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Marjory Fleming

b. circa 1320, d. after 18 October 1365

Birth

Marjory Fleming was born circa 1320.

Parents

FatherMalcolm ("the Good") Fleming, of Fulwood, 1st Earl of Wigtown (b. circa 1282, d. before 11 January 1358)
MotherMarjory the King's nurse, foster-mother to King David II, Countess of Wigtown (b. circa 1290, d. before 7 July 1361)

Family life

William, de Fawsyde, and Marjory Fleming were married circa 1340.1,2

Partner with William, de Fawsyde (b. circa 1315)

Working life

  • Circa 1340 Marjory Fleming was occupied as mistress to King David II.3,4

Property2,5,6

Marjory Fleming possessed had a charter (with her husband) of the mill of Tollygart, called Lyndmill, part of the Crown lands of Clackmannan on 18 October 1364 in Lyndmill.2,7,8,9 She possessed the town of Tullygarth, held by her and William of Fawside, was among the crown lands of Clackmannan revoked to the king by Parliament at Scone in September 1367.10 She possessed her liferent rights to this land were reserved in a charter on 18 April 1369 in Grandtully.1112

Death

Marjory Fleming died after 18 October 1365.1,13

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. [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.
  3. [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 : accessed), p 19 and endnote 100.
  4. [S44] Scotland Court of Exchequer, Rotuli scaccarii regum Scotorum: The Exchequer rolls of Scotland (Edinburgh: General Register House, 1878), vol 1, p clxvii; online image, Internet Archive, archive.org (https://archive.org/details/rotuliscaccariir01scot/page/n9/mode/2up : accessed.
  5. [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.
  6. [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.
  7. [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 76, ch 98, David II.
  8. [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 194; online image, Internet Archive, archive.org (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101038096846&seq=7&q1=flemyng : accessed.
  9. [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 1503; online image, Internet Archive, archive.org (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101038096846&seq=7&q1=flemyng : accessed.
  10. [S157] Thomas Thomson and Cosmo Innes, editors, The Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland: 12 vols in 13 (Edinburgh: Record Commission, between 1814 and 1875), vol i, p 168; online image, Hathitrust, Hathitrust (https://babel.hathitrust.org/ : viewed 3 November 2026.
  11. [S58] Edinburgh, National Records of Scotland, "Online Catalogue," National Records of Scotland (https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue: viewed 18 September 2025), GD3 15, 18/4/1369, Charter by King David II to "our cousin" William de Cunningham Knight, and Margaret his wife, of the lands of Kinclevyne.
  12. [S44] Scotland Court of Exchequer, Rotuli scaccarii regum Scotorum: The Exchequer rolls of Scotland (Edinburgh: General Register House, 1878), vol 10, p 48 and 179; online image, Internet Archive, archive.org (https://archive.org/details/rotuliscaccariir01scot/page/n9/mode/2up : accessed.
  13. [S39] Bruce Webster, editor, Regesta Regum Scottorum, The Acts of David II, King Of Scots 1329-1371: vol VI of VI (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1982), p 380 charter 348+; image, Internet Archive, Wayback Machine (https://archive.org/details/the-acts-of-david-ii-king-of-scots-1329-1371-book/page/304/mode/2up : online 22 December 2024; Charter to William Fauside and Marjorie Fleming his wife. Edinburgh, 18 October a.r.36 [1365].
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