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Sir Robert ("the Rebel") Fleming, 1st Lord Fleming, 11th of Biggar of Cumbernauld,

b. circa 1405, d. 1491

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Birth

Sir Robert ("the Rebel") Fleming, 1st Lord Fleming, 11th of Biggar of Cumbernauld, was born circa 1405.

Parents

FatherSir Malcolm ("the Murderer") Fleming, 10th of Biggar, Cumbernauld (b. circa 1372, d. 28 November 1440)
MotherLady Elizabeth Stewart (b. circa 1382, d. circa 1446)

Family life

Sir Robert ("the Rebel") Fleming, 1st Lord Fleming, 11th of Biggar of Cumbernauld, and Janet Douglas were married circa 1445.1,2 He and Margaret Lindsay were married after 1461.3

Children with Janet Douglas (b. circa 1430, d. circa 1460)

SonSir Malcolm Fleming, of Monycabock+ (b. circa 1445, d. circa 1477)
SonRobert Fleming (b. circa 1446)
DaughterBeatrix ("Mariot") Fleming (b. circa 1453)
DaughterElizabeth Fleming+ (b. circa 1454, d. 1491)
DaughterJanet Fleming, wife of John Stewart of Minto+ (b. circa 1460)
SonDavid Fleming, of Biggar (b. circa 1460, d. before 16 May 1502)

Partner with Margaret Lindsay (b. circa 1420)

Titles

Sir Robert ("the Rebel") Fleming, 1st Lord Fleming, 11th of Biggar of Cumbernauld, held the title of created a Peer of Parliament as Lord Fleming of Cumbernauld between 1458 and 1459.3,4,5,6

Working life

  • On 1 July 1454 Sir Robert ("the Rebel") Fleming, 1st Lord Fleming, 11th of Biggar of Cumbernauld, was occupied as Master of the King's Household and an auditor of accounts in Exchequer.3,7,8
  • He entered into a bond of manrent with Gilbert, Lord Kennedy, and Sir Alexander Boyd, Knight, whereby they agreed to stand by each other in mutual defence for all the days of their life, against all men, excepting their allegiance to the King on 10 February 1466.3,9,10,11,12
  • He served in the military as led a group of lords who seized the King's person at Linlithgow, away from Gilbert lord Kennedy on 10 July 1466 in Linlithgow.13,14
  • On 11 October 1466 Sir Robert ("the Rebel") Fleming, 1st Lord Fleming, 11th of Biggar of Cumbernauld, was occupied as bailiary, an office renounced by Andrew Turing, procurator to Ronald Cheyne of Straloch in Monycabock (later Newmachar), Aberdeenshire.15
  • On 17 March 1473 Sir Robert ("the Rebel") Fleming, 1st Lord Fleming, 11th of Biggar of Cumbernauld, was occupied as one of the Lords of Council.16
  • In 1484 Sir Robert ("the Rebel") Fleming, 1st Lord Fleming, 11th of Biggar of Cumbernauld, was occupied as was one of the ambassadors sent to France to revieve a ratification of the ancient league with Scotland in France.17
  • He served in the military as served as hostage, along with Lord Seton, for the appearance of Sir Andrew Wood to give evidence to the rebel lords after 11 June 1488 in Leith.18

