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Agnes Somerville

b. circa 1470, d. after 29 January 1530

Birth

Agnes Somerville was born circa 1470.

Parents

Father

Sir John ("of Cambusnethan") Somerville

Family life

Vice-admiral John ("the Ambassador") Fleming, 2nd Lord Fleming, 12th of Biggar, Cumbernauld, and Agnes Somerville were married circa 1519.^1,2 George Leslie, 4th Earl of Rothes, and she were married after 18 December 1526.^1,3

Child with Vice-admiral John ("the Ambassador") Fleming, 2nd Lord Fleming, 12th of Biggar, Cumbernauld (b. circa 1465, d. 1 November 1524)

Daughter

Margaret Fleming (b. circa 1517)

Partner with George Leslie, 4th Earl of Rothes (b. circa 1470)

Property

Agnes Somerville possessed had a decreet in her favour against Malcolm Lord Fleming for implementing specified terms of her marriage contract of 28 November 1518 with the late John, Lord F on 4 July 1526.⁴⁵

Death

Agnes Somerville died after 29 January 1530.

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.
[S83] George Vere Irving, The upper ward of Lanarkshire described and delineated (Glasgow: Thomas Murray and Son, 1864), vol i, p 315; online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/upperwardoflanar02irvi/page/n9/mode/2up : accessed 28 March 2025.
[S2] Various contributors, "Wikipaedia," database, Commons, Wikipaedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/: online 9 November 2023), George Leslie, 4th Earl of Rothes at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Leslie,_4th_Earl_of_Rothes.
[S58] Edinburgh, National Records of Scotland, "Online Catalogue," National Records of Scotland (https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue: viewed 25 September 2025), GD2 244, 4 Jul 1526, Extract Decreet in favour of Agnes, Lady Flemyng, against Malcolm, Lord F., for implementing specified terms of her marriage contract of 28 November 1518 with John, Lord F.
[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 409, p. 91; online image, Internet Archive, archive.org (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101038096846&seq=7&q1=flemyng : accessed 31 March 2025.

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Last Edited

25 September 2025