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Sir Robert Fleming, Standard bearer to his Majesty

b. circa 1634, d. 1664

Sir Robert Fleming, Standard bearer to his Majesty, was born circa 1634.

Father	Colonel John ("the Soldier") Fleming, 3rd Earl of Wigtown, 8th Lord Fleming (b. circa 1608, d. February 1665)
Mother	Jane Drummond, eldest daughter of John 2nd Earl of Perth (b. 1616, d. 12 January 1663)

In 1649 Sir Robert Fleming, Standard bearer to his Majesty, was occupied as was a standard bearer at the funeral of King Charles I.¹
He served in the military as cornet of His Majesty's person or lifeguard of Horse under command of Captain the Earl of Newburgh on 31 July 1662. The King was Charles II.¹
He served in the military as was ordered by the Privy Council to march two squadrons of His Majesty's Life Guards to Kilmarnock and Paisley on 13 October 1663.^2,3

Sir Robert Fleming, Standard bearer to his Majesty, died in 1664 at age ~30.¹ He was buried in 1664 in Biggar.¹

[S28] Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage, vol viii, Fleming Earl of Wigtown pages 519 - 558
[S25] William M Metcalfe, A History of the County of Renfrew, p 292
[S148] editor P Hume Brown, "Two squadrons," The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, third series, vol i, 1661-1664 (1908), online image (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.35112103825651&seq=519 : viewed 24 Aug 2025), p 447.
[S58] Edinburgh, National Records of Scotland, "Online Catalogue," National Records of Scotland (https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue: accessed ), ., viewed; 11 September 2025; GD24/1/963, 1664, 1687, Earl of Wigtown: division of property and account of estate income

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24 August 2025