Property3,19,20

Sir Robert ("the Rebel") Fleming, 1st Lord Fleming, 11th of Biggar of Cumbernauld, possessed reverted to the king upon his father's death in 1441 in Monycabock (later Newmachar), Aberdeenshire.21 He possessed received from King James II, on attaining majority, being convinced of the injustice of the sentence against his father, precepts for serving Sir Robert as heir of his father who was found by the inquest to have died at the faith and peace of his sovereign on 1 January 1442.3,22,23 He possessed remained in the king's hands in 1443 in Monycabock (later Newmachar), Aberdeenshire.24 He possessed had sasine from the sheriff of Forfar of all his lands in Forfarshire: Lour, Drumglay, Drumdeath and Totherstoun on 15 February 1443 in Lour.25,26 He possessed was granted a charter of special service as heir to his father in the barony and lordship of Lenzie on 30 January 1444 in Lenzie.27,28,29 He possessed granted a sasine of the lands of Fruid to William Fraser in 1445 in Fruid, Peebleshire.30,31 He possessed Overlord to the late Thomas Maule of Panmure, knight (his half first cousin) in 1445 in Panmure.32 He possessed had sasine in 1445 in Oliver Castle.33 He possessed recieved a precept investing him in the lands of Biggar and patronage of the church and hospital which had been resigned by David, Lord Hay of Yester on 31 May 1446 in Biggar.3,34 He possessed had a transumpt of the writ of 1356/7 for Sichmore on 13 April 1449 in Sichmore.35 He possessed had his town of Biggar erected into a free burgh of barony, with a weekly market on Thursdays on 31 March 1451.3,36,37 He possessed had charters under the Great Seal of these lands on the resignation of Patrick Lyon, Lord Glamis on 6 June 1451 in Petkeny and Culvenny and Balrody in the barony of Kinghorn.3,38,4,5 He possessed had a charter in this land on the resignation of Alexander Lyon, son of Patrick, Lord Glamis on 7 June 1451 in Auchtermony.3,38,5 He possessed resigned land then granted to Patrick Lyon, Lord Glamis on 7 June 1451.38 He possessed confirmed a charter by William of Panton Lord of Petmidden on 20 July 1454 in Tillymaud in the barony of Monycabock.39 He possessed was mentioned as owner in the Scottish Accounts between 1455 and 1456 in Kerse.40 He possessed as superior, received the resignation by Richard of Spotswood, son of Alexander of Spotswood, of the half ploughgate called Frissellsland in the constabulary of Haddington on 24 July 1456 in Frissellsland in Haddington.41 He possessed had a charter from John, Earl of Ross, Lord of the Isles, of Dunbulls in the barony of Forgandenny, to be held blench, on the resignation of Patrick Lyon, Lord Glamis (11 Nov 1457); Alexander Fleming a witness; precept 10 Dec 1457; sasine given by Walter Oliphant, 11 May 1459 on 6 December 1457 in Dunbulls.42 He possessed had a bond of warrandice from Patrick, Lord Glamis, for the exchange, with Lord Glamis's 24 merk lands of Coull in Tannadice in case of eviction on 21 October 1458 in Dunbulls.4344 He possessed granted Mathew Forrester a 2 merkland in the tenendry of Castlerankine, barony of Harbertshire, blench for a penny (precept of sasine 4 Jul 1462) on 29 June 1462 in Castlerankine.45 He possessed granted to Gilbert Lord Kennedy a charter of the barony of Thankerton to be held of Lord Fleming and his successors on 10 February 1465 in Barony of Thankerton.4647,48 He possessed lost the case about Easter and Wester Mains and Shervy and Bar and Badcol and Wester Gartshore on 15 April 1466 in Easter and Wester Mains and Shervy and Bar and Badcol and Wester Gartshore.493,50 He possessed he had a charter from King James III of the lands of Biggar and patronage of the church of Biggar and hospital thereof, which David Hay of Yester had resigned, in excambion for his lands of Olivercastle and others, in the sheriffdom of Peebles on 20 June 1470.3,51,5253,54 He possessed granted a charter in Oliver Castle, Over Kingledoors, Frude, Polmude, Coqueland and Glenquotho to John Hay of Yester as son and heir of Sir David Hay of Yester in exchange for Sir David Hay's lands in the barony of Biggar and patronage of the Biggar church and hospital on 12 July 1470 in Oliver Castle.55,51 He possessed had a letter of reversion from William of Stirling of Keir for Ballankeir and the mill in Harbertshire, wadset to him for 500 merks on 10 February 1472 in Ballankeir.56 He possessed with consent of his son and apparent heir Malcolm, granted Easter Seymore in Harbertshire to Mathew Forrester, burgess of Stirling, blench for a rose (precept the same day; sasine dated 20 Oct) on 22 October 1472 in Easter Seymore.57 He possessed was served heir special to his father in the lands of Biggar on 22 February 1473 in Biggar.3,58,59 He possessed was ordered by Parliament to restore 10 oxen and 2 bulls to Henry Livingstone of Middlebinning and to pay his expenses of 15 shillings on 30 July 1473 in Welton and Castlecary.60,1761 He possessed recieved 40/-/- from Kerse in 1475 in Kerse.62 He possessed as superior, received the resignation of James, Earl of Morton, of Edmonstoun and Wintermuir in the barony of Biggar (15-16 July 1476) and granted him a charter and precept of them on 18 July 1476 in Edmonston.63,64,65,66 He possessed as lord of the barony of Biggar, gave sasine through his bailie Mr Thomas Gifford to the attorney of James Douglas, Earl of Morton, of the lands of Edmonstoun and Little Wintermuir in the barony of Biggar on 18 July 1476 in Edmonston.67 He possessed was held accountable by Parliament for a debt of 26 merks owed by his son Robert to Patrick Baron, burgess of Edinburgh on 12 June 1478 in Edinburgh.68,69 He possessed seized goods belonging to his son as security for the payment of a debt that he owed to his father on 3 June 1479 in Lenzie.70,71 He possessed Christian Hepburn, a daughter of Alexander Hepburn of Gargunnock, renounced and resigned to him Easter and Wester Thomastoun in Harbertshire, declaring that the debt he owed her was paid on 19 June 1480 in Thomastoun.72 He possessed resigned all his lands to King James III on 19 September 1480.73,74,7576,773,78733,79,80,81828384 He possessed had a tack from Henry Arnot, Abbot of Cambuskenneth, of the teinds of St Ninian's Church of Kirkintilloch on 30 April 1482 in Kirkintilloch.8586,87,88 He possessed as superior gave a precept of clare constat for infefting the Forresters, as heirs of Mathew Forrester, in Easter Seymore and Castlerankine (Mathew's resignation for his son Duncan 14 May 1486; Duncan's sasine 17 Aug 1486) on 6 August 1486 in Easter Seymore.89 He possessed recieved Easter Tollart as a gift from the king after January 1488 in Easter Tollart.903,4,6991 He possessed resigned Easter Tollart into the king's hands who, in 1498, gave an income of 40 solids from this land to Archibald earl of Argyll before 1491 in Easter Tollart.923,9394,9596

Death

Sir Robert ("the Rebel") Fleming, 1st Lord Fleming, 11th of Biggar of Cumbernauld, died in 1491 at age ~86.97,3,94,95,98,69,99

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