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Marjory, heiress of Biggar, was born circa 1279.¹

Robert ("the Legend") Fleming and Marjory, heiress of Biggar, were married circa 1292. Hunter p 467 -
It has been asserted by some writers, that the Lairds of Biggar, to whom we have already referred, were a different family from the Flemings who afterwards were proprietors and superiors of this barony. A Fleming, they say, married one of the daughters of Sir Nicholas de Biggar just referred to, and receiving with her the lands of Biggar, became the progenitor of the family of Fleming, who possessed the Biggar estate for some centuries. This assertion, although it has not been fully substantiated, is far from being improbable.²

Marjory, heiress of Biggar, had her estate probated after 1314 in Biggar and Dalnottar. It is more likely that he got Biggar as an inheritance of his mother's lands rather than "as his Patrimony", as Hunter suggests. His mother may have been living at Dalnottar after his older brother took over Fulwood and he took over Biggar after their father's death ca 1314. That would explain why Dalnottar came to Patrick (from his mother) rather than to Malcolm (who got his father's estate at Fulwood).