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Marjory the King's nurse, foster-mother to King David II, Countess of Wigtown

b. circa 1290, d. before 7 July 1361

Birth

Marjory the King's nurse, foster-mother to King David II, Countess of Wigtown, was born circa 1290.

Family life

Malcolm ("the Good") Fleming, of Fulwood, 1st Earl of Wigtown, and Marjory the King's nurse, foster-mother to King David II, Countess of Wigtown, were married circa 1306.1

Children with Malcolm ("the Good") Fleming, of Fulwood, 1st Earl of Wigtown (b. circa 1282, d. before 11 January 1358)

DaughterMary Fleming+ (b. circa 1307)
SonJohn Fleming+ (b. circa 1313, d. before September 1357)
DaughterMarjory Fleming (b. circa 1320, d. after 18 October 1365)
DaughterEvota Fleming (b. circa 1322)

Residence information

Titles

Marjory the King's nurse, foster-mother to King David II, Countess of Wigtown, held the title of Countess of Wigtown circa 1358.2,3

Property

Marjory the King's nurse, foster-mother to King David II, Countess of Wigtown, possessed was given cloth and furs by the King for herself and her two damsels in 1329.4,5 She possessed resigned lands within the Sheriffdom of Dumfreis circa 1342.4,6,7 She possessed was given 4/13/4 by the king while her daughter Evota revieved 0/40/- in 1342.8 She possessed had previously been granted the two Carnousies in Banffshire by the king, in her own name in 1358 in Carnousies.3 She possessed was favoured in retaining estates that, by law, were meant to be resumed by the crown circa 1359.2 She possessed had previously been personally granted Whitehouse in Stirling by the king in 1359 in Whitehouse.9 She possessed had previously been personally granted the thanage of Glamis by the king in 1359 in Glamis.10 She possessed had an interest in land at Cronyanton before 1361 in Cronyanton.1112,13,14

Death

Marjory the King's nurse, foster-mother to King David II, Countess of Wigtown, died her executors were Duncan Wallace and Martin, prior of Stirling before 7 July 1361.11 She died after 1363.15

Citations

  1. [S23] Peter Barns-Graham, "Families Database," pedigrees, Stirnet Limited, Families Database (https://www.stirnet.com/: downloaded 2000), Fleming of Boghall and Wigtown at https://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/ff/fleming01.php.
  2. [S44] Scotland Court of Exchequer, Rotuli scaccarii regum Scotorum: The Exchequer rolls of Scotland (Edinburgh: General Register House, 1878), vol 2, p xl, note 3; online image, Internet Archive, archive.org (https://archive.org/details/rotuliscaccariir01scot/page/n9/mode/2up : accessed.
  3. [S44] Scotland Court of Exchequer, Rotuli scaccarii regum Scotorum: The Exchequer rolls of Scotland (Edinburgh: General Register House, 1878), p 548; online image, Internet Archive, archive.org (https://archive.org/details/rotuliscaccariir01scot/page/n9/mode/2up : accessed.
  4. [S28] Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland (Edinburgh: T and A Constable, 1911), vol viii, Fleming Earl of Wigtown pages 519 - 558.
  5. [S44] Scotland Court of Exchequer, Rotuli scaccarii regum Scotorum: The Exchequer rolls of Scotland (Edinburgh: General Register House, 1878), p 142-43; online image, Internet Archive, archive.org (https://archive.org/details/rotuliscaccariir01scot/page/n9/mode/2up : accessed.
  6. [S24] William Robertson, An Index of many Records of Charters granted by different Sovereigns of Scotland: between the years 1309 and 1413 (Edinburgh: Murray and Cochrane, 1798), p 50, ch 2.
  7. [S43] Scotland Court of Exchequer, editor, Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum: The Register of the Great Seal of Scotland (Edinburgh: General Register House, 1912), vol i, 1306-1424, app 2, ch 1351; online image, Internet Archive, archive.org (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101038096846&seq=7&q1=flemyng : accessed.
  8. [S107] Thomas Thomson, editor, The accounts of the great chamberlains of Scotland: and some other officers of the crown (Edinburgh: The Bannatyne Club, 1817), vol i, p 280; online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/accountsofgreatc00bann/page/92/mode/2up : viewed 7 May 2025.
  9. [S44] Scotland Court of Exchequer, Rotuli scaccarii regum Scotorum: The Exchequer rolls of Scotland (Edinburgh: General Register House, 1878), p 576; online image, Internet Archive, archive.org (https://archive.org/details/rotuliscaccariir01scot/page/n9/mode/2up : accessed.
  10. [S44] Scotland Court of Exchequer, Rotuli scaccarii regum Scotorum: The Exchequer rolls of Scotland (Edinburgh: General Register House, 1878), p 589; online image, Internet Archive, archive.org (https://archive.org/details/rotuliscaccariir01scot/page/n9/mode/2up : accessed.
  11. [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 61-2; digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/registrumhonoris01bann/page/n5/mode/2up or https://archive.org/details/registrumhonoris02bann/page/n5/mode/2up : accessed 5 March 2025.
  12. [S43] Scotland Court of Exchequer, editor, Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum: The Register of the Great Seal of Scotland (Edinburgh: General Register House, 1912), vol i, 1306-1424, ch 632; online image, Internet Archive, archive.org (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101038096846&seq=7&q1=flemyng : accessed.
  13. [S24] William Robertson, An Index of many Records of Charters granted by different Sovereigns of Scotland: between the years 1309 and 1413 (Edinburgh: Murray and Cochrane, 1798), p 121, ch 77, Crawmond.
  14. [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 479.
  15. [S41] Richard Oram, "The making and breaking of a comital family: Malcolm Fleming, first Earl of Wigtown, and Thomas Fleming, second Earl of Wigtown," The International Review of Scottish Studies, volume 42 (2017), print (https://www.irss.uoguelph.ca/index.php/irss/article/view/3558/4045 : downloaded 13 January 2025), page 42.
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