medieval Scotland (https://poms.ac.uk/: online 25 November 2023), Document 3/89/2 (Kel. Lib., no. 186), Grant by Hugh of Biggar son of Robert son of Waltheof of Biggar to Lesmahagow Priory at https://poms.ac.uk/record/source/4032/.
  4. [S34] J Arnold Fleming, Flemish Influence in Britain (Glasgow: Jackson, Wylie & Co, 1930), vol 2, p13-19, Baldwin Fleming.
  5. [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.
  6. [S3] Sir Robert Douglas, The peerage of Scotland: Containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom (N.p.: n.p., 1764), vol ii, p 628.
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