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Elizabeth Fleming

b. 1525

Birth

Elizabeth Fleming was born in 1525.1

Parents

FatherSir Malcolm ("the Brave") Fleming, 3rd Lord Fleming (b. 14 January 1494, d. 10 September 1547)
MotherJanet ("la Belle Écossaise") Stewart, Lady Fleming (b. 17 July 1502, d. 20 February 1562)

Family life

William Crichton, 5th Lord Sanquhar and 3rd Lord Crichton, and Elizabeth Fleming were married before 24 May 1540.2 James Maxwell, of Dargavell, and she were married circa 3 April 1554.3

Children with William Crichton, 5th Lord Sanquhar and 3rd Lord Crichton (b. circa 1520, d. before 24 June 1550)

SonRobert Crichton, 6th Lord Crichton of Sanquar (b. circa 1540, d. 1561)
DaughterJanet Crichton (b. circa 1545, d. after 17 November 1593)
SonEdward Crichton, 7th Lord Crichton of Sanquar (b. circa 1548, d. 1569)

Partner with James Maxwell, of Dargavell (b. circa 1530, d. before 1564)

Property

Elizabeth Fleming possessed with her husband Lord Crichton had a royal confirmation of Glenquotho and other lands on 24 March 1540 in Glenquotho and Quarter Chapel.456 She possessed was a party to a registered contract concerning her son Robert, heir of his late father on 24 June 1550.7839,10 She possessed had a liferent in Glenquarry, Wer Uver Lefaneloane, Nether Libereis, Crawok, Criggisfuit on 10 March 1557 in Glenquarry, Wer Uver Lefaneloane, Nether Libereis, Crawok, Criggisfuit.11 She possessed had liferent in two marques of lands of Glenquharrie, two marques of lands of Wenlaifanealloane, four marques of lands of Nethir Libbereis, three marques of lands of the dominion over Crawok, and two marques of lands of Coigisfute on 25 March 1561 in Glenquarry, Wer Uver Lefaneloane, Nether Libereis, Crawok, Criggisfuit.12

Death

Citations

  1. [S2] Various contributors, "Wikipaedia," database, Commons, Wikipaedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/: online 8 November 2023), Janet Stewart, Lady Fleming at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Stewart,_Lady_Fleming.
  2. [S29] Various, "WikiTree," pedigree, Commons, WikiTree (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki: online 10 November 2023), William (Crichton) Crichton Fifth Lord Crichton of Sanquhar (1516 - 1550) at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Crichton-43.
  3. [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 iv, ch 926, p 207; online image, Internet Archive, archive.org (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101038096846&seq=7&q1=flemyng : accessed 12 April 2025.
  4. [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 521.
  5. [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 iii, ch 2319, p. 530; online image, Internet Archive, archive.org (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101038096846&seq=7&q1=flemyng : accessed 12 April 2025.
  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 iv, ch 287, p 68; online image, Internet Archive, archive.org (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101038096846&seq=7&q1=flemyng : accessed 12 April 2025.
  7. [S136] Robert Kerr Hannay, Editor, Acts of the Lords of Council in Public Affairs: 1501-1554 (Edinburgh: General Register House, 1932), p 602; online image, HathiTrust (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000047600931&seq=7&q1=fleming : viewed 20 June 2025.
  8. [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 95.
  9. [S58] Edinburgh, National Records of Scotland, "Online Catalogue," National Records of Scotland (https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue: viewed 25 September 2025), GD10 22/11, 16 Jun 1556, Discharge by Robert Lord Creichtoun of Sanqhuair.
  10. [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 325.
  11. [S44] Scotland Court of Exchequer, Rotuli scaccarii regum Scotorum: The Exchequer rolls of Scotland (Edinburgh: General Register House, 1878), vol 19, p 419; online image, Internet Archive, archive.org (https://archive.org/details/rotuliscaccariir01scot/page/n9/mode/2up : accessed.
  12. [S44] Scotland Court of Exchequer, Rotuli scaccarii regum Scotorum: The Exchequer rolls of Scotland (Edinburgh: General Register House, 1878), vol 19, p 489; online image, Internet Archive, archive.org (https://archive.org/details/rotuliscaccariir01scot/page/n9/mode/2up : accessed.
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