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Waltheof ("Waldeve") Flandrensis, 2nd de Biggar

b. circa 1145

Waltheof of Biggar

Waltheof ("Waldeve") Flandrensis, 2nd de Biggar, was born circa 1145.¹

Father	Baldwin Flandrensis, 1st de Biggar (b. circa 1111, d. after 1174)
Mother	Widow of Reginald FitzAlan (b. circa 1115)

Son	Robert ("de Strathgryffe") Flandrensis, 3rd de Biggar+ (b. circa 1175, d. after 1250)

Waltheof ("Waldeve") Flandrensis, 2nd de Biggar, served in the military as was captured with King William I the Lion by the English at the siege of Alnwick Castle on 13 July 1174.^2,1,3
After 1180 Waltheof ("Waldeve") Flandrensis, 2nd de Biggar, was occupied as Sheriff of Lanarkshire in Lanarkshire, Scotland.^1,2

[S34] J Arnold Fleming, Flemish Influence in Britain (Glasgow: Jackson, Wylie & Co, 1930), vol 2, p13-19, Baldwin Fleming.
[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 466.
[S21] George Crawford, The Peerage of Scotland: Containing an Historical and Genealogical account of the Nobility of that Kingdom (Edinburgh: George Stewart, 1716), p 491-499, Fleming, Earl of Wigtown.

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