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Sir Malcolm ("the Murderer") Fleming, 10th of Biggar, Cumbernauld

Person Exhibits

Arms of the Fleming Earls of Wigtown

Birth

Parents

Family life

Property^3,45,6,7,3,4

Sir Malcolm ("the Murderer") Fleming, 10th of Biggar, Cumbernauld, possessed had a charter, as son and heir of David Fleming of Biggar, Knight, to him, and his heirs-male of his body, whom failing, to David, his brother, from King Robert III of the castle and lands of Cumbernauld and others, reserving his liferent on 7 March 1401 in Cumbernauld and pertinents.^8,9,10 He possessed had a charter from King Robert III of the lands of Barbreck, in the earldom of Carrick on 24 August 1404 at Earldom of Carrick in Barbeck.^8,11 He possessed had a charter from Robert III of the barony of Cavers in Roxburghshire on 10 August 1405 at Roxburghshire in Cavers.¹¹ He possessed had a charter from Robert III of Cumbernauld on 2 April 1406 in Cumbernauld and pertinents.^11,12 He possessed as Lord of Biggar and Auchloun was to receive the resignation by Marjory of Rossie, widow of John of Rossie, of Tulliequhorthie in Aberdeenshire on 1 November 1406 in Tulliequhorthie.¹³ He possessed had a charter from his cousin Archibald, Earl of Douglas, Lord of Galloway and Annandale, of Castlerankin, for a pair of gilt spurs at Whitsunday (undated; transumpt 6 May 1413; precept of sasine 10 Apr 1415) before 1413 in Castlerankine.¹⁴ He possessed mortgaged Oliver Castle to Robert Dickson for 100 pounds circa 1413 in Oliver Castle.^15,16,17 He possessed had a charter from his said father-in-law the Duke of Albany of the lands of Torwood, in Stirlingshire, which had been resigned by William Lindsay of Byres on 8 June 1413 in Torwood in Stirlingshire.^{8,18,19,10,12,20} He possessed had a charter from Robert, Duke of Albany, of the lands and barony of Biggar, and annualrents upliftable from the lands of Kerse pertaining to the Abbey of Holyroodhouse on 28 June 1413 at Barony in Biggar.^{8,21,22,2,23,248,25,26,27,28,298,30,31} He possessed was beneficiary of a charter of resignation of Gartangaber by Agnes Paa and Edana Logan in 1439 at Lenzie in Gartangaber.^32,338,34

Death

Citations

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