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Robert Fleming
b. circa 1446
Birth
Robert Fleming was born circa 1446.
Parents
| Father | Sir Robert ("the Rebel") Fleming, 1st Lord Fleming, 11th of Biggar of Cumbernauld, (b. circa 1405, d. 1491) |
| Mother | Janet Douglas (b. circa 1430, d. circa 1460) |
Property
Robert Fleming possessed took an instrument in name of his father, brother and nephew against certain gentlemen who pretended a commission from Lord Kennedy to uplift rents of Cowshirway and other land on 25 May 1466.1,23,45,67 He possessed resigned land to the king as payment of a personal debt on 4 December 1506.8
Citations
- [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.
- [S17] Francis J Grant (Ed), Charter Chest of the Earldom of Wigtown: 1214-1681 (Edinburgh: James Skinner & Company for the Scottish Record Society, 1910), Charter 414.
- [S68] KM Brown and others, Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, online (St Andrews: University of St Andrews, between 2007 and 2025), 1478/6/66; online transcription and translation, (https://www.rps.ac.uk/ : accessed 8 March 2025.
- [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 493.
- [S17] Francis J Grant (Ed), Charter Chest of the Earldom of Wigtown: 1214-1681 (Edinburgh: James Skinner & Company for the Scottish Record Society, 1910), Charters 45-46.
- [S17] Francis J Grant (Ed), Charter Chest of the Earldom of Wigtown: 1214-1681 (Edinburgh: James Skinner & Company for the Scottish Record Society, 1910), Charter 425.
- [S17] Francis J Grant (Ed), Charter Chest of the Earldom of Wigtown: 1214-1681 (Edinburgh: James Skinner & Company for the Scottish Record Society, 1910), Charter 861.
- [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 ii, 1424-1513, ch 3012, p641; online image, Internet Archive, archive.org (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101038096846&seq=7&q1=flemyng : accessed.
| Last Edited | 11 April 2025 |